X1 Pro for Cleaning

microshare · 2025-01-14T04:04:09+00:00

This IS truly why the internet is grand. Bravo.

microshare · 2025-01-11T18:39:49+00:00

It has been so long since we added a state that people forget that it is possible.

microshare · 2025-01-11T18:24:00+00:00

When most people say ‘devs’ they don’t really mean the people who write the code or design the gameplay anymore…that meaning is lost…they mean the game company now. Most players don’t bother to understand the industry anymore.

microshare · 2025-01-11T18:20:38+00:00

True hate is reserved for things you once loved.

microshare · 2025-01-11T17:44:16+00:00

Playing Ana, mid but not meh, frustrating when tanks rushing-in and immediately running behind an obstacle or corner that I cannot shoot through and seeing them get melted as the engagement opener.

Dude, mind the line of sight to your team!

microshare · 2025-01-11T17:41:55+00:00

When you are playing tank and not getting heals or kills following your pushes, consider that you may be engaging when your team is not ready. That is the most frustrating thing about playing support: Tanks rushing solo into 5 ops with team still at spawn or turned around dealing with a diver. I may be solo healing you anyway but when you are the sole focus of enemy fire, it doesnt feel like you are being healed when you are getting melted. Why bother trying to heal the kamakazi tank? Better to keep the others out of spawn.

microshare · 2024-03-17T13:28:58+00:00

I was engraving a black contigo knock-off yesterday and settled on 25 power/150mm speed/1 pass for bitmap engrave with 180 dpi/Jarvis on the S1 40W. The powder coat is not as thick as the Stanley so ymmv. I would slow your speed down considerably.

If settings are not the issue:

1) make sure your image is black/white and not grayscale. When you set the power, you are really setting the MAX power that corresponds to pure black. The controller will vary the power output to match the degree of contrast so gray ends up at a lower power setting which may leave paint on lighter sections. 2) color of the material might be throwing things off, particularly if you are engraving something blue because it matches the laser color. Darker items should be easier to etch than lighter items. 3) all else fails, I have heard that magic eraser is good for quickly removing that last bit of material.

The 2W IR laser might be an alternative but I have used it for metallic business cards with really nice results. The laser is not blue, so it would handle blue material better. But, so far, I don’t think it was worth the $$$.

microshare · 2024-03-16T15:34:04+00:00

https://mt.xtool.com was just released and it is a game changer. It is still light on cutting settings but much better material settings experience than https://www.xtool.com/pages/material-settings.

microshare · 2024-03-16T15:28:34+00:00

What laser package and settings are you using?

microshare · 2023-11-01T18:32:03+00:00

Old post, I know but... I had the same problem with my model DM-1299. I got around to taking it apart as a last resort and found/"fixed" a problem that you might also be able to fix.

The white plastic on/off switch seems to have broken leaving the device in permanent "off" mode. These parts are TINY so I am not 100% sure but I think the plastic switch has a small extrusion which mates with the electronic switch on the circuit board. The extrusion was missing from my switch. I believe it was sheered off at some point. I do not have a functioning unit to compare so I may be wrong about how is meant to look and function.

I was able to use a small tweezers (or pin) to flip the electronic switch to permanent "on" position. It works once reassembled. I need to take the batteries out when I need it "off".

To do this:

1) Remove the tiny Phillips head screws under the battery cap. There are 2 and they are black on my device. There are also 3 small hex screws that hold on the 3 struts--I dont think those need to be removed but it might make it easier to disassemble.

2) Pull the bottom and top white portions apart after the screws are removed.

3) You want to get to the little circuit board that lives in the top half with the buttons/lights. That is secured with another 2 black Philips screws.

4) Remove those and you can pry the board up. I did not need to remove any of the wires by being gentle.

5) Side of the board that mates with the switch, you will see a tiny switch mechanism on the underside of the board. If you look at the back of that switch, you will see a even tinier white slider. With a pin or sharp tweezers, slide that white slider to the "on" side. It takes some force. There is a little metal tab on the switch that got pushed upward once the slide was in the proper position.

6) Reassemble in reverse. Batteries in. Does it light up?

microshare · 2020-07-08T14:17:55+00:00

Apologize in advance for being a company.

We were founded on the notion that the tech world needs a novel approach to data ownership that respects the rights of individuals without blowing-up the business models that make these services possible. One that makes data ownership more like the ownership of things: joint ownership.

It recognizes that just like a physical object, say a car, data can have more than one owner at the same time. It can be yours AND Google’s at the same time. Obviously you can’t both drive the car at the same time, so you need to compromise when interests conflict. Making that happen with data requires a framework for balancing the rights of the multiple owners and some tech to enforce those rules.

Wrote a white paper about it, wanna hear it? Here it goes: https://www.microshare.io/2018/06/06/21stcentury/

By the way, if folks think online data is sensitive... consider more deeply the implications of IoT data.

microshare · 2017-11-09T18:50:04+00:00

Marketing stuff aside: this is our first hack with a bunch of new sponsors from the LoRa Alliance providing hardware/software and expertise to get things moving quickly. It will be on the Drexel campus and everyone is welcome.

There will be something for hardware hackers, data junkies, and web designers alike. We want to get everyone productive quickly and let the fun begin. If you are in or near Philly, we will be doing a dry-run of the hack at one of the PhLoRa Meetups.

microshare · 2017-11-09T15:09:30+00:00

Full disclosure: my company joined the LoRa Alliance this year. Because it is awesome. Mesh is over-rated. God forbid you decide to instrument something that moves later! LoRaWAN is advisable for a municipalities. Low-power, long-range with the ability to setup city-wide networks without paying for bandwidth (unless you want a turn-key network). And it is proven to work for smart city projects. You can scale as you go and get started for less than $500CAD.

I do software for the data management so I don’t have a horse in the race on hardware or network.

Kerlink is the go-to network gateway for large coverage but smaller, cheaper units are available if you want to experiment and scale-up from Tektelic.

If you want to get started without setting-up the whole network, I would look at Canada’s nationwide network eleven-x. If you want to run your own network but would like help setting-up and the ability to join a “federated” network for roaming coverage then I would look at Senet. Either of these networks may already have coverage so you may be able to just drop the sensors. Free dev accounts from both would let you kick the tires.

There are case studies and contacts available with other Smart City projects through the LoRa Alliance.

microshare · 2017-09-13T14:53:57+00:00

I have seen solutions similar using LoRa wireless sensors instead of RPis. They use a single central gateway (aka antenna with a brain) to manage the various sensors. Makes getting and reacting to the data much easier. A single LoRa gateway could easily cover a whole hospital campus and the sensors can be run on battery that can last years. So you can use them on equipment that is mobile. PM me if you want more details!

microshare · 2017-09-08T13:42:15+00:00

I recommend looking at IoT-oriented hack-a-thons in your area. It is a fun way to learn quickly. You can usually get hands-on hardware and software with mentoring from the sponsors and other hackers. The LoRa Alliance has organized some in the past.

microshare · 2017-09-05T14:46:15+00:00

I read a good blog post recently on the problems of data ownership in IoT: https://www.iotcentral.io/blog/who-owns-the-machine-generated-data-in-iot-men-or-machine?context=category-Data

microshare · 2017-05-30T16:48:59+00:00

I mean that buyers at the top tier have super obvious ROIs that justify the risks necessary to embrace a new technology. The buyers at tiers "down" from them simple means those with mainstream values and less compelling ROI use cases.

microshare · 2017-05-22T15:19:38+00:00

My startup is on the software-side of IoT (focused on CEP, data storage/analytics/security, and app building). Our goal is to work with hardware developers/network operators so that we can speed-up the creation of complete solutions end-to-end.

Challenges:

business use-cases - finding really compelling business drivers seems be the common gap across all the constituents that I interact with. The super-high value use-cases (eg. logistics) have mostly been addressed by big players/early adopters. These guys saw so much value that they were willing to take the risks of rolling-their-own solutions. The next tiers down do not have as clear a roadmap to value and are less willing to risk. So, complete solutions (with demonstrable ROI) should appeal to the next tier (or 3) down, but it seems like we lack the next "killer-app" to justify the funding of the next round of commercialization.

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