Fighting with computers

A few days ago, one reader comment on the blog (thank you Lance) made me aware of the changes happening with the Meshlabserver program. I misread the comment first as if the MeshLab project was discontinued, and after checking I replied back that a new released was just a few days old. But then it hit me, Lance was spot on,  MeshLab  project was deprecating the Meshlabserver program, now becoming "unsupported" and users were diverted to a new program called  PyMeshLab  which, as you all can guess, is now Python-based.   So that was interesting news for me as I have been using meshlabserver for various automation processes dealing with 3D meshes. And the even better news is that now installing it should be quite simple, just type pip3 install pymeshlab.  Linux and OSX install was uneventful and it all worked as expected. I learned that you could even use .mlx files created with Meshlab software. Windows 10 install was equally simple but, once I imported...

 A while ago I bought a Prusa SL1 resin printer with a washing and curing unit called CW1, both from Prusa Research. They came as a bundle and while the price was significantly higher than existing cheap SLA printers from China, I bit the bullet and went ahead with a more expensive set that I thought it will be worth it.  The printer I bought was a kit to be assembled and from the very beginning, I could see there were a lot of quality components and advanced features. All in all, I have used the printer only a fraction of what I use my FDM printers. The main reason being the messy process associated with resin, even if you have a cleaning and curing unit (that helps on that front). The smell of the resin is yet another detail I do not like, though it is not much worse than printing ABS. But recently I had the opportunity to install an upgrade to my SL1 printer. I have heard of different manufacturers replacing color LCD screens with monochrome ones, that while maybe more expe...