Bluewing
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- Comment on Trying to pick a printer 3 days ago:
Honestly, my second choice from the Core One would be the Qidi Plus 4. I wanted the X-Smart 3 180^3^ sized printer as a second machine. But it was discontinued before I got off my butt to buy something. (I ended up with a Bambu mini combo as an impulse buy). But if I was starting over with my first printer, I would seriously consider a Qidi machine.
- Comment on Trying to pick a printer 4 days ago:
As a bit of Prusa fan boi myself, I too would recommend the Core One over the Mk4s at this moment. It’s a matter of “Buy once. Cry once.” Cheap often costs more in the long run.
When you are facing a 30 hour print or a long project, a bit extra speed is not only nice but helpful. Plus the heated enclosure can provide access to more engineering grade filaments. While you might not need to print nylon or ABS every day, you will probably find you are going to want to at some point a bit of those types for a project or two. And I believe the Core One also has filtered exhaust air to control nasty fumes that FDM printing can cause, (yes, even PLA has particulates that won’t kill you immediately, but they ain’t good for you either long term).
Personally, I find the MMU to be a god awful design mess. A rat’s nest of loose tubes and spools of filaments, but it does work. I might consider the Box Turtle over the MMU just for the neatness of the design. I find the multi-filament units, cool for very little color printing I do, but it’s the ability to use up spools that don’t have enough left one them to complete a print by switching to a different spool that can finish the print automatically to be far more valuable. It’s cut down my clutter of mostly used spools to near zero. I paid for all that kilo, I’m bloody gonna use it all dammit.
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day 4 days ago:
Human drivers struggle with edge cases also. I’ve seen a lot you drive, and as an old medic who has done his share of MV accidents, I can tell you y’all ain’t that good at it.
While I have no dog in this hunt, all any self driving vehicle needs to be is just a bit better than a human one to be an improvement and a net win, (never let perfect be the enemy of good enough). And historically, as soon as any new technology becomes affordable, humans adopt it and use the snot out of it. The problem is, humans aren’t very good at projecting future harm that any new tech tends to drag along with it.
- Comment on Finally found a way to get Garolite print beds for my Prusa's 6 days ago:
The problem with new PEI sheets everyone sells, is that they make the PEI so thin that it wears out so fast. It’s like when they go to cut a slice off the PEI tree, they damn near miss the whole tree. And the popularity of textured sheets doesn’t help either.
I have a smooth PEI sheet that came with my Prusa Mk3s 6 years ago. It has 1000’s of hours of print times on it. After about 4 years of heavy use, it just wasn’t much good anymore. And I didn’t feel like buying a new sheet, so I took the chance and very lightly hit with some 1000grit wet/dry sandpaper to renew the surface. It now holds better than when it was new. And I can probably sand it again if it ever needs it. But new PEI plates aren’t coated half as thick either. So my Bambu plates will have to be replaced at some point.
- Comment on wtf 6 days ago:
Large predators have a species memory that tells them in general messing with a human scent can easily lead to a bad day for you. Because we have spent millennia hunting and killing them. So they have learned to avoid us directly.
This does not mean that that in certain instances, such as starvation or if they feel cornered and trapped, that you can’t get hurt by them. So when I go out into the forest, and where I live we have black bears, wolves, and now permanent cougars-- and not the ones you might find in a bar on Friday nights either --the only one of those three I find a bit dicey to be around is the cougars. Bears and wolves really don’t like people and make themselves very scarce very fast once they know you are there if there is an open escape route they can take.
Big cats, on the other hand don’t appear to be the brightest bulbs in the box. And tend to be more of an issue for humans mucking about in the wilds where the cats are found. When I do venture out into areas that I have seen sign or even worse, spotted a cat, I do tend to carry a pistol for self defense in those areas. I’ve not needed to use it and very much hope not to ever need it. But being ‘forearmed is to to be forewarned’ so to speak.
- Comment on wtf 6 days ago:
That and the easy free meals and wamr place to sleep for not much effort in return.
- Comment on wtf 6 days ago:
Smart apex hunters always conserve as much energy as they can during a hunt. Because you don’t know when your next meal might show up. And firearms do make hunting a more sure thing. Hunting game, of any kind, is high risk-- higher reward effort. Most hunters go home empty handed or with little to show for the effort. But, if you do get it right, the effort can be handsomely rewarded.
So if you are smart enough to develop ranged weapons, you eagerly use them to hunt supper.
- Comment on MIT researchers crack 3D printing with glass — new technique enables inorganic composite glass printed at low temperatures 1 week ago:
They stated 250C was for annealing to final product. That’s a temperature any bog standard toaster oven or kitchen oven can do. Sadly, they said nothing I saw about actual extrusion temps.
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 1 week ago:
With out Bezo’s name recognition very, very few would have heard about Slate and their little pickup/SUV. That’s a level of advertisement that money simply can’t buy as a startup. We certainly wouldn’t be talking about them without Bezos’ name being attached to them. And they certainly wouldn’t have access to the investors and financial doors his name can easily open.
- Comment on Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12 1 week ago:
I have. Then I realize Slate doesn’t get a chance to change vehicular design without him.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 1 week ago:
The last 4 years of my working life, I taught some math in my small rural local school. I introduced a tradition of calculating Pi from scratch by various “silly” means. All shamelessly stolen from Matt Parker of Standup Maths fame on Youtube. The students, (4th through 8th grade), were always highly entertained and may have accidentally learned some math…
When you least expect it, Pi is there.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 1 week ago:
Not according to her. And I ain’t about to argue the point with her…
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 1 week ago:
As a retired mechanical engineer, the joke is that we don’t really remember the value of Pi, but we think it’s somewhere around 3. But maybe we should use 4 just to be safe.
In any case, I have to remember 3.14 because one of my Daughters was born on Pi Day. Which, according her, is the second most important day of the year, just right behind Christmas Day, when she was growing up. So when she got into high school that meant that we had to bring enough pie to be served in each of her math classes on that day. (Oddly enough she prefers cheese cake over pie on her Birthday).
Now I’m not saying being born on Pi Day influenced her life any, but she has a PhD in Mech Engineering.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 2 weeks ago:
The only ads I see are on a local sports podcast. The advertisers are all local businesses. From restaurants to local credit unions. And those I’m fine with.
- Comment on miniature figurines filament? 2 weeks ago:
FDM printing ABS/ASA is far easier and safer than resin printing since most CoreXY printers are enclosed these days. A simple fan and ether venting to the outside world or through activated charcoal air filters is a relatively simple procedure. Printers with all of that filtration are easily purchased these days. Even vapor smoothing can be done outdoors if it’s warm enough.
- Comment on VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website. 2 weeks ago:
They understand just how hard it would be to comply. And that’s the point. Make it hard enough to meet the requirements to not make worth a business’ while to comply. And the politicians can say “We didn’t ban PornHub. They blocked you from access.”
It’s a common tool both the left and right use to control behaviors. Governments around the world do this all the time.
- Comment on Are there other options than Prusa/BambuLab? 2 weeks ago:
Their Plus 4 printer is supposed to have multi material box -a la AMS- some time this year. But there hasn’t been much said about it since the release of the Plus 4 model.
- Comment on Are there other options than Prusa/BambuLab? 3 weeks ago:
The only other one I know of, outside of a dual exturder Voron, is the Qidi I-Fast IDEX printer. It’s expensive, somewhat over $1000, but it has a lot of goodies too. 350C extruder, heat chamber, and a decent sized build volume to print just about any engineering filament.
- Comment on Bambu Lab’s Controversial ‘Authorization Control’ Hits Budget 3D Printers 3 weeks ago:
I got my A1 mini just a month or two before this current unpleasantness, so I was taken unaware. But since I’ve never been interested in using much of the Bambu software ecosystem, switching to LAN mode a month ago has been no big deal for me because I was leaning that direction anyway. And my current firmware version, 1.04 works well so no need to up grade. Nor is Makers World all that important to me.
But there are so many users that just don’t care and will swallow what ever dreck Bambu feeds them.
- Comment on Bambu Lab’s Controversial ‘Authorization Control’ Hits Budget 3D Printers 3 weeks ago:
Roll back the firmware to a version that worked. You still can do that.