Running Electrical Conduit Using FreeCAD and 3D Printing

The great thing about having a 3D printer and open source CAD software is the ability to make accomplishing projects easier. In short, I had some electrical conduit to run and I wanted to mount it along a steel structural I-beam in CubicleLabs. I found some clamps that would work but they were too expensive … Continue reading Running Electrical Conduit Using FreeCAD and 3D Printing

Raspberry Pi OctoPrint Powered by Ender3 3D Printer

After almost a year of having my Ender3, it has received a lot of new parts, fixes and upgrades. The great thing about the Ender3 is that you can do so much with it and truly personalize it for your use case. One area that needed to be addressed was the power supply situation that … Continue reading Raspberry Pi OctoPrint Powered by Ender3 3D Printer

Ender3 Ikea Lack Table Printer Enclosure

The Ender3 is seemingly a fantastic, inexpensive, entry level machine to get you started in the wondrous world of 3D printing. I would hardly call it the most quality, feature-rich machines out there but the incredible affordability is what makes is a great starting place. This wasn't the first 3D printer I became familiar with … Continue reading Ender3 Ikea Lack Table Printer Enclosure

Building a New Retro Styled Computer

Computers are a lot more fun when they are personal and have a bit of personaltity to them. You can't get much more personalized than 3D printing your very own retro styled computer. This was all inspired by watching an episode on the YouTube channel, Retro Recipes, where LadyFractic built herself a retro computer, my … Continue reading Building a New Retro Styled Computer

C1541x | The Commodore 1541 Impostor

My most favorite computer build to date has been my Commodore 64 Impostor. It has truly been the best computer I have ever owned. Not because it is he fastest and most capable but because it hit all the right nostalgia buttons while at the same time meeting my computing requirements. The only real problem … Continue reading C1541x | The Commodore 1541 Impostor

OctoPrint Pause and Resume Settings for the Ender3

This isn't anything particularly earth shattering here, the point here is to make a kind of "CubicleNate bookmark" for me and to be openly criticized by those that know more than me on this subject. The problem I had was pausing and resuming properly using OctoPrint on my Ender3 Printer. I messed up more than … Continue reading OctoPrint Pause and Resume Settings for the Ender3

Stacked Dual Screen on a Laptop

Once I tasted the sweet goodness of a multiple screen workstation, having a single screen seems almost unusable. Sure, that is a bit of a hyperbole but single screen workstations are far less productive for me and I wanted to improve my mobile laptop set up. This is something I had been thinking about for … Continue reading Stacked Dual Screen on a Laptop

1U Raspberry Pi Rack Mount Bracket

1U Raspberry Pi Rack Mount Bracket

In an effort to improve the organization of my home computer "core" I have made the search for a solution to mount my Raspberry Pi and potentially future Pis on my 2-post server rack. The solutions I found were outside of my budget for a small change so I found a solution on Thingaverse.com by … Continue reading 1U Raspberry Pi Rack Mount Bracket