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General Discussions / Re: 3D Printer Projects

« Last post by Dragon on December 19, 2023, 20:55:15 »

From a list of 50 Cool Things to 3d Print for November 2023 (https://all3dp.com/1/useful-cool-things-3d-print-ideas-3d-printer-projects-stuff/), here are a couple things that I hadn't seen before...

3-digit combination safe (https://www.printables.com/model/259699-safe-box-3-digit-combination)
Squeeze powered fan (https://www.printables.com/model/157894-squeeze-fan-ruggedized

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General Discussions / Re: 3D Printer Projects

« Last post by Dragon on December 12, 2023, 21:59:38 »

I found some great tips in this video by Maker's Muse about making custom attachment pieces with the 3d printer. https://youtu.be/uJxv5qARXV4?si=TzVd8F_E_xT3HXL8

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General Discussions / Re: Artillery Sidewinder X2 - 3D Printer

« Last post by Dragon on December 12, 2023, 20:48:46 »

I just came across another video which explains more about bed leveling for the 3d printer - https://youtu.be/oX4up29xUuw?si=ggRse729SdsdzAo1 . I'm glad I found this today because I've been noticing that sometimes it's difficult to get a model starting to print and I was thinking I might need to readjust the bed.

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Blogs / Re: Raspberry Pi and Python

« Last post by Dragon on December 01, 2023, 22:29:18 »

Additionally, I installed cargo and rust, because they were mentioned as requirements for ruff. I got multiple errors and warnings when trying to install ruff the first time, so I tried these: 

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~ $ pip3 install -U cargo
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Collecting cargo
  Downloading https://www.piwheels.org/simple/cargo/cargo-0.3-py3-none-any.whl (7.2 kB)
Installing collected packages: cargo
Successfully installed cargo-0.3

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~ $ pip3 install -U rust
Looking in indexes: https://pypi.org/simple, https://www.piwheels.org/simple
Collecting rust
  Downloading https://www.piwheels.org/simple/rust/RUST-1.3.1-py3-none-any.whl (49 kB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 49 kB 187 kB/s
Collecting pysam
  Downloading https://www.piwheels.org/simple/pysam/pysam-0.22.0-cp39-cp39-linux_armv6l.whl (17.5 MB)
     |████████████████████████████████| 17.5 MB 15 kB/s
Requirement already satisfied: matplotlib in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from rust) (3.8.2)
Requirement already satisfied: numpy in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from rust) (1.26.2)
Requirement already satisfied: cycler>=0.10 in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from matplotlib->rust) (0.12.1)
Requirement already satisfied: importlib-resources>=3.2.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from matplotlib->rust) (6.1.1)
Requirement already satisfied: kiwisolver>=1.3.1 in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from matplotlib->rust) (1.4.5)
Requirement already satisfied: contourpy>=1.0.1 in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from matplotlib->rust) (1.2.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pillow>=8 in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from matplotlib->rust) (10.1.0)
Requirement already satisfied: fonttools>=4.22.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from matplotlib->rust) (4.45.1)
Requirement already satisfied: python-dateutil>=2.7 in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from matplotlib->rust) (2.8.2)
Requirement already satisfied: pyparsing>=2.3.1 in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from matplotlib->rust) (3.1.1)
Requirement already satisfied: packaging>=20.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from matplotlib->rust) (23.2)
Requirement already satisfied: zipp>=3.1.0 in ./.local/lib/python3.9/site-packages (from importlib-resources>=3.2.0->matplotlib->rust) (3.17.0)
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.5 in /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages (from python-dateutil>=2.7->matplotlib->rust) (1.16.0)
Installing collected packages: pysam, rust
Successfully installed pysam-0.22.0 rust-1.3.1


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Blogs / Re: Raspberry Pi and Python

« Last post by Dragon on December 01, 2023, 19:47:17 »

From https://scikit-learn.org/stable/install.html:

Scikit-learn plotting capabilities (i.e., functions start with “plot_” and classes end with “Display”) require Matplotlib. The examples require Matplotlib and some examples require scikit-image, pandas, or seaborn. The minimum version of Scikit-learn dependencies are listed below along with its purpose.

Dependency	Minimum Version	Purpose
numpy	1.17.3	build, install
scipy	1.5.0	build, install
joblib	1.1.1	install
threadpoolctl	2.0.0	install
cython	0.29.33	build
matplotlib	3.1.3	benchmark, docs, examples, tests
scikit-image	0.16.2	docs, examples, tests
pandas	1.0.5	benchmark, docs, examples, tests
seaborn	0.9.0	docs, examples
memory_profiler	0.57.0	benchmark, docs
pytest	7.1.2	tests
pytest-cov	2.9.0	tests
ruff	0.0.272	tests
black	23.3.0	tests
mypy	1.3	tests
pyamg	4.0.0	tests
sphinx	6.0.0	docs
sphinx-copybutton	0.5.2	docs
sphinx-gallery	0.10.1	docs
numpydoc	1.2.0	docs, tests
Pillow	7.1.2	docs
pooch	1.6.0	docs, examples, tests
sphinx-prompt	1.3.0	docs
sphinxext-opengraph	0.4.2	docs
plotly	5.14.0	docs, examples
conda-lock	2.1.1	maintenance

...

So I just continued down the list, starting with

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pip3 install -U cython

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Blogs / So this is Christmas

« Last post by Dragon on November 29, 2023, 22:16:08 »

We are less than 30 days away from Christmas already, so I decided to use a title inspired by one of my favorite Christmas songs - Happy Xmas by John Lennon. That song, along with The 12 Pains of Christmas by Bob Rivers, and You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch by Thurl Ravenscroft make up my top 3 favorite songs for the season.

Now, moving on from music to games, I have quite a few boardgames in my collection now, so much that I my Amazon Wishlist currently doesn't even have a game in the top 5 spots. However, I just watched a great video on YouTube called 11 Gifts for Board Gamers (That Aren't Games) by Actualol which I found entertaining on top of suggestions that I'd agree with. So... if you have a gamer in your life, you might want to check out that video for suggestions.     

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Table-top Games / The Crew

« Last post by Dragon on November 26, 2023, 17:32:40 »

On Thanksgiving, Isaac, Tim, Beth, LaZer and I played The Crew: The Quest For Planet Nine. Most of the rounds, Tim ended up randomly being the commander (with the Rocket 4 card), but he wasn't paying as much attention to the game as he was his phone, so it took some time to get everyone to understand how the game worked. Before we retired for the night, we did manage to complete Missions 1 - 4.

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Blogs / Happy Thanksgiving with The Crew

« Last post by Dragon on November 26, 2023, 17:25:46 »

Thanksgiving, for most of my life, has been my favorite holiday. It has been a time for family to get together and enjoy each other's company, great food, and games. It also marks the anniversary (at least in my mind) of the first time that was able to join the grown-ups playing Conquest Of The Empire many years ago. That year, on top of being my first time playing, was one of the few times that I beat my Uncle Sheldon at a boardgame. He was most certainly the one that got me interested in playing strategy board games, such as Cathedral, Othello, Battlestar Galactica (the one from 1984, not the more recent one), and Conquest Of The Empire.

Earlier in the week we were having a rough time. We had discussed having Tim and LaZer over for dinner and games, but weren't even sure if it was going to happen at that point with all the chaos in our family. Thankfully we were able to have a nice, fairly calm day. The food that Beth and I prepared turned out tasting great and was conveniently on-time, despite having some oven issues. Tim and LaZer had arrived a bit later than I had originally hoped, but with all the food that we wanted taking longer than I had expected, they arrived close to the time that the food was ready to eat. We had a nice traditional Thanksgiving, with turkey (oven-roasted turkey breast, not a whole turkey), mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, home-made cranberry sauce, Stove Top stuffing, corn, macaroni casserole (more like mac & cheese than macaroni salad), corn and yams. We also had 4 pies that Beth made - her mom's cherry pie recipe, my mom's apple and Paradise Pumpkin pie recipes, and a standard pumpkin pie.

After dinner, we played a few rounds of The Crew, which is a co-operative trick-taking card game that everyone was new to, other than myself. The game was part of a "megahaul" that I picked up recently thanks to Isaac searching the internet for deals on games. (This set of games was sold as a bundle that we only knew some of what we were getting ahead of time, but even at that point, the breakdown was nearly $4 per game, and some of the games could be valued over $50!) Anyway, it took some time to get everyone to understand how the game worked, but we did manage to complete Missions 1 - 4. Maybe we'll get closer to Planet Nine next time...
 

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Table-top Games / Re: Rival Troops

« Last post by Dragon on November 21, 2023, 17:26:57 »

I recently introduced Rival Troops to my friend Rick. He is a non-gamer, meaning that he will play board games with me, but I don't think he'd ever seek them out on his own. He did catch onto the game quickly though, as I had hoped, and had no problem disrupting some of my potential campsites. Final score: I had 67 points; Rick had 44.

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Table-top Games / Re: Sushi Go Party!

« Last post by Dragon on November 20, 2023, 23:02:48 »

Once again, we played Sushi Go Party! Anna and Grace both enjoy the game. This time we played using the original Sushi Go set of cards. Grace still won by 3 points. I got second place and Anna was close behind. Grace made the most of the Chopsticks during the game. Although Anna and I both played Chopsticks at different points in the game, Grace was the only one that used them, and multiple times at that. In the end, all 3 of us had 3 Pudding cards, so the Dessert scoring didn't change the standing.