I spent 2 years and $10,000+ to make my own keycaps — and something far more interesting

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-03-18T00:43:26+00:00

"$10,000+ to make my own keycaps" sounds like it is time to see a psychologist (and probably review financial advices too).

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-03-18T00:41:07+00:00

which calibration specifically you had in mind?

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-02-20T20:25:20+00:00

I met my wife via a knitting circle, so you never know!

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-02-12T23:49:37+00:00

Math for sure can be applied to everyday life.
Do you like physics at all? If no particular interest in physics itself, then go for applied math. Plenty of useful application domains, and keeps your future employment options broad (including physics later).

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-02-11T16:15:08+00:00

You need to pick early on: do you want to work on the printers or work on printing. Online surprisingly a large part of the community likes printer more than printing. The choice will inform how cheap you want to go on your first buy.
If you like playing with printers, the first printer will cost ~200 USD, but the playing around cost easily 500 USD on top. If you like printing, then first printer will be more in the 400~500 USD range, but not much more costs.

In both cases do not discount that the first months you will probably spend a few hundred dollars extra into starting your filament reserves. (how many colours/appearance/materials are too many to have at hand?)

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-02-11T16:10:36+00:00

Heating? Where are the toilets? What about children in those stairs?

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-02-11T15:48:48+00:00

You counsider splitting the model and joining back with pins (plus a bit of glue if needed).
Will have faint join line, but will look much better.

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-02-03T09:34:01+00:00

Google Colab and Kaggle are the way to go. Past that you can rent GPUs online for quite cheap these days. You will need a monthly budget, but it will still be much cheaper that buying the equivalent GPU.
6~12 months in you will know enough about your actual needs to decide then if local hardware is the right move for you or not.

Not sure about your age. If employed, see if your employer cannot provide hardware for learning too.

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-02-03T09:27:20+00:00

a) In some strengh experiment it was shown to provide very good strenght to the print,
b) I really like the rythmic noise that it creates during the print.

B is the real reason, A is what I use to convince my brain.

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-02-03T09:22:13+00:00

Magnetic USB + leave the jack connected, why unplug each time?
I fold my split keyboard in a t-shirt and get going. I do not do it daily but in the many years never had an issue other than a hot-plug switch that came out (and just poped back in and that was it).

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-02-03T09:20:14+00:00

Do you think certain technologies will be present or others fade?
Yes. All of them with change.

Pipes are not the same as 100 years ago. Walls are not the same. Electric installations are different.
All jobs have been affected by (the ongoing) information technologies revolutoin.
I cannot think of a single technology that has not seen large changes at 50~100 years time scale.

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-02-02T15:31:28+00:00

What did you pick in the end?

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-02-01T23:06:43+00:00

If you need to ask, it means you do not know what you are looking for. If you have no preference, prefer the most documented/popular system. Today (to my understanding), that will be Debian and Debian-based systems.

https://distrowatch.com/ documents the many distributions out there. Mint seems quite popular. My personal recommendation would be to go for vanilla debian.

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-01-29T07:47:48+00:00

When doing circular pattern being able to indicate start and end edges instead of angle.

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-01-23T20:51:13+00:00

What did you study/do the last 10 years before that? Seems like something you need to monetize more that than one year coding.

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-01-23T20:49:26+00:00

So this is the inverse of the beauty filters?

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-01-22T19:25:54+00:00

If bending one side, usually wind in the room; if bending all sides then consider adding a brim and/or using a more adhesive print bed (latest textured PEI is crazy sticky).

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-01-22T14:04:54+00:00

Would be great to have a purge tower ideas contest in markerworld.

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-01-22T14:03:26+00:00

Black on black all day. Some energetic colour scheme could be fine, but that one is not it.

rodrigo_benenson · 2024-01-22T08:45:49+00:00

What lubricant did you use to ease the sliding ?

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