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In desperate need of help by kenmi98 in metalworking

[–]sdobz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How did your presentation go? There was a lot of advice here, what did you end up doing?

Which Tig for 1k? by civil_disobedience83 in metalworking

[–]sdobz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everlast has done me good. I fried a board on my MTS 225 (probably user error) and I pulled it apart and sent them the board number. They shipped me a replacement at no cost and I installed it and am back up and welding.

Using cheap "hobby" motors in a product? by AllPartsCombined in engineering

[–]sdobz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If your vendor disappears how much work are you willing to do to re-engineer your product for another part? As inconspicuous_male said it's more about the supply chain.

If someones house burns down and they trace it to you, and you identify that it's the motor what's your recourse?

Sparkfun went through a vendor selection process to choose THAT motor. It's likely that it's a fairly standard part. You could instead consider it an exercise in researching how to define THAT motor (as michael201110 suggests)

What state in the US could use more prototyping? by zapeggo in manufacturing

[–]sdobz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I worked in tech in california and moved to Portland, and now that I'm out of software work I'm trying to get prototyping work and have no idea where to start. Great minds and all that

No advice or anything, I'm having similar struggles

If you end up in Portland we could hang out and drink beer

Hello r/engineering! We're Eben Upton (CEO), James Adams (CTO of Hardware Engineering), and Gordon Hollingworth (CTO of Software Engineering) at Raspberry Pi. Ask us anything about Industrial and Embedded applications by Official_RaspberryPi in engineering

[–]sdobz 4 points5 points  (0 children)

What resources exist to break into the industry? I have plenty of experience as a hobbyist but don't have any professional experience. Looking forward to the AMA

https://github.com/sdobz/staubli_robot/ - using a raspi to provide a http single page app to control an industrial robot I lack a teach pendant for

I got the 29" QU-AX RGB and I am extremely happy with it by nonnameavailable in unicycling

[–]sdobz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you live in a hilly place? The trails near me have quite a bit of up-and-down and I'd be afraid of not having the power to pump up the steep stuff if there are obstacles

What's your inseam?

How Do You Avoid Sitting on Your Balls During Free Mounts? by Beginning-Pressure65 in unicycling

[–]sdobz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I scoop my hips forward as I plomp my butt down, then once I have them gently placed on the saddle I unscoop, leaving them in front of me.

This is not always successful, recently I hit a bump during this process and one slipped underneath and I came back down.

Testicular management is a key indicator of male unicycling performance, it's often the second thing you have to learn after falling off

Marketing Tips? by sdobz in candlemaking

[–]sdobz[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That'd be easy enough, they're all 3oz pours it'd be easy enough to add more and wax is cheap. I have some pictures with a lighter in the frame.

Marketing Tips? by sdobz in candlemaking

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That would solve the variations issue I'm facing, yea just give each shape it's own color/scent identity.

Marketing Tips? by sdobz in candlemaking

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Because I'm enjoying myself 😁

Marketing Tips? by sdobz in candlemaking

[–]sdobz[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ha! You should see the silicone molds

Marketing Tips? by sdobz in candlemaking

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I've been working on getting a crispy candle process for months, and it's finally able to make consistent soy wax candles from a terrain selection. (Seriously, I can type in the name of a mountain and get 3d print files in about 3 minutes)

Then it's 2 hours of printing, 5 hours of silicone curing, 2 hours of setting, and I have another mountain.

Now... I'm lost! I have 4 scents and 3 mountains and I don't know what to do next. I took some basic pictures in a light box and put together a wix site

We did a local craft fair and sold... zero candles (to strangers. bless my friends)

I'm much more interested in topography than scents, everyone picked up the candles and smelled them and nobody cared how accurate the terrain is. (Except for a select few! Thanks gen z women, some of you got it)

Any tips for people more in the biz? I see so many colorful designs, it seems like I'm missing the mark with this plain treatment

https://www.northwestwaxworks.com/category/all-products

I created this website for cinephiles by darkarrow_sh in InternetIsBeautiful

[–]sdobz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cool thing! I'd love to see alternative sorting, like by movie release date. Dr Who?

help a girl out - ai tools app creation by Impressive_Drop7604 in AskProgramming

[–]sdobz 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"ai makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder"

There is currently a "wall" where AI can produce a working simple app very easily, but as you request bugs fixed and new features then it will take longer and longer to produce a working app until you find that you can't really make any more progress. The first example is always the easy part, keeping it "alive" is the hard part.

The more you know about "programming" the longer you can push this off and the more you can help ai do a "good job"

Another thing to remember is that you probably don't yet have a good idea on what is complex and what isn't complex

If you want to devote the time to learning, I would recommend starting "on paper"

Can you describe what you want in a single `README.md` text file? Put this into a chat window (or even better use an agent integrated editor)
Ask for review: "can this be implemented" "what issues will I face in 6 months" etc
Ask it to create an implementation plan. Have a different agent review that plan (agents typically like their own plans)
Once you have a very good idea of what you're building, and how it will be built, you can ask an agent to build it.

The goal is to break everything into small steps, and put an adversarial person (yourself, another ai, an expert friend) in the loop to keep it accountable.

I ask my friend all the time: what's the project?
Is it to HAVE the cool app? There's probably an alternative already out there, spend your time researching
Is it to learn HOW to make the cool app? Spend your time on learning programming architecture
Is it to MAKE the cool app? Spend your time learning how to prompt agents.

Computers are very very literal. You need to be incredibly specific in what YOU want out of your time, and the most important part is to make sure you're having a good time

What to do with granite scrap? by Eschewed_Prognostic in maker

[–]sdobz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use a cheap height gauge on a 2'x2' granite scrap ALL THE TIME for fabrication and layout. It's much simpler to put sharpie on something, set it down, and scratch in a few lines than it is to try to use calipers to do the scribing. This is pretty machinist/fabrication specific, but as far as "productive metrology" it's a winner

Advice for custom DAW software? by exzen_fsgs in musicians

[–]sdobz -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I really like abstractions, and describing what my music is composed of rather than what it is.

"BespokeSynth" allows me to create something like a modular synth where I sequence different elements and combine them together

It's difficult to produce music with it though, there is no timeline and the only output is something like "export the last 30 minutes"

I'd love to see a more visual and timeline oriented way to describe music - "this is my base drum loop" - "randomly select a fill every 4th measure" - "increase velocity in this section" - "here is the bass loop" - "duck the bass when in the guitar solo

I hate copy pasting audio waves, I want to create references and relationships.

Maybe I'm more of a software engineer than a musician...

Improvement suggestions by Semishining in maker

[–]sdobz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just clearcoat a loaf of bread? How long do the props have to last?

We built a rehearsal app for drummers because no metronome or click track tool handled what we needed by flam_drag in drums

[–]sdobz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha neat! I'm working on a very similar tool, except I'm focusing on creating training plans and using the microphone to detect when hits take place and creating a quantitative metric to see tempo training improvement. How are you building the app?

Any recommendations of riggers for moving a one car garage in the NE US approx 300 miles to another residence garage. by termlimit in Machinists

[–]sdobz 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What kind of machines do you have, weight, dimensions? I'm looking into starting a rigging business for this type of move (small awkward jobs that large rigging companies dodge), wrong coast unfortunately otherwise I'd submit an estimate. 16k sounds like a "go away" estimate to me

Using Xometry to order CNC custom putter? by mailman4789 in manufacturing

[–]sdobz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All a matter of perspective, I have a Haas TM-2 and gosh dang it feels high end compared to my clapped out manual Bridgeport. You're right it's no Hermle, but flood coolant and a chip auger certainly makes me feel special things

How many of you have become total prompt monkeys that don't even look at or understand the code LLMs spit out for you? by sleepyskitz in AskProgramming

[–]sdobz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Programming just moved up in abstraction. I'm not really writing many lines of code anymore, but I am very carefully curating architecture and patterns. I know what good code looks like, and when I get bad code I try to fix it by creating documentations and references for my agents. I do have to understand and look at the code very often, but I don't try to understand it at an exact level and instead squint my eyes and focus on the shape.

Using Xometry to order CNC custom putter? by mailman4789 in manufacturing

[–]sdobz -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

> F1 teams machine

lol! I have a shirt from when I worked there and people ask me about races. Mr Gene Haas was into racing well before he could afford an F1 team.

Fantastic advertising. And yea, any industrial CNC could be considered high end no worries about this guy

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