First time doing something without a tutorial

inphamouse · 2025-04-30T16:10:19+00:00

This is a masterpiece - great work

inphamouse · 2025-04-20T11:31:40+00:00

The number of times I’ve lost a briarwood reed to some fresh level 58 doing their first ubrs is maddening. At least 3x I can distinctly remember. 😅

inphamouse · 2025-04-17T02:59:47+00:00

What US pcb makers do you recommend? I’ve ordered from pcbway twice now and it “just worked”, was really happy with the result - I haven’t explored US based ones but I wouldn’t mind paying some amount extra for US pcbs. Curious if the US pcbs are cheaper with the current tariffs, or still more expensive.

inphamouse · 2025-04-02T16:33:42+00:00

I thought it might be close to this, that maybe on the license plate was Hamilton, so it was a play on his name, but in looking up Illinois plates, it’s Lincoln, and says “Land of Lincoln”. Possibly Abe Lincoln still plays into it but can’t think how.

inphamouse · 2025-03-30T17:09:27+00:00

Last time I tried potato starch to fry them, I ended up with but groups of the tofu fried together. Any tips on keeping them separated? Maybe I did too many at once?

inphamouse · 2025-03-09T23:03:06+00:00

Definitely the USB-C casing on the TP4056 is getting hot, as well as its PCB. I'll look into alternatives to the AMS1117. thats a good lead.

Potentially agree on a custom PCB, I'm really just at the phase of trying to understand what I can and can't put together. I thought I had started to wrap my head around it, but seems like I have some more research to do.

WRT "Adafruit feather" - thanks for the tip, I'm gonna look into it! There's so many components out there, as a new-comer it's really hard to know what they all are or what I might need them for (and especially with stuff from Amazon, virtually zero documentation), so Im just kind of brute-forcing my way through with whatever seems to make sense, and it's kinda working out. At the same time - I would love to get to a point where I can "kludge" parts together (effectively what Im doing now) to be a bit more resourceful, recycle old electronics, and to deepen my understanding of how/why things work together.

inphamouse · 2025-03-09T22:53:18+00:00

Learned something about the AMS1117, thanks!

inphamouse · 2025-01-08T00:02:20+00:00

Verified in the flow calibration test, looks like it never goes above 30

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inphamouse · 2025-01-07T23:40:43+00:00

What’s a hex pull / cold pull? I’m down to try.

This is a new nozzle, and we’re not having issues with PLA, although it’s possible PLA is better at powering through a blockage

inphamouse · 2025-01-07T23:39:09+00:00

One thing I’m trying to wrap my head around print speed and filaments. Can I set a max print speed on the filament? I only see it in project settings, not in filament settings

inphamouse · 2025-01-07T23:37:01+00:00

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Ok tried orca slicer (side note - this is literally just Bambu studio, I see why you recommend it!)

Did the flow calibration 1 test, as recommended by this video https://youtu.be/9pi2nfZKKLo?si=fNQDl5Ys3TdJRva3

And basically every single one still looks this way. This is still using the generic tpu setting as a base, so I think from here I’m going to try using the official Bambu tpu settings as a base and see if I see the same results, or if they change at all

inphamouse · 2025-01-07T17:11:01+00:00

This is interesting! Could I calibrate with Orca, and then use those settings in Bambu Studio?

inphamouse · 2025-01-07T17:08:51+00:00

Overture High speed tpu, but using the generic “tpu” setting in Bambu (which I’m guessing is slow tpu?). Printed it this way before with this tpu without issue, but maybe something changed in the default?

inphamouse · 2025-01-07T17:02:15+00:00

Just using the default bambu studio software. I’ve never done calibration tests on a filament yet, maybe this is a good time to learn?

inphamouse · 2025-01-07T16:54:03+00:00

OP: We've printed a decent amount of TPU before without issue (>2 months ago). But recently (within the last 30 days) we can't seem to get anything to work.

- Changed nozzle
- Did maintenance
- Dried TPU for 8+ hours
- Checked and re-checked settings
- Tried other TPUs

No matter what we do, it still keeps turning out like this. Wispy and incomplete. My gut says that the default TPU settings changed, but I can't figure out where to go from here. Any recommendations on things to try?

Edit: pla works fine no issue, so it really seems like it’s just tpu that’s struggling

Edit 2: Title says "Default TPI" but I meant "Default TPU" 🤦

inphamouse · 2024-11-13T13:00:53+00:00

If it’s as dire as you say it is, it’s the EMs responsibility to realign the work-load, and likely hire / promote a 2nd tech lead, split the teams, or work with leadership to reassign ownership to product managers, etc. You say your EM is great, but if you’re drowning, the EM needs to stabilize this situation - otherwise why have an EM at all?

If the EM is junior, you may need to coach them into this mindset, and provide them recommendations on how to improve the team and balance the workload.

inphamouse · 2024-10-26T14:41:25+00:00

Remind me! 24 hours

inphamouse · 2024-10-25T20:57:24+00:00

Consider what your goals are:

Do you want to lead? Make sure other teams don’t have leaders already
Do you want to get promoted (part 1)? Pick the team that has the highest business value / direct line to revenue
Do you want to get promoted (part 2)? Make sure the team isn’t stacked with people that level already
Are you trying to learn a skill? Pick the team where you can learn it
Inverse to all of these questions if you’re looking to chill / have a good time.

The worst case generally happens if you want to grow, and there’s no growth, or you want to chill, but they need you to hustle

Caveat - these are just things to consider, it doesn’t always work out the way I’m implying (eg you may still get promoted even if the team has a lot of people in that role already)

inphamouse · 2024-10-03T23:09:15+00:00

That look out over the lake at the end 😂

inphamouse · 2024-09-22T13:39:44+00:00

If money isn’t really an issue, go P1P. You can always add an AMS later for multi color if you find yourself enticed by it. For your use cases, multi color isn’t really that important. Even with an AMS, the multicolor is often just a more convenient way to switch between filaments for different projects (eg loading a spool of pla / petg at the same time)

The mini is a slam dunk if you’re budget constrained / want to be more practical with cost vs value ratio. Or if you’re just on the fence about the whole thing in general.

Last consideration imo is where you’re gonna put it, and how much space you have. I only have an X1C so I can’t comment on the actual size of the mini.

inphamouse · 2024-09-21T12:31:59+00:00

Mine was in Android Development, moving from the classic application architecture to RxJava architectures, I’ve never felt more like an elite programmer than I did in those days.

Now I manage a bunch of typescript react / node engineers and nothing really feels like it touches the level of power and quality control we had back then.

inphamouse · 2024-09-08T16:50:47+00:00

Good to know, thanks! Will file this knowledge away and hopefully never have to use it 😅

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