OpenSCAD

3D printing and using AI is something that Al and I spoke about in Oslo a couple of months ago.

It's getting very good at doing things like OpenSCAD.

So my expectation is for this next level, I can go into OpenSCAD, we'll get out the vernier calipers, measure up the fart spray bottles, give it all the dimensions of that, give it the dimensions of the servos so that they fit in nicely.

ask it to create an enclosure for the ESP32 to fit on the back, and we should be able to 3D print the model that all of this will sit in, probably do a little bit of soldering, get the ESP32 joined up to Home Assistant, job done.

And we've got two of them, so we can hit them from both sides.

I, like, I just had it export my files, and then gave it over to, you know, CAD sys- and gave it over to AI, and AI was like, oh, okay.

It rebuilt it all in OpenSCAD, which is this, like, CLI-based CADing system, programmatic CADing system.

And I was able to, like, tell it, tweak, I mean, tweak this and tweak that, and it got it...

It would...

And I'm Christina Ponos.

This is episode 390, Doom Cranium Stuff and Odd OpenSCAD Opportunities.

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That was-

Easy to say.

My last regular-sized hack comes from Mihai, gardening with OpenSCAD.

It's true, you don't see many garden variety hacks on our site, but this one, this one is different.

If any of you want to experiment with Nipkow disks or mirror drums, um, I'll put a link below in the write-up.

In my GitHub repository, there is a pair of OpenSCAD scripts for generating Nipkow disk and drums.

I'll say you're the best.

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