Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...
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@HardwareGeek And that is what? A tissue holder?
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
And reprint started...
Well, that was not a rousing success. (Nor was the photo. Stupid phone.) "I hate printers" includes 3-D printers.
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
"I hate printers" includes 3-D printers.
Duh. As if adding an extra dimension was going to make printers any less terrible.
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
The lower part is designed to fit perfectly over the top edge of my monitors, where they meet, without obscuring any of either screen. The upper part is designed to perfectly fit my specific phone, allowing it to slide into or out of the holder without blocking any of the screen, on/off and volume switches, camera, power or headphone jacks.
So you made your own somewhat questionable webcam?
I guess 3D printing is a bit like machining. To misquote This Old Tony: "machinists are the kind of people who expertly craft parts from 50 bucks worth of materials over several painstaking hours, knowing full well they could just buy a somewhat similar part for 50 cents".
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
"I hate printers" includes 3-D printers
What about 1-D printers?
Asking for a friend.
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@JBert said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
knowing full well they could just buy a somewhat similar part for 50 cents
Yeah, but that part wouldn't be an exact fit for its intended purpose. Whereas with custom 3D printed things, the resulting part isn't an exact fit for its intended purpose either.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
1-D printers
equally if not worse ... reading the morse code output is a PIA
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@BernieTheBernie said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
What about 1-D printers?
Yeah, seems like they'd be a pain and create a mess.
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@cvi That's a
spaghetti codemachine!
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@BernieTheBernie said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@cvi That's a
spaghetti codemachine!now make a video of it and save it with a long file name
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@Luhmann ... and then play that video on your computer screen, take your mobile, and record that.
For bonus points, put your computer screen on a wooden table.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
What about 1-D printers?
My son's filament printer does that sometimes. It's really more of a 1.x-D fractal, though; the (notionally) 1-D output makes (not-graceful) curves in 3-D space.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
For
bonus pointscross-platform compatibility, put your computer screen on a wooden table.
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@BernieTheBernie said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
"I hate printers" includes 3-D printers
What about 1-D printers?
Asking for a friend.Pens fucking suck too! In their own ways...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Pens
You're missing an i there
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@Luhmann said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Pens
You're missing an i there
No. A vacuum is not evolved.
Wait, okay, except during that one specifically hilarious-sounding thing that sometimes happens.
I'll allow it.
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@HardwareGeek ah, it's the state space of measurement error vs interpretation error.
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@Luhmann said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Pens
You're missing an i there
If your penis is sucking..... I kinda want to know more, where can I subscribe?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
where can I subscribe?
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Fabricobbled welder 3d printer.
DIY Metal 3D Printer Using A TIG Welder – 19:49
— Cranktown City
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Well, that was dumb(tm).
- ~5.5 hour print completes
- I remove it from the build plate (successfully, despite small/thin details)
- I put it under some warm water to wash of rests of adhesive. For some reason leave it there for a few minutes unsupervised.
- Water is too hot and the whole print deforms.
$@#$¤💀^ PLA.
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I no longer recommend buying Anycubic printers.
As you may recall, I have two of them. I bought a Photon S a few years ago. I don't remember whether that purchase was based on a recommendation here or whether I did independent research, but I was pleased with it. Enough so that I backed the Kickstarter when they announced the Photon Ultra.
The Ultra is also an excellent printer, apart from a few issues. It requires special resins, which are available in limited varieties and are often out of stock. It seems to be more finicky to get the settings right and get a good print. And finally, the resin vat is vastly inferior to the vat for the older Photon S.
The Photon S comes with an anodized aluminum resin vat. The frame that holds the FEP film is steel. Changing the film is inconvenient, because there are a lot of screws that hold the film in the frame and the frame in the vat, but it works well. It's relatively easy to clean; I can just dunk the whole vat in solvent.
The Photon Ultra comes with a plastic resin vat, and the frame is also plastic. Changing the film is easier, because there are fewer screws. However, the plastic frame warps, and as a result, it doesn't do a good job pulling the film tight against the bottom of the vat, and therefore the vat leaks. It's more difficult to clean. The underside of the plastic vat is hollow. When it leaks, the resin gets into the hollow part of the vat. Immersing it in solvent results in the hollow filling with solvent, but it's a confined space, so the solvent doesn't actually remove the resin, nor does the solvent evaporate. It basically requires complete disassembly to clean.
The good news is that the vats are compatible. They're the same size, at least within a mm or so, and will fit in either printer. So, I wanted to get a couple of the older, aluminum vats to use instead of the plastic vat for the Ultra and so that I can switch resin types easily without having to completely clean the vat between prints. The bad news is that they've been out of stock for a while. Until I checked today.
The reason I no longer recommend Anycubic is that they are no longer out of stock. They're not even discontinued. The entire printer, accessories, replacement parts, etc. have been memory-holed. The Photon S does not and has never existed, at least according to their website.
My Photon S was damaged by an electrical problem in my workshop. It probably needs a new motherboard, which they used to sell. They still sell replacement motherboards for their other printers, and replacement LCD screens for their other LCD-based resin printers. Like everything else related to the Photon S, they've been completely memory-holed. So I have a ~3 yo printer that is inoperable and now apparently unrepairable.
The build plates are not compatible between the printers. I wanted to get an extra one, so that I can start another print while I'm washing and drying the previous one. Nope. Not for the Photon S, although I can still do that for the Ultra.
I am not happy.
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
now apparently unrepairable.
Kinda goes against the whole philosophy, doesn't it? 💭
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new world's fastest benchy [00:02:09s] – 03:33
— Monika McWuff$deity fuck! Surprised it cools down in each layer to be stable at that speed!
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@Tsaukpaetra There's another video that shows an industrial fan blowing on the print bed, presumably for the purpose of cooling the plastic as it's printed.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
$deity fuck! Surprised it cools down in each layer to be stable at that speed!
Well, the model is fucked, so... wow, what an achievement?
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@MrL said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Well, the model is fucked, so... wow, what an achievement?
any% category
But, I agree. I get the challenge aspect, but at what point is it no longer a usable benchy? How much slower do you actually have to go to get a reasonable result? Why bother if what you get is of that quality?
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Status: Ready for the eclipse
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I bought myself a thing:
3030-PROVer MAX Desktop CNC Router for High Precision Metalworking, with Linear Guide & Ball Screw Motion
Elevate your metalworking game with the Genmitsu 3030-PROVer MAX Desktop CNC Router, a cutting-edge precision tool engineered for unrivaled accuracy and power. This is a machine that gives you an opportunity for heavy-duty, long-term, and high-intensity work, right from your desktop. ...
I have no idea why the embed says
. The actual price is $849.00, or $1043.10 with the 4th axis module (save $54.90 for buying them together, which I did).It's also compatible with this, which I didn't buy (yet?). I'm not sure I really want a class 4 laser in my garage.
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
I'm not sure I really want a class 4 laser in my garage.
: Wuss.
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@Zerosquare There's a competitor that sells an enclosure for their machine that (if properly installed, closed, etc.) reduces the class 4 radiation to class 1 or 1A or something like that. I haven't found a similar enclosure for this one. It would, of course, be a simple task to build an opaque enclosure; not so simple to make one you can see through to observe whether the machine is doing what it's supposed to be doing.
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Build an opaque enclosure, but have a small window made of whatever filter material makes viewing safe?
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@Zerosquare said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
whatever filter material makes viewing safe
Yeah, if I knew what that is. I'd have to do research on that. If/when I decide I want to get the laser module, I'll look into what I need to make an enclosure.
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The
way would be to scavenge it from laser protection glasses, but the curved shape would probably be difficult to integrate.
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@Zerosquare I think it's moot, anyway. While researching appropriate material, I learned that mere possession of a class 3b or class 4 laser requires that I be registered/certificated/permitted by the Texas Dept. of Health. So unless I ever decide to start an actual business using it,
. It may be that these regulations only apply to business use, not hobby use, but I'm not inclined to take chances with it.
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
to observe whether the machine is doing what it's supposed to be doing.
Just use a small camera with an embedded web server so you don't need to stay close to it
ESP32-CAM Video Streaming and Face Recognition with Arduino IDE | Random Nerd Tutorials
This article is a quick getting started guide for the ESP32-CAM board. We’ll show you how to setup a video streaming web server with face recognition and detection in less than 5 minutes with Arduino IDE.
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
I bought myself a thing:
3030-PROVer MAX Desktop CNC Router for High Precision Metalworking, with Linear Guide & Ball Screw Motion
Elevate your metalworking game with the Genmitsu 3030-PROVer MAX Desktop CNC Router, a cutting-edge precision tool engineered for unrivaled accuracy and power. This is a machine that gives you an opportunity for heavy-duty, long-term, and high-intensity work, right from your desktop. ...
I have no idea why the embed says
.It's the price in
s. CAD happens to be the first item in the list of currency options, so maybe that's what it's grabbing? 
Looks like a pretty neat machine.
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Just buy a cat laser toy instead:
Laser Pointers on Amazon are Getting Out of Hand – 13:08
— Torque Test Channel
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@Parody said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
It's the price in
s. CAD happens to be the first item in the list of currency options, so maybe that's what it's grabbing? Display the CAD price, but label it USD. Good jorb!
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@Dragoon said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Just buy a cat laser toy instead:
Laser Pointers on Amazon are Getting Out of Hand – 13:08
— Torque Test ChannelI was surprised to see I have one of the things they showed: the ~5mW bright white flashlight+dim blue flashlight+laser with different shapes one they suggested you buy instead of the ones that can set things on fire. I mostly use it to point where I want to move when I can't reach my miniature on the RPG map. Stupid big tables and short arms.
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@Parody said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
I was surprised to see I have one of the things they showed: the ~5mW bright white flashlight+dim blue flashlight+laser with different shapes one they suggested you buy instead of the ones that can set things on fire. I mostly use it to point where I want to move when I can't reach my miniature on the RPG map. Stupid big tables and short arms.
The high powered lasers are for the DM only, as a substitution for divine punishment?
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Nothing like turning a figurine into a pile of ashes to show the players who's boss.
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
I bought myself a thing:
3030-PROVer MAX Desktop CNC Router for High Precision Metalworking, with Linear Guide & Ball Screw Motion
Elevate your metalworking game with the Genmitsu 3030-PROVer MAX Desktop CNC Router, a cutting-edge precision tool engineered for unrivaled accuracy and power. This is a machine that gives you an opportunity for heavy-duty, long-term, and high-intensity work, right from your desktop. ...
Ball Screw Motion
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Delivery Distortion Field failed. It's here:
I got some bits, collets, and the 4th axis unit a couple of days ago, the router itself today, and some more bits should arrive tomorrow. It's supposed to take only about 10 minutes to assemble, but I should wait until after work this evening. Also, software to install and manuals to read (
) before I can actually use it.
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Delivery Distortion Field failed.
Well, don't jump to conclusions so quickly. The field distorted the contents of the box.
The Y-axis screw will not turn with any reasonable amount of force. The X- and Z-axis knobs turn with just the expected resistance of the stepper motors; I've tried perhaps 10x that amount of torque on the Y axis without the slightest movement. I've contacted customer support about repair/replacement. Who knows how long that will take?
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@HardwareGeek said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
more bits should arrive tomorrow
They arrived today, too. I guess they must have been behind the big, heavy box, and I just didn't notice them as I was wrestling it into the house.
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I myself ended up getting my first 3d printer. A
ELEGOO Mars 4 Ultra 9K Resin 3D Printer
【7-Inch 9K Mono LCD】Equipped with a 7-inch 9K mono LCD offering an impressive 8520x4320 resolution and 18µm XY resolution, Mars 4 Ultra allows you to print incredible complex models with crisp details. The mono LCD is protected by a 9H hardness tempered glass, ensuring it withstands daily wear and...
Still caught in DDF-land. Been shipped but no delivery date yet.
