LordLatch

I had several nights of non constructiveness and now... It looks better with a spool mounted to it: I should be able to do my first print this weekend. I modeled my house last night for the first print: Looks like I need to change the slope of my roof.  Now that I have everything to print, I'm scared to do it. Heh. I've been doing little things in preparation but it's clear to me I'm dragging my heels. Here's my house: I think I will print that first rather than some calibration thing. Then I can figure out what I need to do to handle overhangs. One would think the slicing software would handle adding support material, but we'll(meaning me) see.

Tonight, I will be working on getting my computer to watch for the mailman. I made huge headway last night in that I was able to access the camera and save an image to the program directory from within Processing. It was far easier than when I was doing it in VB. Bleh. No hunting for an obscure library reliant upon an outdated windows framework or any of that nonsense! Heck, Processing comes with it's own freaking openCV, but I'm not going to use it, though. Imma do my own thing! *the next day* Here's what I was able to come up with last night in Processing: The beginnings of my own computer vision. Reader: How are the red particles distributed?   I took the average of the value of the blue and the green in the pixel and if that number is half the value of the red of or less, I max out the red and zero out the other colors, giving it the full red. Code: float comp = r/((b+g)*.5); if (comp>2){r=255;g=0;b=0;} I'm really just trying ...