Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
18Âľm XY resolution
I'm trying to compare that to mine, but Anycubic has both discontinued both of my printers and stopped publishing XY or Z resolution for any of their current models. I'm happy with my printers, but I'm no longer happy with the manufacturer.
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@Benjamin-Hall Going to print minis for your games? I see this trend picking up. Now, if only there was a machine that would do the painting...
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@Benjamin-Hall Looks fun. (I'm tempted by one of those, but people keep advising against using them in an apartment without dedicated ventilated space ... and having it in a some sort of protective closure (growth tent?) or similar on the balcony sounds like a bit too much of a PITA. Not that I really use the balcony for anything else...)
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Benjamin-Hall Going to print minis for your games? I see this trend picking up. Now, if only there was a machine that would do the painting...
Just hire that out on fiverr. Lotsa starving artists thanks to the AI revolution
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Benjamin-Hall Going to print minis for your games? I see this trend picking up. Now, if only there was a machine that would do the painting...
Painting is the part I like. But painting requires minis...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Benjamin-Hall Going to print minis for your games? I see this trend picking up. Now, if only there was a machine that would do the painting...
Painting is the part I like. But painting requires minis...
A sacrifice you will be only too willing to make?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
painting requires minis
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
painting requires minis
My dad made a convoluted pun along those lines. Something like "you need to involve a barrel maker in your games. Then you'll have an excuse to get a mini cooper."
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@cvi said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
dedicated ventilated space
It depends on the resin you use, but even the low-odor resins aren't pleasant. And on the printer; there are some with built-in activated charcoal filters. I don't know how effective they are; neither of mine have them, so I have no experience. An open window with a fan pulling the fumes out may be enough, at least with low-odor resins and a filter. You'd also have to be meticulous about cleaning up spills thoroughly and disposing of gloves, paper towels, and anything else that might have residue promptly. Still, you'd want to have it in something like a spare bedroom, not a room you inhabit constantly.
So yeah, pretty much a dedicated hobby/craft room with good ventilation, although it doesn't need to be dedicated exclusively to printing.
Edit: I a word.
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
I've contacted customer support about repair/replacement. Who knows how long that will take?
About 5 days, plus transit time, apparently. The necessary part is currently out of stock.
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
yeah, pretty much a dedicated hobby/craft room with good ventilation, although it doesn't need to be dedicated exclusively to printing.
I'm planning to put mine in my office, under the window, with the window open and door closed if possible when printing. And doing prints when I'm not working in that office.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Benjamin-Hall Going to print minis for your games? I see this trend picking up. Now, if only there was a machine that would do the painting...
Painting is the part I like. But painting requires minis...
Great. Time consuming, though. And somewhat limiting sessions to be "on rails", so you get to use them, unless you've already got loads of them.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Benjamin-Hall Going to print minis for your games? I see this trend picking up. Now, if only there was a machine that would do the painting...
Painting is the part I like. But painting requires minis...
Great. Time consuming, though. And somewhat limiting sessions to be "on rails", so you get to use them, unless you've already got loads of them.
Use them? Nah, I just like painting them. For sessions I use colored glass tokens 90% of the time, leaving the real minis for set pieces such as bosses.
And I do already have a huge collection of various things. I'm kinda most interested in printing terrain and clutter to spice up battlefields as well as some hard to source character minis for various groups and/or gifts.
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
The necessary part is currently out of stock.
Because it is so commonly damaged during shipment, no doubt.
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@Tsaukpaetra It doesn't have a lot of padding around it.
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Status: Speaking of, I am doing the silly and pre-ordered the Positron kit.
Apparently it still needs some printed parts (some 350 grams of stuff by some measures?) so we'll see what my current printer can do.
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Today I went to my local bin store and got some pretty good deals:
- 2 rolls of PolyTerra PLA, black and white - about half what generic filament costs at retail, and slightly better than half for PolyTerra
- a generic 3D pen - about 40% of the cheapest online price
- also a Victrola Journey record player/bluetooth speaker, but that has nothing to do with 3D printing
The pen had some filament stuck in it, and wouldn't move it either forward or back, so I took it apart and found that the bowden tube inside was clogged. I replaced it with a short length of Capricorn tubing and now it works A-OK
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Update: The 3D pen is very effective at welding 3D printed items together, albeit with a lot of excess material on the joint
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Even so, Dillo remains very limited. It doesn't support frames, embedded media playback, and, biggest of all, JavaScript
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@DogsB itâs open source, though I assume donations gratefully accepted.
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@DogsB said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Dillo
IRTA Dildo.
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Printer Status: Test Print 6%. Doesn't actually smell very bad at all (using ABS-like resin). The active filter must do a pretty good job.
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@Benjamin-Hall first attempt stuck to the vat, not the plate. Second attempt after re-leveling completed... But is now very firmly adhered to the build plate. Sigh.
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@Benjamin-Hall I know those feels.
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Benjamin-Hall I know those feels.
I ended up freezing the build plate overnight (sealed in an air tight plastic bag) and it popped off in the morning.
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@Benjamin-Hall Good idea. I never thought of that.
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Benjamin-Hall Good idea. I never thought of that.
I saw it on Reddit, actually. I was prepared to break out the big guns (a sharp scraper), but didn't want to damage the build plate.
ON a related note, I'm going to switch to water-soluble resin for the next prints. Because the regular stuff is so annoying to deal with.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
sharp scraper), but didn't want to damage the build plate.
BT;DT. That's one of the reasons I'm annoyed with AnyCubic being so quick to discontinue printer models and the spare parts for them. I'm not so concerned about damaging the build plate of my older printer; it's just a brushed finish that I can restore easily. (Unfortunately, the printer itself was damaged by a power problem, and no replacement board is available.) The build plate of the newer printer has an etched texture that I can't recreate. (I think it's been discontinued, too, already. Their new ones really are improved, but damnit, stop discontinuing stuff I just bought.)
I'm going to switch to water-soluble resin for the next prints. Because the regular stuff is so annoying to deal with.
I've mostly used plant-based resin, which (allegedly) smells less bad than ordinary resin. It cleans up with alcohol, like most other resins, but spills never seem to stop being sticky. INB4 QooC.
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
INB4 QooC.
Hey, you!
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
I've mostly used plant-based resin, which (allegedly) smells less bad than ordinary resin.
Introducing the "plant-based" label was one of the best marketing ideas of the last decade. Imagine the acceptance if they still called it "vegan"
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Today I picked up an SKR 2 board for cheap from the bin store. I already have an SKR Mini E3 v3 that I'm using in my Ender 3, but maybe this will be the thing that gets me going on building a Voron or something.
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I don't know if this could be useful for someone here:
Bento3D is a web tool that allows you to create 3D printable dividers and toolboxes with millimeter precision.
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@Zecc
Instant OCD boners ahead
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I've now crossed the threshold to becoming One Of Those Multiple 3D Printer Guys with the purchase of a used Ender 5 Pro. Looking forward to setting it up and maybe putting the SKR2 board mentioned above to some use