Ever since I got my hands on an Orca 3D printer in 2013, the world of 3D printing started to fascinate me. In 2020, I bought myself a Creality Ender 3. Although this printer lies in the lower price segment and is targeted at beginners, it provides much room for extensions; some of which can be manufactured on the printer itself. I added the following mods to my Ender 3:
Unfortunately, I had to sacrifice automatic bed leveling (BLTouch) when adding the new mainboard. I have spent plenty of time debugging the firmware, checking the cabling et cetera, but had no success so far. Things that are still in the making:
I also recently obtained a Prusa i3 MKS3+ with MMU2S for multi-material printing. Go check out my thingiverse for updates on my 3D printing projects.
At Computerwerk Darmstadt, incoming hard drive donations often contain sensitive data from previous owners. We see it as our responsibility to wipe all data from these drives safely, since we plan to hand these devices over to their future owners. Merely deleting files by "right-click -> delete" is not an option, as this usually removes only the reference to a file but not its contents.
Instead, data are erased by overwriting them with zero-bits. Especially for older drives, it makes sense to repeat this process with random bits or patterns as well. Zero'ing can be done on Linux machines with a single command: sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdaX status=progress && sync However, this is somewhat cumbersome for us, as we are dealing with multiple hard drives and selecting the wrong block device can lead to fatal mistakes (happened more than once).
I therefore developed Hades to automatize the process of safe hard-disk erasing. This software distribution comprises the following parts: