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Embedded systems, FPGA designer, and blogger for Hackaday (@Hackaday). Author of Understanding 3D Printing facebook.com/Understanding3
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Linux Fu: Improving FTP

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By Al Williams Verified
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FTP isn’t exactly cutting-edge technology. These days, if you control both ends of a connection, you’re probably using scp, SFTP, rsync, or something even fancier. But FTP refuses to die, especially if you are perusing old public FTP servers or talking to retrocomputers. Every now and then, you still need an FTP client. Naturally, there are plenty of graphical clients. But some of us would rather stay at the command line. You could just type ftp, of course.
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More On Wave Overhangs For 3D Printing

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By Al Williams Verified
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We’ve heard of wave overhangs before. It is a new technique for printing horizontal overhangs with no supports. Building on some other techniques like arc overhangs. The idea is to teach the slicer not to try to draw overhangs in the middle of free space. Instead, when the slicer realizes there is a horizontal overhang, it tries to “grow” the overhang from the main part. You can see an overview in the video below. For example, imagine printing a letter ‘T’ vertically.
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Another Radio On A Chip Design

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By Al Williams Verified
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It used to be a rite of passage to build some sort of AM radio receiver. Many people started with a crystal radio, of course, but you’d graduate to maybe a TRF or superhet design. FM radio projects were not as common, because demodulating an FM signal was harder, as was making things work in the 100 MHz range.
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