Musings of a Fondue

Tag: Sketchup

Designing a Case

I had a hard time figuring out how to mount the LCD assembly. It was designed for use as an Arduino shield and thus its PCB had no mounting holes. I wanted a solution that was sturdy but non-permanent so things like glue were not options. I came across these clips from Adafruit, but they didn’t seem rugged enough to support the handling the touch screen (and hopefully handheld computer) was going to receive.

Particles and SketchUp Shenanigans

Particles are cool! Example,

I had this idea back in 2014 of getting the points from premade 3D models (similar to the video above), and using them to do fancy animations in Threejs. Then I hit a knowledge wall and shelved it. Until today…