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# It Came From the Workshop

Making things that can't be got off a shelf

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## Posts

- [VR's Potential to Help Reach Lucid Dreaming](https://www.itcamefromtheworkshop.com/2026/05/05/vrs-potential-to-help-reach-lucid-dreaming/) - Here's a link to a short older piece I wrote up for Hackaday that I'd like to highlight: the road to lucid dreaming might be paved with VR. The short version is that VR can induce mild dissociative experiences in users. Users as a result tend to perform "reality checks", which can be thought of
- [Designing a Print-Friendly Sliding Lid Closure](https://www.itcamefromtheworkshop.com/2026/04/10/designing-a-print-friendly-sliding-lid-closure/) - A short while ago I decided to design a small container with a sliding lid that could be 3D printed easily, and would require no fiddly supports or anything. A dovetail design for the lid and container was something that can be printed with no supports, but I wanted a way for the lid to
- [Why 3D Print at an Angle?](https://www.itcamefromtheworkshop.com/2025/11/27/why-3d-print-at-an-angle/) - A recent post of mine published on Hackaday talks about the HomeRacker project, a framework for designing and printing to rack-mount anything you'd like. I'd like to go into a bit more detail for one aspect I couldn't really cram into the original post: the way HomeRacker parts are designed for 3D printing, and particularly
- [Local AI tools are getting ever better](https://www.itcamefromtheworkshop.com/2025/09/28/local-ai-tools-are-getting-ever-better/) - Sometimes I like to make a post (like this one) fleshing out something I wrote elsewhere with a little extra detail that didn't fit into the original, for whatever reason. I recently wrote a post for Hackaday.com featuring a voice-controlled, locally-installed AI agent on a Raspberry Pi 5. It's a great showcase for how much
- [Moving](https://www.itcamefromtheworkshop.com/2025/06/12/hello-world/) - I finally got fed up enough to move my site off Google's Blogger interface. It went from free, to a few bucks a month, and relentlessly up, up, up... Turns out that's what I needed to flip the switch.

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