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[enginerd]

This robot is too realistic! People think he's not real! | PRO Robots

[Atilla]

@Hamspiced

S2000

[ODaily]

I have less than an hour to make a bid on these, can anyone tell me if they’re worth bidding on? (server stuff)

p.s., I blame Amal for inspiring this.

Dell PowerConnect M6348Switch
DellPowerEdge 2450Switch
IBMPower Series 710Server
BLADE SERVER ENCLOSURE DELL POWEREDGE M1000E
BLADE SERVER DELL POWEREDGE M710HD
BLADE SERVER DELL POWEREDGE M710HD
SWITCH DELL POWERCONNECT 48 GBE PORTS
BLADE SERVER DELL M710HD
BLADE SERVER DELL M710HD
SERVER IBM BLADE MODEL 8406-70Y
SERVER IBM BLADE MODEL 8406-70Y
SERVER IBM BLADE MODEL 8406-70Y
BLADECENTER H CHASSIS IBM
MIDRANGE DISK STORAGE DS5020 IBM
POWEREDGE M520 BLADE SERVER INTEL
POWEREDGE M520 BLADE SERVER INTEL
SERVER COMPUTER POWEREDGE M630
SERVER COMPUTER POWEREDGE M630
SWITCH BLADE SWITCH FORCE 10 MXL 10/40GBE
SWITCH BLADE SWITCH FORCE 10 MXL 10/40GBE
BLADE SERVER DELL POWEREDGE M520
BLADE SERVER DELL POWEREDGE M52

[amal]

Considering your stated goal vis a vis the other AI thread, I don’t think so. You’ll be looking for a server that can have at least one GPU installed and I don’t think blade servers fit the bill.

[ODaily]

Too bad. I did make a bid at 300, but it started everyone else to jump in and bid. I think most of these get bought up from gov sales by flippers and pieced out individually. Which makes the prices, not good. At least for the homebrew nutjob market.

[amal]

yeah man… but honestly I bought my fully loaded R720 server with 256GB ram and 2x CPUs and even hard drives for $250. On eBay. Rails kit was $50 but with a wall mount rack you don’t need rails.

Dell PowerEdge R720 Server 2x E5-2630 2.6GHz 96GB RAM 8x 600GB HDD Win 10 Pro ...

Make an offer … 96GB ram is huge for an AI server… buy a cheaper GPU like a $300 nvidia 3060 with 12GB vram ike I did and slap it into riser card 3… you’ll need a power cable mod like I had to do but you’ll have a well running AI server on the cheap. With 12GB vram you can load almost all 7B models no sweat and they run descent. The trick is to work with a single model and force it to stay loaded into memory… first query takes a while to come back but subsequent queries come back immediately and spit out pretty fast.

[ODaily]

Will be here in a week.

[Atilla]

@LabRat

I invite you (and the horse you rode in on) to return to that alternative reality.

@LabRat , I humbly ask you to accept this award for adding poetic value to this forum thread!

[Hamspiced]

I got a similar deal but also add a few terabyte of SSD storage and RAM for 400 but on fb marketplace

[amal]

Hahahah

[XEMON]

My 70s CNC lathe finally decided to retire last week, and I think I found the perfect solution

I’ve been eyeing LinuxCNC, but getting a proper computer to run sketch boards are always a bit of a gamble (and bulky), and the pi has been too slow … But the pi5 is able to run a parallel port property

Parallel Port Raspberry Pi Hat

Anyone running LinuxCNC ?

[Hamspiced]

i wish i had the space for a Lathe.

[ODaily]

I’ve got one of those chinese 9x20 lathes. As limited as it is, it’s still an amazing resource to have.

It’s usefuleness is compounded by also having other metal working tools. Welder / vice / drill press / etc.

On a a weirdly related note.
Laser welding looks to be a thing now.

Testing New SUPER LASERS... These will take over the maker industry!

[XEMON]

I have a 9" manual and the emco compact5cnc.
If you only have a room for something small, I’d recommend the HF mini lathe, surprisingly good lathe (if you replace the plastic gears) and if you only have 1 machine tool, it should be a manual lathe … Can’t recommend a lathe enough for any home.

Pair it with an FDM printer and you will do 90% of what you need around the house/project/prototype

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@Not

Enjoy:
Not’sGuide.pdf (131.1 KB)

I do have a question for you , Why a just a .pdf and not a post or post + .pdf?

Just curious…

Is it because of the table?

You can make a table here

Like this

| Thingy | Something | Nothing | Blah| |---|---|---|---| | € | £ | ¥ | ₩ | | :blinky_amber: | :vault_boy_angry: | :flex: | :amal: |

Thingy	Something	Nothing	Blah
€	£	¥	₩

[Pilgrimsmaster]

@Hamspiced
Get your Lotion and tissues ready

Rhymes with born

[Hamspiced]

I wish I had a nice automatic reel mower

There’s a YouTuber I follow, Ryan Knorr, puts those lines to shame…

[Pilgrimsmaster]

Also, I found the irony of filming landscaping in portrait quite funny…maybe thats just me

[Not]

@Pilgrimsmaster

Why a just a .pdf and not a post or post + .pdf?

Two reasons:

1- I find formatting stuff in a way I like a pain to do in Discourse. I am more used to doing things in an essay format and feel more comfortable doing so. Plus ~90% of the time I come here on my phone, not my desktop.

2- I wanted the guide to be more easily transferrable/portable, and in my mind a PDF or ODT would be easier (and more approachable) than a web link to a forum post.

I didn’t do a PDF and a post because, well, I didn’t think about it. I will have to “expand” that later tonight (when I have my desktop). (Granted the formatting will be off, but who cares?)

[Not]

@amal

Pretty sure it’s not the large memory size though… I’ll have to open one up and remind myself what we made hahaha I’ll update the product page

Looking at the datasheet on the store product page… Did we confirm if these did have all 2.5kb of storage?

And don’t iso15693 tags like this have slightly better range than iso14443x tags due to decreased power draw?

Getting ready to order some more stuff soon for playing with/gifting, and I maaay choose to grab these over xNT