Crafts and Automation

My purpose at this point in life is to be creative. Mostly tangible items. But not always. Making “Old School” Arts and Crafts items are high on my preference list. So is applying electronics to assist creativity, such as digital control systems. Especially when it is used to accurately produce additive and subtractive Arts and […]

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Broken Copilot Window

Copilot Metaphor Broken Is the computer OS “MS-Windows” broken? Of course it is. If you consider “not perfect” as “broken”. The biggest crack at the moment is the forced implementation of Copilot on the user. My “perfect” may be different than what some computer algorithm decided is correct or “better”. The real fault is that

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A Playground

The KAUTZ blog is still just a playground. I think I have the layout where I like it for now, But even that is subject to my tweaking whims. Most of my other blogs have become very static as far as design change. And… uh… content. Ha! The FORUM here was a bit complex. It

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Linux Talk

Writing using my Linux Computer I usually use a small screen ~(5” x 9.5”) 10” with my Linux system. Unfortunately that provides a bit of a hardship as the screen area makes everything quite small. A bit hard for my 79+ year old eyes. Not that I can’t see the screen or read the text.

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Lithophane Frog

3D Print Lithophane

One of the many things that can be created with 3D FDM Printing is colored Lithophanes. A Lithophane is a dimensionally thin semi-transparent (usually single color whitish) material, which is carved (or in this case printed) in high relief. When illuminated from the back, various levels of light will pass through the material, dependent on

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See The Light

Much of my time is spent designing, then 3D printing “JUNQUE”. That’s my favorite term for the over-production of plastic items.  It’s not junk that one would just throw away. It’s nice “stuff” but I make way more than I really need. I generally give it away or encourage my wife to gift her friends.

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Polished Apple

Apple Polish

I use Apple Pages for composing my BLOG posts. Don’t use any of the fancy formatting. For my needs it is simply a text editor with frills. Pages just did an update, so I hope Apple hasn’t changed it too much.  Don’t spend as much time as I once did, posting in my many blogs.

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