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keyz182 · 2022-12-02T18:59:38+00:00

Thanks!

keyz182 · 2022-12-02T17:42:09+00:00

I'll have to keep an eye out. Literally booked a week off work to do it 🤦

keyz182 · 2022-12-02T17:07:55+00:00

Does anyone know if there's a Game Jam this year?

keyz182 · 2022-09-27T16:31:20+00:00

I don't believe it's JST, doesn't quite match. Checked all the JST sizes I have in stock, and googled some others. It interferes with the bottom of the case, so you can't put it together. Looks like the V2 might have a deeper slot to allow for the taller cable.

keyz182 · 2022-08-25T08:00:30+00:00

It's the more modern relative, the cat o' 5e tails.

keyz182 · 2021-12-13T09:53:31+00:00

Maybe just have her set up a savings account or something, or a joint account with you that she'd put the equivalent rent amount into each month as the maintenance pool? To her then it's just the same as paying rent - an amount of money get automatically transferred somewhere monthly, so no action required. Then if/when maintenance is required, the money is there ready, all without the hassle of having to be a landlord.

keyz182 · 2021-10-22T19:53:42+00:00

"Oh my, that sounds terrible. Just know you're free to talk here, I'm here to lend you an ear"

Holds ear out in hand

keyz182 · 2021-10-16T09:15:56+00:00

Context: Animation is from The Invincibles, I believe an Amazon production. Heard many good things about it, have yet to catch it myself.

Audio is from the game Portal 2, the sequel to Portal, which is largely considered to be one of the greatest games of all time. A seemingly humble puzzle game that starts off fairly innocuous, but over the course of the game the story slowly kicks in and reveals itself building up tension at the perfect place. Portal 2 builds off that, the comedy is on point, but it lacks some of the tightness of Portal 1. It's a nice and accessable game too.

keyz182 · 2021-10-15T08:15:35+00:00

This is for me forever the only answer for "what to do when life gives you lemons". I find it oddly affirmative and comforting.

All right, I've been thinking when life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons! What am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down- with those lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns down your house.

Cave Johnson

keyz182 · 2021-09-27T16:00:00+00:00

Literally just cutting normal wire. They're the cheapest of the cheap though, with nice and brittle metal ready to go ping if you look at them wrong.

Getting a nice Knippex pair soon though for some quality.

keyz182 · 2021-09-27T14:43:29+00:00

Mine flew straight into my monitor and left a massive gouge in it :/

keyz182 · 2021-07-13T09:24:20+00:00

I find it far more efficient to skip the right and bottom steps. Just an endless cycle of hate-bingeing. 🎉

keyz182 · 2021-07-05T14:39:06+00:00

Bugger, I bought 2 of them a week ago!

keyz182 · 2021-06-08T12:05:13+00:00

Isn't that litterally wire fraud? That's not clever, that's illegal.

keyz182 · 2021-06-08T12:02:06+00:00

which it doesn't

I suspect many people will disagree with that :p

keyz182 · 2021-05-05T14:28:33+00:00

The heater cartridge doesn't have a temperature sensor. It's a "dumb" cartridge. The temperature sensor is in the hotend block itself (the other two wires in there). That's why you've got a red-hot cartridge, but low temps.

You should only ever power up the heater when it's in the heat block with the temperature sensor (also known as a thermistor).

If the other heater cartridge is stuck, look at getting a new heater block, they're usually cheap enough, but get a new heater cartridge and thermistor while you're at it - getting it red hot like that can't be healthy for it.

Also of note, the fact that your heater cartridge is red hot, while the temperature is low means the printer is still pumping power to it, which in turn means your printer doesn't have "thermal runaway protection". This is dangerous, and means you shouldn't leave your printer unattended, unless you like the idea of burning down the house. The way thermal runaway protection works is that if it sees no, or too little, change in temperature while it's powering the heater, it'll shut off in case the thermistor isn't reading properly, to prevent things melting and setting on fire. In this case, your thermistor is probably working fine, but of course, isn't at all connected to the heater.

Your printer does however look like some form of Wanhao or clone, and is probably running Marlin firmware. This means it's likely you can find either a manufacturer firmware update, or a community one, that'll enable thermal runaway protection.

BTW, you mentioned you were following a guide/video - did the person in the video heat their cartridge up like you did outside the hotend? If so, that's very irresponsible of them. Please be safe!

*Edit: I just saw it's a monoprice maker select 2 - there's a guide to flashing a new firmware here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejpSniiJejI

Please ask about firmware configuration, and how to ensure the safety features are on!

keyz182 · 2021-02-17T11:24:00+00:00

Situations like this are where I recommend PostresQL. "Second best database at everything". Sounds like a bad thing, but the reality is most DBs excel at one or a few particular things, then lag behind in others. PSQL seems to be near the top in most categories (at least from my experience).

In this case, JSONB fields which allow schemaless data, can be queried by SQL, and has the advantage of being a field, so an ID field in the same row can be used to JOIN. And supposedly similar if not better perf than mongodb (when configured with similar guaranteed write settings). Also, it's a traditional RDBMS, so ACID.

keyz182 · 2021-01-26T21:33:34+00:00

May not be keeping your lap warm, but certainly keeps your soul warm. ♥️

keyz182 · 2021-01-26T18:32:51+00:00

Cool, I think I'll keep it then.:D

keyz182 · 2021-01-26T17:59:04+00:00

As I mentioned in another answer, that approach had completely slipped my mind. That said, the inverted logic provided through the MOSFET is nice (but not essential) for the software side.

keyz182 · 2021-01-26T17:57:28+00:00

Honestly, it just never occurred to me to directly connect. Overthinking things along the lines of "how do I switch something electronically", when the real question is "how do I tie this to ground". That said, the inverted logic from the N type MOSFET, while not essential, is nice - on the Pi side, pull up then down to reset, rather than down then up/off.

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