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Hi, I am Walter Gordy.


Software Developer

How to Break a 3D Printer

How to Break a 3D Printer

Bent Hot End (Budaschnozzle) The print head is bent! How could this have happened! It was all going so well, but something had to break eventually. In this post I’ll try...


Concept for Real Time Filament Measurement

Concept for Real Time Filament Measurement

One major challenge with 3D printing is the quality of the print material. Any reprap owner understands the difficulties in dealing with plastic filament and the inconsistencies you can get while...


Pocket-Tactics Test Print

Pocket-Tactics Test Print

Close up game piece I don’t normally play these sort of games, but the open source game Pocket-Tactics has some great looking pieces. The game is fully open source with...


Arduino and Breadboarding

Arduino and Breadboarding

I’ve been trying to learn to use Autodesk Inventor so I needed a project. Here’s the result of my first attempt. Its a thing to tie together the Arduino Mega,...


Programming the Cat

Programming the Cat

I’ve had a bit of down time lately, and thought I’d try to teach my old cat a new trick. So I downloaded the cat food dispenser from thingiverse and printed...


Projects from the Past

Projects from the Past

I was going through an old website from school and found a bunch of old programming projects. Here’s a few of the highlights. 3D ROTATION CUBE This was a project...