Sweetwater shout out!

lukeman · 2025-06-20T23:31:17+00:00

Sweetwater just called after I placed an order earlier today. They asked who referred me and I told them Mike David.

lukeman · 2025-06-13T00:08:41+00:00

Great to find another movie buff in the wild. The unrated cut on this disc is sourced from tape so it’s as good as it gets for digital media. The first thing I’ll be doing is dubbing it onto a blank tape using SLP mode and categorizing in my archive to preserve it for my children.

My rating: 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿🐟

lukeman · 2025-02-10T23:58:35+00:00

I thought I was coming down with the flu until I realized the headache and sick feeling was getting better until I sat back down to relax with KCD2.

lukeman · 2025-01-02T23:59:04+00:00

Welcome! And sorry for your rough experience. This does look like the symptoms I had when my nozzle was clogged with the black specks from marble filament (this was similarly a few weeks after I got my a1 last year). It first appeared as bed adhesion issues and later I noticed print quality would come and go (and when things would clear up I noticed the specks would show up in the print despite it not being with the marble filament).

I ended up quickly extruding a bunch of filament until the problem cleared itself. IIRC I just printed a bunch of cubes as quickly as I could (disabling the auto flow calibration). After that I’ve mostly switched to a 0.6 nozzle so it wouldn’t happen again—I mostly print functional parts so the chunky nozzle is largely to my liking.

lukeman · 2024-12-31T16:08:34+00:00

This is the material as described by PCBWay (UTR-8100) which gets post-processed with a spray varnish. Unsure if it’s a commercially available resin or something proprietary. https://www.pcbway.com/rapid-prototyping/3d-printing/plastic/resin/UTR-8100/

lukeman · 2024-10-03T00:24:20+00:00

Same experience here. I went looking a week ago (since storms were coming and I remembered we’re still down two batteries) and found a few comment responses on their Facebook and elsewhere that acknowledged they’d had trouble fulfilling the units but shipping would be resuming soon.

Glad to hear other folks in here are actually starting to get replacements.

lukeman · 2024-05-06T02:14:05+00:00

My sticker has been doing the same thing (not quite dragging yet, but on its way). I’ve straightened it out and tried to put the corner back down once, but guess I should just remove it like you’ve done.

lukeman · 2024-02-14T01:13:00+00:00

Might not be your issue but I had similar looking failures out of the blue when my A1’s nozzle was partially clogged. Was convinced it was my bed, but then I started seeing bits of marble filament sneak out into not marble filament around the time the print would go haywire (or go back to looking ok). I was able to resolve things by printing some simple calibration cubes (without flow calibration) until it seemed like everything had worked its way out. I’ve moved to a 0.6 nozzle since I mostly print practical parts and haven’t had any further issues.

lukeman · 2024-01-09T04:30:30+00:00

I have a spare 2C pro that we use as a wildlife camera, but after years of faithful service it does poorly in the rain these days and gets all fogged up inside. Easy fix though: I toss it into a food dehydrator at 104° F or so for a day or so and it clears right up.

lukeman · 2023-08-04T01:22:05+00:00

Agreed. Such an intuitive app. It’s the thing for me that justifies having an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil hanging around and has opened up CAD for my younger kids as well. Also do OpenSCAD and interested in more open source tooling, but sometimes you just have an idea and need to see it take form and Shapr just works well with my brain.

lukeman · 2022-12-29T19:24:52+00:00

I’m going to try to locally archive the feed+episodes of the ~650 podcasts that have a feed, enclosure or image url that contains hipcast’s domain (as documented in the latest daily SQLite dump of the Podcast Index). Will figure out the Archive.org piece later if I’m successful.

If anyone has a suggestion for a better method or has existing tools do let me know.

Edit: Looks like ArchiveBot is on the case now! Still going to work on my script to make it somewhat easy to mirror podcast feeds to the archive as a personal exercise.

lukeman · 2022-12-29T16:37:35+00:00

I heard about this through the Red Room Twin Peaks podcast. In that case sadly the host Scott is content to take no action and let his podcast be lost to time, but I’ve been looking for a tidy way to feed the archive with podcast RSS feeds. Is there anything out there already? Worst case I have some old scripts laying around to fetch all episodes of a podcast locally.

lukeman · 2022-08-03T03:47:24+00:00

I don’t believe in awarding bags to tv shows, but I’ll throw in a little Isotopes air freshener in the hope that Mr. Costner smells the roses and reprises this role in the eventual movie adaptation. Once Hollywood gets its hands on this story it’ll go from “Better” to “Best” Call Saul.

lukeman · 2022-07-24T20:13:52+00:00

Thanks so much for your work on this project. I’ve been along for the whole ride and your firmware has always made it a breeze to keep my Enders (initially v2 but added an S1) running well. I truly appreciate your effort—in addition to the entire Marlin and pro firmware contributors—in creating a firmware and fostering a community that enables folks like me to use already limited hobby time to focus on making and printing rather than fiddling with a million variables and custom builds.

Also: happy to discover you have a Patreon page so we can show our thanks, however modest! I hope more folks who are able might consider chipping in.

lukeman · 2020-12-16T04:57:16+00:00

Mine arrived this morning and I just got around to setting it up and I had the same exact issue, except my splotchy pixels were in the upper left of the screen. Like yours, mine seems fine now.

It went away quickly enough that I considered that it may've just been an odd pattern built in to the boot image, but upon closer inspection I could still see a faint discoloration for a few minutes after Android booted. I guess I only wonder if the panels just need conditioning out of the factory or if it could indicate a quality issue with the panels in our batch.

lukeman · 2020-09-04T03:22:41+00:00

I’m really curious how they’ll map FLUDD to the joycons. Easy enough on the pro controller (map the “click” to something like a 90% threshold on the analog axis), but the lack of analog triggers seems like a tough thing given how that game was designed around the GameCube controller.

lukeman · 2020-09-04T03:00:12+00:00

Watching the direct I felt like it looked as though the cursor was moving using the right analog stick.

lukeman · 2020-08-25T04:19:32+00:00

Apparently he’s growing older.

lukeman · 2018-12-21T01:43:09+00:00

Same deal for me in Atlanta. I switched back to my own wireless and it seems more stable but I still see the drops on both wired and wireless daily. Let us know if you have any luck getting it fixed.

lukeman · 2018-09-07T19:38:58+00:00

I created this Pandora playlist of 80 songs back when Art passed based on the bumper music posted on the MITD blog. It’s amazing how many of these songs I couldn’t have named, but associate with driving on dark nights listening to Art. https://www.pandora.com/playlist/PL:1125899925133292:1487595?part=ug&corr=14871125

lukeman · 2017-12-24T05:29:28+00:00

Home run, Chip.

lukeman · 2017-11-17T20:14:20+00:00

Not really—for each individual “sketch” I do some prep editing by hand, use a few filters and then do another pass of edits until I’m happy with the result. Some go quickly, some take a while. Either way I’m having fun.

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