WaterWaiver @ WaterWaiver @aussie.zone

I once met a person that never drank water, only soft drinks. It's not the

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Assorted thoughts:

Also doubles as a filament runout sensor.

Bearings:

• Only a tiny angular movement -> technically a bad case for ball bearings due to lubricant not getting recirculated, but I think the bearings are being run dry in this project anyway (and are under next to no load)
• I wonder if sleeve bearings would be cheaper but work as well?
• Alternative solution: put a PCB on the left and right sides, then unthreaded SMD soldered standoffs like these as sleeve bearings? I think some are brass under the platings. Exact alignment isn't necessary as once soldered they won't move (and you calibrate the device manually afterwards anyway).

Micro:

• ATtiny's are expensive last I checked :P I prefer STC (8051 clones) but even they're a bit much these days. A padauk or similar would be an extreme.
• Staying with the Arduino IDE is probably an attractive goal for ease of development, so staying with the ATTiny might be best.
• Comms: I wonder what's easy to interface with Marlin? Extra UARTs running at very slow speeds (eg a few thousand baud) might work well.

Applications:

• Do you adjust filament feedrate on the fly?
• is it necessary to delay the adjustments by X cm of filament? Or does it change slowly enough that it's not an issue?
• Detect lumps in filament and pause/alarm prints! I once had lumps of some higher-temp plastic in my roll of recycled PLA, it would jam and cause my prints to fail. Very annoying!

Calibration:

• Using drill bits is brilliant, I love it.
• Do the magnetic properties of the steel cause issues? What happens if I accidentally magnetics my bits? Perhaps I should only insert them from one particular end whilst calibrating to maximise their distance from the hall?

Screws:

• I like using "coarse" 3mm plastic screws. They don't have a tidy standard like "M3" but you can get them on lcsc and other places. They hold in 3d printed plastic really well, can be removed and inserted dozens of times (surprising but true, even if you cross-thread occasionally) and most of all: don't need brass inserts!

Apologies if some of this was answered in the video. I'm sorry Mr presenter but you waffle more than I do :P so I skipped a few bits.

Glad you enjoyed it. I put this together because I had a crappy day off work sick.

I'm often more interested in the world of a fictional work than its actual plot or characters. Is it a place, regardless of how horrible or how nice, that I'd genuinely want to visit and experience? I probably cheated a bit on this one (directly bribing the reader with chocolate) but it still counts.

... so if I remove the kids, I get all of it to myself?

I wish I could remember the name of the show :( I tried doing some searching, but came up empty.

Whirlpool sometimes has leaked technical information about outages or other insights: https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/thread/96n1w7m9

EDIT: Gough Lui (Gogli?) is also doing some detailed meta-coverage on his blog https://goughlui.com/2023/11/08/breaking-optus-nationwide-outage-08-11-2023/

The feetsies!

I once saw a TV show about candy & sweet food manufacturers in the US. One episode showed a factory with a dedicated underground railway line just for receiving several loads of sugar each day. They talked about how many times you could travel to the moon and back if you lined up their yearly production.

I was hoping someone would spot that :) Maybe that's what the aspiring railway engineer in blue is trying to point out?

Bonus: "The Cleftshear parenting association warns that the biggest risk of letting your kids 'Choctrack' unsupervised isn't the trains, but instead what they might find under the rails."

Reports indicate parents discovering their children in possession of dangerous knoweldge. One Cleftshear parent was quoted as saying "My child started asking about other countries at dinner last night". Another reported their child to be suddenly able to perform 4 digit multiplication.

Teleporting last supper clowns. You turn your head and they're there. "We have come here to help you. Is whom you plan to betray truly deserving of their fate?"

The room setting is disturbing. How do they get to the other side of the table, jump it? Where are the table legs? Is this table hovering?

I was going to argue that he's a sophisticated dino that wears shoes and is just salivating over the orange kid's kitkats, but wow that orange kid does look like food now that I think about it. Sorry kid.

Should read: the formerly successful website known as Twitter

Thankyou, I prefer that version of events much more.

We need more modern-reinterpretation religious material.

Obligatory: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/833793

"It was a SETUP!" -- Jesus, probably

Bonus: in this once they're a bit blase, but one of the kids is levitating chocolate (proper reality breaking!) and I think they summoned the monsters to defeat a train, which is always cool in my books. Bonus seamonsters too. I'm just a bit uncomfortable with the kid running into the path of the train :|

Appropriate music to listen to whilst viewing the image: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItzBaC4BUho&t=3m15s

I'm secretly hoping both drivers are swaying to this whilst in the traffic.

Very misleading title. This is not an energy efficient process (what we need for energy storage), instead it has a high chemical yield.