My first 3d printer arrived last night. Birthday gift. I'm pretty excited to set it up after work today.
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What are you most looking forward to printing?
My first items will be facial features (like Mr. Potato Head eyes) for my pumpkin, a peg tray to hold the rubber ducks in my friends jeep, and a tiny trash can to put on my nightstand for contacts and their packaging. I thought these silly things would be a good place to start because it doesn't really matter if they're completely right. Once I get the hang of it, I'm going to make Braille Play-Doh presses for work and brackets to hang drills in my garage. By Christmas, I would like to be able to make custom ice cube trays for friends and spiral notebook covers that say funny things for my coworkers.
Obligatory reminder that 3d printed objects are not food safe without specialized coatings/finishes; even then I don't know that it would be safe with the temperature changes of freezing and thawing affecting it's structure.
Genuine question: is this is "only" about small gaps between layers where bacteria can grow or also something else? E.g. I always assumed cookie cutters are safe because a) the dough is heated afterwards, so potential bacteria are cooked and b) they are rarely used, so they dry completely out and the bacteria, too.
I assume most people reading your post wonder: Why does he have rubber ducks in his truck?
Its a jeep owner cult thing
I moved my honeytone Amp out of my music room and into my living room. I didn't turn it on or plug it in. That's not very much. I checked the battery to make sure it hasn't exploded though.
Those are cool looking, how long have you played? I started about 5 years ago, but feel off playing regularly.
I think it's been around 10 years... but I'm still not good. It's hard to dedicate time to practice between jobs and depression.
Sorry to hear. Good on you for putting it out where you'll see it more though.
Not this week as I'm taking a bit of a break rn but last week I did a few retired Windows boxes on HtB for the first time and got a little stuck, realized idk jack from shit in Windows, learned KVM /libvirtd /QEMU / virsh (still unsure which is which), set up ssh X forwarding to my headless server and spun up a few VMs for my homelab, after endlessly fighting with virsh over broken permissions since I didn't want vols in my root and only in my home dir or JBOD and relentlessly googling how to make bridged networking and why tf it's so much more difficult than just clicking a button in vbox I used something I learned of called macvtaps to get a Winserver Active Directory DC and several domain member servers up and running with some misconfigurations for me to practice on, plus I've been learning some group policy stuff and in general how things work in the windows world. Along the way I somehow broke networking on my pi real bad so fixed that this week, and also spun up navidrome.
Two Raspberry Pi Zero W arrived in the mail today. One will be a VPN gateway for when I'm out and about and I wanna log into my home network.
The other one might be a print and scan server.
I've set up the basics on one of them and connected to an unused USB port in my TV for power so that I can ssh into it and tinker with it during idle hours.
I have a bunch of SD cards leftover from work, and I intend to set up various images for various uses, so I can move the boards around as I please and just swap the card to whatever I want to do.
The boards are dirt cheap, so I kind of wish I had bought more than two.
Played in a virtual TTRPG (every Tuesday). We play Runequest, using the (relatively) new Roleplaying in Glorantha rules. Awesome and epic.
Runequest has been around since 1978 and has always been a distinct alternative to D&D. It features more dangerous and granular combat, a skills-based rather than class-based approach to character building, and (in Glorantha) a deeper, more mythological, and societal-based setting than D&D.
It's pretty low traffic (ie it's only me who's ever posted anything) but come and join me at the Runequest community!
I just adjusted the rudder servo on my RC airplane. It's a 3D plane with lots and lots of throw, and I adjusted the mechanical link to allow more physical movement of the servo itself. Basically like choking up on a baseball bat. It'll give me slightly more resolution in the rudder movement. It took me like an hour including fiddling around with the radio and watching a YouTube video to figure out why something wasn't working.
Pretty much just weight training. I want to get more into geocaching, but yknow... Hurricane Helene. 😰
Just turning on the nearest rock station and venting my anxiety onto the dumbbells has been nice, though.