Author: Victor Frost
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Tool Organizers!
In my perpetual bid to use the space I have as efficiently as possible, I’ve designed up a bunch of tool holders (especially for my mini cordless tools)! Most of these are specific to my particular tools, but can be easily modified to fit others. They’re just stuff I needed and found useful so you…
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Sanitization
In reaction to the newest firmware changes from BambuLab, I’ve changed my A1 3d printer to LAN Only Mode and blocked its access to the internet. I’ll miss the convenience of being able to start and monitor prints from my phone but I use OrcaSlicer and I don’t like comapanies telling me what I can…
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MiniBuild: Coffee Scoop
Morning-Coffee-Wise, I’m perfectly content with the instant stuff. My wife, however, needs to brew a cup with her fancy stainless steel mesh pour-over cone. According to the instructions on the side of almost every bag of ground coffee she keeps in the fridge, the ideal amount of grounds for pour over coffee brewing is 2…
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MiniBuild: Buzzicle Instrument
I needed a practical sound effect for a doorbell buzzer for the Old Time Radio Show at Anime Los Angeles this year. So I decided to build one with what I had on hand. My inital thought was to replicate the mechanical buzzing by using a relay, but the only relays I have on hand…
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New Year, New Habits, New Goals.
It’s January 1st and, as arbitrary of a date as it may be to set up new habits and plans for the year to come – because the best time to start on new habits or goals is NOW, no matter time of year it is – it’s also not at all arbitrary because, hey,…
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AI Helpers
I use AI helpers a lot. Today I decided I need help managing my to do list and so I made Taskmaster. It’s based on Dolphin-Llama3.1 and runs Ollama on my main home server using a GTX 1070 for the GPU. This is how I tested my prompt for it. VICTOR Hello Taskmaster, I am…
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A Conversation with Friday
An interesting conversation with my personal AI assistant, Friday (run locally on-prem, dolphin-mistral:latest with my own special sauce in the prompt): Topics: Creativity, learning strategies/philosophies, mathematics, psychology, AI development, the future VICTOR Hey Friday, how goes? FRIDAY Oh, hello there! It’s been a while since we chatted last. How have you been keeping yourself busy?…
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