_thebrain_ @ _thebrain_ @sh.itjust.works

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I really like the orbiter 2.5. it's not as light as the nimble but it is still tiny. I like that it is open source and they really have thought to put a bunch of engineering in to the gear workings instead of just using clone bonditech gears. It cost, like, 48 USD to get from AliExpress and is definitely high quality.

Thh Hero Me mount seamed like a good choice as well. It was a huge pain in the a$$ to assemble tho, not that I am complaining. The way it mounts to the carriage means you can't just assemble and mount (at least with my old tronxy carriage plate). The included adapter design that comes in the file package didn't quite work correctly and I didn't realize that until I was all disassembled. There is a magnet mount version that would probably have been a better option. I'll probably print one to have as a spare if I ever need to disassemble the mount. Other then the mounting tho I really like the design and thought that went into it by mediaman.

Loops.video maybe?

How long until we deploy troops to Russia to help in their invasion of the Ukraine?

Stray has a great soundtrack

I appreciate that. She was an amazing person. I told her she was just dying so she didn't have to suffer through another Trump presidency.

31 days of perfect health and then drop dead? Or 31 days of slow, debilitating, crushing agony and pain and then death? I just lost my best friend to perotineal cancer, from diagnosis to her passing was 97 days. She made plans to travel with her daughter, spend time with friends, write a will, etc. but she ended up spending a majority of that time in the hospital on heavy duty narcotics and offer her nut because of them. I don't think anyone would plan on spending their last 31 days like that but it's more realistic.

Tldr: do the things you would do with news like this now... Don't wait until it might be impossible.

It's the pyramid scheme of religion: you only get saved if you brought a bunch of people to the religion cult. Only 144000 people will be saved. At a certain point there are no more people to bring to the cult and the bottom ones/newest initiates won't have anyway to make money get saved

Let me preface by saying I am not a lawyer, but from what I read and what I have followed over the years:

Afik you cannot reject commutation: commutation happens when one punishment is replaced with another, less severe one... I.e. people on death row being taken off and put into life without the possibility of parole. I know in Connecticut, when the governor took everyone off death row, some of the inmates sued him in an attempt to keep it from happening, but I don't think they were successful.

When someone is pardoned, their conviction stands, it is not removed. They are still a convicted felon, but their sentence is removed, they also are not able to be prosecuted in any way again for the same crime/set of crimes. If they are pre-pardoned (i.e. before a judgment is made) the case is withdrawn and does not move forward. It has little do to with conviction status, more to do with the punishment phase, and since there can be no legal consequences, there is no point in pursuing the trial.

Ultimately I think (especially in his guys case) it's moot. His reasons to reject the pardon is he realizes what he did is felonious, and the pardon doesn't change his felony conviction status.

What the font is such a great tool!

I'm sure they will blame the libs and the Democrats for it because they are the ones pushing for a bigger minimum wage. Without it, employer's can collude to drive down wages, making higher paying alternative jobs non existent. Everything pays pennies!

I have a mikrotik at home and generally believe it to be a very solid product. A take aways from this hack:

1. mikrotik doesn't bill themselves as "consumer grade". It's a huge learning curve to get started with them. There are graphical tools but it's not much different then Cisco or juniper. You can put in bad or faulty configurations and the router will happily do the bad or faulty things you told it to.
2. It only effects routers that are severely misconfigured routers. You need specific services turned on, and have dns grossly misconfigured. Depending on your use case at home it is doubtful a hone user would do this. Also
3. the man thing I don't like about my device is that the software isn't open source. The hardware is quite well known tho and there are ports of *wrt and opensense that run on it , plus you probably could just run a Linux distro on it if you wanted. The bootloader isn't locked down. It's an arm64 computer with a lot of network ports.

That being said I really like the router itself. Performance is great, price is amazing. It does anything and everything I ask it to.

Musk supported Trump so Trump would give tiktok to him. Tiktok would rather go out of business then sell.

ADL: he's not making a swastika, he is making that reverse swastika Sanskrit thing that no one can tell the difference anyway... Or something like that

It's easy to get out of hand when modding your printer. When I first got my tronxy in 2017 or 2018 the only planned mod was to put a duet 2 clone in instead of the garbage chitu control board. But the extruder sucked as well. Clone slice mosquito fixed that. Then I realized the extruder drive had a 700mm Bowden to the print head, and I wanted to print fast, so I asked Santa (my wife) for a zesty nimble (this was years before the orbiter direct drive). I had 3 vslot wheels disintegrate in a week and voron was using a cheap but high quality linear rails so why not? Then I built a couple of industrial kit printers for a friend, modix and raise3d. They weren't much more complicated then what I had, and I'm learning some cad so I designed a quad z system with rails and smooth rods like the modix. I had another fried edm machine part of the z sleds. It was so over engineered that I needed to put a bed worthy enough in top and that was the 400mm 3/8" thick tool plate. A heater to match, 400mm ac bed topped with 1/4' borosilicate glass.

This took time over several years. I would grab my z motion control and publish it somewhere because it's pretty simple but very effective.

Anyway... It has been a lot more fun and educational modding the printer then making silly doodads and fidget toys with it for sure.

Perfect! I will read through the site for some insight.

I didn't change the extruder, I just changed the driving motor. There is the chance of backlash because of the way the drive cable works. I suppose it could be wearing out .. or I am getting a lot of back pressure in the mot end causing it to slip. I plan on taking apart the nimble and replacing the bearings and relubing everything tonight or tomorrow. Plus a pid tube, if I am running too cold or something. Duet has changed their pid model several times and I haven't retuned it in several firmware upgrades

There is the flex3drive... Pretty similar in design. They claim the number is a copy of their extruder. Dunno if it is or not.

I think the nimble never really caught on because of cost more then anything. Also it's not ideal for an enclosed printer as the drive cable needs room to move. I just use it to support my wires and my reverse Bowden tube tho.

Each corner of the bed has a linear rod running up the clot, a lead screw in the middle, and then a had mounted 8 mm smooth rod on the other side.

My thought as well is I have a bent screw or something out of alignment but the bed feels like to moves without shifting back and forth.

Also, the frequency of the banding is different each time, even though I am printing with the same speed and settings each time.

I do have two different lead screw couplers on it (the spring style and the one with the rubber star in the center). I have the parts to make them all the same., so maybe I will give that a try and check my lead screws alignment at the same time.

Any recommendations on an anti-wobble nut that is printable or inexpensive?

Everything runs on linear rails, since it is corexy the y axis has two, the rail where the extruder rides has one, and the bed has 4 linear rails on each corner. I will hit them with some lube tomorrow and see if it helps.

I got the zesty nimble v2 as a Christmas present about 6 months after it came out and loved it right away. It is a remote direct drive extruder. It weights almost nothing and I can print pretty fast. Unfortunately zesty tech seems to have gone out of business. I had a beating on the worm gear go bad once... Maybe it has happened again as well.... I think I have some extra beatings lying around so maybe I will swap them out again as well, in case it is getting hung up internally or something.

I will certainly give it a try!