Clay press to make a brick wall (for models)

Last Updated or created 2024-03-18

I found a nice tile-able image on the internet to make into a clay press.

UPDATE: 20230406

Using Blender and 3D printing, I’ve got this result.

Take a flat image an convert to black-white. Then invert!

Create cylinder in blender.
Change capfill into nothing, and set sizes.
Add modifier: Solidify
Add texture
CTRL-R and divide, then subdivide
Subdivide surface
Add displace modifier.
Texture coordinates UV.
Displacement negative 0.1-0.3

UPDATE: 20230406

I need to apply the white/gray first in all cracks, and the red color is a little off.

Laser cutting a door sign

Last Updated or created 2023-04-06

I’ve got a nice stone slate, perfect for a door sign.

I wanted to paint our names and house number. But now that i’ve got a lasercutter, lets do that.

I’m going to use the design i’ve used for the Folkband Bags, and add some stuff.

First test on the back of the slate

Using a Sculpfun S9, Power 100 and speed 100mm/s

I will add the final result to this page

Quentin Tarantino in Amsterdam to promote his book.

Last Updated or created 2023-04-04

Being cinephiles.. we had to go .. and we didn´t regret it!

We went to Carré listening to Mr Tarantino talking about his book. Someone interviewed him about his life, and love for movies. He told many anecdotes and side stories. Sometimes with little clips from movies he talked about.
We were very lucky to have seats on the 6th row!

Beforehand I met another movie hero of mine, and got the change of talking to him personally.
Mister van Koolhoven! I posted about him in the past
https://www.henriaanstoot.nl/2021/03/23/movie-genres/

He was very nice and approachable, gave me some tips to check out.
Like letterboxd.

A superb evening! And we also bought the book.

Guess the code in Node Red

Last Updated or created 2023-04-02

I asked ChatGPT to write code for me, i was not completely correct, and in Python. https://www.henriaanstoot.nl/2023/03/28/i-asked-chatgpt-to-write-code-for-a-crack-the-code-game/
I wrote my on version in JavaScript so it can be used in NodeRed as a function.

The codes are entered using a keypad (Arduino) and send via MQTT

Node Red Dash board

Code

var code = global.get("mysetcode");
var good = 0;
var wrong = 0;
var wrongplace = 0;
var match = false;
var wrongchars = 0;
var wrongplaced = 0;
var goodchars = 0;
var payloadcode = msg.payload.toString();

var usr_input = Array.from(payloadcode);
var secret_code = Array.from(code);
var secret_code1 = secret_code;

if (msg.payload === code) {
    match = true;
}
var result = "";

for (var i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
    var found = false;
    if (usr_input[i] === secret_code[i]) {
    usr_input[i] = "a";
    secret_code[i] = "b";
        good = good + 1;
        
    }
}

for (var i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
    var found = false;
    for (var j = 0; j < 4; j++) {
        if (usr_input[i] === secret_code[j]) {
                found = true;
        } 
    }
        if (!found) {
    wrong = wrong + 1;
    }
}

wrongchars = wrong - good;
wrongplaced = 4 - good - wrongchars;

msg.goodchars = good;
msg.wrongchars = wrongchars;
msg.wrongplace = wrongplaced;
msg.result = result;
msg.match = match;
return msg;