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I originally put PolyForge together as a ChatGPT skill, just for OpenSCAD, so I could describe a bracket or an enclosure and get back something I could actually print on my modified Ender 3 V2 or my…
- PolyForge is a standalone Python package for CAD tool
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The Pokédex Is 2.4MB. My Users Never Download It.
A random Pokémon generator is a strange thing to optimize. The entire product is: press a button, get a Pokémon. But behind that one button sits the whole dataset of the franchise — 1,025 species…
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- Author compiles dataset into 13MB JSON file.
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Ukraine’s ground robots ran nearly 17,000 missions in June. Every one depended on holding signal, problem this new antenna targets
A Ukrainian company has built a tiny antenna to solve one of the drone war's hardest problems: staying…