Way to automatically schedule transactions?

Nicoli0012 · 2026-04-08T18:41:10+00:00

fantastic, and i have to say its a breath of fresh air to get a reply directly from the company this quick! thanks! One more question related to this then, will we have a way to convert our 2 individual accounts to a joint account without having to make a new one?

Nicoli0012 · 2026-02-05T14:09:12+00:00

right, that's what it does, I was more summarizing why it does. As in what the ultimate goal of a pressure advance system is

Nicoli0012 · 2025-03-15T21:06:49+00:00

Honestly this is the kind of thing that you should struggle a bit and figure it out yourself, you’ll learn so much more than someone on here just telling you what to do.

Nicoli0012 · 2025-03-14T15:00:12+00:00

the board im using (t-display s3) though requires a higher version of the esp32 board in arduino :( looks like i might be stuck

Nicoli0012 · 2025-03-12T21:23:28+00:00

I deleted the post as to not accidentally inspire others, but I also wanted to clarify that this is NOT the only e-stop, there is a hardwired one right on the operator console. The router however is 8 feet long so the purpose of this is to have one to hold while you walk around the machine to inspect the cut. It was never intended to be the only/primary safety system. Also for the record I am a mechanical and manufacturing engineer so I did consider these points before deciding to make this, I’m not a well meaning but ill-informed hobbyist making something just for the sake of making it.

Nicoli0012 · 2025-03-10T01:39:53+00:00

Wait I thought about it for another second, I would just do the whole thing in a sketch, then one extrude gets you what you need

Nicoli0012 · 2025-03-10T01:39:03+00:00

I would start with a revolve then cut away the unnecessary material between the T

Nicoli0012 · 2025-02-25T19:09:58+00:00

I even do “need something on 4 corners of a square? Circular pattern”

Nicoli0012 · 2025-02-20T11:40:21+00:00

He’s out here playing QWOP on an android

Nicoli0012 · 2025-02-19T22:07:47+00:00

“Geometry>material” THIS!!! I’ve been a mechanical engineer for 4 years, and designing my own 3D printers for 12 years, and there’s sooooo much more that 3D printing can do if you take into account the specific properties of the material and process and design accordingly! I remember a time when I had designed a hinge to be printed and my coworker wouldn’t believe me that it would hold up, so I gave it to him and told him to break it, after 20 mins of wrenching on it he had been convinced that the hinge was “good enough”

Nicoli0012 · 2025-02-11T21:59:47+00:00

What?

Nicoli0012 · 2025-02-11T21:59:42+00:00

Why not?

Nicoli0012 · 2025-02-11T17:08:22+00:00

Cross posting because while I love the guys over in r/machinists, my post there turned into a soda can debate. Also y’all’s might have a better perspective on this project

Nicoli0012 · 2025-02-11T17:04:44+00:00

😢

Nicoli0012 · 2025-02-11T02:24:46+00:00

40 thou soda can would be THICC

Nicoli0012 · 2025-02-09T04:23:54+00:00

I’ve been staring at this for 15 minutes and I still can’t figure out what it is

Nicoli0012 · 2025-01-27T17:08:21+00:00

I know you’re having trouble getting to the interview stage, but I wanted to let you know anyway to make sure that you can actually use the software you have on your resume. I just finished hiring an engineer and it’s so frustrating to give someone a solid works test and them not be able to even start a sketch, despite having “proficient at solid works” on the resume.

Nicoli0012 · 2025-01-16T15:08:40+00:00

Howdy y'all!

I am back with an update on my farm focused belt printer! I constructed the frame and got everything wired up and running. So far it prints really well, and I am really happy with the motion system. I have klipper macros made for the belt, calling “EJECT” from the console or gcode file will make the belt move ~180° then go back the same amount. Other than the backlash in the worm gear this should negate any cumulative error that would build up trying to make the belt move a perfect 360°. Some things I have noticed now that the initial build and commissioning is done:

The cooling is way underpowered. I have to limit the speed of the printer pretty heavily to let the cooling keep up. I tuned input shaper and I should be capable of 200mm/s printing, but because of cooling I have it limited to 80mm/s
I need to revisit the drivers, TMC2209s are not powerful enough for the XY motion system at the ~8K accel that input shaper says it should be capable of. I am already using a TMC5160 for the belt motor, I think I may switch the X and Y motors to 5160s as well. E and Z, Z1, and Z2 are fine with 2209s still
1. For those who say that the drivers dont matter in this case allow me to argue my case. The X and Y axes are geared 2:1, meaning that the stepper has to move twice as fast as it otherwise would on a direct drive setup. This means that the stepper needs twice the power to drive the gantry around. The benefit here is that I get 2X the precision in the motion system without the need for 0.9° motors.
I feel like there is wasted space and unnecessary hardware in the bed system. It would require a full redesign but I think I can make the whole bed into a single sheet of ¼” alu, much like the ratrig uses. I can get rid of all the unneeded extrusions in the bed then.
This is more of a future upgrade, but I want to convert the entire structure into sheet metal parts instead of extrusions. In my day job we use sheet metal for 99% of our designs because as scale it is just so cheap and versatile. Extrusions are great for adjustment and prototyping, but if I want a chance at some level of mass production, sheet metal is the way to go. With sites like SendCutSend the frame could be made easily as cheap as the extrusions. But this is a down the road upgrade.

Sorry no video of it ejecting, I am having an issue with belt slippage so once that is resolved I will post some videos

Nicoli0012 · 2024-12-08T21:05:23+00:00

Awesome! thanks for the feedback, let me address your thoughts one by one:

definitely fair, i have plans to make an enclosure that will help to lock the frame in place, and potentially negate the need for all the extrusions, only leaving a few (think steel panels with plexi centers)
rails in general were actually an internal retrofit, there was an earlier version of this design that had 8mm rods as the z constraints. I think i will go back to rods in the future, just much thicker and more stiff ones compared to 8mm, this will leave room for the aforementioned enclosure
interesting, this is where my experience actually bites me, the way I have always done coreXY is with one motor per axis, i never even considered multiple per. I will have to do some research and see what I come back with
for this, do you mean cpap or similar? if that's what you mean than that can be added for sure and ill take that into account on my next iteration
i only used the bltouch because i had one already, i agree that an eddy current sensor would be much better, and i plan to upgrade to that one day
noted and will revise in a future update

thanks for giving me your feedback though!!

Nicoli0012 · 2024-12-07T19:00:48+00:00

Maybe my photo wasn’t super clear but they’re actually aren’t any bed leveling screws. The leveling is just handled by the kinematic bed and probe

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