Yeah, was like just over a year later, they still are the independent & small label place imo, I don’t have faith that’ll last forever unfortunately. They still are my go to place for discovery and exploration, bandcamp daily still has some interesting finds, I just make sure I download my purchases.

They sold it to Songtradr in 2023, there were “layoffs”, a lot of the employees involved with unionisation while Epic controlled the company were fired (in the wiki page toward the end of the history section).

I’ve come to really like WW over the years, that and TP may be my favourite of the console Zelda games, the graphics of WW aged pretty well imo, art style still looks great some 23 years later.

Some places will issue library cards if you work in the city but don’t live there just as an fyi.

Some systems let you check out and sync to an e-reader too, kobos work with my system but I think there’s other ways to get then on there.

Never did like pro level (and never had aspirations to do so), but way back in the day, the Cyberathlete Professional League (CPL) had an amateur league fittingly called the Cyberathelete Amateur League (CAL), we had a small team for Enemy Territory: Quake Wars that we competed in, didn’t do stellar but it was a blast, met people from other teams we’d often practice with or just do pub games.

It was total beer league type stuff, if you can find a group like that imo it’s worth it, would love to have that type of experience again, end the day stakes were low and we played for fun, people took it serious but not too serious if that makes sense, it’s really easy to kill the enjoyment if someone takes it too far though.

Stardew Valley as well

Same vein, the Canadian/Laurentian Shield has areas dating back as far as 4.2 billion years, recall a geo prof in uni suggesting it would have been extremely tall, Wikipedia suggests 12km.

Stuff gets unreal to me at geological timescales.

It’d be coated, but it’s from processing, cold rolling metal generates a lot of heat, especially going that thin (thinnest I was around often was ~0.2mm), we’d often temper the material after processing, mainly for surface finish, mill rolls would be sprayed with lubricating coolant really close to what you’d see in use on a milling machine. This was with steel but same principle applies, pretty sure the lubricant we used is also labeled for use on aluminum mills, but you’d use food safe stuff for kitchen foil.

Industrial cooling towers are usually evaporative in my experience, smaller ones are large fans moving air over a stack of slats that the return water is sprayed or piped over and the collects in well for recirculation, larger ones afaik (like what you’d see at power plants) operate the same idea. Top ups and water chemistry is all automated.

Those systems have operation wide cooling loops that individual pieces of equipment tap into, some stuff uses it directly (see that with things like industrial furnaces) but smaller stuff or stuff that’s sensitive you’ll see heat exchangers and even then the server & PLC rooms were all air cooled, the air cons for them were all tied into the cooling water loops though.

From a maintenance POV though, way easier to air cool, totally seen motor drive racks with failed cooling fans that have had really powerful external blowers rigged up to keep them going to the next maintenance window. Yeah, industrial POV but similar idea.

What type of probe and what’s the config on it?

[probe]
pin: PC14
x_offset: 23
y_offset: 5
#z_offset: 0.10
speed: 20.0
samples: 5 
samples_result: average
sample_retract_dist: 1.0
#samples_tolerance: 0.010
#samples_tolerance_retries: 10

Is what I’ve got my pinda probe configured with, was playing around with sample tolerances like I have on my printer with a tap probe but I just found the inductive probe has a lot of variation, I added more samples to hopefully average out that error.

[Bed_mesh]
algorithm: bicubic
fade_start: 0.6
fade_end: 10.0
bicubic_tension: 0.2
faulty_region_1_max: 120.0, 74.0 
faulty_region_1_min: 85.0, 45.0 # 103,69
faulty_region_2_max: 125.0, 165
faulty_region_2_min: 70, 110 # 103, 137
horizontal_move_z: 2
mesh_max: 228,210
mesh_min: 24, 6
mesh_pps: 2, 2
probe_count: 5,5
speed: 200 

Is my mesh setup, based on a mk3s klipper config. Meshes look a little odd but I ran some bed level prints fine and just ran a full plate of abs with pretty consistent 1st layer.

It’s still a fantastic material in my view. I find it handles overhangs nicely and handles higher printing speeds. It does give off some nasty fumes though, my printers live in my garage and I have carbon filters on both of them, still don’t like being out there while printing it unless I can open the doors to the outside.

Large, thinner objects in ABS are a huge challenge, even with an enclosure. I pretty much gaveup trying to print A Nevermore Max in abs for the frame, walls aren’t super thick so it’s super warp prone. I tend to use petg for prints like that.

That’s a really low hotend temp unless you meant 250 and 240. You could try dropping cooling to try getting layers to adhere better but I’d really consider a different material.

That’s the boat I’m in, I swapped my laptop from kubuntu to Debian which is solid for me. Server has a lot setup on it that I could move but for now Ubuntu server works, not really feeling the push to change.

Big thing for me to do a prusa-sized trident would be the ability to share surfaces between it and my mk3s. 350^2 is nice, I don’t fill it all that often but it’s nice to have the ability to print larger objects.

Both are solid choices, you won’t be upset either way, I was 50/50 on both but decided to do the v2 for 350x350 print area. I have an enclosed mk3s that I use as well, I was putting together a buildtak surface (which I swear by for abs and nylon) for my mk3s and snapped this photo to compare print area size. I still want to do a trident (and maybe convert my mk3s to a switchwire) but I’d build it to match the MK3s wrt bed size and I’d totally consider a bowden extruder.

All that said, it is markedly faster than the mk3s and I’m definitely no where near pushing it to its limits. There’s a lot to build but I would call it difficult, racking the gantry and belt tensioning being the parts I spent the longest time on. I limit to 24 mm^3/s even though I could go faster, it still just absolutely flies with something like a 0.8mm nozzle. My only other headsup is that modding it is addicting, I’ve thrown on titanium backers and a kinematic mount for the bed, have a whole bunch of other ones in the pipe as well.

For sure, I selfhost obico to monitor as well. It’s not perfect but usually alerts me if things are going off the rails.

Moving the bed through its full RoM by hand slowly, do you feel constant resistance? Is your motor even slightly loose? That can definitely amplify any motor noise. It’s probably worth lubricating your rails, I’m assuming you have something like a creality cr10? Here’s creality’s wiki for maintenance. White lithium grease in a syringe is my general use for printers, I do like 3-in-1 or another light oil for my Mk3s though, really easy to apply a light coat to the guide rods

I’ve suspected resonance in my z axis on my bed slinger, only shows up with large moves and higher ambient temps, and the sound is best described as a way louder stepper noise.

Don’t give Nintendo or Konami ideas about Metroidvanias…

Jokes aside, IMO its a common term and like has been a thing for a long time, roguelike as an example

I’m definitely looking into the Ondsel flavour of freecad after work, I’ve been using standard freecad with the Modern UI Workbench which makes it feel a bit more like other cad packages to me.

Yeah pan and rotate are on middle mouse click, for me it’s a “this button manipulates your view” so it’s intuitive for me, for freecad I think I settled on opencascade, tried open inventor and I definitely misclick at times so I’d unintentionally rotate my view. I honestly haven’t tried rebinding but from a quick look yeah no it doesn’t support that, does have a ton of shortcuts though.

Maker is fine if you’re like me and aren’t looking into doing a home business, but even then I do have annoyances with lock in and frankly non-windows support, my lab computer runs mint and my laptop runs debian. Be nice to use one solution across the board.

I use solidworks maker because they had a crazy good discount last year and it’s the cad package I used in uni and work when I was more mech focused. The licencing checks are mildly annoying but otherwise it feels like what I recall solidworks feeling like, does include the part toolbox which is really nice (ots items like bearings, scews etc. Really nice for assemblies). If I recall there’s another downside with the files, don’t recall if they can be opened in non-maker solidworks or not, believe that was a restriction with the educational version.

Maybe its just the familiarity with the tool (though it’s been years) but I found SW really easy to go from hand sketch or idea to part, maybe its the part focused nature of solid works or the sketch focus but I found it somewhat transferable to freecad, although the mouse controls are a bit whacky to me. I honestly couldn’t get into fusion, which is odd because I remember getting on with AutoCAD and Inventor.

In the end I feel you on wanting to like freecad, I’d really rather use a Foss solution for my personal work.