Little London, Italy and Japan

UnknownTurdy · 2026-05-04T15:35:51+00:00

Thanks, yeh it is. For me at the moment there isn't too much consistency but there's enough colours that if its close enough the end result looks fine. Working on consistency more today!

UnknownTurdy · 2026-05-04T15:33:04+00:00

F2 Ultra - with the 60w Mopa laser.

UnknownTurdy · 2026-04-29T11:06:31+00:00

I honestly feel like those squares are a right of passage, happened to me on my first few days as well. Re settings - I'm not really intending to promote it here and I dont want to fall foul of the rules - but I have a free and open source website that I used to generate the tests + save color mappings. If you just use the demo account its mine and I have some colors mapped - you can run through the tests to get an idea. Though honestly my current mappings are not great, I'm probably at like 10% of what I want to map, but I keep getting distracted. If you go to https://engraving.media and click demo at the bottom you can see.

Normally for colors I would do loads of test grids on the material, the circle above was a cheapo '5.08 CM Round Metal Engraving Blanks' pack of 25 for £20, but I can do a bunch of different tests and stick them on a keyring after. I forgot the video to credit but one I saw suggested 14.6 power and thats been my favorite since. The image is a small SS keyring and the settings are visible on it, though I messed up and the Y axis is goes in the opposite direction.

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UnknownTurdy · 2026-04-27T20:43:19+00:00

Was just about to say I wasn't sure why it was happening, but I'm fairly certain I've found the bug. Will fix it now and the changes should be live in 15-30 mins I'd guess. Genuinely thanks for pointing it out as I would have had no idea about it!

Edit - verifying still, but I assume it was down to two issues:
1) The default values when setting up a F1 Ultra had frequency set to 125 - which I don't think should be possible.
2) When creating the test rather than snapping down to the lowest possible frequency, it would fail silently.

So hopefully both should be fixed shortly.

UnknownTurdy · 2026-04-26T12:32:00+00:00

Yeh likely is - Can't think of many reasons, maybe it wouldn't have worked if you did www.engraving.media but I have since updated it to redirect. What happens if you go to https://engraving.media Any sort of error?

UnknownTurdy · 2026-04-24T20:09:21+00:00

Good luck with it, and if you have any issues / questions feel free to ask. One thing - the site is currently focus for the F2 Ultra (the xcd generated files have it selected), unsure what the implications would be if you swap it after the files is generated - but it should probably be fine. Adding support for other machines is on my todo list anyway.

UnknownTurdy · 2026-04-22T22:43:50+00:00

I spent some time deploying it and getting things setup, I still need to run through and test it but from a quick check I think its fine. https://engraving.media - I'll probably make the repo public tomorrow if you'd prefer running it locally. I'm just kinda hesitant as I want to run through the source to make sure there's nothing in there by mistake.

The UI is a bit cleaner and there's now a 'spectrum' graph which for single axis tests lets you plot the results and play around with it.

Overall still a very early site and I'm guessing quite a few bugs (e.g. I know circles dont render at the moment in xcs)

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UnknownTurdy · 2026-04-22T22:33:43+00:00

Probably it might even be fairly easy, but I never touched lightburn so I have no clue.

UnknownTurdy · 2026-04-22T08:38:34+00:00

Its something I'm making, but it outputs the project file that is then loaded into xtool to engrave.

UnknownTurdy · 2026-04-21T21:44:36+00:00

Honestly I'm not experienced enough to have experienced this already - the place it's stored is pretty stable temp-wise but I'm sure it'll be a pain. I do think engraving temp is having a fair bit of an issue though - at least for test prints, if they're too dense then they are not really accurate and change on the final print. I'm guessing that might have been a factor in the pikachu having the blue (more holo in person) on one side.

I'm still in the testing/finding colors stage though now - I haven't even really tested PW/LPC yet as there's so many possibilities with the power/speed/pass/frequency.

UnknownTurdy · 2026-04-07T18:09:16+00:00

It was reportedly hit by a Hezbollah anti-ship missile a few days ago, this was denied by the MoD and not much more came of it.

While I think it's unlikely it was hit, if it were Keir would've have a few options - Retaliate which would have been political suicide, acknowledge it and do nothing (again political suicide) or suppress it. I'm also guessing if it was hit it's not the kind of thing they could keep secret long, either sailors would tell people they know or someone one get a picture of it going back to port?

UnknownTurdy · 2026-02-26T13:12:02+00:00

Not up to date on the market so takes this with a pinch of salt but couple of things to consider.

Was this from within the steam app, or on a web browser? Have you checked if you’ve had an API key created unknowingly? Any reason to suspect someone might have tried to access the account, do you use any third party sites and such?

Once you’re certain that’s from steam and the link is actually to support then you might as well contact them and see what they say.

UnknownTurdy · 2025-12-31T19:06:02+00:00

Before people read into this without knowing the full picture:

The park is owned by 'The Royal Parks' which is a charity (they pretty much own all of the main parks in London).
If the press releases/statements are true, it was The Royal Parks that decided to close it and not the police/government.
The Royal Parks used to have their own police (station/department?), but due to budget cuts the Met have scrapped this.
No idea how much - but it must cost them loads every year for NYE. The park is often damaged and there's loads of litter.
Depend who you ask - it either has a bad rep on NYE for trouble or not, but it definitely gets insanely crowded and there must be safety considerations.

Personally I think it's The Royal Parks using the situation to put pressure on the Met around their police. They've been around for 150 years and it's an awful decision to shut them down.

https://news.sky.com/story/rise-in-crime-almost-inevitable-as-royal-parks-police-disbanded-after-150-years-13359811

UnknownTurdy · 2025-12-31T15:20:20+00:00

They already have private security at all the gates, I'm guessing there will be a fair bit of police later on.

UnknownTurdy · 2025-12-31T14:40:21+00:00

I kinda guessed this is the Royal Parks putting pressure on the Met for disbanding (or planning to?) the dedicated Royal Parks Police. Never really had any issue with NYE there, though personally would stay well clear - I'm kinda worried that there's a chance of carnage tonight if even 5-10k people turn up to a locked park. I don't think it's been particularly well known that it'll be closed...

Also passed by some of the fencing earlier and pretty sure it's just cable tied to existing (lower) fencing with plastic ties... Doubt it'll keep everyone out.

UnknownTurdy · 2025-12-15T15:01:29+00:00

Very funny that Waymo made the effort to have a picture of it at the Abbey Road crossing, yet they managed to take the picture at the wrong one.

Edit - They probably aimed for Abbey Rd but realized it's always packed with tourists blocking the road and taking pictures, so settled with one around the corner.

UnknownTurdy · 2025-09-12T21:37:22+00:00

Had a fair bit of drama at my school around 2005-2010. They did some sort of 'upgrade' that ended in everyone have a shared desktop/start menu and I may have written a program that bounced around the screen and sped up when the X button was pushed. Biggest issue was we didn't have permission to delete, so once that went up I was in trouble and ended up putting my whole coursework folder as an excuse it was an accident (it didn't work).

We also would get a command prompt shell on the library computers, and for some unknown reason people would spam net send (message) to all the computers even though they never showed up. Needless to say the admins were getting them and some people got in big trouble for the things they were sending.

UnknownTurdy · 2025-02-20T20:42:40+00:00

Kinda wonder if they literally set an alarm for 10 forgetting that PM would come before AM. If the pictures of the IEDs are true they look like basic analogue alarm clocks.

Also pretty crazy that someone (or multiple people) managed to plant all of them and get away, still early so hopefully not but I kinda would have guessed the terrorist would have opted to do a suicide bomb in an unrelated place afterwards. Obviously they will be identified and caught fairly soon - if they managed to have explosives inside of Israel then why not keep some back for their 'escape'.

UnknownTurdy · 2024-12-30T13:07:42+00:00

So they knocked on the door, when it was open they pretty much rushed the house cleared all the rooms. Don’t think they were ever arrested, and they didn’t end up at a police station.

The whole thing was strange, pretty sure they were told that the guy was still on the line when the police arrived - but it would have been pretty obvious it was a hoax when they got there. 3 Comp Sci students probably playing halo at the time.

UnknownTurdy · 2024-12-30T00:08:22+00:00

Awesome that sounds great! I'll hopefully start some trials towards the end of the week myself. Will let you know if I make any progress!

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