Project

A few years ago, my girlfriend asked me to fix her sunglasses. The ear piece had snapped off. At the time I thought that maybe it would be possible to 3D print a replacement, but I couldn’t wrap my head around how to do it. The project was never high priority and so it got buried under other TODOs only to be resurrected this week. While the final product is a little rough, it looks good from a distance and is 100% functional.

A while back my girlfriend’s step-dad leant me 3D Systems’ Sense 2 scanner. I similarly got access to an old MonoPrice MP Select Mini 3D Printer from a friend who had upgraded quite a while ago. So I theoretically have both ends of the 3D replication pipeline now. Unfortunately, just like with the MP Mini, there are some limitations. And, while the MP Mini has (or at least had) a thriving community to support it with guides, tutorials, hacks, and mods, the Sense 2 does not seem to have the same support.

So I’m attempting to set up my music collection with airsonic and beets. So far airsonic works great… for the music which happens to be in a /artist/album/track folder structure and is properly tagged. So the most common solutions for getting your music organized this way are MusicBrainz Picard and beets. Picard is a non-starter for me because my music is on a headless server with only web interfaces and shell connections exposed.