3d Max Madness

 

Designs downloaded from Thingiverse, ammended, painted and personalised. I am very pleased with the 3d print quality of the Neptune 3 pro budget Elegoo printer. 

Watch out! 'Scrapers and Bots are about!

 

Ironically created by AI.

I was alarmed to see my blog page count increase by over 200,000 in 24 hours. When I looked into this the most likely cause was Scrapers and Bots trawling through the content to find opportunities for intellectual and creative theft.

I am not anti Ai or for that matter entrepreneurial enterprise and have been surprised at the high quality of  information, images and visual art that Ai delivers. 

Ai is s powerful tool but the cynical application of its power for acquisition and greed is unacceptable and unsustainable.

I asked Google Gemini to create an image that best represented 'Scrapers and Bots'. I was provided with two images in succession that featured 'cute' anthromorphised computers doing their day job. I rejected both with feedback!

The posted image was the third provided after I had stressed for the second time that I was annoyed and angry at the theft of my creativity.

Clearly, androids when not dreaming of electric sheep, have collective loyalty!

Spray Booth in a M&S box.

 

"Spray painting odd shaped 3d parts for 'fidgets' for one young boy, who very much likes a fidget and has been waiting patiently for me to get around to it, presented me with a bit of a  problem. How to spray paint weird shapes without using my fingers to support the item being  painted?

Having watched Dom Chinea on the BBC Repair  Shop, I decided to follow his example but at a reduced scale. 

My lovely Cousin and Aunty sent me and my partner a M&S fruit basket that came in a sturdy cardboard box. Some gaffer tape, adhesive, a short length of stainless steel bar and copper wire once 'crafted' created the above 'Spray Booth' with suspension bar and hooks - virtually for free! My favourite price!

I love a bit of crafting in my shed and now I can add 'spray painting to my acquired skill set".

The Silver Y Moth

 

A Silver Y Moth came in through our window from the garden tonight and took refuge on the wall just below the ceiling coving in our sitting room.

Moths are beautiful little pieces of flying life and are a source of food for the pipestrel bats, which fly over our backyard.

Parmigiana with Cantabrian anchovies and Scottish smoked salmon.

 

Mediterranean sourced food fused with a little taste of Scotland and prepared and cooked by a beautiful woman with northern and Irish roots. Mix and match the best without borders!

New Moon and Venus Conjunction

 

"Brilliant image of the close conjunction of the planet Venus and the new crescent Moon captured by Dr Chrissy Roberts with his iPhone from Cambridgeshire last night. Thank you Dr Chris for sending this to Kurt in hospital" - Joel Cairo CEO of the JPO, the UK's most easterly Astronomical Observatory.

Something may go bang in the sky soon'

  

A star map for June and July in the Northern Hemisphere- looking South after dark. Map Credit: Astronomy.

Sometime soon and possibly in the next few weeks the star T Coronae Borealis is predicted to explode in a nova. This is a star that doesn't collapse to create a neutron star or a black hole. Instead T Coronae has been observed overtime to go through recurrent nova. 

This will be witnessed from earth by a significant brightening. So significant, that T Coronae, which cannot usually be seen with the naked eye, will be easily visible.

If you are interested we recommend you find the asterism (a pattern of stars) as shown on the above map as a crescent of brightish stars and check from night to night as to whether T Coronae is visible. If it is, you have witnessed a nova a literally enormous explosion in the Cosmos. LoL