MxRemy
@MxRemy@piefed.social
I like knitting, math, and uplifting the proletariat.
- Comment on Polypropylene as a filament - lost in tech 1 day ago:
Oh you're not wrong lol, that's true!
- Comment on Polypropylene as a filament - lost in tech 1 day ago:
I print in recycled PP-GF (glass fiber polypropylene) reclaimed from fishing nets at work sometimes, and the tape trick only half works for me. It sticks to the tape just fine but the tape doesn't stick to the glass bed... Based on this, maybe we just need better tape! The PP-specfic MagiGoo barely helps at all. Also, one would think the glass fiber would make it warp less but it absolutely hasn't lol.
Maybe on paper this stuff isn't super toxic, but mine produces easily one of the worst chemical smells of any filament we've used, for some reason.
Anyway, once you do get it to print successfully, it really is totally indestructible. Try to find post-consumer recycled stuff though, as hard as that is to do.
- Comment on Volumetric 3D Printing Is REALLY FAST 2 days ago:
Oh, afaik even the typical SLA resin is "safe" in the sense that when it's completely cured, it's non-toxic (for now). But that doesn't help with the eventual degradation and microplastics, unfortunately. Also, people are wayyyyyyyy more careless with the uncured stuff and the fumes than they ought to be...
As far as the dental stuff is concerned, I have no idea if it's actually different and in what way. My guess is, either it must be the same, or else it's just so expensive that nobody sells it for the hobbyist market. If you find out different I'd love to know, a chance to sustainably resin print would be awesome!
However, if you look into this, watch out for the massive amount of greenwashing in this industry. They're doing stuff like selling the same old resin and calling it "eco friendly" or w/e just because they've like thrown some seaweed filler in it. Lying about the dangers, all sorts of stuff.
- Comment on Volumetric 3D Printing Is REALLY FAST 4 days ago:
This will be very exciting, when/if they ever perfect a photopolymer resin that is formaldehyde free, doesn't depend on fossil fuel byproducts, and doesn't degrade into some of the worst micorplastics out there.
- Comment on What are your go-to sites to find free 3D files to print? 2 weeks ago:
Now that it's a thing, I always try checking the public Manyfold instance first! Do those federate here yet? Prolly something like @q8vfvg1f7m3k@3dprint.social ?
- Comment on Karma Wyrm(3D printed soft bait fishing mold) 2 weeks ago:
Ooh neat! Does any old filament work for silicone molding? I could imagine for some it might like stick or be harder to remove
- Comment on Karma Wyrm(3D printed soft bait fishing mold) 2 weeks ago:
This is really cool! What kinda plastic are you filling the molds with? I don't know much about fishing lures
- Comment on Just received an email from feddit.online saying they've geoblocked UK IPs due to the Online Safety Act 2 weeks ago:
Uhh totally unrelated but... how hard is it to get fedi platforms working over the alt internets, like tor/i2p/ipfs/etc? I'm sure somebody somewhere must be working on that, right?
- Comment on I 3D modeled the Sage of sixth paths double sided Shakujo. 2 weeks ago:
Nothing to add, just wanted to say this is awesome lol
- Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks 3 weeks ago:
In advance, I always plan to at least make them from biodegradable PHA so I'm not contributing to micro plastics. But also I hate wasting my precious PHA on it, because the stuff is so hard to get lol
- Comment on Hot take: 3D printing toys kinda sucks 3 weeks ago:
Yeahhhh, the makerspace I work at gets constant requests for these kinda things and it irritates me to no end... Totally feel your frustration.
- Comment on Seed Swap – for trading seeds with others 4 weeks ago:
Whoa this is awesome. There are soooo many obscure seeds I'd like to get, but that aren't buyable! Definitely joining.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative for Tiktok? 5 weeks ago:
In addition to Loops, there was also Vidzy and Goldfish, but I don't think they still exist?
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 5 weeks ago:
I love WAFRN so much 😭
- Comment on Moire/Vernier Radius Gauge 1 month ago:
I definitely agree lol, that's why I teach people how in the local library makerspace. We've a really nice Mitutoyo accurate down to 0.02mm!
- Comment on Moire/Vernier Radius Gauge 1 month ago:
From a big vernier caliper fan, this RULES!! 😍
- Comment on Federated 3D print files (Manyfold) 1 month ago:
This rules, can't wait to see how federation works!! It seems like each project shows up in the fediverse as an actor? Like for example this project: @3dc33whtlsnx@3dprint.social
I kind of naively thought they'd show up as posts or something. Maybe what this means is, all the subcontent of thd project show up as posts instead? If so, that seems pretty neat! Like potentially the 3d files themselves federate out as posts?
Not sure why I'm wildly speculating when all this is surely documented somewhere lol
- Comment on Best place for a community alternative to Facebook group? 1 month ago:
You can from Mastodon! Not sure from Pixelfed but it seems probable? With mastodon it's something like... you just @ mention the community, and have one separate line at the top to become the post title? I think?
- Comment on Best place for a community alternative to Facebook group? 1 month ago:
It does have groups! And they're even interoperable with Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin groups. The experience is definitely very Facebook like, and there are themes that make it even more so.
On the other hand, every instance I've ever been on has run into serious lag issues and/or collapsed entirely... Hoping that's not universal or else gets fixed soon.
- Comment on sites to post laser files? 1 month ago:
Does Manyfold support SVGs/etc? It seems awesome but it might be self-host only, not sure there are any public instances.
- Comment on Friendica's marketing is terrible. 2 months ago:
While i definitely agree, none of this is a deal breaker for me. What is a deal breaker is this: I am on my third Friendica account now because the first 2 instances both started struggling and then collapsed. The one I'm on now is suddenly running very slow, just like the first 2 before the end. It seems to me like maybe they're kinda hard to run?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I'm always soooo excited for native fediverse apps, because PWAs are annoying in a bunch of ways. But then it actually happens, and I remember that none of the cool themes will be in there 😅
This is still AWESOME though!! I think that's what was holding a lotttttt of people off, waiting for an app
- Comment on Toolhead part cooling design 2 months ago:
That's definitely more how like laser cutters and cnc mills do it right? Although maybe that's more for removing debris than cooling. Seems like a good idea, unless it's too much pressure and starts deflecting the plastic while it's still molten.
- Comment on Getting closer to a working 3d printed pleated filter 2 months ago:
This project is awesome, great job! I get what you mean about the whole "quadruple the price and effort" thing, but stuff like this is so important. Whatever technology enables the current air filter industry to make their stuff so cheap is likely some proprietary BS that doesn't even work at small scales anyway, right? So if/when we ever lose access to that, we'll need stuff like this to fill the gap.
- Comment on Sustainable 3D Prints With Decomposable Filaments 2 months ago:
We use it very regularly in our makerspace, although yeah like you say, the supply and color availability is lacking unfortunately. Fingers crossed it gets better as more people show an interest in it
- Comment on Sustainable 3D Prints With Decomposable Filaments 2 months ago:
Ohh this probably makes more sense in places other than where I live. Nothing here gets recycled at all unfortunately... Were the larger objects unable to be recycled otherwise?
- Comment on Sustainable 3D Prints With Decomposable Filaments 2 months ago:
This doesn't strike me as particularly sustainable at all? It just makes the object come apart into smaller objects, right? But they're still objects and still made of the same material they would've been otherwise... Just switch to PHA, it's actually for real compostable and more sustainably produced as well.
- Comment on Post flair in PieFed 3 months ago:
WHOAAA!!! that's actually a HUGE deal and it hadn't even occurred to me how much I was missing it.
- Comment on Notebooks - A community for the written word 5 months ago:
!notebooks@lemmy.cafe
Ooh neat! - Comment on A bit of a warning about the Einstar VEGA 3D-Scanner 5 months ago:
Oh yeah, we have an old Shining3D scanner in our makerspace, and the amount of trouble that company has been...