First crack at developing an Android app for release in Google Play store. Google's documentation is a lot of hit and misses. Particularly if you are developing with the new Androidx apis, searching in general for it is annoyingly difficult. AndroidX was a horrible name to give their new version, even their own search engine constantly returns "Did you mean Android?". Layout and themes is horribly documented, made even worse since Google removed the Theme Editor. I've never had the chance to use the editor, and from what I can gather is that it wasn't very reliable. However I would imagin at the very least it could give you an idea of what values you are looking for to modify. Instead I'll spend all day trying to figure out what the element I want to customize from the theme is named. Searching would be great if there was a efficient way to filter the api version you are working with, instead it is all over the place. If anything, the one thing they've documented well with examples, unsurprisingly is the AdMob and monitization libraries. As for rest of Android development, it more often than not feels like none of the Google departments talk to each other.

I needed a drag knife to cut out a lot of paper and plastic sheets for the new slate design and after a quick search I only found drag knife tools typically in the $100+ range. Some of which is well over the price of a hobby Cricut cutting machine. However instead of buying a Cricut cutting machine with extremely limited cloud based software, it looked like the cutter used in these cheap machines could somehow be adapted to fit into one of the collets for my CNC. So I ended up purchasing https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07R6MFM32/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 set, these knife is free spinning on a bearing inside the houseing and helf in there with a magnet. Becareful when purchasing other housing as it looks like some of them are not free spinning and have a gear at the top so the machine can rotate the knife instead. I then cut a 3/4" aluminum tube and use JB Weld to epoxy the cutter housing inside the tube. Fit's perfectly inside the 3/4" collet. Using HSMWorks and Solidworks I could draw out the shapes I needed cut, keep not that you must have a small radius on the corners so the knife can rotate in line with the change of direction. The results turned out amazing, and I can achieve a much higher accuracy and proper scale with no guess work than the janky software most of the craft cutting machines can do.