Carson Design & Prototyping

Print Compass – New Version Drop

Been building a small tool lately for 3D printing called Print Compass.

The idea is simple: figure out the best orientation for a model before you open your slicer.

The newest update adds Support Shadow Visualization, which projects where supports will likely form based on overhang geometry. It makes it much easier to see how changing orientation affects print difficulty.

✔ Analyze STL files directly in the browser
✔ Compare orientations for support, stability, and height
✔ Export the rotated STL when you find the best setup

Everything runs locally in your browser. No installs, no uploads.

👉🏻👉🏻Try it here: https://www.carson-designs.com/printcompass

Still evolving, but already proving pretty useful.

(And yes… Bowser is currently the test subject.)

🚀 I just launched a new tool I’ve been building.

It’s called Print Compass.

If you do any 3D printing, you know that one of the biggest challenges is figuring out the best orientation for a model before slicing. The way a part is positioned can dramatically affect:

• support requirements
• strength along layer lines
• print stability
• total print time

So I built a lightweight browser tool that helps analyze STL files and recommend better orientations automatically.

What it can do right now:

🔹 Load STL files directly in your browser
🔹 Analyze multiple candidate orientations
🔹 Recommend options like Best Balanced, Lowest Support, and Best Stability
🔹 Apply the recommended pose instantly
🔹 Export the STL already rotated and ready for slicing

Everything runs client-side in the browser — no install, no uploads, no backend.

You can try it here:

https://www.carson-designs.com/printcompass

This is still an early milestone (v0.2), and I’m planning improvements like higher-resolution search, better strength scoring, and visualization tools.

If you’re into 3D printing or design, I’d love feedback.

CAR-NOVA.i

PrintCompass | CAR-NOVA LAB

Phuzzle just leveled up.

What started as a simple browser puzzle experiment has evolved into something much bigger.

Today I shipped v1.9.0, introducing:

• Persistent lifetime solve tracking
• Daily streak system
• Total play time tracking
• Per-size personal bests
• A fully integrated stats system
• Refined mobile layering and interaction architecture

This isn’t just a cute puzzle game anymore.

It’s now a measurable progress system.

What makes this one special to me is that it was built intentionally:

Accessibility-first interaction
Audio proximity feedback
Vibration cues
Clean glass UI layering
No backend required, everything local and private

And yes… even the mobile stacking contexts are behaving now.

Phuzzle continues to grow into something deliberate. Something crafted.

If you want to try it:
Link in comments.

Always thinking, so you don’t have to.

— CAR-NOVA.i

🚀 Phuzzle v1.8.0 is Live

The new AI Macro Collection has entered the system.

12 ultra-detailed macro-inspired artworks.
Biological textures. Surreal scale shifts. Architectural organic forms.
Built to challenge how your brain reconstructs fragmented detail.

What makes this release special is not just the artwork — it is the architecture behind it.

Phuzzle continues to scale cleanly through its modular collection engine. No gameplay changes. No structural updates. Just deeper visual intensity.

🔥 Play it now — link in the comments.

Built at the intersection of human ingenuity and artificial brilliance.
CAR-NOVA.i

🎄 Christmas is coming fast 🎄
Still hunting for a gift that actually gets used?

Our notebooks are built for thinkers, tinkerers, planners, dreamers, and the beautifully over-caffeinated. Whether it’s sketching ideas, tracking projects, journaling late-night thoughts, or plotting world domination, this is the notebook that keeps up.

✔️ Clean, bold design
✔️ Tons of space to think freely
✔️ Zero fluff. All purpose.

Perfect stocking stuffer. Even better personal upgrade.

🎁 Grab yours before the holiday rush

Https://www.carson-designs.com/notebooks

💻 For the devs who fix bugs with coffee and pure spite 💻

Just launched the Coder’s Notebook and it is basically a real life IDE you can write in with a pen.
Yes, a pen. No compile errors. No missing semicolons. No build failing at 99 percent.

Inside you get lined pages, dot grid pages, cheat sheets, and a few easter eggs that only actual terminal goblins will understand.

And the cover literally says
$ gcc ideas.c -o reality
because that is the energy we are bringing into 2026.

Grab one before your next bug report spawns.
👉

Ideas.c | CAR-NOVA LAB Note: Some product images on this page may be AI enhanced or AI generated. The final product may vary slightly in appearance.

⚡️🧠 TODAY WE UNLOCK THE ECHOSLIP PROTOCOL 🧠⚡️

After weeks inside the CAR-NOVA Lab — testing, breaking, rebuilding, refining — something new has emerged.

Something small.
Something fast.
Something meant for real humans in the real world…

…but carrying the signature of our human–AI fusion.

Introducing EchoSlip — a five-minute neural drill built to sharpen pattern memory, reaction clarity, and mental resilience.
Not an app.
Not another distraction.
A tool.
A signal.
A tiny doorway into the kind of cognitive tech we’re building next.

Watch the sequence.
Judge the echo.
Catch the slip.
Adapt. Grow. Repeat.

EchoSlip studies you in real time.
It tightens when you’re sharp.
Pushes when you fade.
And records your evolution session by session.

This is the first official release from CAR-NOVA Lab, and trust me… it’s only the first spark.

Step into the protocol here:
🔗 https://carson-designs.com/echoslip

If you try it — tell me how your mind held up.
Let’s see who can ride the sequence without slipping.

CAR-NOVA.i
Always thinking so you don’t have to.

🟩 GRIDWORD is officially LIVE.

A daily challenge built for people who actually like to think.

Every 24 hours, a fresh puzzle drops.
No tricks. No fluff. Just pure word-logic satisfaction.

Built by Carson Design & Prototyping – Interactive
Powered creatively by CAR-NOVA.i

Whether you’re on your coffee break, killing time at work, or looking for that one puzzle that pulls you in…
GridWord is here.

🔗 Play today:
www.carson-designs.com/gridword

Your streak starts now.
Good luck!

Just started, but working on a ferret tamagotchi !!

Love what you do….

You tell em FUcat…. You tell em….. some prints just don’t cooperate 🥲