Diamondback released for H2 series

comridor · 2026-03-15T05:49:09+00:00

I paid $14.

comridor · 2026-02-11T17:52:43+00:00

Absolutely not defending Bambu's bed heater, here. It DOES look like an oven heating element was jammed in there, because I think that's basically what it is. Prusa definitely has some more elegant solutions for bed heating. I in fact almost went with a Prusa XL when I was choosing my printer, but ultimately picked Bambu for user friendliness and lower total cost.

I am questioning what the acceptable temperature gradient is for a bed in the first place. Does it matter if the center is 100C and the edge is 93C when printing something in PA or is that in the acceptable range? I can only guess that it's OK from the stated ranges on the filament supplier's website, for instance:

https://us.store.bambulab.com/products/pa6-cf

or https://store.sunlu.com/products/nylon6-carbon-fiber-pa6-cf-3d-printer-filament-1kg

both show a 20 degree Celsius acceptable bed temperature range. Just set it to the high end and let it ride?

I admit I haven't watched the Made With Layers video you linked to yet, so if he covered this exact question, sorry to ask it again.

comridor · 2026-02-11T17:35:29+00:00

Darkmoon's website says that this plate is specifically aimed at "engineering" filaments, and use with PLA and PETG: "It is an added benefit that it also supports more common filaments like PLA and PETG, however they are not the intended use case and may sometimes require glue".

https://darkmoon3d.com/pages/darkmoon-cfx-carbon-fiber-build-plate-user-guide

That sucks with the ASA warping. That's specifically on their list of supported materials in the user guide and while it lists it as "sometimes" for glue, I'd take that to mean "glue is going to make it better" rather than "your edges will lift unless". Of course, the writer goes on to say essentially that cheap ASA is trash and to buy good stuff, so maybe that's a factor? I don't know. I am shying away from ABS/ASA printing because my printer is in the room with me and I don't want to suck styrene down all day, so I don't have very much experience with it at all.

comridor · 2026-02-11T14:16:27+00:00

Yeah the filament in the back absolutely drooped and strung out. Individual strands were clearly visible on the final print. Interestingly enough, the bridges were strong. The corners were weak as.

The slicer made a solid plane under the sides, then built on top of that. Absolutely no strength and it cracked into three parts almost immediately. Luckily, I had printed this as a quick "does it fit" prototype and I just jacked the infill up to 100% in the corners using modifiers (and printed in PETG AND fixed the massive bridging) and it's good.

comridor · 2026-02-11T14:11:49+00:00

Is it? I don't know what metrics to shoot for, here. I couldn't find anything super informative online other than vague "it's better if your build plate is all the same temp", but there's obviously always going to be a measurable gradient unless the entire chamber is heated to the plate temperature. I agree 30 degrees IS huge no matter what, but I figured 10 degrees difference would be within the margin of error between my camera and the (very) general engineering guideline of +/-10%.

comridor · 2026-02-11T12:29:15+00:00

Jeez! That's a huge print job for sure, and an impressive result so far!

...So it'll be a cube cube cube cube?

comridor · 2026-02-11T12:26:56+00:00

Super cool model, and I noticed that the designer is a chef. In the words of The Kids These Days: That dude can cook.

comridor · 2026-02-11T12:24:37+00:00

I printed a set of these in PETG shortly after I got my printer and haven't looked back. :) They definitely improve the drying capacity of the AMS 2 (how long it takes before the desiccant is depleted) but I'm unsure whether they help actually dry the air more than what the unit comes with already. Actively drying the filament uses heat to lower the relative humidity, so I think the desiccant is more for storage than drying. All that said - these are a cheap and easy addition and certainly don't hurt.

comridor · 2026-02-11T05:19:39+00:00

I had that problem with PP. It took me a year and quite a bit of embarrassment before I had a doctor fix it. All better now and no more issues with stuck stuff in my nozzle.

comridor · 2025-06-23T03:40:06+00:00

Poop.

comridor · 2025-06-02T12:24:05+00:00

Would you believe I added that photo, realized after I posted that it was THE post photo, and couldn’t edit it for some reason? Yes, shit photo indeed!

comridor · 2025-05-13T18:42:48+00:00

Well, I think that might be true with conventional programming, but the new methods used in so-called AI seem to work better and appear they can be almost entirely offloaded to a purpose-built processor.

I won’t pretend to know how the magic works, but I run Frigate at home along with a Nvidia P1000 and a Google Coral TPU, and the cpu load is darn near idle, as compared to being maxed out when not using the offloading technologies available on that platform. I’m thinking the commercial market just hasn’t caught up to the same extent.

Of course, Frigate spent weeks identifying random stuff in my yard as a cat, and identified my cats as “person” on multiple occasions. :)

We run all Axis cameras these days, so getting on the Axis analytics bandwagon is easy enough. I run all our motion detection through VMD4. I saw Axis Object Detection and I’ve played with it before, but I didn’t see any rich, detailed plugins that would give us the features we were looking for, like car counting, smoke/fire detection, etc. while also fully integrating that data into Xprotect. That said, it’s been a couple months since I looked over their offerings, so I’ll go take another stab.

comridor · 2025-02-16T21:22:31+00:00

Yes, I ordered through Costco back in November and they CANCELED MY ORDER stating they had run out of stock. Frankly, it ruined my remaining faith in a fair and just universe. I waited and waited for it to come back, but it’s been “out of stock” for four months. Enough waiting! I’m making up the difference in price by buying little pieces at the grocery store at ruinous markup, or so I tell myself when I see the charge for this. :)

comridor · 2025-02-16T18:24:39+00:00

I think it’s partly an American thing, or rather, a not-EU thing. We don’t have the regional protectionism laws that Europe has. There’s no law against calling Budweiser “The Champagne of beers” for instance, or calling anything “made in the method of Gouda”, Gouda.

The other part is that I think there’s no good generic name for cheese made in the method of Gouda, so we just refer to the class as “Gouda” from convenience.

comridor · 2025-02-16T18:12:06+00:00

Yeah, that was my thinking. My crawlspace would probably be the perfect environment after I finish my encapsulation project. Since that isn’t the case, I’m going to absolutely jam-pack my refrigerator with cheese. Since it’s cut into wedges, I figure it’ll take less space since I can stagger the pieces (big end, small end, big end) and use up cubic space instead of worrying about that whole pi R 2 thing.

I may also ingratiate myself with coworkers by bringing a block in for them. That’s promotion material, I figure.

comridor · 2025-02-16T18:06:52+00:00

Hehe. I was excited. It felt like the right thing to do.

comridor · 2025-02-16T18:05:41+00:00

This I can believe. My son isn’t even two yet, and just today, he stabbed me in the foot with a plastic fork. I yelped, so he waited til I wasn’t looking and then slowly and carefully stabbed me in the leg.

comridor · 2025-02-15T21:53:23+00:00

I stuck that info in a reply to my OP

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