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Arachnid
Why a higher speed setting barely shortens a 3D print
Measured on a Bambu A1, only about half of a fast print runs at the commanded feedrate. How the Arachnid slicer cut a Benchy from 19m 10s to 8m 23s by shaping paths instead.
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Pileon SQL
Pileon SQL stores a recipe for each value instead of the value
Pileon SQL is a columnar database in Rust where each cell holds the cheapest way to rebuild its value from a reference value called a sink. How the format works, and how it opens 2 million rows in 1.0 ms.
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Insula
Insula is in preview, a camera system that follows what it sees
Insula, also called camOS, pans, tilts and zooms to keep a person framed, flags faces it has never seen, reads number plates and raises an event when someone steps into an armed zone. It is free.
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Stargazer
Measuring an ADS-B antenna one degree at a time
Stargazer scores a directional ADS-B antenna against adsb.fi on each of 360 bearings. How the score works, why aircraft under 50 km do not count, and how far a 10 m antenna can hear.
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05
Liquox
Liquid Glass on Windows, and why Liquox has no frost
Liquox is a Liquid Glass material for Windows in OpenGL. Shapes act as lenses, the rim bends the background with spectral dispersion, and the interior stays clear. How the shader gets there.
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06
Venus
VenusMCP, and which of its tools to call
VenusMCP gives Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client search, live facts, images, music, research reports and design mockups from one address. A guide to every tool and when to use it.
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07
Studio
Taking a WebGL scroll story from 53.7 to 105 fps on an integrated GPU
The Cohentra site is a lattice of cubes in raw WebGL2 that reshapes as the page scrolls. It averaged 53.7 fps with dips to 12. What was slow, how it was measured, and what fixed it.
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Other builds
Making a Bambu A1 play music on its stepper motors
The Bambu A1 can play notes through its X, Y and Z stepper motors with the M1006 command. Which notes actually sound, how to fit a piano piece onto three motors, and the file wrapper that makes it play.
