Author: John Poole
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I was working on my Voron Trident 3D printer kit, and tried to take inventory of all the plastic parts that were printed and shipped to me. There are 128 different designs. I decided to make a workflow producing both a recognizable image and a 3-D web viewer of each part. I ran into some…
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Hamburger Soup
When I was a lad in 4th grade, I took a substantial hit on my savings account at Union Bank in Pasadena to purchase a blender at Bullock’s for my mother as a Christmas present. A year or two earlier, I had opened an account at Union Bank because they had built a huge office…
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Battery Extractor Sling
I’ve been working with the LilyGO® T-Beam SUPREME ($41 not inc. shipping) which packs a punch with its: ESP32-S3FN8 processor with 8MB of RAM and 8MB of PSRAM a 128x64px OLED display a Lora radio transceiver a GPS sensor (either MAX-M10S or L76K ) Six-Axis Sensor Temperature, humidity and pressure sensor Magnetometer (compass) A power…
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Voron Trident: 3D Model
The above screenshot is a 3 dimensional (“3D”) model of the Voron Trident 3D printer that can be viewed in a web browser and manipulated with a mouse to rotate, zoom, and move the model in its space. If you are viewing on a hand held device, e.g. a phone, then the model may take…
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Extracting Links From PDF
Here’s a walk-through where I extract video link in a PDF and ascertain the length of the videos, their YouTube address, and their title. The 291 page Voron Assembly manual has links to helpful videos within it. Here’s a picture of such a link, https://voron.link/onjwmcd, from page 10 (intended to be read by a phone’s…
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“Over Hill Over Dale” by Thomas Gainsborough
I was sending a letter via First Class mail and a book via Media Rate, as a present, to a friend using the United States Postal Service. Both were sent at the same time in Salem to an address in Salem. My understanding is that mail gets delivered to Portland where it can be sorted,…
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Live Tracking T-Beam SUPREME
With ChatGPT, I have created C++ code which is uploaded to four T-Beam SUPREME units and causes each unit to send every 10 seconds its coordinates. Each unit records it’s transmission and it records on its SD card incoming transmissions from the other units. In addition, I have a base station “sniffer” Lora (Semtech 1303…
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T-Beams Of Bable
I have five LilyGO T-Beam SUPREMEs all transmitting and receiving every 15 seconds via Lora radio (Semtech 1302 chip). This is a test of mutliple units being active and then seeing how well a Lora sniffer works. The units are named: Amy Bob Cy Dan Ed I also have a Lora sniffer using the Semtech…
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A Fortuitous Gift Mandates Custom Thank You Cards
In November, 2025. ironically a day before my birthday (unbeknownst to the donor), I was given two books that were illustrated by Gorey. The present was wrapped with high quality wrapping paper… paper good enough to be book binding liner, a white ribbon, a beautiful note card with a readable handwritten note, a print-out of…
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Lithium Battery Alert
Adam Savage of Myth Busters Fame released a 21′ video “The Surprising Flaws in 18650 Lithium-Ion Batteries”on YouTube on January 20, 2026. Adam has 7,100,000 subscribers. Adam interviews these two employees from Lumafield: Alex Hao Andreas Bastian The upshot is that Lumafield has used a scanning device to see what is really inside a battery…