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3We Advent Calendar 2020

Like every year, there is the 3We Advent Calendar - built with Hash Animation:Master. In this calendar you will find every day a new, funny, thoughtful or simply good commercial to escape the daily routine. Therefore, I wish you a lot of fun with the Advent Calendar 2020 this year as well! And don’t forget to stop by tomorrow for the next little door and of course you are welcome to share it with others! And now: Have fun! https ...

Small 3d-print: Headphone (Bluetooth) charging problem helper

I’ve been having problems with my Bluetooth headphones lately, because sometimes they just wouldn’t charge anymore. After a little testing I found out what the problem is: The magnets (at least one of them) in the charging case are not strong enough to attract the earpieces properly. This makes them quite useless, because I would have to press the earpieces by hand or e.g. with adhesive tape into the case and charge them. I have done this ...

Continuum Gaming: Replacing a Smartphone Motherboard

The latest special episode of Continuum Gaming could also be called "How to save a life", because here I show how, after a problem with the partition editing of my smartphone and an empty battery, I exchange the motherboard with another one from a smartphone of the same type where I produced a spider app years ago. As a result, the smartphone now works as before, if not better, because I have combined the best parts of both smartphones and ...

Mask with integrated face shield or how to show mouth expression despite corona and the obligation to protect the mouth/nose...

Masks are a helpful tool to prevent the spreading of viruses such as SARS-CoV 2 and should be worn by as many people as possible within the given regulations. Unfortunately, however, they also prevent the perception of the most important facial expressions of people, so that it is currently much more difficult to simply give a smile. The alternative to this are face shields (FaceShields), which actually only help against spitting / direct drip ...

VRChat: What is VRChat and how did I import my plumper model as a character?

In times of Covid-19 you are very likely looking for new hobby and since I have a VR headset, I looked around a bit and came across VRChat. VRChat is a software which allows you to talk virtually without transmitting a video signal and communicating with a live video stream like in one of the numerous video chat apps but VRChat works more like a multiplayer computer game. You pick a (okay, let’s say it like it is: 16 or more...) character ...

My battle against HDMI to DisplayPort and back... or the day I tried to connect my Wacom Cintiq to my new graphics card

I bought a new graphics card a few weeks ago. (a Gigabyte Radeon RX 5700XT to be exact to achieve better frame rates for VR... which was only as lala as it turned out, but anyway: now I have a much more powerful GPU... doesn’t hurt) Unfortunately, I didn’t take a close look before or thought: adapters are still available and I neglected what kind of connections the graphics card has compared to my "old" graphics card (a Sapphire RX570 Nitro+). ...