By Kishan Thomas Since 1999
Sunday, 06 September 2026
Karnikara Mandapam - 600 year old sixteen pillared wooden temple pavilion in Kerala, India. Restored by conservation group Ezha with ARPO and recognized by cultural heritage conservation awards.
Modeled in Autodesk Fusion for 3D printing with easy assembly.
Saturday, 20 June 2026
Convert SVG files into a 3D STEP file for 3D printing.
$ mbos test.svg per-color-multi-layer.step
$ mbos test.svg single-layer.step --flat
$ mbos test.svg multi-layer.step --flat 2 --flat-map "1:#fafafa,0:#aa0000"
$ mbos test.svg outline.step --seal --seal-color #FF0000 --seal-base-color #FFFFFF
$ mbos test.svg relief.step --relief
$ mbos test.svg curved.step --curve --curve-angle 50
$ mbos test.svg base.step --base --base-border 0.1 --base-color #AAAAAA
$ mbos test.svg base-curved.step --base --base-shape outline --base-curve --curve-angle 50| Single Layer | Multi Layer |
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| Outline mode | Wrap around curved surface |
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| Add a base layer | Add a curved base to flat multi layer model (base with minimal filament swap) |
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| Per color multi layer (3D print with minimal filament swap) | |
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https://github.com/hackorama/mbos
Python app built with LLM assisted code generation and leveraging excellent open source work of CadQuery, OpenCASCADE / OCP, vtracer, Pillow etc.
Saturday, 07 March 2026
Hand crafted ornate jewelry box made of brass mounted hardwood following the traditional Kerala Thachu Shastra architecture style, originating from the Malabar region of Kerala, India in 14 century.
Modeled in Autodesk Fusion 3D. Parametric design with a base model allows easy design variations.
Sunday, 06 July 2025
Vellinezhi Modern - Kathakali headgear, designed in the classic style established in Vellinezhi, Palakkad in the 1960s, incorporates a few modern embellishments to leverage parametric solid modeling.
Thursday, 20 February 2025
Kaaliforniya Design Booklet (PDF)
Modern day racing Chundan Vallam design with lower stern and bow height, a thinner hull profile that is 'U' shaped compared to older 'V' profile. Dimensions follow traditional design and is within Nehru Trophy boat race guidelines. Ornamental designs follow the traditional "navagraha" and "churul" patterns updated for modern sensibility. Seats more than 90 main rowers and supports the full 111 team size.
Thursday, 23 November 2023
A home screen tvOS app for Apple TV 4K
More details at TVHomeScreen project on GitHub
Saturday, 08 July 2023
ePaper Pi Calendar - An ePaper calendar project using Raspberry Pi Zero W
More details at ePiCal project on GitHub
Saturday, 26 November 2022
A wood working and microcontroller project to create a touch sensor electronic chord version of Indian string instrument thamburu aka thanpura, tambura, tanpuri
Get the wood work templates and full microcontroller source code at Thamburutronica project on GitHub
Video: https://player.vimeo.com/video/782393389 (hosted on Vimeo, not downloaded)
Sunday, 25 August 2019
New hackorama project m.core published 🚩
Wednesday, 19 June 2019
Hackorama is now SSL enabled using Let's Encrypt.
Friday, 08 March 2019
Development shell profile for bash, vim, git consolidated as devprof with easy install update on any server quickly.
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hackorama/devprof/master/devprof.sh)Sunday, 28 February 2016
New hackorama project pushed to github, Plethora
Sunday, 03 January 2016
Published Hackorama App on Hackorama App Store on Google Play
Sunday, 08 November 2015
Now running on the cloud via Digital Ocean
[kitho@valyrian ~]# dig hackorama.com ANY +short
162.243.123.74
ns3.digitalocean.com.
ns1.digitalocean.com.
ns2.digitalocean.com.
ns1.digitalocean.com. hostmaster.hackorama.com. 1447211821 10800 3600 604800 1800
10 mailstore1.secureserver.net.
0 smtp.secureserver.net.
[kitho@valyrian ~]#Wednesday, 03 September 2014
15 Years of Hackorama, live since 1999-09-03 19:20:25
Friday, 01 August 2014
Redesigned as a minimal, fluid, mobile first site, using Pelican.
Wednesday, 04 July 2012
Get code from GitHub
Read the key, element pairs from a java properties file
while natural_line:
# skip blank lines and comment lines, process only valid logical lines
if natural_line.strip() and COMMENT_LINE.match(natural_line) is None:
logical_line = natural_line.lstrip().rstrip(LINE_BREAKS)
# remove multi line delim and append adjacent lines
while MULTI_LINE.match(logical_line):
logical_line = logical_line.rstrip()[:-1] + propfile.readline().lstrip().rstrip(LINE_BREAKS)
pair = SPLIT_DELIM.split(logical_line, 1)
if len(pair) == 1: pair.append(DEFAULT_ELEMENT)
pair = [re.sub(VALID_ESC_DELIM, '', item) for item in pair]
pair = [re.sub(ESCAPED_ESC_DELIM, ESC_DELIM, item) for item in pair]
pair = [unicode(item, 'unicode_escape') for item in pair]
result[pair[0]] = pair[1] # add key, element to result dict
natural_line = propfile.readline()
return resultFollows the java properties file format) and tested against the Java 6 version of java.util.Properties
Get code from GitHub
Saturday, 10 December 2011
After almost 10 years, many bug fixes and users around the world, moving AnyOption to GitHub
Tuesday, 29 July 2008
Created for my toddler to play on the laptop and learn alphabets and numbers.
This was way before tablets and thousands of applications for kids.
Bare bones single window application that will go full screen and will only respond to alphanumeric key strokes and won't lose focus.
Saturday, 31 May 2008
Get Tag Video Decoder from GitHub
Archiving the code remains of Mytago tag system project from 2006. Developed for J2ME/Symbian phones and was obsoleted by the smart phone era with better camera and processing power.
See all related projects and information at the Mytago page
Video: https://player.vimeo.com/video/104111021 (hosted on Vimeo, not downloaded)
This is a technology demonstration of tag image processing from a live video stream, using the webcam on a windows system as the video source.
Download VDecode.exe demo binary and try out on any windows laptop with webcam. (hosted on Dropbox, not downloaded)
Use this demo tag as input
Friday, 04 March 2005
Java3D psuedo transparent window hack.
Java GUI API's (AWT/SWING) or Java3D does not provide transparent windows or shaped windows like other platform specfic API's like X/Motif or MS Windows API.
This is a hack for a psuedo transaprent window using Java Robot API to do a screen capture and using it as the background on the Java 3D wiew on a JWindow created without any window decorations.
Thursday, 12 July 2001
AnyOption is a C++ class for easy parsing of complex commandline options. It also parses options from a rsourcefile in option value pair format.
AnyOption implements the traditional POSIX style character options ( -n ) as well as the newer GNU style long options ( --name ). Or you can use a simpler long option version ( -name ) by asking to ignore the POSIX style options.
AnyOption supports the traditional UNIX resourcefile syntax of, any line starting with "#" is a comment and the value pairs use ":" as a delimiter.
An option which expects a value is considered as an option value pair, while options without a value are considered flags.
Please read the header file for the documented public interface, and demo.cpp for an example of how easy it is to use AnyOption.
Friday, 03 September 1999
1999-09-03 19:20:25 : hackorama.com registered through register.com and hosted on lcoal bay area provider Hurricane Electric using shared cohosted Linux server with Apache web server and full SSH acces.
Handcrafted content with mostly static content with some dynamic content using SSI, PHP and JavaScript.
