Technology – Scopique

Beeper: An Elegant IM for a More Civilized Age

Scopique June 2, 2023

Beeper is a modern day Trillium, a way to consolidate several different instant messengers under one central interface. While still in its infancy, it looks promising, and is built on top of the open-source Matrix platform for those who are into those…

Kindle Scribe

Scopique March 29, 2023

Thanks to fortunate timing, I was able to pick up a Kindle Scribe at a good price. After losing my reMarkable, I wasn't sure an e-ink tablet would be in my near future, so how does the Scribe stack up to the…

Solutions Seeking Problems: My 3D Printing Empire

Scopique February 7, 2023

A rather long recap of my journey into 3D printing from the start to the modern era. It's as much a thrill ride as you'd expect.

Modern Problems, Modern Solutions – Ethernet Over Coax

Scopique November 18, 2022

About a week ago we upgraded from Xfinity 1GB internet to Fidium 1GB fiber. They had only finished laying the fiber throughout our town this past summer and knowing what they were doing I was pysched to finally be able to kick…

Adventures in 3D Printing

Scopique August 1, 2022

My daughter, who is down at Otakon as we speak, asked me if our ancient 3D printer could print her out some items for one of her cosplays. Unfortunately, I had attempted to repair it last year when the filament feeder got…

My VR Renaissance

Scopique January 28, 2022

I have been doing a lot of non-gaming stuff recently; 3D modeling, working on a D&D campaign, napping. After blazing through Horizon: Zero Dawn I didn’t feel that I wanted to start a whole new game, although I tried restarting Control (didn’t…

Note Taking With Technology

Scopique October 12, 2021

I’m one of those weird people who really like stationary: pens, pencils, notebooks, binders, the whole nine yards. When I was younger I used to do a lot of writing and because it was well before modern computing that meant I had…

Your Own Private Idaho – A Community Streaming Platform

Scopique June 23, 2020

Every now and then Twitter works as a source of discussion, and today’s discussion was about alternatives to Twitch, YouTube, or Facebook in the wake of Mixer’s shut-down-and-sell-out announcement. I mentioned in my previous post how the death of Microsoft-backed Mixer bodes…

A New Camera

Scopique January 6, 2020

Adding yet another hobby to the pile, I am now the proud owner of this baby: So, here’s the shortest version I can compile. When studying VFX, there’s a lot of jargon thrown around that’s shared between cinematography and photography, which I…

Shadow.Tech Remote Game Streaming

Scopique December 27, 2019

With all the opinions floating around regarding upstart game delivery systems like Google Stadia and Microsoft’s Project xCloud, it’s easy to overlook Shadow.Tech, a streaming service that’s been around for a few years and which actually offers the kind of experience that…