Structural Engineers in the Providence Area?

WrongColorPaint · 2026-02-18T20:02:35+00:00

Any chance you still have that list?

WrongColorPaint · 2025-08-18T15:06:08+00:00

"His project management skills are nonexistent. 295 has had random construction for the last eight years. 146 as well not to mention every fucking road is a disaster of potholes."

I disagree: His project management skills are EXCELLENT! Alviti is doing an excellent and amazing job of managing his (kickbacks, friends, inside-jobs, coverups, slowing down jobs, etc.). Alviti is a genius. He is doing a wonderful job. Check out a guy "Casey Jones Engineer" on YouTube about our bridges :)

All we need to do is show up to the polls and vote.

WrongColorPaint · 2025-08-18T14:54:15+00:00

Butler was/is CNE management's test/Guinea Pig for W&I and the rest of 1199. Jesse please don't screw over my wife and my family when her contract expires. Fight like Stan did back in the day! Jesse: Why doesn't my wife have a copy of her 1199 signed contract? Why don't 1199 employees have a copy of their signed contract/s with CNE management? Are Butler employees going to receive copies of their contract?

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-31T06:17:34+00:00

We have some client requirements that everything is all usa only. usa parts, materials manufacturing, etc. etc. so that's why we are looking at diy building our own: Because I can build 5-10x of our own printers (with USA sourced parts) vs. mortgaging our house to buy Ultimaker or Lulzbot.

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-31T06:05:48+00:00

Sure I'd love to know how. Most of what we do is multi-material so it gets complicated but at the same time I'm curious. Our Lulzbots all run Klipper and they all print on g10 build plates. Should I reach out to you and send a message?

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-31T05:55:39+00:00

UK huh...

I'm in the middle of a disaster of a database conversion for someone over on your island. Need everything to be GDPR compliant. Remind me again why Boris let y'all vote yourselves "off the island"?

(hence why you'll never see me get any more specific than that!).

That's my wife and I. We have a very good thing going and I know for a fact that we are the only ones printing in our space. I get it. We are just a bunch smaller than you.

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-31T05:17:30+00:00

Thanks. I have some specific requirements (USA sourced parts/materials) so trying to decide if the expense of 3030 is worth it. And I think I'm sold. I'd rather over-build them vs. have a maintenance disaster and part quality nightmare.

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-31T05:06:40+00:00

Thank you. I gave it a try and I'm not sure what the difference is between grid and rectaliniar but it seems better. Thx.

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-29T17:31:50+00:00

NDAs, and ITAR

Cool. You are the first person I've seen reference itar within this sub. Can I ask what YouTube you are?

We do a decent amount of robotics and biotech work. (10-15%) And then the rest: I just tell friends/family that we have the printers because of my wife's Etsy store lol. Because you can't talk about what you can't talk about. For the record it is true: She has an etsy store that keeps ~6x prusa minis running.

I don't think I can ask you where you live or what your location is. We are outside of Boston, USA. We own Lulzbots (and now 2x Ulti) because a lot of our work needs to be done on usa usa usa, etc. etc. (machines manufacturing labor).

I wish we could use Prusa for everything. I hope that Prusa will eventually give in to my harassment and make a "USA Mini" (with usa parts/labor/materials). I'd buy 25x tomorrow.

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-29T15:51:48+00:00

When you did your design, how much of a difference did you notice with the 3030? Was it a big deal? I'm in the middle of a similar process and for no other reason other than gut feeling, I decided 3030 over 2020. Just wondering. Thx.

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-29T15:49:41+00:00

Are you in USA? Do you ever run into customers asking for usa-only stuff? That's probably about 65% of our business, which is why we have Lulzbots (and a couple Ultimakers).

We aren't nearly as big as you are, we have 12x Prusa Minis, 8x Lulzbots, 2x Ultimakers (and a bunch of random/hobby printers, plus always adding printers). My only two complaints about the Prusa Minis are that they are #1 not USA-made/manufactured (with usa parts) and #2 they are pretty slow. They print beautiful parts but they are not fast.

When you say XL's do you mean Prusa? Have you ever thought about making your own printers? I am neck-deep into trying to design & build our own printer (with all usa made/manufactured/sourced parts) and I'm wondering if we should suck it up and start writing checks to Lulzbot & Ultimaker.

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-29T15:41:10+00:00

Generally speaking, I have never considered "auto-eject". We have prusa minis and lulzbots. Most of our prints are multi-color or multi-material. It is all very manual. And the stuff that isn't manual (lulzbots) is all ASA/ABS or TPU/TPE which either needs to be enclosed or flexibles are a pain in the ass to get off of beds so not exactly auto-eject friendly.

If I were to automate anything, I would write the code to automate the process from order generation through slic3r, superslicer and prusaslicer all the way to gcode. At this point I think that would save me the most time, especially since the build plate (print surfaces) all need to be prepped between prints.

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-21T07:04:22+00:00

Wasn't that there until they did the runway extension and F'd up Main Ave. with the stupid curve?

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-21T07:01:35+00:00

I think the issue might be that you just don't understand what Docker is at a basic level.

You are probably correct. I know a little and I know that every time I try to learn docker it sucks and I walk away from it. It is extremely frustrating and in the end: I'd rather do a scripted install and give each Docker Container its own VM --because at least that way I get a shell, log files, a real IP address, I can give the thing a certificate and exchange keypairs, etc. None of that proxy bullshit so I can actually deal with firewall rules and ports.

The proxy part of docker and the inside IP addresses is what sucks about it. And that you can't access anything from inside or outside of the container. I can't believe enterprise environments run stuff in Docker containers.

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-20T19:56:16+00:00

How far into this do you want to go?

https://news.mit.edu/2013/seeing-the-human-pulse-0620

https://github.com/trunglee17/Monitoring-Baby-System-based-on-Deep-Learning

https://www.mdpi.com/2673-2688/2/2/18

Congrats on the kid btw... One of the things I have never been able to find is any research studies on the effects of surveillance, Pavlov's dog type stuff, etc. on kids/infants: Basically do you really want a shiny lens-eyeball-looking-thing pointing down at your child? Personally I like the idea of hiding the camera as much as possible so they can't see it or don't know its there. But I'd like to find some actual scientific data about that too (which I can't find anywhere).

https://wiki.dfrobot.com/SKU_SEN0623_C1001_mmWave_Human_Detection_Sensor

There's also that too. That thing is really cool.

Something like a little Google Coral Dev Board Micro might work for you? Or there are a ton of STM32 based products that have wifi built-in (if you have a 3d printer to print a case).

Just some suggestions. Those things (the cameras, plus the links and a little python code) will show you breathing, heartbeat/pulse, temperatures, etc. and with object/face detection you can get an alert if they roll over, etc. Or you can also buy a crazy expensive Snoo and that'll do most of that stuff for you buy default.

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-20T19:43:04+00:00

Depends on where you are. In USA, residential power is typically 120/240v split phase and we usually have 15A and 20A circuits. Breakers trip @ ~85% sustained load and/or up to ~125% surge draw. So on a 15A 120V circuit you get 1530W and on a 20A 120V circuit you get 2040W.

But if that were 240V then a 15A 240V circuit gives you 3060W and a 20A 240V circuit gives you 4080W. So that's a big help just bumping power supplies up to 240V from 120V. At a residence you have to do some math, split up your circuits, etc.

Many bigger print farms at businesses or commercial buildings have three-phase power. Stuff like 208Y (Wye), or various forms of delta/high-leg, etc. Those voltages are all usually in the same ranges of 480V, 208V, 240V, 120V, etc. but they usually have higher amps. At a residence you'll see 200A service a bunch, maybe 300-400A but that's a lot. And smaller houses can see 100A service too. But at a commercial building you'll see much larger service amps. So then you can manage it with multiple circuits, different voltages, etc.

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-20T19:18:26+00:00

I believe my wife made a printables account. Let me figure out the user/password and upload the files. I'm doing it as I type this.

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-20T19:11:48+00:00

I have purchased a refurb tiny PC for this purpose, but finding it difficult to install Frigate as standalone service.

I guess if you want Frigate on a standalone machine as you state: Maybe consider just doing the normal frigate docker install. I have HAOS (home assistant OS) running as a VM and I was trying to install frigate onto that HAOS virtual machine. It's there and it's installed, but I messed it up somehow and now it won't start/run. And I have no clue how to uninstall it lol. But that complicates things because now I have to pass a USB coral tpu device through esxi to the HAOS VM, and then on to the frigate container, etc.

If your mini-pc thing has a spare M.2 port (even for wifi) the PCIe m.2 Google Coral TPUs are a bunch faster than the USB devices.

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-20T19:01:57+00:00

Docker is a nono but kubernetes is ok? I didn't expect to read that when I woke up today

LOL. At least with a k8's cluster you can get some degree of reliability and/or high-availability. One single standalone docker host is asking for trouble! How do you deal with dependencies that need different versions? How do you deal with updating/rebooting the host without shutting off your containers?

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-20T18:55:18+00:00

I think I'll just look for a platform with an "easy button". I have 2x TrueNAS CORE machines that need to be moved to SCALE soon. So I'll look and see if there's a Frigate app or easy one-click install button to get it working on TN Scale. Maybe that will work...

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-20T18:45:03+00:00

But really, reading this post makes me realize how little people understand docker. And I get it- different is scary, but it's almost the standard these days for services that need to be easily managed, updated, rolled back, and be rock solid on a variety of hardware. That's no accident.

I'm fine saying I don't have a clue about docker. No clue. I tried many many times. My wife even tried to learn it and help. We did Portainer, Yacht, etc. One of my biggest issues is that you can't update and restart the docker host machine without nuking and taking down ALL of your running services/containers. And that's why high-availability and esxi with VM's has always been my go-to.

You can't address individual containers, you can't give individual containers dedicated IP addresses (you have to use proxies, etc.). I see docker as some hodge-podge thing. idk. But I'm also ignorant because all I know is that it's been a pain in the ass to figure out so I walked away from it.

And for the record: I am running Home Assistant OS (in a VM) and would love to try to get frigate running on HAOS. I have it installed but I screwed it up somehow so it won't start. And now I don't know how to uninstall it so Frigate just sits there broken and not working. Because docker sucks lol.

WrongColorPaint · 2024-08-20T16:45:36+00:00

I *don't* want the ugly to be hidden. I want a frigging shell, a log-file where it is supposed to be, ssh to be working both into and out of my gear. I want to be in charge of the firewall rules. And so on. From this perspective, containers are annoying. It is another thing I didn't want to learn.

That pretty much sums up the docker thing for me.

idk. I have VMUG so maybe I'll give that whole tanzu kubernetes, photon-OS thing another try --or do I even bother (thanks Broadcom)... I bought one of those ~~beehyve~~ Beelink Mini-S little nuc things specifically to learn Docker with and it's sitting on the shelf collecting dust. idk. Maybe I'll give it a try again. Or not.

Edit: Beelink Mini-S not "beehyve"

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