MxRemy
@MxRemy@lemmy.one
I like knitting, math, and uplifting the proletariat.
- Comment on The Home of Maths Challenges 2 weeks ago:
Whoaa, awesome!!
- Comment on Is anyone using PixelFed? How is your experience so far? 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, maybe it didn’t used to work! It does have to be the direct link to the image, if that helps. Like, “right click on image, open in new tab”, then use that link? The link to the post itself doesn’t do it.
- Comment on Is anyone using PixelFed? How is your experience so far? 2 weeks ago:
I use it fairly frequently and enjoy it! My instance is Pxlmo but it hardly matters, federation doing its thing and all. The official app is quite buggy atm, but not unusably so, and it’s fun to watch the updates slowly improve things. I do follow a lot of people who are actually on mastodon but only ones who mostly post pictures anyway, so they fit better in my pixelfed feed
- Comment on Lemmy maintainer works on Lemmy while at prom 3 weeks ago:
Doing the lord’s work 🫡
- Comment on What is on your "things to 3d print" list? 2 months ago:
Parts for a Wimshurst Electrostatic Generator.
- Comment on Any recommendations for refillable PLA filament? 2 months ago:
As in, mail the empty spool and they send it back filled? Or as in, they send it unspooled and you spool it up yourself? If it’s the latter, that’s what I do! I get my refills of PHA unspooled in the mail from a Canadian company, Filaments.ca. They probably do the same with PLA too.
- Comment on Finished my DIY keyboard with printed case, feet, and RPi Pico "caddy". Keycaps are not 3d printed, but the labels were DIY from my laser. 2 months ago:
I’m also curious about the laser engraving process! What are the keycaps made out of, and what settings/type of laser did you use on them? This isn’t something anyone has used our laser for, and I’d like to recommend it to my patrons.
- Comment on Sphere making machine (found) 2 months ago:
Do you have any suggestions for what else one might use large perfectly spherical balls for? I desperately need a justification for building one of these 😅
- Comment on Trying out the Lightning Infill for the first time, so far so good 2 months ago:
I use this all the time, real filament saver! For the overwhelming majority of real world use cases, the strength of a part has much more to do with the walls than the interior, so it shouldn’t really be any weaker. Just make sure your walls are thick enough.
- Comment on Wafrn is a tumblr clone that connects to the fediverse 3 months ago:
Whoaa, a fedi tumblr clone?! I had no idea anyone was working on that. You rock!
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Greetings from Lemmy, Uhrbaan of Mastodon!
- Comment on Anyone else notice the fediverse is quite close knit? 3 months ago:
I bet it might be fun to, just once, get all the most infamous lemmings goofing around in one thread together. Because communities are themed, maybe they don’t usually cross paths that often
- Comment on Cura's Slicing Tolerance setting finally got a part to work 6 months ago:
This is one of my favorite features to introduce to people, definitely a game changer. The only thing is, when working with other people’s models, I usually don’t know if they’ve already included any additional tolerance or how much.
- Comment on What quality PLA filament brand have you standardized on? 7 months ago:
Our defuault PLA at work is all recycled stuff from Reflow, especially the candy collection.
- Comment on Initial PeerTube impressions and tips from a newbie creator 7 months ago:
I went with spectra.video, but my subscriptions are allllll over the place. I have roughly the same approach to choosing an instance on every platform:
- Not the flagship instance or one that’s similarly huge.
- Not one that’s miniscule either.
- Running as close to the latest version of the software as possible.
- Then and only then do I start comparing rules, cool content, etc.
- Comment on Initial PeerTube impressions and tips from a newbie creator 7 months ago:
Thanks, this was really informative! I’ve only been on the viewer side of Peertube, but I’m a fan for sure. From that perspective, another thing is that I really wish there was a better app for it. Thorium hasn’t been updated in ages, and it’s super glitchy.
- Comment on Home Carbonation Setup - What is this connection on the left! 7 months ago:
UPDATE: So the 8mm male quick disconnect to 1/8 NPT female adapter worked! Everything now hooks up to everything else just fine. Unfortunately, there’s a new problem.
I have no idea how the gas valve built into the isi Whip works, but this hookup doesn’t seem capable of pushing any CO2 through it! Everything else works, there’s no leaks, and gas can make it all the way through the hose and out the end. But as soon as I screw it onto the isi’s gas hookup, it can’t get through. There’s a video of an isi disassembly here that shows what the valve looks like inside, but I can’t tell much from it. Clearly this thing is some sort of one-way valve, since gas doesn’t escape when you remove a CO2 cartridge… But what’s so special about a cartridge that my janky hookup doesn’t match?
As far as I can tell, nothing in the mechanism budges when you push on it. I don’t think it’s being mechanically opened by screwing the cartridge in. Is it possible that it just requires the explosive amount of pressure released by a punctured CO2 cartridge before it’ll open? I’ve been feeding it 30 PSI. Some quick googling tells me that 8g cartridges usually release 850 to 1100 PSI. Should I just try cranking up the pressure until something happens? I think the problem then becomes, there’s substantially more than 8g of CO2 in my tank… What happens then?
Now, I’ve since stumbled onto this post about just straight up removing the built-in gas hookup and replacing it with a sanke to ball lock conversion kit. That seems like it might be way better than the approach I’ve been using, and I wish I had seen it earlier!
- Comment on Home Carbonation Setup - What is this connection on the left! 8 months ago:
Oh I definitely have like zero idea what I’m doing, but hopefully I’ll learn a thing or two in the process lol. I will definitely be picking up some Nylog White, thanks!
So, the 3/8 turned out to be WAYYY too big! I was just kind of naively taking it on faith because the listing said that’s what it was… I think it’s actually 1/8 instead? We’ll see once the new part arrives. Shame on me for trusting a thumbnail from AliExpress over, you know, a ruler 😅
- Comment on sandblaster? 8 months ago:
At my work we occasionally use a vibratory tumbler for that
- Comment on Home Carbonation Setup - What is this connection on the left! 8 months ago:
That would explain the nut looking thing, right? Does it being a compression fitting matter insofar as the specific type of thread/diameter is concerned? I don’t really know anything about them, but a cursory Wiki skimming makes them seem complicated and delicate. Could I have potentially messed it up at all by removing it from the TR21-4 it was originally screwed into? It was quite hard to remove.
- Comment on Home Carbonation Setup - What is this connection on the left! 8 months ago:
I think you’re right! Rather than find some kind of NPT to UNF adapter and throw yet another (potentially leaky) connection into the mix, I’m going to try replacing the “8mm male quick disconnect to 3/8 UNF female” with a “8mm male quick disconnect to 3/8 NPT female”. Specifically this one, I think. Wish me luck. an thank you!!
- Submitted 8 months ago to diy@slrpnk.net | 7 comments
- Comment on Ideas on how to get a better surface? 8 months ago:
You’re not wrong… 😅
I am fortunate enough to work somewhere that has one, although we also make it available to the public!
- Comment on Ideas on how to get a better surface? 8 months ago:
doing that is going to create a rotary tumbler. i think for this specific object that might work totally fine, but it might be too rough for anything with fine details or sharp angles. vibratory tumblers are more likely to keep the object’s overall geometry intact, whereas rotary ones will eventually sand things into kind of an ovoid shape?
as for parameters, the main ones are which grit levels for each stage, how long to run it for each stage, which tumbling medium to use, and how much water. i haven’t really ironed out any general guidelines but in my experience (perhaps obviously) most plastics don’t need nearly as long as most minerals.
it doesn’t seem like many people have gone this route yet, so if it works out, please post about your process!
- Comment on Ideas on how to get a better surface? 8 months ago:
where I work, we ocassionally put stuff like this in a vibratory tumbler for post processing. it’s finicky to get all the parameters just right from one material to the next, but when it works it’s AMAZING.
- Comment on I just received sunchokes in the mail. Can sunchokes be split up into smaller pieces before planting? Or is it better to plant them whole? 8 months ago:
Just a couple years, and that’s with regular harvesting!
- Comment on I just received sunchokes in the mail. Can sunchokes be split up into smaller pieces before planting? Or is it better to plant them whole? 8 months ago:
oh yeah, you can definitely cut them into pieces before planting. I started with ONE, cut into pieced, and now I have a whole little thicket of them. I’m not sure what the theoretical limit on that is though, like how small of a piece will grow
- Comment on Trying to revive r/aaaaaaacccccccce here on fediverse. Come visit us if you are Asexual and/or aromantic, or just love our memes and humor. 8 months ago:
AHHHH YAYYYY!!! This subreddit had the best memes, I hope it takes off here!
- Comment on I need advice about whether to dive in or not 8 months ago:
Awww that’s a shame! I’m honestly pretty surprised, my library isn’t even that big. Tell them to get their act together lol
- Comment on I need advice about whether to dive in or not 8 months ago:
Check with your local libraries! I work in a public library makerspace, we do this kind of stuff all the time. Most libraries do it either completely free or for the price of materials
