Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...
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@TheCPUWizard said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Does anyone have recommendations for a printer that can do small details?? I am talking about 1:160 scale printing of common items.
If you want really detailed stuff then I guess a lot depends on how small the details are in physical size, how big you want the objects to be (maximum physical size) and how many you want.
While I won't be able make a recommendation really, if you want to do crazy complicated stuff like interlocked or embedded parts then it might make sense to order objects from a 3d printing shop rather than trying to print it yourself. They are very pricey but their SLS or stereolithography processes can do things slightly different compared to the filament printing you find in consumer printers.
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Picture of an actual ghost straw:
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@boomzilla What?
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@JBert It's a running meme about how Californians crack down as hard on guns as they do on plastic straws.
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@JBert said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@boomzilla What?
G H O ST S T R A W
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Now, these sorts of seat brackets won’t make it into production cars just yet. The cost of additive manufacturing has come way down in the past few decades, but it’s not yet cheap enough for mass manufacturing. Printing is still too slow for a company that makes more than 8,000 vehicles a day. And integrating the process into the production line is no easy thing. “It’s not about just buying a 3-D printer," says Cotteleer. “For industrial-scale printing, there needs to be a whole digital backbone to send files to where they need to be. And what’s that model going to be?”
Paging @Weng! Alternate business opportunity?
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@boomzilla Additive manufacturing has been a thing in automotive for ages. Selective laser sintering EVERYWHERE.
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@Weng yes, TFA mentions that. You were summoned in particular over this:
"For industrial-scale printing, there needs to be a whole digital backbone to send files to where they need to be. And what’s that model going to be?”
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@boomzilla Er. I think that's called The Internet. You may have heard of it. I'm surprised Wired hasn't caught on yet. GM might not have figured it out because they are institutionally incapable of existing outside the 1970's.
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@boomzilla looks like a regular straw, what is a ghost straw?
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@sockpuppet7 said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
ghost straw
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@sockpuppet7 See https://abc7news.com/politics/san-francisco-leaders-vote-to-ban-plastic-straws-utensils/3818238/
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@Luhmann Should have printed 80% lower straws. Those are legal, as far as I understand (IANAM).
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@cvi said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Luhmann Should have printed 80% lower straws. Those are legal, as far as I understand (IANAM).
Well they aren't weapons of course they're legal.
Time for a new where I carry everything but the lower receiver.
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@Luhmann said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@sockpuppet7 said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
ghost straw
Wouldn't it make more sense to print non-plastic straws for this meme? Regular guns aren't made of plastic.
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@ben_lubar Didn't they switch to cardboard straws for environment reasons?
Which of course are packaged in plastic instead of paper for hygiene.
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@JazzyJosh said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Well they
aren't weaponsdon't get accused of causing cancer of course they're legal.FTFCalifornia
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@ben_lubar said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Regular guns aren't made of plastic.
There's a reason Glocks are often derided as "Tupperware".
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@PleegWat said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@ben_lubar Didn't they switch to cardboard straws for environment reasons?
Which of course are packaged in plastic instead of paper for hygiene.
Is the plastic packaging recyclable? I know that plastic straws aren't recyclable.
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@ben_lubar The only place I've encountered individually packaged straws is fast food restaurants. I've yet to see any fast food location which has separated trash bins, and automated separation usually wants dry waste only.
Of course paper is bio-degradable to compost, and the plastic may be as well?
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@PleegWat said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@ben_lubar The only place I've encountered individually packaged straws is fast food restaurants. I've yet to see any fast food location which has separated trash bins, and automated separation usually wants dry waste only.
Of course paper is bio-degradable to compost, and the plastic may be as well?
Not individually packaged straws - the packaging that keeps the straws from getting wet in storage.
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@PleegWat said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Didn't they switch to cardboard straws for
environmentvirtue signaling reasons?Yes. See how many things we do to (appear to) help the environment (but actually make things worse).
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Hey maybe talk about 3D printing?
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@blakeyrat Go right ahead.
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@blakeyrat
Or furnaces?
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@blakeyrat said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Hey maybe talk about 3D printing?
Hah! You can't 3D print cardboard straws.
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@boomzilla what about straw men?
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@sockpuppet7 said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@boomzilla looks like a regular straw, what is a ghost straw?
Not much, what's a ghost straw with you?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@sockpuppet7 said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@boomzilla looks like a regular straw, what is a ghost straw?
Not much, what's a ghost straw with you?
Ghost straw? I barely knew 'er
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@Lorne-Kates said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Not much, what's a ghost straw with you?
Is that some pun? I don't get it
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@sockpuppet7 said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Lorne-Kates said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Not much, what's a ghost straw with you?
Is that some pun? I don't get it
Wait, was that a pun? It doesn't look like one but I don't want to look stupid.
Oh, okay, I get it.
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@blakeyrat said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Hey maybe talk about 3D printing?
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@sockpuppet7 You explain it, it was your pun.
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Did you hear that Torvalds blasted the heck out of Poettering over a memory-corruption issue in the audio subsystems?
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@Gribnit said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Did you hear that Torvalds blasted the heck out of Poettering over a memory-corruption issue in the audio subsystems?
No. Tell me more!
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@boomzilla Now, if there ever was a compelling reason to get into 3D printing... (And I fully approve of the rear projection. Nice touch.)
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Let's resurrect an old thread.
I am in the market for a 3D printer. What is the current best bang for the buck model? Last year I think it was the Anet A8, but it seems like the current favorite is the Ender3. Does anyone have experience with either of them? It looks like I can get the Ender3 delivered for $230-260. The Anet A8 is $160, and you basically have to put the entire thing together it seems. Help me head down the right path, feel free to talk to me like you would a 5 year old because I am in the "I don't know what I don't know" stage.
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@Polygeekery What do you want to print? The Ender3's website states it has a maximum print size of 220 x 220 x 250mm. That's... not very big. (About 8.5" x 8.5" x 10".) Unfortunately, trying to go beyond very small print volumes brings the cost up very high very quickly. The 3D printer my wife and I got a couple years ago is 12" x 12" x 24", and it cost around $4,000.
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@Mason_Wheeler my first project was actually designed with the Anet A8 as the destination printer, and most of the things I anticipate wanting to print should fit in that format of printer. If I need to print anything larger we have a client that owns a large makerspace and I can use any of the machines that I want to essentially whenever I want to. I had initially planned on just printing everything there. They have ~30 Sindoh 3DWox printers. I ordered filament and of course the spools are just a millimeter too large to fit the cartridge that the Sindoh printers feed from. So I decided screw it, I might as well just get my own printer.
Second plan is that I might respool the filament that I have and use the Sindoh printers. Third plan would be to return the filament I have and order new that will fit the cartridges. But I would like to be able to print whatever I want, whenever I want, without having to go across town to do so.
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@Polygeekery said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
filament
Oh boy, that's a whole other can of worms right there.
If you're using PLA, there are two major brands of filament: Hatchbox and 3D Solutech. Each has its own "character", if you will. Hatchbox filament tends to get brittle if you leave it sitting around long enough, while 3D Solutech's has an irritating tendency to jam and mis-feed.
Given the choice, I'll pick Hatchbox any day, because at least the brittleness only happens while I'm not printing. I stopped buying 3D Solutech filament after having one too many print jobs ruined by their screwups.
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@Polygeekery said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
I am in the market for a 3D printer.
I think you'll be disappointed. While they can sometimes catch fire, they rarely do.
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@JBert said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
If you want really detailed stuff then I guess a lot depends on how small the details are in physical size,
Pretty detailed "stuff". Loking to reproduce details that are often on the order of 3" or less in real size as a reduction of 160:1. Total size of objects (real size) would be up to 10'x10' (scaled 7.5" by 7.5")
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
That's... not very big.
Mine's smaller at 10cm (per side) cube!
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@Zerosquare said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
@Polygeekery said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
I am in the market for a 3D printer.
I think you'll be disappointed. While they can sometimes catch fire, they rarely do.
Some of the ones I am looking at are in pseudo-kit form where you partially assemble them yourself and I am pretty rubbish at that plus I am likely to drink while doing so. And the Anet A8 has a habit of the electrical connector breaking off of the heated bed.
I think the chances are better than you are letting on.
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@Polygeekery said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
I am likely to drink
:You_dont_say:
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@Polygeekery said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
I think the chances are better than you are letting on.
so...... what you're saying if I've correctly groked this conversation by skimming the last couple of posts is.....
- 3D printers can catch fire while printing
- The filaments 3D printers use is rather flammable
- You're looking to set your 3D printer up in your neighbor's Garage (the same neighbor that keeps borrowing your tools and not returning them)
- The table you'll be setting the printer up on is immediately over where your neighbor stores their Boiled Linseed Oil soaked rags while they dry to the point they can be disposed of.......
Do you need a reason to be out of town the week you install it? Because i have some projects around the den that could use the strength and opposable thumb of a Human.,..