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Ramblings and thoughts about tech, free software, and hobbies of my life, shared bit by bit.
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Something new washes up every time: pages from all kinds of people, made with all kinds of tools. Beachcomb shows you what it found, then gets out of the way.
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ASCII PAINT (SKELETON EDITION)
Paint ASCII art by filling in a very accessible ASCII grid, with skeleton.
From Tiny Tools Directory
Restaurants are leaning into handmade/DIY aesthetics as AI slop grows
Some restaurants are leaning into handmade touches, as AI-generated food photos and flyers become commonplace
From Waxy.org links
The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)
69 images of kite flying from across 5 centuries and some dozen countries.
From The Public Domain Review
Zero
This is a Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter of WWII, in 1:144 scale, FDM printed on my old Ender 3. It's a very simple model with virtually no surface detail at all, and I don't recall who designed it or where I got it. It was some considerable time ago. I have no immediate use for it, as I…
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Nathalie Lawhead's The wonderful world of tools
Nathalie Lawhead breaks down the why on why small tools are great.
From Tiny Tools Directory
QR-Codes und NFC-Tags fürs Blasorchester: Sticker für den Konzerttisch
Anleitung für Orchester: QR-Code-Sticker mit NFC-Tags für den Konzerttisch selbst gemacht – Foto-Druck, Kurz-URLs, NFC Tools und Kosten ab 31 Cent.
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Studio 3e8: Mesa 1, affordable Metal 3D Printer
Studio 3e8 today revealed the Mesa 1, a desktop metal 3D printer that puts professional-quality metal parts within reach of any workspace. Launching on Kickstarter December 1, starting at $3,500.
From Show HN
Ibrahim Said Nods to Ancient Islamic and Egyptian Pottery Traditions in ‘Shaping Time’
The artist's solo exhibition at Yossi Milo delves into traditional craft with a contemporary twist. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Ibrahim Said Nods to Ancient Islamic…
From Colossal
FixMakeMod
Where broken things have feelings, tools have tempers, and right-to-repair meets Saturday morning cartoons
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Welcome to AXM Paper Models
To bring the Vulcan Centaur collection to date, here’s the Vulcan Centaur USSF-87 papermodel for free download! Cargo Dragon CRS-35 is now available. This will complete the iRosa installation on all Power Channels. A postflight model for S40 is pending. Stay tuned for an upcoming 1:400 scale diorama…
From Kagi Small Web
Miriam Eric Suzanne
I'm Miriam, a hybrid artist in Denver, CO -- often making music & theater & web stuff. These days, I'm also into pottery and yarn and mechanical clocks.
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Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920)
Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand.
From The Public Domain Review
Nasscad – local-first 3D CAD for browser and Windows
Open NASSCAD and start modeling: parametric solids and generators, boolean CSG, STEP and IFC import/export, STL and 3MF for 3D printing. Free, no login.
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Blender Doodling
I'm using my 1:144 Halberstadt D-II model to fiddle with generating disruptive pattern textures in Blender. There's an enormous amount you can do with the node shading system, but I am the merest beginner when it comes to texturing objects in Blender.
From Kagi Small Web
Found Object Masks by Romuald Hazoumè Counter Sorrow with Sympathy
Romuald Hazoumé encircles plastic jugs with feathers, netting, paintbrushes, and other found materials. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Found Object Masks by Romuald…
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Fabivo – Furniture design from a photo to a numbered cut list
Draw the furniture, optimize plywood, MDF or melamine cuts and follow the assembly step by step. Fabivo runs in the browser, offline, with no account.
From Show HN
Making of: Line Drawing Tutorial
an interactive tutorial on making interactive tutorials
From Explorable Explanations
Why some people mow a lawn better than others.
Why some people mow a lawn better than others.
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Unfolder for Mac
($30) Unfolder is a 3D model unfolding tool for creating papercraft.
From Tiny Tools Directory
p5.Riso.js
A p5.js library for generating files suitable for Risograph printing.
From Tiny Tools Directory
Pocketmod: The Free Recyclable Personal Organizer
Take-a-piece-of-letter-paper-and-fold-it-into-an-eight-page-zine.
From Tiny Tools Directory
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