Kitsune Software

On Thursday, two 2GB memory sticks arrived in the post, which I am now using for backups. Brilliant timing, because my file-server's power supply died some time between midday Friday and early morning Saturday.

Even if this business doesn't end up making enough money to live on, I'm getting loads of valuable experience in many different areas of IT and business...

While waiting for the hardware for the RAID-to-be, I've decided to see if I can progress a little further with a pet hardware project of mine: a 3D printer. I've been working on this for nearly a year and a half now, on and off, but I've not put many hours in over that time.

If it works, I think it will be the cheapest 3D printer ever made, at about £400 (UK) instead of the more usual £40,000... but on the other hand, I'm basing it on a CNC machine with a linear speed of only 1cm/second, so at it's maximum resolution of 0.1mm, and without a parallel printing head, it will only print at 0.36 cubic centimeters (about 0.02 cubic inches) per hour.

To simplify things, the first version will only print in chocolate (nice low melting point), and use either sugar (yum!) or sand (yuck!) to fill any gaps. Sand will be easier, as it has a much higher melting temperature, but given how low the melting point of chocolate is, either should work OK.

New domain name... check
New web host... check
New blog... check

Now I just have to wait for the tower to arrive so I can set up a RAID array, then I'm good to go!