Any chance anyone is going to the MRRF 3D printing festival tomorrow In Illinois?
I was planning but now I’m on the fence… fellow cyborgs could sway the scales
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Y’all my peeps right here 
I knew i found my second family here 
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Already used my likes for the day…
Otherwise you’d have it
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Wait… that’s a thing?
I clearly have no idea how discourse works
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Hence why I have no intentions of living in a country with professional licensing crap ever again. Putting up with that once is more than enough for one lifetime… And I’m not going back to school either, if that’s what you were talking about…
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I was contemplating me going back to school,
The bureaucratic nightmare I was referencing is whating the engineers…
Erie:… hey, X is a growing problem…it’s been getting steadily worse since last week. And I just failed 45% of produced parts for it…
Engineering: ok well maybe look into it, but we’ll need to do a study to confirm that X is happening and then we need to make a proposal on how to fix it and run it by a panel to get approval to get something implemented in the next couple weeks
And then do a study to make sure the changes work
And it’s also possible that instead of making a change we just relax the standard so that it’s no longer a problem
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So there’s this badge. It’s having liked 100 posts for 20 days. So I’m around halfway there. But yes. The forum yells at you…
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Sadly, you also have to deal with that when you work in engineering… Ask me how I know…
Some people are just stubborn reminders of that old proverb from the university of Salamanca.
I try to cope by working on my own projects, and by contributing to open source. But you do run into idiots who can’t read a license or think critically in the latter scenario.
O.K., Everybody knows what a trivet is, right? 
That’s what the thing is called that you put on your table to set a hot pan / pot on so as not to burn your table. Some are plain, some are fancy, usually cast metal.
I have a friend who has been really really good to me who collects them. So this is gonna be my first attempt at lost PLA casting.
I still have to print the legs, which double as sprues, and do a general sand / deburr. I should have plenty of time though, as I still have to build my furnace. Also planning to build a specialized furnace to turn Aluminum car wheels into Aluminum Shot, to make it easier to put in a crucible. I think I’m gonna call that one the Wheelerator. Anywho, 3D is cool, but 3D to casting is gonna be so much cooler.
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that’s usually the first option, and if it doesn’t work, then we look into it by putting it aside for 6 month or until a customer brings us to court 
This is probably the best Ender 3 direct drive conversion that doesn’t require replacing the entire toolhead:
I hope you borgs’ find it useful.
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that’s one of the things that I love about the 3d printing \ maker scene… there are soo many (and multiplying) overlaps and interactions with various niches and tech… a bunch of people are working in various directions… and a bunch of people are shoving Lego\Knex\erector sets together with wreckless abandon to see what works… and I’m here for it
rfid + 3d printing? that’s a thing
3d printing + casting? that’s a thing
recycling plastic? do you want to produce filament or form it into a mold? either way that’s a thing…
whatever ISNT a thing given enough time and fuckery will be a thing soon enough
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in an unrelated post…
I am in need of BETTER curved text generation…
I’m still happily plugging away with tinkercard…
I know fusion 360 I should learn eventually to be a big boy… but I can acomplish everything I want… (sometimes more because it lends itself to cutting and pasting designs together)
but the curved text generator sucks sooo bad… and I kinda dont wanna learn to fusion 360 just for words if I can help it…
hoping theres a opencad or scad generator for text someones seen
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This. This is primal engineering. Ever see a TED lecture called “Build a tower, Build a team”? He talks about 5th graders being so successful because they just try, everything. Rapidly and all at once. I love this approach.
I work professionally with with Mastercam 2023. And, because the place I work at is going out of business, but layoffs haven’t actually occurred yet, let’s just say I’ve got alot of free (paid) hours to play. I almost exclusively work with surfaces. But I’ve found Prusa doesn’t like that, so I’ve been forced to start working in solids. End result, I’ve found my skills taking a leap forward by embracing something I’d previously shunned. I say go for it, embrace fusion 360 and see where it can take you and your now slightly more dangerous capabilities.
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ASA 
Started with testing a few hooks ive done in PLA+ and PETG … ASA is from another level altogether … Still testing a few things, but its definetly going to be my go to for anything mechanical from anow on
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ASA is awesome! And that’s from the borg’ who’s crazy enough to print with it on an open Ender 3!
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how quickly does it get wet?
I dried my big 3kg spool that I’ve had for a year or so once. The relative humidity around here tends to be around 70%, I store my spools in a closet, and don’t have any problems related to humidity.
I find that calibrating the extrusion multiplier correctly reduces the effects of moisture but my experience with one brand of filament while making lots of changes to my printer is not hard evidence.
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Those look like a great solution for extending fan cables on printers without toolhead breakout boards like the Ender 3.
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PS: They also carry them at Micro Center if you have one nearby:
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