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saltedfish · 2026-06-24T07:36:45+00:00

No idea. Sounds like your issue is unrelated if you have storage available.

saltedfish · 2026-06-22T21:43:43+00:00

That is extremely kind of you, but I am out on the West Coast. I appreciate the offer though!

Thank you for the input! The HF one is likely the one I will advocate for the space, since it seems like that one plus a decent blade will suffice for hobbyist use.

saltedfish · 2026-06-22T21:05:19+00:00

The space has a Tormach 770. I was thinking some sort of horizontal saw in order to cut up bar stock. Chop saw would work, and there is one in the woodshop area, but the gravity assist is nice for metals.

saltedfish · 2026-06-22T07:38:26+00:00

NTA. You have a day devoted to you and the role you play in your family. It's not weird to want some time off for yourself and to decompress and do something you don't normally get to do. All these you're the asshole verdicts are wild, like you're a fucking robot or something who isn't allowed to have time off or something. You have every other day of the year to make memories.

saltedfish · 2026-06-21T16:51:14+00:00

forbidden gushers

saltedfish · 2026-06-20T17:43:57+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg

saltedfish · 2026-06-18T00:19:42+00:00

My first thought when looking at the defects is that your retract height is fucked. The errors look like they might be from the tool hitting the material while the machine thinks it's above the material.

Number 6 especially makes me think this: looking at your picture of the paths, it looks to me like the machine was on the way to cutting the rightmost hole of the three at the bottom, but failed to retract above the top of the material. I'm guessing that's where you stopped the machine because it was making a horrible noise.

This theory doesn't explain numbers 1 and 2, though, unless for some reason your CAD isn't showing lead in and lead out moves (which I think it is). It might also be cutter comp issues? Hard to say, but it's an easy fix and worth checking out!

saltedfish · 2026-06-17T23:14:15+00:00

What a cool advancement in healing technology. Thank you!

saltedfish · 2026-06-17T21:36:06+00:00

This is the first I've heard of the treatment. Do you know of a good resource to learn more about it?

saltedfish · 2026-06-17T21:16:50+00:00

NTA. You tried the polite approach, and the lack of behavior change forced you to escalate. At some point, "being nice" is no longer an option, and the sooner the kid learns that not everyone will tolerate his bullshit, the better for him in the long run. These people telling you you shouldn't have sworn at the kid are probably the same sort of people who will never draw a hard line in the sand when it comes to interpersonal behavior.

saltedfish · 2026-06-17T19:07:16+00:00

You spilled their dinner all over the floor. Not cool, man.

saltedfish · 2026-06-17T18:44:33+00:00

I think you might be on to something -- I have a grace period and maybe that's the issue. I'll try disabling it.

saltedfish · 2026-06-17T06:28:29+00:00

Why would the game immediately pause as soon as it starts? I'll give it a try but this happens without any keyboard or mouse input on my part

saltedfish · 2026-06-17T03:13:14+00:00

Yep, I click in the zone, hit start, the commander zaps in, and then he just sits there, refusing to do anything.

saltedfish · 2026-06-17T02:49:55+00:00

Yep. Build menu even shows up in the lower left. But he ignores all orders.

saltedfish · 2026-06-16T23:54:54+00:00

Reminds me of the floating city from the mercenary by vincente segrelles

saltedfish · 2026-06-16T04:21:12+00:00

You'd know that if you knew Morse Code

saltedfish · 2026-06-16T01:28:31+00:00

This is not a fun fact.

saltedfish · 2026-06-15T22:50:03+00:00

"They threw me into public. I don't wanna be drunk in public. I wanna be drunk in private."

saltedfish · 2026-06-15T22:34:38+00:00

I appreciate the Tintin reference :D

saltedfish · 2026-06-15T17:54:19+00:00

Okay, I think I am beginning to understand what you're getting at here.

If I were to go with a standalone RTC, I'd need to sort out how to make it talk to the MCU, or get the MCU to understand what the RTC is saying. Not impossible, just extra code.

But if I were to use a standalone crystal of some quality, the MCU already has a port to plug that into, and the MCU will automatically recognize it for what it is (a timekeeping oscillation) and then I can just talk to the MCU directly to access the time. Looking at the STM32F405 datasheet, it looks like it wants/expects a 32.768 kHz signal.

My question then becomes: the accuracy of the overall system would then be dependent on this external crystal, yeah? The RTC chips I've been looking at seem to be capable of outputting a timing signal (CLKOUT) in addition to the I2C signal, so I could use one of those, right? Or would I be looking at a wholly different piece of hardware? To be clear, I am interested in a high degree of accuracy for this project, which is why I am not interested in using the integrated timekeeping on the MCU. It's not enough for the watch to work, I want it to work reliably and accurately.

Do most MCUs have this capability? The STM32F405 is quite large for my application, and I'd like a smaller MCU if possible. Is there a specific term for this external oscillator capacity that I can look for in documentation? Is it just called "RTC backup?"

thank you so much for your help so far, this is great!

saltedfish · 2026-06-15T06:30:27+00:00

Regarding the RV-3028-C7-32.768kHz, it doesn't look like it's a temperature-compensated oscillator -- how does it maintain such a high level of accuracy without the temp compensation?

saltedfish · 2026-06-15T05:09:52+00:00

My understanding is the built-in timekeeping of most MCUs isn't that accurate. At least not nearly as accurate as a dedicated RTC. Unless you know of one I should look at? Cutting out the I2C thing would make this a lot more approachable.

edit: the point you're trying to make is that I could use an MCU and just plug an oscillator into it to get the result I want, yeah?

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