I got a creality otter refurbish off of eBay while they had a sale going on for roughly that much. It’s… Fine. Ive only tried to scan things that are black so I guess its to be expected.
What’s your use case?
I tried photogrametry and never managed to make anything worth a dam …
I broke and bought a seal (I mostly want to scann smaller parts and objects), got some great results, but dont listen to teh “no spray needed” spray is absolutely mandatory for any descent results.
The learning curve is a beet steeper than i expected … but once i got the hang of it, i can make descent scan in 2 or 3 takes. Just like 3D printing, its much slower than youd think …
I an thinking to pickup a larger volume scanner if the opportunity comes up
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This thing looks cool:
And I’m also realizing that I should try printing a helmet or something along those lines.
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Essentially the ability to copy organic curves, or features day to complicated to recreate, for the ability to make coresponding matches for grips or mounts or stands or rests etc
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https://x.com/cyber_tail_11/status/1917142353909080312
That is cool AF! I kinda want to print something along those lines but incorporating Hamspiced repeaters to make my implants easier to read.
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Built my first shack (2m and 70Cm) fits in a file organizer slot 
Edit:
For some reason i wasnt able to access teh complete 70cm band, opened it up and realized it was the EU version of the radio 
Thankfully, its a matter of soldered jumper so now i have teh “all band” version 
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I finally finished restoring two beautiful JMlab Focal speakers 
They’re covered in dark gray felt and the mesh in the front was replaced with brand new white. The tweeters also has to be restored and tuned.
They look awesome now and the sound it 
it feels almost liquid
That’s what they used to look like
They finally complete my setup
One thing left to do, 3D print a frame to put a white mesh on the small ones as well:
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I’m my former life I dealt with high end home theater setups.
One of my clients were upgrading and gave me their one year old set of Martin Logan electrostats.
My favorite speaker to this day.
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Looks like they just posted them a couple days ago!
https://makerworld.com/en/models/1381701-saturn-v-u-diy-10-network-rack#profileId-1430257
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My annual project:
The dreaded Minecraft server.
About once a year, myself and the buddies get the itch to play minecraft once more, and I am always the host.
First it ran baremetal on an Rpi4-8GB with 4gb given to minecraft.
The next it ran in a VM on my old i7-3770 based server with 6gb of ram given.
Last year it ran in a VM (4 threads) on my old i7-1165g7 based laptop (screen broke, it became my rando-VM server). 6gb given again.
I have recently upgraded my main server from an i5-4670k base to an r5-3600, meaning I no longer needed the rando-VM server, so this year the Minecraft server will have full unfettered access to every thread of the i7-1165-g7, sporting 4 cores, 8 threads, a base clock of 2.8GHz and a boost clock of 4.7GHz. Minecraft will be given access to around 8.5-9gb of ram.
There will be 6-8 players total (2 on LAN) and there will be a large set of mods. Is the setup overkill? Probably. Am I limited by my network upload speed of 20Mib/s? Probably. Do I care? No.
This laptop has seen so much war that I don’t mind cutting it up for funsies, and I didn’t want to listen to the fan scream for help when we all start loading in chunks, so I used all 100% of my $0 budget and cut a couple of larger holes in front of the intake fan, and thermal-paste-glued the heatsink of an old GPU to the absolutely anemic cooling system of this laptop. I may find more heatsinks (maybe an old stock intel cooler?) and attach those as well, who knows? Pretty is not the goal. Fun is.
I present to you: A pile of literal garbage:
From what I can tell, the heatsink does a little bit of work and keeps the fan running a bit quieter. The fan ran loosely 300rpm slower than stock after cutting all of the holes, and it takes about 15 more seconds for the fan to start ramping up now that I’ve added the e-waste heatsink.
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[vent]Finding information about 3D printing is rather hard when you want to print fast… Especially on the extruder and hotend flow rates…
Reviews are often useless, many people test different hotends without considering the limitations of their extruder, no one understands the RMS function, inductance, etc…
And most companies make vague claims like “70% more better” or “ultra high flow”. This makes sense when your product is only a small part of the equation. But this is very frustrating when you’re trying to make decisions about what to buy.[/vent]
I should probably make a stepper current and speed calculator for this sort of stuff…
And a tutorial explaining what the RMS function is and why converting the peak to peak values for a square wave to RMS by dividing by the square root of 2 is dumb even if it’s the industry standard for some reason…
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now talk to me about NFC reader performance and “range” 
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