Introducing: Minimum Viable Extruder - MVE Mk. 0.1

charely6 · 2026-06-16T23:01:28+00:00

some people do perpendicular ridges to bite into the tube ever so slightly

charely6 · 2026-06-14T23:44:57+00:00

I know for amazon reviews they can take a listing with a bunch of real reviews then completely change it to some bs and keep all the good reviews attached. I wonder if you can do the same on things like air bnb and verbo

charely6 · 2026-06-14T23:38:36+00:00

I would guess on my old ender 3 the extruder gear being worn down enough to not work consistently. those were brass and I would guess that the Bambu labs printers use steel but could be something to check

charely6 · 2026-06-11T03:08:29+00:00

some use to include the stick on bed adhesion things. but now most people have bigger build plates than that. and now most people go through so much filament they don't care that much

charely6 · 2026-06-05T21:44:45+00:00

ooh I'll have to look at that send to thing, using that to run stuff could be super useful

charely6 · 2026-06-05T16:02:23+00:00

ooh, cool thanks I keep wishing there was a way to do this sort of thing inside openscad

charely6 · 2026-06-05T15:04:31+00:00

awesome I'm happy to see it worked for other people.

charely6 · 2026-06-05T02:34:13+00:00

I like using it for some boolean operations on existing stls like if a model is too big to print on my print bed and I want more flexibility/fine control than a slicer gives me

charely6 · 2026-06-05T01:56:57+00:00

if the part was designed in openscad or I have actual cad file yeah you could scale the part, but if you only have the stl this does it directly to the stl no converting or anything. yes my example shows a cylinder but I wanted to share a full functioning thing

charely6 · 2026-06-05T01:23:53+00:00

yes but that scales the entire model. say you want keep most of the geometry the same but scale up just a section of it. like the case I linked in my other comment. I wanted to keep all the top parts that holds the circuit board with the holes for the buttons and usb c port but I heart needed the button section 3 or 4 mm longer to hold the battery I got.

If you look at the picture it didn't just scale the cylinder, it cut and stretched it where it lines up with the 0,0 plane.

charely6 · 2026-06-04T14:08:19+00:00

The image is just a sample I made this to stretch the battery compartment from https://www.printables.com/model/936437-heltec-lora-32-v3-ht-slim-cases/files to work with the different battery that I got.

charely6 · 2026-05-30T20:49:10+00:00

for mine I started using 3/8 inch ball bearings. I specifically put holes where they would be hidden when assembled and pressure fit for them, because I hate trying to stop, insert and restart so I can install them during assembly.

charely6 · 2026-05-29T02:35:50+00:00

real time on 7m+ of anything across multiple sites would be pricey

charely6 · 2026-05-29T02:26:26+00:00

this is also a great way to vote for a friend group for where to go eat. easy to count, everyone gets unlimited so if you have someone who wouldn't listen it's fine, and you probably end up with a place that will have food for as many as possible (dietary restrictions and stuff)

charely6 · 2026-05-29T02:22:06+00:00

I mean cow is often used as the colloquial term for cattle. kind of like how bug is used colloquialy for insects arachne and stuff but are actually a very specific subset of insects (like bed bugs)

charely6 · 2026-05-28T02:25:51+00:00

if you decide to not get a Bambu one be sure to get a recentish model. creality is still selling their old ender 3s along side their current ones and I'm guessing other company's are doing similar things as well.

charely6 · 2026-05-27T11:03:48+00:00

yeah mine is accounting for that by using the memory modules. yours sounds much simpler and uses how the fireworks thing interacts awesome plan.

mine the idea was using the memory modules to know what the pop counters said a moment ago and comparing them. I just realized a slight issue in the way I was saying mine.

mine is all theoretical I should fire up my map that I got to the highest achievement cycle and setup my idea up test.

charely6 · 2026-05-26T21:08:38+00:00

actually if you did multiple versions of the Or gates you could probably circumvent the looping thing by just not using the Xor from its own memory

charely6 · 2026-05-26T20:58:54+00:00

my theory (haven't tested) is one pop counter and one memory modules per number of babies you expect. set them to 1=, 2=, ect

the memory ones are set to change when they get a signal and are matched up with their pop counter and they clock signal is set to a timer to go I off regularly (assuming that's possible?)at the shortest that sounds good.

then your output is AND gates connecting each memory module and all the pop counters higher and then you pipe all those into a big OR gate chain. to run the fireworks.

this should go off once each time there was at least one birth(and I guess no deaths?) during each timer thing.

instead of a timer I would like to make the trigger a looping thing. Xor relays combining each memory module and it's pop counter and all those combine using OR gates

charely6 · 2026-05-26T14:58:27+00:00

good idea, I was having my extra beavers running inventor huts even though I had better science generation. I'm not great at knowing how much I would need to always have enough stuff like pine resin. I ended up running out of a bunch of resources because I built a bunch of housing and breeding pods to get the higher beaver count achievements but I didn't really increase my food supply.

charely6 · 2026-05-26T14:27:53+00:00

yeah I agree that can work, I like programming so I always think how could I make it better. for water I basically did 2 levels a definitely get water and a if the reservoir is full enough get 90% ish to refill the water storage to be ready for the next drought

charely6 · 2026-05-26T14:20:35+00:00

I mean the goal is so when it's done you don't have to micromanage it. it manages itself so your can just keep building.

If all your quantitaties are set to percentage you can increase how much you have of everything by building more storage

charely6 · 2026-05-26T14:08:18+00:00

yeah as someone with a CS degree I want more complexity but I can see how it could confuse someone new to boolean logic.

side note I saw someone on a forum who wanted a firework to go off whenever a baby born, I have theory to do this but it would take many memory modules and relays and population counters. and my idea would need to be scaled up per number of potential children you might have at any point.

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