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Gary Nicholson

@imapping

FME Professional for @Locusnz.

 Scott Point, New Zealand
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Joined July 2009
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I've been working on a cool web site for my mate's book. The first book in the series is great but even without it the site has fun games that help you learn about New Zealand flora and fauna. jackandthetrees.com/
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With the latest version of github.com/imapping/timesgat… you can now listen to your turntable from any browser on the network, no TimesGate needed. Was nice side effect of a lot of troubleshooting today. Turns out my deck is running at 34.1 rpm screwing up track identification!
GitHub - imapping/timesgate-controller: Web controller for the Divoom Times Gate: plugins, music...

GitHub - imapping/timesgate-controller: Web controller for the Divoom Times Gate: plugins, music...

Web controller for the Divoom Times Gate: plugins, music visualizer, vinyl recognition, button box and several units - imapping/timesgate-controller

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Doing some more coding with Claude Opus 5.5 and have open sourced this Divoom TimesGate controller that among other things shows my live Claude usage and alerts me when Claude is needing my response. github.com/imapping/timesgat…
GitHub - imapping/timesgate-controller: Web controller for the Divoom Times Gate: plugins, music...

GitHub - imapping/timesgate-controller: Web controller for the Divoom Times Gate: plugins, music...

Web controller for the Divoom Times Gate: plugins, music visualizer, vinyl recognition, button box and several units - imapping/timesgate-controller

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Maybe a Github plugin next!
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And that took 18 mins to do!
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I wanted some way of logging when I had mowed the various bits of our property so made mowingtracker.com/ Ask for an invite code if you might find it useful too.
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Having a conversation with someone about how New Zealand is a small place. Turns out said someone is my sister-in-law's brother!
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Trying to 3d print a chess board in one piece with 3 colours on my single colour Ender 3 V2. Could end up in a big mess of plastic!
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Designed in #FME of course.
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It actually worked quite well. Just had one square not stick to the plate.
Image from Gary Nicholson (@imapping)
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I hope twitter isn't suggesting I look at any of the trending topics!
Image from Gary Nicholson (@imapping)
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Hey @skysportnz turn off those on field ads. They are shit. Go back to what you used last year
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Not to mention that anoying background bass music
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My latest 3d prints designed in #FME are token holders for Sequence.
3d printed token holders for the board game Sequence

ALT 3d printed token holders for the board game Sequence

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Here's a sneak peek at my next installment of #FME and 3D printing. These were all designed with a single workspace and no post processing.
A variety of 3d printed objects such as funnels and bowls

ALT A variety of 3d printed objects such as funnels and bowls

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FME and 3D Printing, Pt III – Making the scoring pegs and controlling the printer imapping.wordpress.com/2023/…
FME and 3D Printing, Pt III – Making the scoring pegs and controlling the printer

FME and 3D Printing, Pt III – Making the scoring pegs and controlling the printer

To show how FME can also control printing out the 3D model after it has created it, I’ll create a workspace that creates the pegs to fit in the scorer and have it automatically slice the STL …

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FME and 3D Printing, Pt II – Making a FME Server web app imapping.wordpress.com/2023/…
FME and 3D Printing, Pt II – Making a FME Server web app

FME and 3D Printing, Pt II – Making a FME Server web app

Pt I of this series created an FME workspace to make the 3d model of the scorer in STL format ready to send to a slicer before printing. This post will add some extra functionality and publish it u…

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My experimenting with #FME and 3D printing now has an FME Server app available for all. Blog post to follow. imappingfmevm.lbs.co.nz/fmes…
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FME and 3D Printing, Pt I – Creating the 3D model imapping.wordpress.com/2023/…
FME and 3D Printing, Pt I – Creating the 3D model

FME and 3D Printing, Pt I – Creating the 3D model

The model that we want to end up with (Batman and Superman with 10 holes each): is basically a box, with slightly rounded corners: with bits cut (clipped) out of it: The first step then is to creat…

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FME and 3D Printing, how far can I go! imapping.wordpress.com/2023/…
FME and 3D Printing, how far can I go!

FME and 3D Printing, how far can I go!

Santa got me this 3D printer for Christmas and have been having fun designing and printing various bits and pieces. Ender 3 V2 3D printer I’ve been using: to get existing 3D designs to make m…

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