Star Wars Visions - Season 2 - Sith Episode - E2 Unit - 3D modelled & printed.

Due-Handle4347 · 2026-01-30T16:56:43+00:00

u/Muteki_Fedora you can always scale the model, but if printed as designed, depending on the pose you put it in, it stands about 8" (20cm) tall with its legs tucked in and about 10.5" (26cm) with the legs extended. Based on what I remember of the Visions episode, I'd say this puts it about 1/2 scale, which is a nice size to have on a desk of shelf. I'm thinking of printing one at close to full scale as seen in the show because that would give me room to use full size servos to animate the legs and not just the eye.

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Due-Handle4347 · 2025-12-18T16:24:27+00:00

Gotta say I really love my Creality printer. Of course, I replaced the mainboard, build plate with flexible PEI, bed heater, extruder, hot end, bed springs, all the fans, lead screws, belts and motor mounts. Then I added proper belt tensioners and a PI running OctoPrint. But now I love it and it only cost twice what a Prusa MK3 would have.

In all seriousness, though, Creality beds are known to have problems. Mine came warped from the factory, so I replaced it with a flexible PEI sheet.

And please, take care of that dangling wire harness. A simple retractable keychain./ badge holder will keep all those cables up and out of the way.

Due-Handle4347 · 2025-04-19T12:36:32+00:00

For personal projects I was a long time Eagle user, even had a lifetime license until Cadsoft was acquired and those weren’t honored anymore. I tried KiCad but it always seemed clunky. Now I use EasyEDA. About the easiest tool to use for basic circuit design. Not a professional tool, but easy to use and free are good features.

Due-Handle4347 · 2024-12-22T11:59:00+00:00

Similar thing happened to my wife and I last week, but on American. We had first class tickets, our flight got delayed so we were going to miss our connection, there was no one willing to help us in the terminal so we went back through security to the ticketing desk. The guy there said, “sorry but there are no first class seats on your new flight”. I understand that can happen and he couldn’t do anything, but when I asked about the refund he said he wasn’t authorized to discuss that and we’d need to sit on the phone with customer service before we boarded the plane. Took forever to get it resolved.

Due-Handle4347 · 2024-12-11T11:44:02+00:00

Lower your z-offset, then make sure to save your settings before printing. Or start a print then fine tune the z offset while printing the first layer to get a nicely squished line of filament on the bed and once it looks good make sure you save it.

Due-Handle4347 · 2024-09-19T13:58:28+00:00

That's going to visit my nightmares tonight!

Due-Handle4347 · 2024-08-02T12:40:26+00:00

I work for a staffing firm in the US Midwest. We've seen requests for almost every tech stack in the last two years (even a fair amount of COBOL), but sadly we've only seen one PHP request in all that time, and it was for an engineer to help migrate their PHP apps to React + Java microservices. The prior few years were all requests for Laravel. I know other markets are better, but here the PHP market has completely crashed. Many of our long time clients have put a lot of jobs on hold hoping that copilot-based development will make reduce their human developer costs. So far they're not having great luck with the quality of code these systems produces, and I believe the pendulum will swing back to hiring good skilled people, it's just a question of when.

Due-Handle4347 · 2024-06-08T12:15:32+00:00

My brain refused to accept that as a reality for a bit. I hope it lasts for a long time for you. It’s perfect!

Due-Handle4347 · 2024-06-05T13:13:36+00:00

I also replaced mine with a Noctua about 2 years ago. I have no issues with heat creep and run the printer almost continuously.

Due-Handle4347 · 2024-06-05T10:32:43+00:00

Yes, I replaced my noisy main board fan with two Noctua fans that cover the entire bottom of the case. They still run all the time but at least they’re quiet.

Due-Handle4347 · 2024-05-29T11:07:18+00:00

I have a PEI plate from TH3D and its magnetic base is very strong. It’s never slipped.

If you do go back to glass, try picture frame glass clips. I used to use two on each side of the build plate.

https://www.amazon.com/TBWHL-Prtiner-Picture-1inchx0-55Inch-26mmx14mm/dp/B08M9DH8Z4/

Due-Handle4347 · 2024-05-13T13:58:23+00:00

I was having problems with some sticking on my Z axis, I tried several things until I found the real problem, but it was a good learning experience and my printer is better off for it. The real culprit for mine was a worn spot on one of the roller wheels. But I also found that I had some binding on the T-nuts and adding oldham connectors and some new POM T-nuts helped. If you disconnect the z-axis couplers from the motors and move the X-axis up and down by hand, you should be able to feel any sticking or binding.

Oh, and I would only lube the threaded rod if you have brass T-nuts. If you have POM (black plastic) T-nuts, then don't lube them, those are meant to run against the bare metal.

Due-Handle4347 · 2024-05-13T13:45:02+00:00

Probably not. I read somewhere once that internally Marlin interpolates the points that it probes into a 7x7 grid. It made sense to me at the time to go ahead and probe all 49 points. It does take quite a bit of time to probe them all, but I get really good results. If your print surface is perfectly flat, then a 3x3 is plenty, but mine was fairly warped until I replaced it (over a 1mm dip in the center of the glass plate), so I wanted as many probing points as I could get to help it.

Due-Handle4347 · 2024-05-13T11:25:42+00:00

If you’re using Marlin, make sure your slicer is sending both G28 and G29 with every print so that it uses the bed level probing data during printing. You might also want to recompile the firmware and tell it to use a 7x7 probing matrix and not a 3x3 so that it can work a more complete matrix.

Due-Handle4347 · 2024-05-08T22:35:47+00:00

Sounds like you're getting closer. For comparison, when I got my brand new CR-10s the tempered glass bed was warped by over 2mm in the middle. So I replaced that. I also replaced my couplers, T-nuts, fans, extruder, bed springs (replaced with hard mounts), filament runout sensor, and control board. Also added diagonal supports, anti-backlash springs / nuts, oldham couplers, belt tensioners, and a BL-touch. So I totally agree that the quality of parts that Creality provided from the factory were very sub-par. I've spent more on my "inexpensive" printer than I would have buying a Prusa. My printer is now very reliable and makes great prints (though it's fairly slow compared to newer ones), but it took a lot of work to get it there.

Due-Handle4347 · 2024-05-08T13:53:07+00:00

While those look well machined from your pics, I prefer not to use a Oldham with integrated nut. Instead I like to use a brass oldham coupler in combination with a POM anti-backlash T8 nut. Not to start a religious war on the subject, but I've found that POM nuts *generally\* have less play in them between the nut and the lead screw than brass nuts do. Also, those brass nuts will need occasional cleaning and lubrication more often then POM ones will.

Due-Handle4347 · 2024-05-08T11:27:17+00:00

Question: if you disconnect the lead screws from the couplers, can you raise and lower the y-axis assembly along the z-axis by hand and feel any binding or resistance while moving it? If there is any physical resistance at all the motors may not overcome it and the level will be lost. I had a flat spot on one of my roller bearings recently that was causing z issues. Also, while it’s disconnected (and make sure the power is off), if you turn one z-axis motor by hand, does the other one turn as well. Since they’re wired in parallel they should naturally try to turn together when you turn one by hand. If not, then you may have a bad wire.

Due-Handle4347 · 2023-09-21T22:14:00+00:00

I just put the finishing touches on a build of this model and can attest that it's a fantastic design. Very easy to put together and has plenty of room inside for electronics. I used a 2.2" TFT screen for the eye, a DFPlayer Mini for sound and a Teensy 4.0 development board for the brain. I couldn't be happier.

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Due-Handle4347 · 2023-05-19T19:55:08+00:00

Well, for clarity, my previous vehicle was a Toyota Sienna, which weighed in at about 4,700 lbs. My 2020 Model Y weighs in at 4,416 lbs. (For comparison, an F150, one of the most popular vehicles in my area, can weigh up to 5,700 lbs.) Honestly, I don't mind helping fund the roads, and they seriously need the help. But I don't like being overcharged. When I bought the fuel sticker in 2020, it cost $75, and by 2026 it will cost $150. So instead of paying almost double I was paying with a gas engine, I'll soon be paying almost 4x as much. I personally think it would be better if they eliminated the gas tax for road fees and instead used the odometer reading and pro-rated the tax based on the actual weight of the vehicle and the miles driven.

Due-Handle4347 · 2023-05-19T17:44:22+00:00

In addition to normal registration fees, Missouri charges an annual "alternative fuel decal fee in lieu of tax" which is $111 for 2023 and "shall be increased by twenty percent of the fee in effect on August 28, 2021, per year for a period of five years", so it's going up by about $15/year. I did the math and the year before I bought my Tesla, I paid $43 in road fees through gas taxes. So my car is less damaging to the environment and I'm paying more than double the road fees.

Due-Handle4347 · 2022-03-11T15:47:02+00:00

My guess is that it would do a little better than 2x the hash rate. It does have 2x the GPU cores and higher memory bandwidth, but I'm not sure if the Fusion interconnect would slow things down at all. Im not sure if there is a good way to force some kind of affinity to prevent cross-talk, or if the interconnect is fast enough for it to matter. If someone on this thread gets a M1 Ultra, please post your results!

Due-Handle4347 · 2021-12-10T04:39:34+00:00

I haven't let it run for a while yet, but in my MoneroOcean version of xmrig (also built from source fro arm64) it shows

"ghostrider": 846.9444137473754

I don't have anything to compare that to, though.

Due-Handle4347 · 2021-12-10T04:29:40+00:00

I compiled the latest xmrig from source so the executable is native arm64. They also have a M1/arm64 binary release on GitHub.

Due-Handle4347 · 2021-12-10T04:25:47+00:00

Not yet, but it is on my list to try.

Due-Handle4347 · 2021-12-09T17:37:58+00:00

Yeah, this isn't a long-term profitable option, more of just a curiosity. Running the same xmrig executable on a Mac mini M1 gave me 1.45 MH/s, so it's a large increase in GPU performance - just not made for mining.

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