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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

One option is 3D printing a mold to fill with silicone sealant. If this is a part that fails regularly, the mold may be worth it. You then have a pretty broad array of food safe sealants you could use and don't have to worry about your 3d printed part harboring bacteria.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

That's about where I land. I've used it the other way, too, to help tighten up a good short story I'd written where my tone and tense was all over the place.

I've used LLMs to write automated tests for my code, too. They're not hard to write, just super tedious.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Oh, I am right there with you. I don't want to write tests because they're tedious, so I backfill with the AI at least starting me off on it. It's a lot easier for me to fix something (even if it turns into a complete rewrite) than to start from a blank file.

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've used them for unit tests and it still makes some really weird decisions sometimes. Like building an array of json objects that it feeds into one super long test with a bunch of switch conditions. When I saw that one I scratched my head for a little bit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (3 children)

First flight in 1903, on the moon in 1969. That's 63 years. There are people who lived an experience where flight went from impossible to us planting a flag on a different celestial body. That's incredible when you stop to think about it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Himbo Hooters would also be acceptable

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same. There's something really cool here and even if I'm not a chess guy, it's still worth it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I switched to exclusively Kagi on my phone and it's been a pretty pleasant experience. Not perfect, but fairly serviceable. You're right, it's way less cluttered. Going back to Google can sometimes be very jarring.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Depends on the webapp, traffic, etc. I have an EC2 instance and my own domain that runs me a solid $7 a month. It's just a tiny little web server. If your web app is structured in a way that the client does the processing, your hosting costs can be pretty cheap.

For instance, rather than editing a PDF on a server, if your web app provides all of the tools to edit the PDF in the client's browser, the server doesn't need to be particularly robust. Basically it just needs to hand out those tools to the client.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hoo boy I had it going way too fast. I had it moving at 150mm/s. I very strongly suspect this is about 90% of my problem. Layer quality already seems vastly improved a few layers in at 50mm/s. I very much appreciate the insight!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I haven't run PLA on this printer. This is actually my second one, I modded my first one to the point of unusability. Maybe starting back with PLA is a good idea.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I'll try dropping temps and see what I get. Thank you!

 

My prints up to this point have been okay, but not great. Serious stringing seems to be an issue here, and one of the things I've notice is that the further along the print goes, the more it seems like the print head is almost grinding into the print. To the point where if I'm printing something like a minifigure, it will get ripped apart mid print. Am I overextruding? Missing z steps?

Filament is Overture PETG, Nozzle is 230C and bed is 80C. I have it in an enclosure. I'm running it from a laptop set up with Cura.

 

Hey y'all, I managed to hack together a printer from scratch and I'm struggling to get it to print well. It's a CoreXY system that's being controlled by a Octopus 1.1. Dual z screws, the works.

I have it moving under it's own power and all. It's able to actually print, but the results are atrocious.

I'm just trying to diagnose what's wrong here.

The bottom/first layer actually looks kinda good. It's just completely shredding subsequent layers.

Any advice would be appreciated!

 

Howdy y'all, much like the title says, I'm looking to build a Hypercube. I have what was once upon a time an Ender 3 V1 that I've rebuilt with an Ender Extender kit. I'm not happy with the aggressive ghosting I get from the 400x400 bed so I wanted to cannibalize the electronics and build the frame from scratch. I was also planning on keeping the bed since it's got a stick on heater and thermistor that'll work well with the new setup. Hotend too, probably, since it's an all metal Micro Swiss.

Any gotchas to look out for? I know belt tension is a biggie once I get it together, but any gotchas to look out for in the build process?

I'm not too nervous about throwing together a custom firmware for this, it's not my first custom firmware and I'm a software guy by trade so it's pretty straightforward for me.

 

I've been putting these things together for a few years now and I wanna show them off a little bit. I originally started making them to solve a problem - I'm kinda tall, and I like having a blanket that can cover me up from my head to my feet. I hadn't found any that could do that, so I started making these 6'x12' blankets. The example here is fleece on top and flannel on the bottom!

The heart is my maker's mark. Orange because leggy.

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