@MysticMoonsong imgur has a sorting thing where you can just see newest submissions. You do run the risk of seeing the occasional nightmarish horror post, but I used to have a lot of fun sitting in the new queue and just commenting. Not joking, I met someone there once that ended up being my long distance long term partner for 8 years.
The internet has a lot of power to bring people together, if only our corporate overlords would let us do our thing.
@Imperor, that is so awesome. 🖤 I might have to check that out. Yes, the more corporate these social sites become, the fewer interactions and chances we have of meeting like-minded people. I think Mastodon, or at least the interaction with you and a few others, has given me what I have been looking for in a social platform (at a time in my life when I am wanting to rebuild it).
I have an idea in my head to CNC a “better” pen, and pencil for myself.
However, after poking at the idea of a better pencil, I think a squishy #3DPrinting TPU sheath around the barrel may be a perfectly decent solution… for the pencil. I’m still making a better pen. ;)
@shanselman I have an A1 and between that and the P1S I think the better choice as this point is the A1 unless you need to print ABS/ASA and similar materials. The A1 has hot swap nozzles, flow calibration and the AMS lite feels much more resilient and compatible to different filament brands compared to the AMS.
@rasterweb Sure enough, now I see that you can click on the "Last edited" and read the original. My eyes have always glossed right over that. Good to know!
Kinda like most normal people gloss over the misused word... You could have said "I'm hoping this radicalizes the kid and in ten years he eschempses the evils of capitalism." And it would have been perfectly clear.
the little double-chamfered bit on the end of the cylinder was slightly bigger than the hole, BUT the TPU was just flexy enough to let me shove it through, and then have it expand and hold it snugly in place.
There was a video comparing the Sovol #SV08 (GPL3) to a Troodon kit. The creator concluded that one place the SV08 definitively had a leg up was that it was open source.
About a week later the same creator posted a google drive link with the STEP file for the Troodon saying "Look, Troodon is open source."
Open up the STEP file in FreeCAD and the license metadata: "All rights reserved."
@rasterweb ah! I was trying to figure out if that’s a silicone casing gone wrong… and wondering why is the nozzle oozing sideways… it is essentially a large lump of failed print ☹️☹️☹️
Some #3Dprinting today. I haven't printed #TPU in ages, but need some of these little bumpers to support a glass top on a patio table.
TPU is a slightly soft/flexible urethane plastic that can be tough to print (for me anyway). Good results today tho'. The advice to print hotter, slower and a little thicker than PLA seems to work pretty well.
The two-part approach worked well for me to be able to squeeze these into mounting holes. As one piece they don't deform enough to get thru the hole.
@ottaross Foam rubber (actually mainly plastic nowadays) is aerated is it not? You would have to have a material that would chemically reproduce the "bubbling" process, and you would have to print it smaller and let it expand as the bubbles are produced?
@Natanox@logicalmoody I honestly don’t think the problems have anything to do with a printer, although I do think that a bed slinger would be worse because I theorize it would induce more wiggle.
From my testing last time ( see the toot i linked in my reply to myself), it really does seem to just be an artifact of those two skinny sections
i should note that the angle of your inclined plane plays into the look a lot. As with the stair-step look, the more shallow the angle the farther the waves will be spread from each other.
I would suggest that you're probably going to have a lot more value from playing with the width of the sine wave than the height.
If the sine waves get much taller than this, the eye starts noticing the ridges more than the pattern.
🧵 using sine-waves to avoid stair-step layer lines continued:
Attempting to avoid the stair-step at the bottom of the pen holder in @noted I took the sine-wave, and revolved it into a cylinder, then subtracted it.
Then i used the "loft" feature to blend from wibbly in the pen holder to flat at the top
The result is fascinating.
This GIF only hints at how it moves in the light & this is with the most matte filament I own.
I am experimenting with a new #stitching technique for our new prototype GLoA E-reader case covers. I have fallen in love with the results. Still can’t believe this is #3dprinted plastics! #lasercut leather and hand stitched. Needs some minor adjustments but progress is good.
Overnight print is off to a solid start. I haven't done one this big in a while and I'm excited to see how goes the gradient filament. Also, the estimates for how long this print will take are crazy. Maybe it will still be running at 18:00 tomorrow?? That's not what Cura said. But we shall see!
@kim is going to see her nieces tomorrow so I busted out the 3D printer so she could be the best bad influence possible :neofox_wink_blep: :neofox_peek_knife: #3DPrinting#sword
@geerlingguy@jan@octoprint quick question, what's the printer model?
As for the bltouch, i highly recommend you install it and hook it up to octoprint, as it would allow you to see how bad the bed is calibrated in the gui.
