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Hi, I am Walter Gordy.


Software Developer

How to Break a 3D Printer

How to Break a 3D Printer

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 to explain symptoms and how this...


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

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 all the ready to...


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 Early 2000s

Projects From the Early 2000s

I was going through an old projects from school and found a few programming projects. Here’s a few of the highlights that survived! Unfortunately some things don’t stand the test...