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New post: Built a Pi air quality monitor! 🌬️

CO₂, VOC & particle sensors + Grafana dashboards. Designed in FreeCAD, inspired by GrafanaCon. Could be perfect Terminal Dawn module.

Hardest part: wiring, not design!

#RaspberryPi #AirQuality #IoT
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Airquality Sensors...a Terminal Dawn Side Quest
Side Quest to work with a group of Air Quality Sensors.
terminaldawn.dev
August 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
New Terminal Dawn post: "Fasteners - The Grudge"

TL;DR: Tried FreeCAD's fastener addon, ended up with 13 random nuts floating around my design, CTRL + Zd myself into oblivion.

The addon is actually great - my brain just wasn't ready for eleventy billion options 🧠💥
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FreeCAD Fasteners, The Grudge
So working with fasteners in FreeCAD has led me to believe...I'm screwed.
terminaldawn.dev
July 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
FreeCAD Part 2 is live! From coffee-spilling frustration to making MicroSD slots in an array ☕💻

The Move/Array tool is magical once you stop fighting it. Also learned fillets vs chamfers

My solar Pi enclosure is taking shape! 🌞

#FreeCAD #3DDesign #RaspberryPi #SolarPowered
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Freecad Series Part 2
FreeCAD and I are in a complicated situationship
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July 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
New blog post: Learning FreeCAD the hard way 💀

From "I made a donut in Blender, how hard could this be?" to frantically clicking around trying to figure out why I need 2D sketches for 3D things.

Building a paper-sized solar Pi enclosure for Terminal Dawn ⬇️

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Freecad Series Part 1
FreeCAD...it's CAD how hard could it be?
terminaldawn.dev
July 14, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Why do the recycled plastic bags smell like someone used a ton of perfume to cover up their chain smoking habit?
#recycledbags
January 27, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Back after a much needed break. I know all 3 of you were worried.
January 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I feel like if you run Semgrep you’ve created a problem factory. Maybe my companies implementation is less than stellar but I’ve never seen a SAST scanner get in the way of everything before.
January 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Heading back to work after a week off….feels bad man
#sundayscariesonmonday
a cartoon of a green alien with a surprised look on his face and the words doooomed !!! below him
ALT: a cartoon of a green alien with a surprised look on his face and the words doooomed !!! below him
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December 17, 2024 at 6:21 AM
Reposted
An experiment. Can you like this post if (and only if) you play and buy video games.

Some people over on Twitter/X seem to think it's only game developers here.

(reposts welcome to spread the word)
December 4, 2024 at 2:32 PM