A Personal Tale Sleeping on an inclined bed Photo Credit: unsplash-logoErick PalacioSo a week or so ago I posted the below on Instagram regarding an article I'd read about sleeping on an inclined bed. We all love sleep,
3D Printing Where I've been and what I've been working on... OctoFarm! So I've not done an update here in some time, and I truly doubt anyone is wondering at all why... But heck! I feel I should give some explanation and
3D Printing "Tutorial" for creating your own stencil for plotting with a 3D printer What you will need 1. An Autodesk account so you can use their free web design software: Tinkercad 2. A free opensource program called Inkscape to generate the paths and
3D Printing My adventures in 2D Plotting with a 3D printer and a "Tutorial" 2D plotting is a mechanical drawing technique for large scale printing and we can quite easily mod our 3D printers to do this, albeit the size will be pretty much dependent on your bed size so it may fall outside of the "large" in large scale printing.
3D Printing Eryone PLA Review My Daily Driver I've been testing/using this brand for a good few months now, and I just wanted to give the company a little shout out on here. They were a relatively
3D Printing Octoprint Multiple Instance Installation Ubuntu 18.04 "Tutorial" + Script Skip to "Tutorial" Skip to ScriptSo a wee while ago I use to run my Octoprint instances all from multiple Raspberry Pi 3 which worked great for a very long
3D Printing Manual Mesh Bed Leveling with Klipper Ok, so my bed is an absolute mess and I've been meaning to do a manual mesh for a very long time. It's now gotten to the point where it's pretty much a requirement for my 2 year old CR10. Been the stubborn bloke I am I was not about to just go out and spend actual money on a BLTouch
"Tutorial" PiHole and Grafana "Tutorial" So after setting up some metric collection wizardry in other places, I wondered what the hell else I could gather in my house. Without malice in my heart, I began
"Tutorial" Octoprint-MQTT, Node-Red, InfluxDB and Grafana "Tutorial" A tutorial to learn how to put together 4 applications to build yourself a cool dashboard for your printer(s).
A Long Way Home This is another account of lost time, it's something that's intrigued me a lot since first hearing of stories like this. I find them very interesting, and would love to
A Personal Tale Diet Day 7, a Failing and a Realisation So, this would be day seven of my carnivorous diet. I failed tonight, I've just eaten a very large meal of fish and chips from my local. In the interest
The Screaming Room What curious questions arise when we talk about haunted houses. Is it all baloney? Do any of these stories even have merit? If any of them are at all true,
A Personal Tale Blood Test Baseline Today, I'd like to work on my blood tests and what they actually mean. It's certainly been interesting learning about all these little markers we use for health, and it's
Health and Wellness Time to be a Carnivore The answer I suppose is the way I feel, I wouldn't call myself depressed but I am tired all the time and I get moments of feeling like the entire
Down Time So I've been away for a few months, what's happened? Where did I go? Well, I've been basically living my life! I've had a marriage to appear at, documents to
Future Air Raid I found this time travel case mentioned in the book The Little Giant Book of Eerie Thrills and Unspeakable Chills which is written by Ron Edwards, C. BH. Colby and
A Lesson Learned Don't Fallacy Your Logic Navigating the information world today has become somewhat of a daunting task. The internet allowed information to spread like wild fire and not all of it is what it seems.
Strange Neighbourhood Highway Back in Time Another jaunt back with mysteries of time travel accounts. This one takes place in a small Southwest Louisiana town of Abbeville. The tale was originally recounted by a character with
Science and Experimentation Sham Surgery The Placebo effect is a curious phenomenon if I've ever looked upon one. Trials have shown people often react to a placebo in nearly the identical manner as an actual
Strange Neighbourhood Hotel Time Warp Story time! Weird and wonderful stories that are just on the cusp of being too crazy to confirm. I love them! So I've decided to start sharing a few of
Health and Wellness Benefits to smoking? Well, let's hit right off the bat with a most controversial of topics! Smoking. I first started when I was 16 all those many moons ago. I loved it! There
A Personal Tale Introductions Welcome to my Blog. My name is James Mackay and at the moment I don't really have much of a clue why I am here. The only thing I do
