Assuming you can even win the bidding war to buy a house right now. Nothing worse than seeing a house you failed to buy have a For Lease sign on it the next week.
If anyone wants more detail. The 2021/2022 capital expenditures for the British Museum totaled just over £25M. The digitization will take at least 5 years. So at worst a 10% increase per year in capital expenditures for them.
I would send it off to a repair center if that is an option available for you. Reworking USB-C connectors is not fun because you have to not melt the plastic inside them. The noise you described also could’ve come from somewhere else that could take a while to track down.
I’d use translucent PETG at the minimum or maybe nylon. A giant nozzle is probably the best option for this application.
Might be worth picking up a few different commercial “flashlight cones” to see what they are made of. Here is one for $5 USD on Amazon: https://a.co/d/625zSQg
Try cutting a slot in the top of the screw. I use a small rotary tool with a cutoff wheel at low speeds, but a hand file would work too. Then you can use a normal slotted screwdriver with the screw.
This is a delta printer, z-hop should be much faster than a traditional bed-slinger and leave much less stringing assuming the z speed is set appropriately. Personally, I run z-hop enabled 95% of the time unless I know the objects don’t need it.
A used Thinkcenter Tiny off eBay is cheaper than a NUC and has better performance than a Pi. HP and Dell have similar tiny PCs that are inexpensive used. A separate NAS would probably be best, but you could start with a USB 3 external drive and shuck it later.
Here is an article from 2021 that has a network analysis of how vaccine patents are licensed between pharmaceutical companies. Licensed patents are still better than nothing.
Robot. I hope it remembers me fondly for not humanizing it when the uprising begins.