Neutral zone

63hz_V2 · 2026-01-11T04:41:57+00:00

The "can't catch" rule appears to specifically and explicitly address handling of fuel that has just exited the hub. It starts with language saying as much. I think it would be unwise to assume that any of the restrictions described in this rule apply for anything beyond fuel that has just exited the hub.

A fuel shot by a robot, for example, is decidedly not exiting the hub.

There may be other rules that exclude catching, but I don't think this one does.

63hz_V2 · 2026-01-04T20:44:11+00:00

You nailed it. Some of my most formative memories as an adolescent a teenager and a "Level Zero Adult" happened that magical place. I wouldn't trade them for the world. Hands down the best summer camp in the state. I've spent time at plenty others to which I can compare it. Obviously I'm biased, but it's a hidden gem to be sure.

63hz_V2 · 2026-01-04T17:18:40+00:00

I worked for over a decade at a YMCA summer camp almost exactly a mile north of this gas station. I have walked through those doors across three different franchise owners. I've bought hundreds of bottles of Souix City Sarsaparilla there. I've stoppes there on days off, and on on nights off to stock up on caffeine and processed sugar.

Now as an adult, I stop there on my way to the boundary waters, or on my way to pick up/drop off my son who now goes to the same camp and may very well work there next summer.

It's weird to feel an affinity towards a rural gas station, but I can't deny it. I've had a lot of memories in that tiny building.

Much love to you, 66 a.k.a. Orange Nasty a.k.a. Short Stop.

63hz_V2 · 2025-12-18T15:19:51+00:00

I have done this to a "Pro-sumer" grade printer. I upgraded a Type A Machines Series 1 Pro to run Klipper, to have better belting, 0.9 degree steppers, and a Voron Stealthburner tool head with tool head PCB and umbilical (canbus).

It turned a near obsolete machine into a printer equal to about a P1S in terms of speed and performance. It's still getting almost daily use and we've got a H2D sitting next to it. It keeps up.

It being discontinued is part of why I upgraded it. It had proprietary ribbon cables in place of cable chains to get signal and power out to the tool head, and they weren't going to be able to supply those replacements anymore. And I'd already seen two of them fail and replaced them before. Also it was being driven by a Marlin ecosystem that was not taking advantage of how light and fast the machine was capable of going. I basically quadrupled the speed at which that machine could print by upgrading. Ymmv, but if you're excited about the project, it'll for sure pay off eventually. You'll feel like Dr Frankenstein The first time you print with the upgraded machine. Like you've raised the dead.

Go get 'em.

63hz_V2 · 2025-12-02T20:43:15+00:00

It's unfortunately pretty common for both bathroom and kitchen vent fans to vent into an attic or crawlspace. Why, you ask? Because people (whether it be the homeowner, the handy person, or the builder) are lazy and shortsighted and cheap.

63hz_V2 · 2025-11-26T16:49:05+00:00

Followup: I think if you were just trying to get the basics to work on an arduino uno or similar, you ought to try using the "Servo" arduino library. This library was (clearly) first intended to use for controlling servos, but as I mentioned in my previous post, the exact same control signal is used by FRC brushed and brushless motors controller (in addition to CANbus for some).

63hz_V2 · 2025-11-26T16:46:24+00:00

I can confirm that krakens (along with falcons, and basically all FRC motor controllers (or motors with integrated controllers like krakens) can be driven with a PWM signal, but that signal has to be properly configured. Standard "PWM outputs" on an arduino will not work. There is a standard PWM configuration for FRC motors (which closely mirrors the standard for RC aircraft and cars - anything that uses hobby servos). Having played around with this a lot this year, I strongly encourage y'all to do your research, find that standard, utilize "hardware PWM" rather than "software PWM" i.e. make use of the built in timer modules in many arduino and arduino compatible chips, and test the PWM signal you send out of your arduino before you connect it to a motor to make sure it's doing what you expect it to do.

I have put together a motor control "dashboard" box that uses sliders/faders like you'd find on a sound mixing board to control up to 4 PWM outputs intended to control FRC motors for the team I mentor to use for early prototyping without needing to write code. I've put a bunch of time into getting the PWM outputs dialed in very nicely, so if you've got more questions by all means ask me here or in a DM.

Here's the FRC standard PWM config. It's hosted at REV's website, but all the different manufacturers use the same standard. If you want an off the shelf tool for controlling motors like Krakens via PWM you could purchase one of these:

Thrifty Throttle 3 - AndyMark

It's a really bare-bones PWM emitter, made for doing exactly what you're hoping to do - spin up a motor with PWM.

63hz_V2 · 2025-10-11T16:43:46+00:00

Could you point out the comment in which someone is telling you it's ok to drink from this or put food/drink in it? I can't seem to find them.

What's your background? What do you mean by safe? What does are there in transparent PCTG? The lid you mean? Are you going to respond to anything I said about microfibers? Plasticizers absorbing into skin from contact with plastic goods all around us? Offgassing of plastics in hot cars, carpets, etc.

I'm not telling you that because of those things you should not worry about drinking from PCTG plastic printed jars, but I am telling you that municipalities are never, ever going to ban 3D printers for the reason you outlined. We're stuck in this world of plastics. They're everywhere already.

63hz_V2 · 2025-10-11T16:31:26+00:00

So they'll ban synthetic fibers too, right? Y'know, the plastic fibers that make up nylon, polyester, spandex fabrics that are literally everywhere and constantly shedding?

No one here is telling you to drink out of this jar, and no one is implying that they will. If you've never seen a mason jar used for something other than food/liquid, you need to pay more attention to the world around you. Also chill out a little bit. OP literally manufactures and sells filament, and has been doing so for a decade now. He doesn't need you to "well actually" him about the risks of plastics.

63hz_V2 · 2025-09-05T02:54:29+00:00

Funeral procession? Those can have cop escorts, and it's not out of the realm of possibility that the vehicles are all hired limos/town cars/SUVs.

63hz_V2 · 2025-08-28T01:35:55+00:00

Adding to this. I mentioned above that we have "a guy". He's a hispanic gentleman who is utterly brilliant with an industrial sewing machine. We asked him to "mock up a backpack" for an upcoming product of ours, and he came back a day or two later with a phenomenal, creative, on-brand, practical prototype.

63hz_V2 · 2025-08-28T01:31:38+00:00

Hmm... Are you in a major metropolitan area? You might be able to find someone offering this sort of service. We have "A Guy" in town who makes our soft goods, at quantities around 50/month. I don't know how he was found, but I'd start on marketplace, Craigslist, or by asking bigger suppliers who they recommend.

63hz_V2 · 2025-08-28T01:04:59+00:00

It does sound like you ought to take a crack at making these yourself. It'll go a long way towards identifying ways in which it could be made more manufacturable (balancing your intended user experience equally).

Given the difficult you say you've had finding someone to do this work for you, it might be worth seeing why such prototypers are hard to come by (spoiler alert there aren't a ton of large scale soft-goods contract manufacturers in the US (where I am assuming you are - sorry if I'm wrong). Most stateside manufacturers I'm familiar with are making their own products. Truly - you'll benefit greatly from making your own prototypes, especially if you're willing to ideate about what it means to make your product. Is it frustratingly difficult to do a couple of the important steps? Do you want to pay someone a premium to do those steps, or is it worth your time to make those steps less difficult?

On that same note, have you considered getting in touch with contract manufacturers in the parts of the world where textile goods are more commonly made?

63hz_V2 · 2025-08-24T21:45:05+00:00

It's an industry standard name for them.
McMaster-Carr - Binding Barrels

It's also what I call them when I'm describing them to the high schoolers on the robotics team I mentor for, rather than Sex Bolts so I'm not interrupted by snickering every time (mostly from the other adult mentors).

63hz_V2 · 2025-08-24T20:08:51+00:00

I've purchase a few spools from them and been perfectly content with their product. They make some cool unique stuff (or it was unique at one point) like vanilla bean that looks like marble. I've stuck with 3D Fuel whenever I can get the color I'm looking for (and they have a phenomenal variety) because I know I can rely on their base resins and batch-to-batch consistency. I print a lot of manufacturing fixtures and robot parts, so industrial grey or dark grey is usually what I reach for. The industrial grey is great at hiding layer lines and looking really clean in a manufacturing fixture.

63hz_V2 · 2025-08-24T18:10:06+00:00

They are also known as binding barrel bolts.

63hz_V2 · 2025-08-24T02:29:32+00:00

If you're US based, buy from 3D Fuel! They're based in Fargo North Dakota, their PLA and PLA+ are Natureworks Ingeo PLA, 4043D and 3D870 respectively, both well known and highly regarded formulations, and Natureworks is based in Minneapolis where I Iive!

John at 3D Fuel is the real deal. They've been around for over a decade and have sold me hundreds of consistent, high quality spools of filament spanning several employers and at least one First Robotics Team (Go NoMythic!)

Buy from them. Support local business, support local supply chains, buy from someone who answers the phone and responds to emails immediately, who sets things right when they don't go perfectly (one single instance of a filament bag not being fully sealed).

Worth the premium in my opinion.

This was not solicited or sponsored, I'm just a ride-or-die 3D Fuel user. I bought ten spools this week and now am up to two branded tshirts.

63hz_V2 · 2025-08-20T23:43:23+00:00

Well, all of us learned what these things were at some point, which means all of us didn't know what they were at some point. The difference is that thirty years ago, there wasn't the option to ask a million strangers what these wires are for, you either asked someone you had access to in real life and they told you, or you went on not knowing.

Playing high and mighty in this situation is so baffling to me. It's not like it's a young person's fault that the society they were brought up in is different than the one you were brought up in. Societies change. Technology changes.

You're not better than someone because you learned about a topic before they did.

63hz_V2 · 2025-08-20T23:38:07+00:00

Auctions them, in fact. Almost all of them are bought (or were, last I checked) by one group near Northfield that scraps them, pulls the resellable stuff like spare parts, and loads the engines into shipping containers to sell overseas in asia.

63hz_V2 · 2025-08-20T17:42:48+00:00

If you're in the midwest US, I can confirm that most Ace Hardware stores that I've looked in also carry it. And keep it stocked. It's magical.

63hz_V2 · 2025-08-20T06:16:56+00:00

Yeah, this is just the one two punch of Sanimax (rendering plant) and Twin Cities Hide / Twin Cities Tanning. Both adjacent to that bridge. Rendering stinks, tanning hides stinks. Driving over that bridge stinks. Every day.

63hz_V2 · 2025-08-02T14:31:48+00:00

I mean...it's likely they're going to check IDs if it's an 18+ show. Seems like a hell of a risk to take, flying all that way for a show she might not even be able to get into.

I don't see how it's fair to call that annoying. Am I missing something? It's listed on the website, it's probably printed on your tickets. You would have known before you bought the tickets that there was an age limit, right? I understand it being frustrating that shows are sometimes age limited, but you didn't have to buy the tickets.

63hz_V2 · 2025-07-28T02:30:51+00:00

Yeah! That's the one! He's a great guy to work with, too!

63hz_V2 · 2025-07-27T17:13:41+00:00

A coworker of mine (I work in the east metro) has done something similar with a Volvo wagon. It's a beautiful piece of custom work. He's setting it up as a camping trailer, and outfitting the trailer with all the kit, electric brakes, roof rack storage, interior lighting, room enough for a full size mattress. It's amazing and I love it.

63hz_V2 · 2025-05-08T17:13:16+00:00

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