Greetings from Central Pa

[Joseph Moody]

Hello, A few disclaimers about myself first. One I have adhd and two my hobby is going though hobbies. I also take a lot of audio courses on anything. Even stuff I don't like.

One of the few consistent hobbies I have had though out the years is electronics, Tesla coils and home made radio stations as a kid. Botched attempt at an arc welder BTW My brother found a u tube video on the subject last year for me and that is something he brings up to his endless sadistic sibling delight But I give it to him too So most likely I have it coming.
I'm not a car person, But once when I was 14 I was told by my parents If I fixed the van I could have it, Summer of my 15th birthday my brother,sister and I had managed to pull the engine and put a new one in I am not going to go in to how much beg/steal/barrow went into this, But the engine was a gift from someone who put a new one in his truck And a swingset and a block and tackle was instrumental in this process. I love flea-markets. And with a stupid amount of questions to anyone who was anything on the subject we managed to get that bad boy started....My mother loved her van back to btw.

In highschool I went to a vo-tech for electronics technology, My instructors favorite words were "Moody help So and so, whatever grade they get you get" Lots of good memories there, And I love that man now, But at the time I use to think he was a blight from the black abyss sent to make my life a tragic playwright of Homeric proportions.

I did a hitch in the navy as an aviation electronics technician "A" school was allot of fun and I had some good times after that.

In 2006 I went back to school at one of the few places that would take the GI bill then from a student who had been out of academics for more then a decade ( 2 year degree, but most of the places I was looking at for employment told me get that at least and we can help you), Had a lot of fun there and got almost to the end of the course when I discovered that I did not know how to study....Did I mention I love my shop teacher from Vo-Tech? My instructor in class found the situation quite entertaining as well.
From there I ended up employed at an Army Depot. Loved the work but ended up leaving there due to a disability retirement (That could of been avoided)

At the moment I am in the process of Learning 3d Modeling in blender (some game making stuff in unity as well, but that is more on the backburner atm)

[Donovan Ready]

Morning, Joseph. If you're into 3D, you might want to have a look at http://www.metalbot.org/

I admin there, and these guys are serious about open source laser sintering/3D printing.

[Doug Coulter]

Jerry has done some of this kind of thing here - I bet he'd be really interested in that, since he has both the skills and the gear to do it himself. He's done some amazing things.

[Joseph Moody]

Metalbot has made the queue, My current focus has been learning blender and unity with an eye at indie game making and indie movie production. But I have read about blender plug in's for exporting to 3d printers. I am going to keep an educated eye open now for this subject.

Although right now my current hiccup in blender I been dealing with is rigging and animation. Easy to do and hard to do right.

[Doug Coulter]

One of the guys I frequently hang out with on G+ is Ron Hicks - he's a great artist and working a lot with Blender, and a nice person on top. If you find him there, talk to him, he'll help you.