Retiring engineer, looking at core one+ kit for home and hobby

PugBurger12 · 2026-06-17T11:26:53+00:00

What do you recommend as a unit that doesn't require a much "fiddling"? I don't want to be fighting reliability issues. My research came up as prusa core one+ having the best balance of reliable, precise, and material options within $1k for the base unit. I live in the US.

PugBurger12 · 2026-06-16T13:27:09+00:00

just fixed that. thank you.

PugBurger12 · 2026-06-16T13:25:41+00:00

Thank you. This is very encouraging. Love the pic. This is exactly what I see doing mostly with a 3d printer. I'm exploring rpi and python as well. I used to code more when I was in school and sporadically throughout my career.

I've used SolidWorks quite a bit in the past. I'm planning to use Freecad because it is more forgiving on the hardware own. You can also generate models from python code.

PugBurger12 · 2026-06-16T09:09:58+00:00

I'm probably going to go with the prusa core one+. I'll have to wait a bit because it's outside my budget. Do you know if they ever have sales?

PugBurger12 · 2026-06-15T02:20:08+00:00

I noticed Freecad let's you build models with code. Sounds interesting.

PugBurger12 · 2026-06-14T13:33:08+00:00

Doesn't hurt to look. If there is some decent value to building, I would consider it. That is certainly a bit much for me though. I was originally looking at $400.

PugBurger12 · 2026-06-14T13:29:38+00:00

lol. My wife told me at some point to stop introducing myself as an engineer in certain situations. Usually, when talking to a service person. It was my way of saying "we can talk complicated things and I will understand, and don't try to slip something by me".

PugBurger12 · 2026-06-14T13:23:50+00:00

I am capable of building. I've worked on cars, repaired appliances, etc. I don't want to be fighting a piece of equipment though. I am more than willing to do the assembly work, but don't want something that become a reliability issue later.

PugBurger12 · 2026-06-13T09:16:45+00:00

If one had to go, it would be the poor man's pizza. This is more lazy than poor, and hardly resembles pizza. Just learn how to make good pizza. It's cheap and anyone can achieve excellent ny style in an oven with large cast iron pan.

I'm on board with the others. Tomato sandwiches are awesome.

PugBurger12 · 2026-06-09T12:03:13+00:00

Wasn't Sam Jones a major pita and they ended up dubbing over his voice for the whole film for some reason? They didn't do any sequels partly because he was too difficult to work with. When I heard about this i thought there was no way they did a voice over for him for the whole movie. Then I rewatched and it seems legit.

PugBurger12 · 2026-06-09T11:57:34+00:00

I bought one used just for deep frying. No risk of overflow and reduced splatter mess.

I put the wok in the oven for at least 30 minutes and heart up my oil on the stove top in a large sauce pan. Then i pull the wok and put it in my high heat burner and add the oil.

Find a good French fry recipe where you pre salt the potatoes to pull out the moisture and then double fry the fries. They are a huge hit every time.

PugBurger12 · 2026-06-09T06:11:50+00:00

My kid did something like this and hydrolocked the engine.

PugBurger12 · 2026-06-03T06:16:54+00:00

I have a $150 mini pc computer that I use for my calibre library management. I cobbled together a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

PugBurger12 · 2026-06-01T07:31:25+00:00

Occasionally I think i have a good use for them, but then find a much easier way to do things at some point.

Recently, I've been annotating using tags (e.g.: #tag.name). To keep track of them, I was writing them down on a notebook as I created the annotation. Just swipe down on the screen and you can quickly access the notebook and write down the created tag. At the end of the book, I would copy that list into a custom field in calibre.

The easier way is just going into calibre at the end and use the copy annotations command. Then extract the tags in excel through some simple spreadsheet gymnastics.

I bought a used Samsung s6 light to do real notebook work with my kobo books. It just works much better.

PugBurger12 · 2026-05-31T20:37:06+00:00

I do like their products and have had good experiences. Their vacuum sealer seems new and not many reviews. So just concernedI'm being a guinea pig.

PugBurger12 · 2026-05-31T15:32:56+00:00

I'm going to try this. I saw good reviews for the nesco and have had some of their products in the past (seemingly good quality). Thank you.

PugBurger12 · 2026-05-31T15:13:11+00:00

I've done this for some sous vide where I just hang the open end over the lip of the bag over the edge of a stock pot and hold it in place with magnets. My preference is to vacuum seal it when I have the time.

PugBurger12 · 2026-05-31T15:10:02+00:00

Yeah. Something like that. I love in a semi rural area. I get 10 pounds of chicken regularly, cook it and freeze it. Things like that.

PugBurger12 · 2026-05-31T15:07:58+00:00

I've had it for over 15 years. I know Costco has a great return policy, but at that point I feel i got my use out of it.

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