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Posts by Drew Strickland

Hello, I see you are about halfway through your journey, your transformation, into a bad bitch.

You look bad.

3 months ago 0 0 0 0

Tired: saying "bless you" when someone sneezes.

Wired: saying "Get blessed on, idiot"

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

The year is 2387.

I have been injured in an accident.

I must now call the Law Offices of Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan & Morgan.

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

There's a lot of hype around speed, and size, and features, but when you're just getting started, simpler platforms make for faster tinkering.

Avoid Anet. Anecdotally, they are terribly made and have a bad safety history. Good for cheap parts.

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

While Bambu makes excellent machines, they are not quite open.

For an open machine, in budget, Creality Ender 3 is a classic with a large ecosystem. Newer (smarter) variants exist now too, with varrying degrees of reliability.

Sovol SV06 is also a solid option, it is a prusa clone. Just in budget.

1 year ago 1 0 1 0

The very first thing I designed and printed on my very first 3d printer was parts to fix a broken shelf in a refrigerator in an apartment I was renting.

The fridge was old, management wasn't interested in replacing it, and the part was no longer available.

This is an old problem.

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

Do you want a reliable tool that has support, or do you want an open platform you can tinker on?

Is there something specific you want to print? Or specific materials?

And last question, have you decided on a budget?

1 year ago 0 0 1 0

Well, now that you've said you don't want to spoil it ... I'm not sure whether to name it or not.

But George Carlin, Matt Daemon, Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, Selma Hayek, and Alan Rickman are all fantastic in this.

And Alanis Morissette has one great line.

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

Oh nice, I didn't realize this was a thing people were doing with their bambus.

1 year ago 1 0 0 0
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The y-axis was unable to keep up with the acceleration, so I was skipping on that axis only. Decimated the acceleration, going to retune it to find a better balance of speed and reliability.

But I went through all of belts and pulleys and swapped out a stepper motor before I arrived there.

1 year ago 2 0 1 0

It's shifted on one axis, so something on that axis is slipping. Tighten belts, adjust idle pulleys, wheels, whatever else is on that axis, I don't know your printer.

I went through this recently. Slicing with orca, but running on a custom that used an old e-16 as a base.

1 year ago 2 0 1 0

What was wrong with the printer?

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Drake is right. The good news is that you're only off by 2mm, and it's extremely consistent.

Specifically, the left side of the gantry is about 2mm too low, and needs to be raised. Or the right side lowered. Not both.

A less precise, but also viable method: crash the gantry into top of frame.

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

Salvador Benchy.

But seriously, look at those overhangs, how freaking good is your cooling!

It's impressive! Delete this post, and pretend it was on purpose, and market the crap out of whatever cooling you use.

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

Life hack: if you have super-religious family that likes to complain, you only need to learn the phrase "as the okay Lord intended" to get them to stop complaining.

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

Don't necessarily focus on "this thing doesn't exist". It helps to understand how to go from a blank sketch to whatever someone else came up with, and then customize it.

But the wall-mounted storage space is vast, and fun.

1 year ago 0 0 1 0

Hi Sabine! One thing I can recommend is designing parts for wall-mounted storage systems. Ikea skadis, and multiboard are two of the easier ones to start with.

Plates and hooks are an easy start, flask holders (for jars, tubes and bottles) are slightly more challenging.

1 year ago 2 0 1 0

Today I swapped out the host call mounter, swapped from a stealthburner to a dragon burner, and upgraded to CANbus all in one shot.

Nothing fried when I turned it on. Everything is working.

Sus...

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

If the printer you bought has "a large community for modifications and improvements" you have or will have the second hobby. If your printer has a support phone number you can call, and they are actually helpful, chances are low (but never zero) you can avoid the second hobby.

1 year ago 0 0 1 0
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Not everyone is aware of this, so I'll say it again: there are two hobbies with a 3d printer. 3d printing, where you make stuff, and 3d printering, where you enter the endless cycle of iteration on upgrades and redesigns to 3d printers.

1 year ago 2 0 1 0

Prediction and prevention is an interesting area for innovation. Some people have been working on autonomous drones for this task. There's a handful of predictive models based on older data.

I'm of the opinion that we're behind on our modeling, given the current rate of climate change.

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

The latter gets used quite often with wildfires - a controlled burn line wide enough that the fire can't get past it and has nowhere to spread. Doesn't work in populated areas, or if you cannot predict where the fire will go.

Wildfires are difficult because fuel and space are almost unlimited.

1 year ago 0 0 1 0

Not an expert, but fire science is pretty fascinating. All techniques for dealing with a fire that has started boil down to either "Rob it of fuel" or "give it nowhere to go".

The former gets used a lot in data centers - gas is pumped into rooms to displace oxygen and suppress fire.

1 year ago 1 0 1 0

Damn, came here to make this joke, and you already did.

1 year ago 1 0 1 0

Immersion. Idioms don't translate because they are based off of common objects, situations, and absurdity, but without the shared understanding, the context is lost. Idioms in any language are, for all intents and purposes, language memes. Sometimes even regional memes.

Have a look at Tamarian.

1 year ago 1 0 0 0

As a white man, I can assure you, none of us are competent.

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

This made me have an uncomfortable laugh realizing I probably read something like this at one point, and wasn't sure it was absurd satire.

Thanks for the fear-lol.

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Tired:

"Changes were made to a legacy code base owned by my team, and those changes lead to a service degradation, and eventually an outage."

Wired:

1 year ago 0 0 0 0

Sean Bean's character is seemingly immortal.

Agent Coulson of SHIELD is out here doing very un-avengable behavior indeed.

A murderous psychopath dies choking on a glass eyeball.

Must be a show about trains.

1 year ago 1 0 0 0
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It depends a little on what printer you are getting - some will insist on doing some calibration printing first.

Rightfully so, calibration prints are very good first prints. That's why people start with benchy.

How about Calicat?

www.printables.com/model/530652...

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