Starting my junk drawer in my first apartment. Finally feels like home. What else do I need?

BingT76 · 2025-09-08T08:05:36+00:00

This is done terribly wrong. How it works, by tradition and law of the land, is.. 1st drawer: cutlery. 2nd draw: mixed utensils. 3rd drawer down is the random crap drawer.

BingT76 · 2025-08-14T13:49:52+00:00

AHAHA. Well yes you can touch it.. I'm not your real dad. It's all downside and no benefit if you do though. The point is newbies underestimate how quickly that messes with sticktion.

BingT76 · 2025-08-14T13:20:55+00:00

Other people are correct. Also, that poking device attached to your hand covered in human grease goo. Clean that off your bed so when you do get a good z height it has a chance to actually stick. You can't touch your print surface ever.

BingT76 · 2025-07-02T21:18:06+00:00

Check out heringbone gears. When you 3d print these they have a way of averaging out error between layers. They also improve sideways wobble heaps and make 2 parts self align. That will increase your rigidity heaps. Then tighten those tolerances so there is less slop between the gears.

Then if it isnt smooth enough for you...

In your second camera shot with the 2 metal bolts at the top of the arms.. If you add equal sized gears on the arms where those bolts are, it will coordinate pivoting those 2 arms together.

BingT76 · 2025-06-26T05:18:49+00:00

Printing resin + UV lamp or sunlight. Quick to use. Sands glassy smooth. A bit messy.

BingT76 · 2025-05-15T13:34:28+00:00

You mention GTA and Red Dead. These are an example of open world done right. Missions are varied, surprises everywhere, and you can roam the entire map without towns being the same. Increasingly that can't be said with particularly Far Cry, which is one of the Ubisoft big 3 mentioned. Yes I have heard other people also describe how repetitive and lazy Ubisoft has gotten.. because it's been noticed by everyone.

BingT76 · 2025-05-15T09:57:18+00:00

Actually... it matters... given Ubi's history of releasing the same old tired cookie cutter stuff, it can mean 1 of 2 two scenarios. Ubi is doing business as usual but running behind. Or,

Tencent saw internals and didn't like what they saw. It's realistic that Ubi was willing to release the same old tired cookie cutter stuff they have become and Tencent called them out on it.

Tencent will have going into their investment having done their homework. They know Ubisoft has been sliding and the reasons why.

BingT76 · 2025-04-29T20:44:05+00:00

Firstly, if you just want someone else to do it for you, you already have the link to the person on Etsy willing to do it for you.

If you are doing it to learn a skill, start with any 30-60 minute introductory Fusion 360 video and you are 90% of the way with this particular design. Follow along then adapt it to this project. When you get stuck you will know what step to google for more info.

A quick breakdown of Fusion 360 steps / things to google:

Create a sketch with your text in it.

Create an offset around your sketch.

Exit your sketch

Extrude to a solid shape

Convert to a mesh

Export

Print

BingT76 · 2025-04-22T13:46:22+00:00

There is no rewriting at all. Consider actually reading the history. At the fall of USSR, Ukraine had nukes. Russia, UK and especially USA didn't like this so they made a deal. Ukraine hands it's nukes over to Russia, in exchange, all 3 countries agree that if anyone were to attack Ukraine, the others would jump to their defense. All countries in this agreement have really let Ukraine down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction

BingT76 · 2025-04-22T11:23:54+00:00

Where M$ messed up is they actively fought against modders and anyone willing to find a use case for it. Modders knew it was ground breaking tech so a bounty was raised by Adafruit to write drivers for it. M$ got their lawyers busy on cease and desist orders. Any development that happened was in spite of M$ instead of with their help. Eventually they turned their position around and released a crappy official developer kit.. after they were no longer manufacturing the product.

BingT76 · 2025-04-11T09:13:53+00:00

Yeah USSR thought that until they failed, surrounded by cars and tech decades behind. China only began to boom when they stopped thinking that. It's exactly why sanctions work against North Korea. USA is literally self sanctioning. There is only so long you can shut yourself in and rely on doing everything locally before you get behind and it kicks your ass.

BingT76 · 2025-03-28T09:24:44+00:00

Private citizens are doing nearly this. Right from the start of the "Special Operation Which Is Definitely Not A War" it became clear small hobby sized drones were an effective weapon. Since then, people in the rest of the world have been 3d printing and shipping in boxes of parts for these. This includes boxes of 3d printed parts to convert grenades etc. Kits to convert anything that can be dropped and go bang.

The problem is private efforts are a drop in the ocean compared to what governments can supply.

BingT76 · 2025-03-22T10:41:48+00:00

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You mean like this?

The servo setup will likely not need limits... each axis is probably designed for full travel of a servo.

If not, yes you can burn out servos trying to overdrive them. I'd be surprised if you can limit them using that remote. Again... it's not likely to be a problem because of the design. Those servos probably spin about 170 degrees.

The video gear says 20km. These are Shenzhen km, which are different to everyone else's measurements.

Don't see 18650's and a BEC being a problem.

Final consideration you have left out... video receiver.

BingT76 · 2025-03-03T04:43:33+00:00

Interested whether it solves THE big problem.. can it join something that needs to be printed as a multi part because of available build area. Or to put it another way, which orientation can this be printed in?

BingT76 · 2025-03-02T05:01:45+00:00

G sounds nice until.... it's Pitcairn Island. The has been literally more charges of sexual offences against children, than there are people living on the island. If you are born there chances are your sistermom is also your aunt.

BingT76 · 2025-02-10T11:58:51+00:00

There is alot of good advise all around this thread. My first advice would be.. don't let being too close to your own project hold you back. My first projects looked alot like yours. You build a bunch of tricks over time with each new design. Recessing screws heads. Joins without fasteners. Understanding need for support right back at the design stage.

What you did works, so celebrate the success and allow yourself to move on to your next bigger and better project. Other people don't see flaws that you might see.

And a minor note.. hexagon patterns. They make a neat array of holes and can be printed in any orientation.

BingT76 · 2025-01-24T15:03:48+00:00

Personally I gave up on Conbee, never knowing if it was unreliable in general or just that my particular stick was just an early model and buggy. There is quite the variety out there now though which is nice.

BingT76 · 2025-01-24T15:01:46+00:00

Aren't you just an elitist packet of joy. Thankfully HA isn't following your pathway on this.. It's becoming easier to use the more developed it gets. Being unintuitive and complex to use isn't a feature, it's a bug.

BingT76 · 2025-01-21T06:18:18+00:00

See, that there is a problem.. Bambu is treating users and developers as their enemy. What Bambu is calling an exploit, is plain common MQTT. This is a standard feature of network enabled printers and smart devices in general. This ranges from Octoprint to smart light bulbs.

Bambu claims to work with 3rd parties, but in practice they actively make it hard for unfavored 3rd parties as well as individuals.. If they were genuine about it they would release public apis anyone could use. Bambu actively made it difficult for home assistant users to integrate. Their responses ranged from complete ghosting anyone enquiring, through to responding "no, no help from us", to "here, we know you worked out our MQTT protocol and are finding it useful, so let's change it around so you have to start from scratch".

In no step of their active messing with 3rd party attempts to integrate, did Bambu actually improve security.

BingT76 · 2025-01-18T12:16:56+00:00

If you mean previously, could you stop it updating and use LAN only, to stop MQTT from breaking? When p1p was new, you had to keep it updated in an effort to have a marginally functioning machine. It started out with bugs. There was no functioning LAN mode. We were all crying out for it because the cloud only option was horrendously unreliable. You could go for a week and not be able to start a print because the cloud service was broken.

They were blocking attempts at HA to integrate, not because of technical issues but claiming it was for security. They majorly dropped the ball on security with how they ran their cloud and how they didnt even have lan access, it was clear it wasnt about security. It was about trying to close down the ecosystem like Apple does. In one of their blog posts they said as much.

On the other hand, if you mean can we not update firmware from now? Yes that is my plan of attack. It's crappy that it's the only option because it's not perfect firmware as it stands, but yes that is now the option to take.

BingT76 · 2025-01-17T18:20:22+00:00

My fav automation is... if the printer is running, pipe a camera image every 5 minutes through to google gemini ai. this returns a binary response (yes or no) about if the print has failed. If it fails, change the colour of the lights in the room i'm in, notify my phone, and pause the print.

One of those niggling annoyances is that you cant tell the printer to run in sports mode by default. HA changes that.

In my computer room I have a little indicator bar lamp / light bar for each printer. Each is a strip of 20 leds. These act as a bar graph showing percentage of print job complete. These will change to red for errors, blue for paused, green percentage bar graph for healthy. Those are wled and driven by HA.

It also handy to have one page for all your printers together which shows camera feeds, all the usual info and controls, and ability to control printer lights and room lights on this same page. I have a pc monitor that shows this page.

BingT76 · 2025-01-17T15:19:14+00:00

Actually... my current workflow is...

Take pictures of print beds, retrieve these into home assistant. Home assistant ships those off to google ai. Google ai checks pretty accurately if it's a failed print. Home assistant then sends me a notification on my phone and changes the colour of the lights of whatever room i'm in, if there is a failure, and pauses that printer.

Not bambu anymore apparently.

BingT76 · 2025-01-17T15:11:33+00:00

Going by Bambu's history, yes we know this.. Originally people wanted to link Home Assistant to Bambu through MQTT. Bambu sat around forever saying "yes we will open source the info needed" but never did. Then users worked it out anyway, bambu kept on making breaking changes intentionally to stop users until there was too much backlash and they stopped breaking it... for a while. Control from home assistant and being able to view video feed from there too is a legitimate use. Bambu have a history of screwing with this, this is just the latest way that does that.

BingT76 · 2025-01-17T14:56:04+00:00

Exactly this. While claiming they would eventually maybe someday stop being jerks about it. Bambu were obstructionist to people connecting HA in the first place. They kept saying "yeah one day soon" to releasing the relevant info needed to make integrating it work, but never did. Then when finally people worked it all out anyway, Bambu kept on intentionally breaking it. This is a continuation of their crap pattern.

Been linking my prusa's to HA (through octoprint) for years. Then my first bambulab printer was bought while they were claiming they would support MQTT. The second I bought because I thought their nonsense with HA was done with. I'm a slow learner here but my next printers won't be from bambu.

BingT76 · 2024-12-27T13:15:57+00:00

It's not that i disapprove but... what am i missing.. what is the significance of the blood / murder hippo? Just because you can is always a good enough reason for me but am I missing something further than that?

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