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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+). ...

Continuum Gaming: Special Episode 210

At the moment it is a bit difficult to print with my new resin based 3d printer, because printing unfortunately consumes a lot of isopropanol. Why is this a problem? Isopropanol is one of the best disinfectants and is used in practically every surface disinfectant and also in many hand disinfectants. Unfortunately, my supply of it is running low (I was very lucky to have a large amount of it at home due to the 3d printing... this makes it ...

Breathing mask from the 3d printer

A company from Baden-Württemberg called "Cast Solut" has developed a respirator that can be produced by injection moulding and that reduces the use of filter material to about 1/5 of a normal respirator. Well done one can only say. Of course things get even better if you can download the 3d data for it and print it out on your home FDM printer. The 3d model is available on the website - thanks for that :). But when I downloaded it, I noticed ...

The Soulcage Department: Bouncing Ball exercise

Every 3d-animation artist has probably done it before: This is a new variation of the bouncing ball exercise - this time with a current background. And so it only remains for me to say: #staythefuckhome! Have fun watching it and thanks to Elm from the Soulcage Department for this small and simply stylish animation :). YouTube: https://youtu.be/_2Oe3x20vG0

The current crisis: Let’s help your cinema

As some people know, I am a film fan and a presidential moviegoer. Unfortunately, among many other professions, cinemas in particular have been hard hit by the pandemic crisis and, as many know, the cinema is already under pressure from streaming and the like. It’s not about the big studios or the film distributors but really about the cinemas themselves. In order to support them, here is a nice action, where you can watch cinema commercials ...

Continuum Gaming: Episode 200 & Special Episode in English: 3d printing a cover for the L950 XL

Today the episode 200 of Continuum Gaming was released on YouTube and in addition the new special episode was released. In it I show the 3d printing process with my Elegoo Mars resin 3d printer and also how to slices it. You can find the special episode here: https://youtu.be/z7joSlEp2G8 The normal episode can be found here: https://youtu.be/z7joSlEp2G8 Have a look and have a look at the normal episode of Continuum Gaming :).