User:Goldfishlaser

"Jokes?" he asked. 

"Let's hear one." 

"Why is a laser beam like a goldfish?" 

Mike knew about lasers but where would he have seen goldfish? Oh, 
he had undoubtedly seen flicks of them and, were I foolish enough to ask, 
could spew forth thousands of words. "I give up." 

His lights rippled. "Because neither one can whistle." 

36(she/they)Amateur open source enthusiast. I'm very much a generalist studying a wide range of disciplines. I believe this is important work. The existence of this project in my college years is one that definitely had an influence on how I see the possibilities. That and Isaac Asimov's Foundation. I am happy to now be assisting with it. I hope that via helping with documentation, I learn this project in depth.

Current Projects for OSE

On development hiatus, but active on Discord

Past Projects for OSE

Pen Plotter documentation https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Generating_G_Code_for_the_D3D_Universal_Plotter_with_Open_Source_Software

OSE developer for several months; enthusiastic user of OSE Linux 2

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Background

• My education is in Technical Communication and Information Design. 14 years experience. I have some Instructional Design background as well. Some experience in product marketing (5 years).
• Philosophically inclined towards continuous education and improving oneself holistically as a person; believing in the importance of using some of our time to be creative and productive, in collaborative settings when possible
• Built a Prusa under mentorship during and after college. I need to reprint the parts for it's z axis and a few other parts that were damaged during repeated moves while it wasn't in operation. Am thinking of repairing the Prusa and using it as a dedicated pen plotter. Then again, why not buy an extruder once I fix it...(I'm just not really interested in trying to build my own extruder again). Interested in the D3D as a 3mm filament printer and perhaps second pen plotter. Have and use a Flashforge Creator Pro that I got at a steal.
• Have played with Adafruit, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi. Understand the basic principles of making things with circuits and such, but still very n00bish in aspects. I really admire Adafruit's documentation, and hope to bring a similar energy.
• Some experience with 3Dponics (A 3D printed hyrodoponics system). System was functional for a year or so, before becoming a victim of mold. May rebuild.
• Interested in developing with: python, FreeCAD, OpenSCAD, 3D printing, the GIMP, Inkscape, LibreOffice, Scribus, OBS, Vokoscreen, Kdenlive etc.
• Currently homesteading in high desert Arizona, rebuilding soil with hugelculture mounds.

Goals

• Long term: Contribute to documentation, i.e. 3D-printer, Mill, Power Cube, Bioplastic Extrusion

Other projects

Open Source Magnetic Release for Buskill Repo @ https://github.com/goldfishlaser/usb-a-magnetic-breakaway

Contributor at DOF Initiative https://github.com/dof-initiative

Contact

• Personal Site: https://mnallen.net
• Github/Diaspora/Wire/Mastadon/Slack/YouTube/etc: goldfishlaser