Joshua Woehlke's Posts
Eliminating Warp from 3D Printed Nylon 618 Parts
I’ve recently been attempting to enable a 3D printer to make parts out of nylon 618, and I immediately ran into the issue that the parts tend to fail to adhere or, when they do adhere, warp off the bed midway through printing. One of the common bits of wisdom with printing nylon is to […]
Abstraction and conflict management of Pi bot commands
One point that became immediately clear upon running my Raspberry Pi remote control car was that any decent control system needed a way to accommodate new hardware and improved scripting without requiring significant, irreversable modifications to the program. The bot needed a way to accept easily upgradeable bite-size plugins to control things like moving forward […]
Pulling GPS data from a Sierra Wireless Overdrive Pro with Node.js
As part of an ongoing series of improvements to a remote control car I bought at a thrift store, I needed a stream of GPS data from a Sierra Wireless Overdrive Pro 3G/4G hotspot (which, coincidentally, I also picked up at a thrift store). After registering the device with my carrier, logging into the admin […]
Cross-client MailChimp merge tag anchor links
The organization I work for has always had a nagging problem with their email newsletters: The anchor links forming the table of contents did not actually move the user to their desired story in Gmail. For one newsletter with a comparatively small audience this wasn’t a world-ending issue–almost everyone who opened it was cursed with […]