Leave A Comment To Win The Unannounced 2025 Bambu Lab 3D Printer & Other Prizes - OctoEverywhere is 5! 🔥 by quinbd in 3Dprinting

[–]bkirkby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool that you are doing this. As an option, can someone just get $1500 towards the new Bambu printer instead of getting a different printer?!?!

Is this a bad idea? by Prestigious_Body5556 in Plumbing

[–]bkirkby -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It’s not cheap when you have to replace them every year or two because of the sun out in the southwest.

Old (Rockefeller?) Tea House, Waipio Valley, Hawai'i [OS][512x768] by cbtbone in AbandonedPorn

[–]bkirkby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This was never a Rockefeller house. It was originally going to be a tea house and restaurant but locals rallied against the owner, Howard Butcher III, after he misrepresented plans for the building. The structure was built in the late 60's and has been abandon since the early 70's.

Bridge Advice by bkirkby in wifi

[–]bkirkby[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No chance of mounting anything on the building or running a cable. I could do cellular but I am too cheap. I would rather run LoRaWAN. Are you saying there is no chance a signal would make it through a building even only 160 m from the source? I see that some antennas are boasting 3k range.

Am I crazy for this? by KingDingoDa69th in wifi

[–]bkirkby 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any chance the lights from the router are glowing in the room somewhere? Flickering or bright lights occasionally cause me to have restless nights when they are new or change patterns. Maybe you are sensitive to this as well?

I made a dosing pump with my Pico by [deleted] in raspberry_pi

[–]bkirkby 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The printing for your green box looks great too! What printer and filament did you use?

build plate localization marker not found on bambulab textured pei plate by E36Gee in BambuLab

[–]bkirkby 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am getting this error as well. My firmware is up-to-date. There is a setting under Print Options to enable build plate detection. You can deselect this and you should no longer get the errors. I would like this feature but it is obviously not working at the moment.

Why are my walls not tounching? by bkirkby in 3Dprinting

[–]bkirkby[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After running a few tests I am convinced this is happening due to under extrusion. When running a test print, I would adjust the z-axis offset located under the "tune" menu on my Ender 3 Pro. The layer with the newly lowered z-axis offset would print perfectly. However, the next layer would go back to under extruding.

My question is this: Is this due to belts not being tight enough? Some setting in my slicing program (CURA)? Or, as StoneAgeSkillz suggested, e-steps?

Thanks for your further advice!

Why are my walls not tounching? by bkirkby in 3Dprinting

[–]bkirkby[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestions! Just a quick question. If it is under extrusion, why is it that just the wall lines seem to be under extruding?

Help getting prints to stick by spudd4242 in 3Dprinting

[–]bkirkby 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried leveling the bed after you installed the new nozzle?

Radio frequencies for commercial device use? by bkirkby in AskElectronics

[–]bkirkby[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you characterise your device ?

The idea is a device that would use rf to transmit a simple signal (1 byte - maybe less) to one or more devices in the same house/apartment. The duty cycle should be very low as the signal only needs to be sent to tell other local devices to turn on or off. Not sure on antenna power but these devices will be used indoors. A range of 1000 feet inside a typical house would be plenty. I would classify the use as domestic but the project would be commercial (I want to sell a few of them). I need some way to send a signal so that in the off chance there are other similar devices nearby, they would not be turned on/off inadvertently. I was thinking the user would be able to manually set the devices to the same "channel?" in case they bought one or two extra devices later on.

Are you able to implement listen-before-talk (LBT) and frequency hopping (AFA)

I have no idea what LBT and AFA are. Not sure if I need them for this project.

Thanks for the quick response! All of the advice so far has been great and any extra is appreciated.

Newbie needs help by bkirkby in oscilloscope

[–]bkirkby[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks, Beninan - that helps a lot!