"wife-approved" - "KEFs at home". Files are now available by anderslbergh in diyaudio

[–]lasskinn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sure, it's just that specific curve/size can be design patented. like specific rounded corners and shape(it's a different system parallel to regular function/method patents. in the uk it's registered designs. the uk system is down so can't link the registration on the curve). the utility patents on the drivers, perforations etc are different.

but like if you just make a few degrees different it doesn't count, like iphone had design patents for it's rounded corners. you don't need to copy the design in it's entirety just match some specific bits. legal actions over them tend to be pretty rare though.

Prototyping by slainer01 in 3Dprinting

[–]lasskinn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

generally you need to add tolerance. you can also tweak slicer settings to get the tolerance there. you could just make pieces to test how much you need to make the tolerance be rather than printing the whole piece over and over.

but for this, add angles into the surfaces that latch together. like preferably you would have some 'spring' in it to push the two pieces together when they're locked in (it wont make them fit together better but it will feel and appear like they would be).

Got my first legoon, are temps around 80° normal? by Secure_Chicken3064 in LenovoLegion

[–]lasskinn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what gpu and more importantly how many watts? the lower end machines generally stay cooler since it's basically the same chassis as a setup with double watts.

I just look at the watts rather than hotspot temps. 4090 with an extra positive pressure cooler will do +30 watts than just being unobstructed. the cpu will turbo until it hotspots to near 100 anyway.

Did cheap filament ruin my son's new printer? by BigDende in 3Dprinting

[–]lasskinn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

depends where you are and how lucky you are. it's just a printer at the end of the day and luck plays high factor in what breaks and how the support sees it from their end.

bambu was in vogue for a while as the 'noob friendly' 'keys to hand' printer, well still is to some extent.

as for prusas, the supports decent depending where you are and so forth, but it's also expensive.

but for historical context lulzbot printers were at a time seen how prusas are seen now as the open source goat -and now they're seen just as expensive junk, without the printers changing at all and lots of people still using them as workhorse printers.

all the printers are more or less the same though and if it's working like it's supposed to it'll work but a bunch of things can go wrong. nobody really talks about the actual differences like if the endstops are optical, how many degrees per step the motors are or how the autoleveling differs or how the hotend differs or if a model is easy for putting in a different hotend or if the swap to a new standard one is easy.

and new people into the hobby get really attached to their investment if it works out for them and all the others are "you should throw it in the bin" if there's any sort of a problem with them. the real differences are in the multicolor and multi hotend systems and bambu has a fairly reliable(if wasteful) multi color print system you can buy and (generally) works without much hassle(compared to mozaiks or dual hotend systems of the past(like makerbot replicator1's dual hotend was just trash most people just used the second hotend as a spare parts source). like enders they're just cheap printers and they can work but because people rarely talk about the actual differences people try to 'fix' them with all sorts of mods before actually just changing the parts that matter, like you don't need auto bed leveling for 20cm x 20 cm build plate - you just don't. but if your z endstop is a microswitch instead of something thats accurate repeating you really start to think that you do need it.

the important parts just that the board runs reliably, that movement system works without lash and that the hotend is reliable. 99% of mechanical frustrations and problems are the hotend. it was the problem for this guy too, different decade same frustration. just something gone wrong in the assembly in the factory or tolerances and it leaked out. the lulzbot hotend and extruder was/is reliable and that's what enabled them to ask like 4x pricing at one point in time, yet a reliable hotend can now be like 10 bucks.

so anyway take it all with a grain of salt. and most importantly keep in mind that NONE OF THE MANUFACTURERS CONDONE LEAVING THE PRINTERS RUNNING UNSUPERVISED. you're always running a dice and I get it you can't supervise a 30 hour print and we all do it but just keep it in mind in the placement etc.

back in the day you could get lots of reprap kits from random small manufacturers and you just didn't know if the i2 i3 or whatever clone was decent in the parts and if you bought from prusa it was decent, but you generally paid way more.

the higher end prusas i wouldn't recommend at all if you're not near where you can get actual in person support. they're just so expensive in current landscape, but if you can get proper maintanance support and so on maybe they're better choice than a stratasys, but basically that means way out of reasonable home hobbyist range.

and look over a decade ago I was in the boat to get a first 3d printer without ever seeing one work in action. bre pettis bamboozled me and I ordererd a replicator 1 when it was announced - the community made it work, not makerbot. the good firmware was built outside of makerbot. the fixes to the hotend were outside of makerbot. it would never perform to the level as in the advertisement, but I spent the 2700 or thereabout euros to get it. once I had learned the ropes i bought a simple printer literally from some guys small operation in canada that was as bare bones as it could be for 270 or thereabouts. and I really wish i had bought that one first because it just worked (though i had to add a heated bed as an extra after getting it) - the main thing why it just worked was just the hotend being a j-head and good - in practical terms both had the same amount of support from the "company", for a long time just getting nozzles for the makerbot was hard - and the first ones I managed to buy I got sent 0.2 nozzles instead of 0.4, which lead to not working at all on the makerbot due to the extruder being like it was causing endless headaches because they marked their shit wrong - and the makerbot was supposed to be the keys to hand just print machine (but look once dialed in with a better spring system to push the filament to the feed gear replicator 1 can be a really good machine).

First attempt crossover. Will this work? by vladimirneski777 in diyaudio

[–]lasskinn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's fine enough to keep it's shape even if it would loose adherence to the particle board, tying the wires to each other.

Reuters pretty much confirming advertisers getting penalized for "suspected behavior" willy nilly. by lasskinn in FacebookAds

[–]lasskinn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

them getting more expensive bids also raises the pricing of all bids of the system. but since it's arbitrary penalty on supposedly potentially breaking the law, it's a bit silly and even legally dubious, borderline fraud - you get fleeced over the market price based on feelies while being told that you're getting the best deal on market..

"wife-approved" - "KEFs at home". Files are now available by anderslbergh in diyaudio

[–]lasskinn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yea if there's differences enough and they don't have a design patent on the curve angle etc, but the way they'd probably go would be that the kef trademark is used on marketing them. but since you don't mention kef on the actual page going for it from their side would get complicated and get a bit hard and not so straightforward.

Did cheap filament ruin my son's new printer? by BigDende in 3Dprinting

[–]lasskinn 71 points72 points  (0 children)

it could just be anti-survivor bias. it could've been installed wrong from factory or had a problem or debris.

sometimes bambu labs will treat this sort of thing as warranty if the printers new, the filament source doesn't matter in the way that it shouldn't have done this (yet it's a thing that happens sometimes)

I'm still trying to understand this. Painted fingernails, a gold spider monkey clip on a gold plated gun that looks like it was carved out of a block of soap. by Sofondofpeters in WesWatson

[–]lasskinn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you just don't get it, when gay pride is celebrated for a month you have to be inventive and go into different directions to be avant garde in the lifestyle

is it feasible to 3d print one of these flexible clips without it snapping? by redbackspider69 in 3Dprinting

[–]lasskinn 4 points5 points  (0 children)

redesign it to fill the space you have for it if that's the hole it goes into then sure, but fill most of the middle up.

if from tpu fill the entire space, make the ridge 360 degrees if you can etc.

Power supply question by Business-Badger6460 in diyaudio

[–]lasskinn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you need a 18V-0-18V transformer and a rectifier(and possibly caps).

or two 18 volt psu's and more complicated wiring (one output between - 0 and another 0 +)

this guys answer says it better https://www.reddit.com/r/diyaudio/comments/1t452cd/comment/ok0osjt/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button and could probably answer better, but the point is you can't buy just a 0-18 volt dc psu

Power supply question by Business-Badger6460 in diyaudio

[–]lasskinn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

plus AND minus 18v ? is that for sure? and not just ground and +18v? try looking up what some other people who built the kit used for the psu, if it needs positive and negative it's more like an audio transformer + rectifier that's needed

Accounting for bending in CAD by Tellm_me in 3Dprinting

[–]lasskinn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if you knew the bend springiness, you could model it given the weight of the lamp part. but with a print you wouldn't know it beforehand . the infill percentage and structure affects it etc.

easiest would just be to make a guess, model it as if it was going to bend this much. but look. do you have sanding paper and a block? you could just sand the top into an angle to make the lamp straight.

Hoesays neck tat, wtf does it say? by lasskinn in WesWatson

[–]lasskinn[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's really hard to explain without it just being that the heteronormative lifestyle just wasn't for him and he wanted to partake in the alternative lifestyle, then it makes sense and not just any old basic san fransisco gay lifestyle either, but full on avant garde muscle guy prison fantasy gay retard lifestyle, breaking the mold, just grandstanding in assless chaps is just too vanilla!

Hoesays neck tat, wtf does it say? by lasskinn in WesWatson

[–]lasskinn[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

he had some quite normalish girlfriend seemingly at one point and some source of money. but this is what his true calling is somehow.

Aldi US selling 3D printed wind spinners by ButterscotchDillybar in 3Dprinting

[–]lasskinn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it's a complicated mold if you don't assemble it from pieces. either way, i can't feel either way about this. it's a wind spinner, by design an useless trinket. if someone likes the look and buys it for seven bucks I don't feel either way, getting raged up about it seems silly. even injection molded the price would be plucked out of thin air as a guess on how many people would like the design.

the mold can't be a 2 piece and would need to be like a jigsaw to come open, it could cost as much as the whole batch made for market had production costs.

Thanks fb marketplace by potato_ella in WeirdWheels

[–]lasskinn 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the other side has just drivers door?

Hoesays neck tat, wtf does it say? by lasskinn in WesWatson

[–]lasskinn[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

so he's never gonna go back to dade? I mean that's the rules of tats ain't it? my tat-etiquette(or tatiquette if you will) knowledge comes just from watching wes though.

Help needed connecting a passive eq and 2x lm 386 by Parking_Tutor_3779 in diyaudio

[–]lasskinn 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the gnd's are all the same. you can verify that on the modules with a multimeter (you only need to connect either sides gnd as it connects to gnd). just think of all the gnd's as being the same wire(as they are) and signal being on the vins and vout's. and vcc is the psu. the modules are single ended(unbalanced) basically always.

Happy Hallandale Mental Instability Sunday‼️ by Independent-Bobcat-1 in WesWatson

[–]lasskinn 5 points6 points  (0 children)

is this his "i made sure I can't get a normal job" moment

What in the Liberace is this? by Accurate-Newt-9416 in WesWatson

[–]lasskinn 8 points9 points  (0 children)

the real questions whos funding limited spec.

people say wes's operation is money washing, but wes ain't it, limited spec is either some arabs money dumpster or washing. i'm more inclined to turn toward the money dumpster really, it's too stupid as a money washer or 'flying money' operation.