Marvelicious

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Honestly, if I were designing active guitar gear, I might just try to push 24v phantom power and XLR cables. Have a little power box at the amp or pedalboard and ditch the onboard battery entirely.

But I loathe alkaline batteries...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Their big defense seems to be, "We haven't even done anything yet."

Sorry Bambu, but you're late to the enshittification game. Setting up a situation where you CAN do these things is a Chekhov gun: sooner or later, we know you'll put them to use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Just did this yesterday. You won't need the whole afternoon. It was surprisingly simple.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm unconcerned. I knew what I was getting into with a walled garden ecosystem, and though I didn't expect them to dive straight into the enshittification deep end, I figures they would eventually do something fairly shady. The real question is how long it will take to release the first X1C-Klipper refit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Hydroponic Saffron sounds like the name of a jam band of some kind...

I keep meaning to start some saffron crocuses. Good to know they aren't fans of indoor growing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Politicians are such profoundly unserious people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Meh, I don't think they're quite foolish enough to go full Juicero, but I won't be updating my firmware.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let me put it a different way: your premise was that a level of precision with less than 10ms of variance is necessary. I'm saying that much of the library of recorded music demonstrates that this is not the case.

If your premise is simply, "I'd like to be more precise with my timing," then by all means. It sounds like you're already doing the right thing though: lots of practice with a click track. There's not really a shortcut to forcing your synapses to fire with that level of precision, you just have to keep doing it.

There's an old joke about someone in New York asking for directions... "How do you get to the Met?" "Practice"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

"10ms is barely acceptable" 🤣 I'm sorry, but that's the funniest thing I've read so far today. Do you realize how little of the music you hear on a daily basis meets that criteria?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

🤣 That would be absolutely PERFECT.

 

Any thoughts on this. It seems pretty obvious as a development once you get into it and there doesn't seem to be much difference between the new patent and the expired patent. Layer adhesion is the big Achilles heel of 3D printing after all.

 

I recently got back into 3d Printing because it finally seemed like it had matured into a usable production method - where one could actually just make parts instead of spending all their time fiddling with the printer. That said, I realize there are still some benefits to some fiddling.

I'm wondering about other's process using the calibration prints in Orca. Do you go beyond maybe a temp tower, flow rate and pressure advance? Do you do those in any particular order? Bambu owners, do you bother on Bambu filament, or do you find their stock settings are pretty close (I haven't been bothering - most of it seems to do pretty well without).

I started thinking about this because I pulled out some OLD filament when I got my X1C, just to see if any of it was still usable. I dried it all thoroughly with a dehydrator, and have been pleasantly surprised. Much of it has been fine. The really old ABS has been fine as was the slightly newer ASA. The 5-year-old Hatchbox PLA was perfect, but a slightly newer generic PLA roll is terrible (it may have been bad when new). Old PETG has been hit and miss. I had all but given up on one roll, only to try tuning it, and suddenly got usable prints for the rest of the roll. Then the next roll clogged the nozzle on the pressure advance tower. I could just toss it all, but it was already paid for several years ago, so anything good that comes out of it is a win.

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