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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen Ah. I see the LED bulbs now, on closer inspection.
I would have thought that to be a bad place for a light source. Either the part will be back-lit, or the print-head will be in front of it. Or blocking the light. Then again, I don't know what kind of lighting time-lapse photography would need...
it's suboptimal light position but.......... it'll do for being ~5 Watt light source. Enough for an okay timelapse, but not enough to add a noticable difference to the electric bill (unlike the printer itself......)
And the most expedient mounting method at the time. Right.
Well, like any hobbyist, you'll probably get the itch to upgrade eventually. Two suggestions:
- You'll probably want to make a mounting frame for the LEDs. Consider carbon fiber tubes in 10mm diameter. Quality tubes are $15/meter and perfectly round, making it easy to print snugly fitting joints. (You should still glue them though.) Easiest way to build a mounting frame in exactly the shape and size you want, taller than the printer, and very light-weight.
- You only need to turn the LEDs on while you take the photo. 0.2-0.5s per layer. Cuts power usage on them by 90+%, if you're worried about the electricity bill with bigger lights. But thick curtains will be mandatory; neighbors hate flashing lights.
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
You'll probably want to make a mounting frame for the LEDs.
already planning on stopping by the parents and grabbing that box of KNEX I left in their basement should let me mount the lights better, and get the camera better positioned so i can build an insulated enclosure for the printer for more efficient high temperature printing..... course with that i'll want to modify the electronics so only the steppers, heated bed, and hotend are in the insulated enclosure to ensure longevity
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
You only need to turn the LEDs on while you take the photo.
yep. could do that too. would need to wire them up to the raspberry pi to trigger them right.... but that's totally doable.
and i have wanted to get a decent soldering iron and hot air reworking station.......
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
neighbors hate flashing lights.
they havent said anything yet..... but then i'm on the third floor corner apartment, so the neighbors that can see the light are in the next building over and their keys don't work on my building door so......
But it's also in my office........
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@error said in The Official Status Thread:
There's your problem.
Learning to cookI know how to cook, but when I get back from work at 20:00 or whatever, the amount of effort I'm willing to expend is ~0, and my dietary restrictions and the fact that I'm living in a hotel room with only a microwave and a very small 2-burner stove (that doesn't seem to put out much heat; it took >1/2 hour to boil a pot of water for pasta last night) eliminate the vast majority of convenience foods.
As for women finding the ability to cook sexy, yes, but whether they, or anyone else, find it sexy, desirable, or even edible has less relevance to my life than the effect of a butterfly in Africa on an Atlantic hurricane (except my son; if he finds it sexy, he needs to move out from under Dad's roof).
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
when I get back from work at 20:00 or whatever
please tell me this means you start work at 12:00....... or have a rediculously exhorbatent overtime rate because if that's from 08:00.... or even earlier......
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra I'm not surprised likes is at or near the top of the list, but I've been ignoring it for a long time, too, so I have no idea how much activity it's had recently.
Not much... it has long stretches of loneliness...
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Also status: I love frozen skillet dinners where, after cooking at the recommended temperature for 1.5x the recommended time, it's still not even thawed, and after 2x the time, it's hot but the veggies are still basically raw.
Never had that problem. Are you sure the thermostat of your oven isn't busted/decalibrated?
Not oven; I wish I had an oven available. Stovetop. Directions say "cook covered over medium-low to medium heat for N minutes, stirring occasionally". (I'm at work and don't remember offhand what N is, something like 10 or 12.) Set the knob, which has no calibration at all, halfway between "as low as it goes (without being off)" and "as high as it goes" — that should be "medium" in a rational world. Although it's entirely possible that "as high as it goes" on this crappy hotel room stove is significantly less high than a normal household stove; however, I've had the same problem, but maybe not quite as much, at home, too.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
it's entirely possible that "as high as it goes" on this crappy hotel room stove is significantly less high than a normal household stove
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
it took >1/2 hour to boil a pot of water for pasta last night
I'd say so, yes.
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Status: Falling asleep at my desk while drinking coffee
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@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I conclude thus that Buitoni designed their ravioli bags to withstand at least 200kg of weight without popping.
Ah. They've been working with the blisterpak people.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@anonymous234 said in The Official Status Thread:
I conclude thus that Buitoni designed their ravioli bags to withstand at least 200kg of weight without popping.
Ah. They've been working with the blisterpak people.
That would only be true if the ravioli were a necessary tool to open the packaging.
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Status:
It's become increasingly obvious
I can deny it no longer!I need to learn git
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
when I get back from work at 20:00 or whatever
please tell me this means you start work at 12:00....... or have a rediculously exhorbatent overtime rate because if that's from 08:00.... or even earlier......
I wish I had an exorbitant overtime rate; overtime is the same rate as normal time. Not that it matters; I never bill (or work) overtime unless explicitly authorized by the client, and it's been a long time since a client did that.
I tend to come in late and stay late. Arrival at 10:30 or later isn't unusual, so departure at 19:00 or later is also not unusual. ~20 minute drive. Maybe stopping for gas or groceries. Getting "home" at 19:30—20:00 is fairly typical.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Also status: I love frozen skillet dinners where, after cooking at the recommended temperature for 1.5x the recommended time, it's still not even thawed, and after 2x the time, it's hot but the veggies are still basically raw.
Never had that problem. Are you sure the thermostat of your oven isn't busted/decalibrated?
Not oven; I wish I had an oven available. Stovetop. Directions say "cook covered over medium-low to medium heat for N minutes, stirring occasionally". (I'm at work and don't remember offhand what N is, something like 10 or 12.) Set the knob, which has no calibration at all, halfway between "as low as it goes (without being off)" and "as high as it goes" — that should be "medium" in a rational world. Although it's entirely possible that "as high as it goes" on this crappy hotel room stove is significantly less high than a normal household stove; however, I've had the same problem, but maybe not quite as much, at home, too.
Oh, those. Yeah, they're never good. Every stove has its own characteristic, and you just have to try it 1000 times on different settings and get a hang of it (and it will all go to waste when you switch to another one). Doubly so for electric stoves, since they're slow to heat up and cool down, completely changing how cooking works - and most if not all recipes assume a gas stove.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Although it's entirely possible that "as high as it goes" on this crappy hotel room stove is significantly less high than a normal household stove; however, I've had the same problem, but maybe not quite as much, at home, too.
It's like the difference between a 500 Watt microwave and a 1200 one. They both have "high" and "low" "power", but you know one of them is going to actually cook shit on a reasonable timescale.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Doubly so for electric stoves, since they're slow to heat up and cool down, completely changing how cooking works
That depends on the type. People lyric about how electric stoves are superior to gas ones are almost certainly talking about induction stoves - which are significantly more expensive.
Around here electric kettles are common. Mine is 2200W; if I need boiling water it is faster to boil the majority of the water in the electric kettle than to boil everything in the pan.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
most if not all recipes assume a gas stove.
Yeah, it gets worse when adapting an induction stove..
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
People lyric about how electric stoves are superior to gas ones are almost certainly talking about induction stoves - which are significantly more expensive.
There are also electric stoves based on halogen lamps. They have a lot less inertia than the traditional ones based on heating coils. Dunno how they compare to induction ones, as I've never used those.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
Although it's entirely possible that "as high as it goes" on this crappy hotel room stove is significantly less high than a normal household stove; however, I've had the same problem, but maybe not quite as much, at home, too.
It's like the difference between a 500 Watt microwave and a 1200 one. They both have "high" and "low" "power", but you know one of them is going to actually cook shit on a reasonable timescale.
Yeah, I always have to reduce cooking time on mine. Cause it's a 1300 watt one.
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@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
most if not all recipes assume a gas stove.
That's a bit surprising, if true. IME, they're significantly less common. I haven't lived anywhere that had a gas stove in over 30 years. When my (ex-)wife and I remodeled our kitchen 15(?) years ago, I would have liked to get a gas stove, but they were something like $500 more than a similar quality electric, plus installation. (Installation for an electric is basically attach the right cord/plug, plug it into the existing socket, and push it into place, compared to hiring a plumber to run gas piping to the stove's location, if necessary (I know there was gas in that wall for the furnace, water heater, and clothes dryer on the other side of the wall, but I don't remember whether there was a pipe into the kitchen just in case somebody ever wanted to someday install a gas stove), verify the pressure is in the safe range for the stove, connect it, check for leaks, etc.)
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@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
if I need boiling water it is faster to boil the majority of the water in the electric kettle than to boil everything in the pan.
Yes, at home I have a Krups that holds about 2 liters and boils it very quickly, but unfortunately I didn't bring it to Texas with me — one of several things I either didn't think I'd need, thought I'd packed but didn't, or just plain forgot — and I haven't found a similar model in a store here.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a bit surprising, if true. IME, they're significantly less common.
That's weird. I think in all the rentals I've had (Illinois and CA), only one was electric. My house is gas. (My house in IL was gas too)
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
and I haven't found a similar model in a store here.
Amazon! (as my friend always says "because brown delivers!")
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@acrow You've got a perfectly fine 3D printer and you want to buy a mounting frame?
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@Zerosquare said in The Official Status Thread:
a lot less inertia than the traditional ones based on heating coils
And even more so compared to the flat-surface cooktops, where you not only add the inertia of the surface, but have less efficient heat transfer because the pan isn't directly touching the heating coil.
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@Rhywden Which reminds me: It's rather cool that both Autodesk Fusion 360 and Shapr3D (an iPad modelling software which works great and makes very good use of the pencil!) are free if you're working in an educational setting. You just need to send them an email from your institutional email adress and you get a free 3-year / 1-year license (which you can renew, of course).
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Status: Left a YouTube tab in the background over the holidays totalling perhaps 8 days of inactivity.
Holy fuck!
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@Tsaukpaetra You actually possess a computer with that much RAM?! Also they're all using a lot.
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@loopback0 1GB just for the extension that runs a regex on a URL, then says “no thanks!” Sounds reasonable.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
That's a bit surprising, if true. IME, they're significantly less common.
That's weird. I think in all the rentals I've had (Illinois and CA), only one was electric. My house is gas. (My house in IL was gas too)
I suppose it varies by region and age. The earliest house I can remember any details of living in had an electric stove with pushbutton high/medium/low settings. The house we lived in from age 6 until I left for uni had gas, and I think the decrepit house I lived in for several years in uni had gas. Every other place iv ever lived, as far as I can remember, had electric. When I was a kid, all-electric houses were a heavily promoted feature of a lot of new construction; in some cases, I think, subdivisions, maybe even entire suburbs, were built with no gas utility infrastructure, so you couldn't install gas appliances if you wanted to.
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@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Amazon
No. I do not do business with Amazon because of the way they treat their employees.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@dcon said in The Official Status Thread:
Amazon
No. I do not do business with Amazon because of the way they treat their employees.
Communist!
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra You actually possess a computer with that much RAM?! Also they're all using a lot.
I don't own it. It belongs to work.
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@Rhywden said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow You've got a perfectly fine 3D printer and you want to buy a mounting frame?
Huh? No. Read again. I said print the joints. But you'd have to print the long parts of the frame in pieces, so it's more expedient to use readily available pre-fabricated rods. Especially if you want to make a frame that's taller and/or wider than the printing volume, as is the case when you want to position lights around said volume.
Plus, you'd still be paying for the filament and electricity, so printing is not exactly free. So there's no reason to make stuff harder for yourself by trying to make everything out of printed plastic.
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@Rhywden You might want to at least introduce your students to FreeCAD too. As nice as Fusion 365 is, it's still a bit pricey just out of school, if they want to keep playing with 3D printers or something.
Google says:
The current annual subscription cost for Fusion 360 is US$310 and that's going to change to US$495
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@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
ActivityStreams is a W3C standard
:run_away.ssml:
I hope that means spectateswamp markup language
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Status: I must secretly be dyslexic. In the span of just a few days I've learned that "chromacity" is actually chromaticity and Chioptera is actually Chiroptera. Fortunately not through pronouncing those to anyone…
What next, Rhamphorhynchus should have yet another 'h' in there?
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@kazitor said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: I must secretly be dyslexic. In the span of just a few days I've learned that "chromacity" is actually chromaticity and Chioptera is actually Chiroptera. Fortunately not through pronouncing those to anyone…
What next, Rhamphorhynchus should have yet another 'h' in there?
Aluminium
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@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden You might want to at least introduce your students to FreeCAD too. As nice as Fusion 365 is, it's still a bit pricey just out of school, if they want to keep playing with 3D printers or something.
Google says:
The current annual subscription cost for Fusion 360 is US$310 and that's going to change to US$495
Fusion 360 is also free for personal use for non-students.
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden You might want to at least introduce your students to FreeCAD too. As nice as Fusion 365 is, it's still a bit pricey just out of school, if they want to keep playing with 3D printers or something.
Google says:
The current annual subscription cost for Fusion 360 is US$310 and that's going to change to US$495
Fusion 360 is also free for personal use for non-students.
I hadn't noticed that. Maybe I should check it out, then.
...Also explains why they cut 123D.
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status: head fucking hurts. The throbbing is too much...
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@loopback0 said in The Official Status Thread:
@acrow said in The Official Status Thread:
@Rhywden You might want to at least introduce your students to FreeCAD too. As nice as Fusion 365 is, it's still a bit pricey just out of school, if they want to keep playing with 3D printers or something.
Google says:
The current annual subscription cost for Fusion 360 is US$310 and that's going to change to US$495
Fusion 360 is also free for personal use for non-students.
It's also free for startups.
Granted the free license only lasts a year, but then so does the paid one. at the need of the year you just have to renew the license and affirm that you do still qualify for the free version.
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@Luhmann said in The Official Status Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
fucking hurts
here we go again
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began
to suspect 'Hungry' ..."
-- Gary Larson, "The Far Side"50 dwarves?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
ActivityStreams is a W3C standard
:run_away.ssml:
I hope that means spectateswamp markup language
I like that better than the real meaning, Speech Synthesis Markup Language.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
50 dwarves
I shall not be taking this bait.
what? you don't trust me?
I'm hurt!
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@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
50 dwarves
I shall not be taking this bait.
what? you don't trust me?
I'm hurt!
here, have some dwarves: https://botsin.space/@it_was_inevitable
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@Vixen said in The Official Status Thread:
50 dwarves
I shall not be taking this bait.
what? you don't trust me?
I'm hurt!
here, have some dwarves: https://botsin.space/@it_was_inevitable
i'll take your bait if you take mine. ;-P