Something like 98% of what you see in the night sky is already out of our reach. If you left right now, at the speed of light, you would never, ever, reach them.
Another consequence of that is that some day the light from those stars will also be unable to reach us. They'll still be there, same as the day before, but not one shred of information from them will be attainable.
If you could go to this future, you would have no way of convincing people, except say, the ancient texts. To some extent it would not even matter because again, existing or not, there is no way for them to interact.
98% of what's in the night sky would just have to be taken on faith.
Im not advocating religion here I just always thought there was some poetry in that.
It was actually very low effort! There are a number of image to STL converters. I used this one: https://imagetostl.com/
Like you can see it'll flub some stuff. I would have been better off filling in the areas of text and doing the emboss manually myself, but I just wanted to hit print. 2% infill, I think it was like 2.5g of filament and 20mins.
It's fun to screw around with that process. I'm tweaking one of my friends cabin to use to make a mold. My goal is cast concrete or something similar so I can pound some thin copper around it, and be left with a cool wall decoration.
I got certified in June. I don't carry a mask because the risk of disease transfer is small, and I don't want one more thing to worry about if it's something I have to do.
There's a small, practical first aide kit in most of my packs (2x alch pad, bandaides, benedryl, gauze pad, superglue), and a full one in my car. The one in my car is still mostly practical (all of the above plus more gauze, sling, calomine, butterfly bandage, antibiotic ointment, BP cuff, stethoscope, SpO2). Most of it is meant to stop bleeding I just don't want on my seats.
So I have a FlashForge AD5X with the MMU. It worked amazing out of the box, including flawlessly doing some TPU. They actually mentioned the MMU was designed with TPU in mind. That being said: I have been struggling with basic PLA, even after swapping to nozzle that has run only PLA (even though I only ran <10g of TPU through it). I am still new to a lot of this, and don't feel experienced enough to fault the hardware. What I can say though is it does seem folks are specifically improving the ability of MMUs to handle flexibles. A big reason I got it was to be able to do ABS parts with TPU gaskets. Ask me in a few months.
yeah, like I always liked the Pi as essentially an arduino and easier way to spit stuff out to a screen, and native wifi. As they evolved some of the micro-pc stuff was cool for hosting a few services, but why do they keep pushing into the mini-pc sphere.
I guess I get that this is an expansion of the Pi-5, and that does kind of make sense for those who want it, but it seems like they're going to lose the plot in one of these generations soon.
Same here. Printing something like say, a cow, with frequent swaps would be wasteful, but I'll do parts with 1-2 color swaps. It's mostly nice as you said though to have multiples "locked and loaded" to do a 1 filament print.
Me to! I was almost done with a batch of prints for a friends fundraiser (30x hat looms for knitting. Great little project, they're knitting hats for the premies at the NICU, so they needed a custom model for the tiny babys). I think you're right. With the oozing and whatnot that has to be it. I brought up the fundraiser because it had me making multiple prints of the same file. When I found a setting that worked (moving to the 0.20), the first few worked, but were a bit stringy, but by the 3rd/4th one they were printing flawlessly.
I guess maybe when things got screwed up at 0.16 the nozzle had some funkiness, and with enough material it worked itself through? Still doesn't explain why that brand new nozzle screwed up in the first place at 0.16 (which suggests the flow rate issue you brought up), but I'll take the win.
Thanks! This kind of insight is super helpful. Are you a poster here often? I was able to get decent prints again by changing the layer from 0.16 to 0.20. Still disappointed and confused as to what happened, but will probably keep the printer. Not sure if it makes sense to do a "wrap up" post for anyone else searching later.
correct. I initiated a return with amazon. I have had a 250g spool in the drier since about 10am today, and will try it this evening, but if that doesn't work I'm just returning it.
In trying to do a cold pull (which you do in this machine by attaching the nozzle upside down and manually pushing filament in), it was oozing and popping with the remnants of the previous filament, which to me says very wet filament?
I had tried drying filament for ~8hrs yesterday with no good results. Is there something else that could cause the oozing issue? My friend brought up that maybe the temperature sensor isn't working properly and it's hotter than it thinks it is?
Thanks to everyone for the input, after drying a ~100g spool of PLA for 8 hours and having failed prints on the original nozzle and new nozzle I have initiated a refund.
yeah I anticipated wear, but with <2kg of material that seems excessive no? I did have some feed issues, but even with those resolved and it feeding nicely, I still have problems. A friend of mine did suggest that maybe with the feed issues I managed to do something that brought the nozzle out of spec and that's why I'm getting issues.
No special filament, other than <10g TPU. Interesting I'll try the test. I think I'll get the dragging though, as I was trying to do some business card type prints that were basically what you're suggesting and got issues. Sometimes the first layer would be ok, sometimes not. It would wind up dragging it around and as it was warm, it would roll the layer into a "snake"
Something like 98% of what you see in the night sky is already out of our reach. If you left right now, at the speed of light, you would never, ever, reach them.
Another consequence of that is that some day the light from those stars will also be unable to reach us. They'll still be there, same as the day before, but not one shred of information from them will be attainable.
If you could go to this future, you would have no way of convincing people, except say, the ancient texts. To some extent it would not even matter because again, existing or not, there is no way for them to interact.
98% of what's in the night sky would just have to be taken on faith.
Im not advocating religion here I just always thought there was some poetry in that.