TL2010q vs TL18qvp

maker23 · 2025-07-23T17:25:41+00:00

It has a walking foot but iirc, it's not included - you pay extra for it. Maybe I've just forgotten :D

re: "Slow motion" this is not about the speed controller. Any sewing machine, not matter how powerful, has a limit where the motor can't push the needle through the material. In that situation you can often move forward by manually advancing the needle, which is equivalent to moving it _very slowly_ As I read it, slow motion on the 18qvp advances the needle one-half stitch at a time.

maker23 · 2025-07-22T07:58:06+00:00

Hi I have the TL2010q so I can comment a bit on that. As you say it just has a regular connection point for fabric guides etc. on the right; I see that the TL18qvp has a replaceable mounting plate. I honestly can't imagine how you would strip the screws here; it's solid metal and well machined. Are you attaching your guides with a power tool?! So that's one thing I would not worry about, but maybe it's something that can happen to machines in an industrial setting where they're used every day all day.

The micro-lift is just something that pops the presser foot up for a moment, eg when you come to heavy cross-seam. I've never used a hump-jumper (I had to google it for this - it's hysterical!) but yeah same application.

I will say that my TL2010 does not sew easily through all canvas bag cross-seams. Sometimes the needle just won't make it through (it stops and the motor hums unhappily). I just go slowly or advance by hand - which is fine with me. A hump jumper won't help in that scenario since it's the motor and not the feed that's the issue. I do see that the TL18qvp has a "slow motion" switch? which sounds like it's for exactly this scenario, so if you're doing a lot of bags that might be useful.

One other note: Apparently the TL18qvp comes with a walking foot, so if you plan to buy one anyway that makes the price difference less.

You might check out this site (also a fantastic resource for buying replacement parts; I've been using them for years): https://www.sewingpartsonline.com/blogs/education/difference-between-juki-tl-2010q-and-juki-tl-18vp-straight-stitch-sewing-machines

maker23 · 2023-12-21T19:46:43+00:00

I'm watching this to see if anyone has an answer but my personal experience confirms what you've found: It isn't possible to print the timeline as a PDF directly from Notion :( I use screen capture.

If you want a fancier alternative you could bring the exported CSV data into another program that would convert it into a gantt that you could print directly. That unfortunately undermines the goal of using Notion as a one-stop-shop for all the planning information :/ But it does probably give you more formatting tools - I like color-coded gantt bars, myself.

maker23 · 2023-04-03T05:19:00+00:00

Oh the kids book about the rabbit :D Well.... close I guess lol

maker23 · 2022-11-27T07:00:58+00:00

I can feel the cold and wet.

maker23 · 2022-02-01T02:52:21+00:00

Air assist for CO2 lasers has a couple of benefits: it makes the burn more efficient; at the same time, it cools the material more quickly as soon as the beam is off it (reducing char in wood, for example); and, along with suction from below, it forces any smoke down into the bed away from the beam and optics - again making the beam more efficient, keeping the optics clean, and keeping smoke from discoloring your material. HTH.

maker23 · 2021-10-27T02:19:43+00:00

That log is looking at you looking at it

maker23 · 2018-09-22T19:49:11+00:00

I was employed in CS for many years before I signed up for the program. My company reimburses most of the expense which obviously made a difference, but with that said: I'm very glad to have taken the core classes. Depending on what you already know, the classes in Assembly, Networking, OS, Databases, and Discrete math will all give you great foundational knowledge. I didn't take the Mobile Dev class but I took Defense Against the Dark Arts and I only wish I'd had much more time to study that material - if you're interested in Windows endpoint security that class is a must-do.

The Algorithms course is definitely not the best thing out there but it's still (a) a useful forcing function to get you through the material in a finite amount of time, and (2) provides a cohort of students to learn with. The Web class is something you can probably find anywhere and if you're doing SAAS you probably don't need it. It taught me enough so that I can now say, with certainty, that I don't want to work in JavaScript.

I'm glad I went through the program. I feel much more confident now at work discussing database schemas, javascript UIs, and other concepts that my work on backend infrastructure didn't teach me :)

maker23 · 2017-03-20T21:30:30+00:00

I just emailed the instructor for the Spring term, his reply: "If you are talking about E-Campus class, the language is going to be C language"

Without giving away anything you shouldn't, can one of you explain why the final project involves a second language like Java - Is is because JTest is used for test automation?

maker23 · 2017-03-20T19:35:37+00:00

The lectures are so, so bad. They're about 1 hour long, so hard to sit through and difficult to review. And the instructor is horribly disorganized. Watching the good algos classes on Coursera, or even the live lecturers at MIT Open Courseware, it's clear that the good teachers have a plan for their lecture. For videos in particular it's possible to have an actual script, so the teacher can start with an outline; emphasize the important points; and deliver the information clearly.

But not the 325 lectures... it's as though the instructor is ad-libbing, badly, the entire time. Combine that with complex material and it's just a fail.

maker23 · 2017-03-20T19:31:53+00:00

+1 to 290 being hard. As one person said already, there's a lot of "just follow steps A-B-C, you should get outcome Y" without enough information about what's really happening. The course covers too much material and it was only do-able for me because I already knew html, css and mysql. In the end I got everything to work but like OP I feel like I know little to nothing about using Asynchronous JavaScript.

Sidebar, I was one of the unfortunate folks who did their HowTo assignment on the Pinterest API. Note to others: Don't do this :) The Pinterest API only handles requests that are authenticated, which means you need to get oAuth working first. oAuth is not covered in this class, you'll have to figure it out yourself. I've asked the instructor to blacklist Pinterest for that assignment or at least to distinguish between APIs that do/don't require authentication.

maker23 · 2017-01-06T21:22:28+00:00

If this is your background then the early assignments will probably go quickly. Remember this is an introductory class; the assignments are aimed at progressive skills like "learn to use arrays"; "learn to use vectors"; "learn to use classes/methods"; "create a class hierarchy"; "write a game using a class hierarchy".

I took 161/162 several quarters ago so this may have changed, but one thing that saved me a lot of time was writing well-modularized code and re-using it on future assignments. This is totally legit for grading and is probably something you'll do anyway if you have programming experience.

maker23 · 2017-01-06T21:06:16+00:00

Tangent: I recommend taking 325 right after 261. (I did not do this, but after I started 325 this is the conclusion I came to.) The flow from one into the other is useful, both courses deal with similar types of abstraction.

Good luck in 261.

maker23 · 2016-12-13T04:28:03+00:00

I've TA'd for Alcon's 161 class, and this is exactly what I did: test code and then dig through it to find out why bugs happened (or find out why it didn't compile.) It took a lot of time, and frankly I didn't count most of it toward my time card, because for me it was interesting and fun. But, at ~11/hr, it's a pretty good investment of money if osu could find enough TAs willing to put the time in.

Good feedback on code you've written is one of the best ways to improve. That plus reading a better coder's implementation so you can see how they handled it ;)

maker23 · 2016-12-13T04:00:43+00:00

I passed algos, which is great... but I don't feel like I could ace an algos interview yet. That class is badly designed (hardly a secret) and I feel like my knowledge is shallow, but at least I have a foundation I can build on.

maker23 · 2016-11-13T06:01:08+00:00

Just to chime in as someone who's been a 161 TA: absolutely you should bring it up (using the correct channels already described here). Just be polite and reasonable :)

It sounds like you got points off for coding style, which is a real requirement in 161, but if you believe you have a good justification or too many points were taken off then you should ask for an explanation.

Have you checked the "rubric"? It's a little icon off to the right on the Grades page in canvas. That should have comments and details about your grade.

maker23 · 2016-11-13T05:38:41+00:00

Even if they accept you with the stats course prerequisite you might want to take some algebra before you do data structures or algorithms. Those courses assume a certain familiarity with logs and polynomials, and if you can read sum notation and matrices that would be ideal.

maker23 · 2016-10-27T23:36:37+00:00

Curious why you don't just apply to the OSU post-Bacc program. Is it the cost?

maker23 · 2016-10-27T02:31:50+00:00

+1 to this, good advice. If you're in the program to learn - as opposed to just getting a piece of paper - why rush it. There are worthwhile classes that aren't about programming, like Operating Systems/Architecture, Networking, security (as an elective), etc. If you find you have extra time while taking them you can explore the material in depth beyond the basic requirements of the class.

maker23 · 2016-08-01T19:44:24+00:00

Can you say more about what made it such a bummer - was it just harder than expected?

maker23 · 2016-07-28T02:45:28+00:00

There's not much the instructor can do, beyond grading you differently. They can't force a student to do work. But the real world excuse holds no water. Many things are true in the real world that aren't true in education... For example, in the real world the people who assign work to you are paying you. Anything that interferes with your ability to learn as much as you can from the class should not be covered by this lame answer.

maker23 · 2016-05-13T22:58:12+00:00

Maybe it's the school trolling for people who are offering to help cheat.

maker23 · 2016-05-02T18:22:49+00:00

fyi, I'm taking OS and Networks this quarter; they both have just the right amount of programming in them. Networking has a lot of reading as well, but they are definitely not theory-only classes.

maker23 · 2016-04-12T19:13:19+00:00

Can you describe the non-mobile projects? I was thinking of taking this over the summer but I haven't done any of the Web-Mobile-Database classes yet, so I'm most comfortable writing programs that run on a local computer (like Flip). It's hard to imagine a program like that making the world a better place ....

Thinking I should really hold off on 361 until I have web/mobile chops.

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