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If anyone is in New York or the surrounding areas, I’m teaching some classes at NYC Resistor over the next month, hooray!

 Learn To Use the Knitting Machine

Sunday, March 8, 1pm-3pm

Learn to knit on our super awesome knitting machines. The class will cover all the basic, troubleshooting, machine care, and how to shop for a machine of your own.

Beginning PHP

Saturday, Feb 21, 1pm-3pm

Learn the basics of PHP, one of the most popular languages for creating dynamic web pages and web applications. We’ll cover everything you’ll need to get your first script up and running, and where you can go from there.

Image Manipulation with PHP and GD

Sunday, March 15, 1pm-3pm

GD image libraries can be used with PHP to manipulate and create images on the fly in your web applications. Create thumbnails, crop images, draw graphs, and more from within your web application.

Small Object Photography

Saturday, March 28, 1pm-3pm

Learn how to take good photographs of small objects on a shoestring budget. You don’t need to spend a lot of money to take good photos of your projects / products / jewelry / etc. Learn about cameras, lighting, and make your own light tent.

I’ve been playing around with making boxes out of old boxes. I plan on using them to protect Tinysaurs during shipping.

The design was done in QCAD, and inexpensive CAD program. I started using QCAD after I got frustrated with Corel Draw. QCAD has a steep-ish learning curve. Here’s what I did to get the irregular octagonal shape. Command-line commands are in italics:

1. Make a rectangle to the desired exterior dimensions (3×2 in this case) linerectangle
2. Bevel each corner (lengths 1 and 3 set to 0.33″) bevel [x 4]
3. Round each vertex (radius 0.1″) round [x 8]
4. Select All selectall
5. Create a new polyline from the segments og
6. Draw an equidistant polyline (distance -0.25) oq

The source for the box is available in SVG format, download the box here.