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Controlling LED through Octolapse for 3D print timelapse

Today's post is about one of the 3D Printing adaptation that I learned. This is specifically about how to control an LED light automatically through OctoLapse so that it is switched on only when the timelapse photo is taken. Just as a background, I have been learning to use 3D printer and its customizations options for a few months now and was a lot of learning since then. The best thing was OctoPi, a platform for controlling the 3D printer and the many plugin options that are developed by the community.  Most of them are like open source. Today we will discuss specifically about an adaptation to one such plugin, OctoLapse. OctoLapse is the plugin for taking timelapse photos, with many options for further customisations. One of the best timelapse method is taking photo after each layer is complete, by moving the head out of the way. You can use standard Pi Camera or a DSLR, which is great to get good resolution videos. One small flash back before we dive into the topic.  ...
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Color the Excel row based on a value/status

Very often, we would like to differenciate the rows that are having certain status (or specific values in a specific column) in a different color. We can filter for the status and apply the color manually, but we can also do that dynamically or automatically with a specific tweak to the Conditional Formatting feature in Excel
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PTC Creo | my Mapkeys for free

I have created a list of frequently used mapkey shortcuts for the PTC Pro Engineer Creo. This is the macro equivalent in creo.  I am copying them below.If you need them, copy paste the content to the "config.pro" file in your startup folder. My favourites are highlited and greatly improves the workflow.. For ex, to reach MEASURE. need to go to another menu and click.  Instead, maypkey from any selected menu on the ribbon will work.. Thats wonderful to me... Also, Edit Sketch (ES) is overloaded and will work for Extrusion, Revelution, Sweep etc.. So is aa, pp, zz..  really helps me a lot.. Hope you will start using them as well and get benefited! Let me know in comments, your feedback and issues.... Sketch View           > sv Show and Erase        > se Working Directory     > wd Hiddel Line View      > hi Close (quit) Window   > qw Measure        ...
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Renault Duster Modification | getting the USB power concealed

I was looking forward to have my USB power wires to be concealed, for a while now. I normally use power cables for the mobile and the DashCam charging. But as you can see below, its wires running through the dashboard and were cluttered.  Sometime its not good to have them like that when you drive as it can be distraction.
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TIP OF THE DAY: CHANGE CASE OF TYPED TEXT IN ANDROID KEYBOARD

Most of us know how to change case before we type a text. But how to change case of a typed text from small-caps, ALL-CAPS, Initial-Caps? It's easy.. * Double tap to select text. Use arrows to expand selection as needed. * Use the ⬆ arrow on the keyboard to cycle through each option. Simple, isn't it.. share if you liked it..
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Focus Stacked Bug

Today morning, my son found a dead bug with bright colors around our home. Suddenly I realized the opportunity for a stacked photo and swung into action. I wanted to do it for a while and this was good chance before the colors go away. below are couple of selected ones.
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First Focus Stack using automated Rail

I tried to do the real stack using the automated setup. Below is the picture of the final image. Because of the shallow depth of field, I had to do a stack of 64 images to cover the scene. This is next to impossible to do manually. To put things in perspective of the magnification, I have added a hair as well in the frame.
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