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So, I wrote a program, out of some necessity for speed to allow the rough facing of the side of a bar of round stock. Often times people will use a standard facing cycle to mill the side of a big bar of round stock but there’s a ton of wasted time and air cuts. […]
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So, I’ve been using a console calculator that I made for over 20 years ago so I’ve decided to update it and basically just make it the way I want it. If anyone ever saw it (unlikely) they would know it’s outdated. Here is an overview of the changes. So, this time I am including […]
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Here is an image geotagger. It uses leaflet for the map so it may give you guff depending on your browser security settings. Click HERE!
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So, I needed something to label images with EXIF data for easy comparison. This will allow you to apply labels based on data from the file in a fairly easy way. Exports as PNG for lossless. You can drag new images in and apply the same label in the same place… as best as possible. […]
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So, we have these pieces that need a certain texture placed on them. Well, less a texture and more a 3D scanned surface of some sort of machine block or something. I’m not entirely sure of the application. All I know is that it requires a very fine surface to be milled so that it […]
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Wrote a quick spline cutting routine for cutting splines for the side. Supports starting at a given tooth, roughing depth, taper adjustment and finish depths. Can come from -/+Y and go any direction on X. Nothing too spectacular but I leave it here for fun.
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So, I wanted to try my hand at making a communication device between a standalone device and the CNC, something I wanted. I achieved that. I wanted it made out of the most common parts an average person can easily buy off Aliexpress. You can buy one for like 200 bucks but it was fun […]
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I was going through old CDs and came across some doom wads, levels for the old DooM. So I fired up GZdoom and tried a few but it got kind of tiring going through command line so I had AI (mostly) write a WAD file loader. The result is the aptly named Doom PWAD Manager. […]
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Recently, I wanted to pull text from a PDF that was scanned in from an old manual, namely the Borland Turbo Basic manual. The text that was in the document was garbage, nothing there to be done, so I decided to write something that would allow me to: 1. Load a PDF2. Rip the images […]
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A while back I made a prompt permutation script for generating large numbers of image prompts for use in automatic1111. I updated it with a new operator, the incremental operator ‘&’ so it will cycle through the list items instead of choosing random ones. Here is a sample prompt and output. Basically a fancy search […]
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So, I have that Python source code on the side of my site there for calculating gage block buildups. I figured it was time to turn it into a JS program so that people can just access it from the web. Not super complicated but useful nonetheless. http://smackaay.com/files/gbcalc/gbcalc.html Features as follows: Anyways, hope somebody out […]
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I was watching a video from a youtuber KVN AUST. The video: https://youtu.be/8uHFm6LK6PE?si=SLIaCEzNBx_iL97V It featured a map for looking at and searching for odd videos across YouTube. It’s pretty fun just to see little slices of life or weird things people would bother uploading so I made a little JS proggy to generate the most […]
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A few years back we made a gauge for measuring large bores in hydraulic cylinders. Seems the company that bought it from us needed the software for it again. I had to dig through my old source code and see if I had a recent version, turns out I did. On this project I did […]
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So, like a week ago I wrote a script to make permutations for SD prompts. I’ve updated the script to allow for random terms as well. This allows one to add variance in the prompt but to not add to the number of permutations. Everything is explained in the code block comment. just change the […]
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I was bored and made a quick Pong game. It’s not great, not terribly well finished but I wanted to see how good the tools are these days. It’s been a while since I wrote a game. It was fun to make. Give it a shot. https://smackaay.com/webgames/pong2024/index.html It’s output in HTML5 so no installation is […]
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When making images for StableDiffusion it’s best to take the aspect ratio in mind and make it fit into the total number of pixels that the model was trained on. This results in the best images for that given model. So, for SDXL it’s 1024×1024, others it may be 768×768 or even 512×512. Here is […]
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So, I enjoy making stuff in StableDiffusion and in the WebUI interface is an option for a prompt list. I like using the Prompt S/R in the scripts but it tends to top out after about 1500 permutations. Here is a script for generating those in as many dimensions as you want. This Python script […]
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A collection of odds and ends
