AliasVortex @ AliasVortex @lemmy.world

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Very nice!

I was wondering if that'd be possible but was never brave enough to attempt it. I do have another fun intersectional application though: custom stamps. Not nearly as long lived as brass/ metal, but way cheaper especially for low volume, plus you can embed magnets so they stick to an arbor press. (Just remember to hit the top with a quick sanding to knock off any extension artifacts)

Inners amirte?

Chiming in to say that you absolutely don't want that in your bedroom. Not sure how ubiquitous the experience is, but if you're ever done a titration experiment in a chemistry class (the one where you add one solution into another a couple drops at a time), your body's response to being exposed to resin fumes (as well as VOC's from some of the more exotic fdm materials like ASA) is a lot like that: little by little you add more of one solution to the other and at first you don't really notice anything (beyond the volume increase), so you keep on adding more, when you finally hit the equilibrium point the whole solution suddenly changes colors.

In practical terms, the more you're exposed to resin VOC's the more you'll burn through your buffer, once it's gone your body will basically go into panic mode whenever it comes into contact with said material. It's one of those things that's high enough on the fuck around side of things that you really don't want to find out...

That said, welcome to 3D printing! There's plenty of resources around, so (for the most part) if you aren't sure about something or run into trouble, all you have to do is ask!

If you liked Scalzi, I highly recommend Old Man's War if you haven't read it. I've only read first one, so I can't speak to the rest of the series, but I really enjoyed the kind of gritty starship troopers-esq vibe laced with humor and realistic characters.

You raise a very excellent point, for what I've spent toying and tinkering with my OG ender 3 pro, I very easily could have bought a nice Prusa/ Bamboo/ Voron printer.

That said, I can't say I regret the thessian ender route either. I've learned so much about not just the printer itself and how it works on a fundamental level, but also how to model and design for the materials I'm working with and the capabilities of my machine I'm way more comfortable working with small electronics (wiring/ crimping/ soldering and am even flirting with PCB design) compared to when I first got into the hobby. I tend to be more of a hands on learner, so I enjoy the project printer (to an extent) and the learning experience that comes with it.

It very much depends on what OP is looking to get out of/ do with the printer, I 100% agree if it's more of a "I just want it to work ", a Prusa or other mid-range printer is probably the better play than something in the budget range.

Depending on how OP feels about Bamboo, the A1 may be a good option on that front as well (once the teething problems get worked out)

Nice! It took me entirely too long to realize I could change filament manually to do pretty colors. Hard agree on it being super annoying, but it's a neat trick to have in your arsenal.

Lol, if years of being a software developer and a maker have taught me anything it's that there's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution. Bask in the glory of your temporary wago connectors.

Also, neat hats! Manual filament changes or are you rocking an ams?

Depends, can you see the future?

Agreed! I had a math professor once say that epiphanies usually happen in one of the three B's: Bed, Bathroom, and Bus. There really is something magical about stepping away to let your brain chew on a problem.

Man, it sounds like you'd be an awesome addition to the community! Definitely approach it on your own terms, 3d printing can be as cheap or expensive a hobby as you make it (speaking as the owner of a Thessian Enser 3).

It's incredibly powerful (and satisfying) to be able to fix the plastic bit of something and give it a new life rather than just throwing it away.

Kinda depends, if it's a popular something, there's usually a model online that someone else has been kind enough to share (generally on Printables and/ or Thingiverse). My most recent experience with that was the shift knob on my mixer cracked and fell off, a quick download, a few grams of filament, 20 minutes, a few persuading taps with a mallet, and everything was good to go.

Beyond that, it's a bit of personal preference and a bit of you're trying to do, something like a dial cluster in a car is going to be far more complex that something like a mounting bracket. The stuff I tend to fix/ replace tends to be fairly small, so personally, it's a matter of sitting down with a pair of calipers to measure the object and replicate it in CAD (Autodesk got me young, so I'm on the Fusion 360 train at the moment). One of the most amazing things about 3d printers is that you can go from design to prototype extremely rapidly, which allows you to iterate the design and make it better each pass. Got a hole doesn't quite line up, a wall that's too long, an arm that doesn't quite reach, etc? tweak it and try again. It's a little bit of trial and error, but with experience it becomes more of a controlled process as you figure out what works and what doesn't.

It's primarily written for klipper, but I've been been getting pretty good results dialing in my was-an-ender with Ellis' tuning guide (all but eliminated my problems with elephants foot). It goes over exactly what a good first layer should look and feel like, plus extra related settings.

One of the best pieces of advice I've picked up from the Internet is to never cheap out on things that connect you to the ground (tires, shoes, mattresses, chairs, etc). Theses chairs are primarily sold to business/ offices where they're meant to be used and abused daily for years without needing to be replaced while still remaining ergonomically comfortable. That said, 1200 is the new sticker price, you can absolutely find them second hand/ refurbished/ resold for a quarter of the price. Admittedly still expensive, but very much worth it when compared to an IKEA/ office max special.

(I may be a little biased since I daily drive a Leap V2)

I don't know about the original, but I rocked a Droid 4 for the longest time. It's probably my all time favorite phone. I really miss how quickly I could type and the extra screen space I got from not needing the software keyboard.

Enh, I'm not so sure about that, one of the most unique parts of RimWorld is that the primary goal is to tell a story. Even the best stories need a bit breathing room for the action-y bits to have weigh. RimWorld is filled with stories about colonies that ran out of food in the dead of winter, lone survivor types that either bleed out or later died of infection after a freak hunting mishap, or trying to hide from the flames and wait out the raiders/ murder machines. It may be waiting, but I find that more often than not (especially in the early game), it's either a welcome break after a hectic day or an edge-of-your-seat fight-for-survival kind of waiting.

Everyone plays a bit different, personally I'd recommend playing the vanilla game for a bit and using mods to flesh things out or iron out any rough edges in how you experience the game. The modding scene for the game is absolutely phenomenal, if at any point you're going "gee, there's got to be a better way to do X, deal with Y, or add more Z", there's probably a mod that does it, for example I like designing my colony fairly early on (so I have something to build towards), but since the existing mono-color plan gets confusing pretty fast (what was wall and what was workbench, tool cabinet, light, etc), I find More Planning to be a bit of a must have. As a blanket statement, the Vanilla Expanded mods are very well done and integrate neatly into the game (that said, they aren't necessary meant to all be run at once, so you can pick and choose what you want and go from there).

I have a pretty decent list going, but if we're just talking a short list of personal favorites, I really love Megafauna, Frozen Snow Fox's Bionics, and Cyber Fauna. (Oh and a shameless self-plug for my own mods)

I'm 1800hrs in (with probably another couple hundred making mods), Rimworld is pure crack in all the best ways possible. Hands down the best $30 I've ever spent on a game.

The Voron team would like to know your location...

I don't know about making no sense, but photography, especially fim, has some fun phrases: subjects are lit up and shot. Afterwards, you go into a dark room and blow them up, burn them (if you don't dodge), and stick them in an acid bath.

In reality, it's lighting and taking a picture, projecting it onto photo paper, basic edits (darkening/ lightening specific areas), and processing the photo paper.