3D 9
3D shows up here in two flavors. First, the printer kind: tripods, Raspberry Pi organizers, arcade boxes, soldering iron holders, and other physical builds that solve real problems on the workbench. Second, the rendering kind: 3D graphics in JavaFX, interactive visualizations like Florian Enner’s robot demos, and projects that push the JavaFX scene graph into territory most people associate with game engines. Both threads share the same goal: take an idea, turn it into something you can see or hold.
Keeping Single-Board Computers Organized with a 3D Printed Stack
As I shared in previous posts, I want to learn and experiment more with different types of single-board computers in 2026. But I also want to keep them organized and easily …
JavaFX In Action #24 with Florian Enner about Robot 3D Visualizations and Charts
I met Florian Enner a few times at Devoxx in Belgium, and each time he amazed me with his JavaFX demos! He is one of those rare developers who take JavaFX to the next level by …
Interview with Paul Kocian aka OrangoMango
Some time ago on Twitter, I discovered @OrangoMango , who shared his progress in creating a 3D engine with JavaFX. The shared videos started with a Rubik’s cube in January ’23 , …
How to Share Your Work With a Movie or Podcast
If you are blogging about your work, at some point, you’ll want to share your experience with a movie or in a podcast. In this post, I want to share the tools I’m using …
3D printed Pinecel soldering iron holder
The Pinecil is a very handy and affordable USB-C powered soldering iron (running on open firmware!) with an OLED monochrome display. This soldering iron is made by PINE64 , and is …
3D printed Raspberry Pi Arcade box
As part of the Pi4J project, we created an example game with JavaFX and FXGL that uses an Arcade kit with a Joystick and big push buttons. The test setup for this project was …
3D printed Raspberry Pi Organizer
After my first 3D-printing experiment “A 3D printed multi-functional tripod (well actually quadpod)” , I wanted to clean-up my desk. I have a lot of Raspberry Pi boards …
3D printed multi-functional tripod (well actually quadpod)
The power of technology is something that keeps amazing me every day. The number of things you can do with some small electronic components and a bit of programming is …
JavaFX 3D - A Look Back Through History & Some Experiments
After my virtual conference talk “Java and JavaFX on the Raspberry Pi” at the “Oracle Groundbreakers APAC Virtual Tour 2020”, I got in touch with some people who were …