Updatey update

It’s been two weeks, I know. But I’ve been a little occupied, just dealing with the slow reset that comes with moving house.

I’m downstairs now, near the front door. New room, new layout, new daily routine. The biggest win though? Insanely fast internet. Like, 350Mbps down and 250Mbps up. Probably enough bandwidth to self-host this blog from a Raspberry Pi duct-taped to the wall. Not that I’ve done that. Yet. Maybe once I can afford a domain name and find the motivation to go full sysadmin on it.

Until then, I’ve been relying heavily on my ThinkPad for projects, which means Fusion 360 is… not really on the table. It runs about as well as a dial-up modem at a LAN party. FreeCAD? Also a no. It feels more like filing taxes than modelling things. So I’ve shifted to OpenSCAD — basically the nerdier, code-based cousin of traditional CAD software. You type what you want, and it renders it. Possibly useful. Possibly an overengineered coaster. Either way, it compiles.

Now that I’ve got solid Wi-Fi in my room, I’m flashing the SD card for the OctoPrint Raspberry Pi as I write this. It’s already mounted to the Prusa — which, by the way, continues to be flawlessly reliable. SD cards are fine and all, but they get annoying real quick when you’re printing daily. This is just the next step.

Aside from all the printer setup chaos, I’ve made plans to go watch a physics lecture at the university in about two weeks — and as of right now, she’s coming with me. Should be good. It's the kind of thing I always enjoy more when there's someone to nudge when this new professor says something questionable.

And on Sunday, I’ll be giving a couple of presentations at what’s basically the national amateur radio conference. I’ll be speaking in front of way more people than I’m used to — a bit nerve-wracking, but honestly kind of exciting. It’ll be cool to talk radio with a bigger crowd.

I’ll update you on everything next week. For now, things are all looking pretty interesting.

73, 

Daniel