Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to my blog.  I decided to set up this blog to tell other people about the cool things you can do with technologies like 3d printing.

This blog will primarily contain:

  • Information about programming
  • Automated systems such as 3d printers or cnc machines
  • computer administration, e.g., linux servers
  • minecraft
  • Anything else I feel like
I hope you enjoy reading this blog and find the information within to be useful.

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