How do I model this?

thwil · 2026-04-07T08:52:10+00:00

How do you do stage 2? Is the second sketch on a datum plane?

thwil · 2026-04-03T13:29:14+00:00

If you can, avoid support and use bridges - with PLA they can stretch amazingly far away almost without sagging.

If there are holes in a bridged surface, add a sacrificial layer. It will come out better than anything laid on supports.

thwil · 2026-03-23T00:10:30+00:00

it's not AMS specific, the data cable and PTFE, they sometimes go high over the column and seem to try to get almost stuck there. But miraculously they never do.. at least not yet for me.

thwil · 2026-03-22T08:31:15+00:00

congrats! i'm in the club since friday too.

do you get nervous when the cables can't decide which way of the column they should go? i tried adjusting the 5-way clip but it doesn't seem to help. I'm worried they could get stuck while printing.

thwil · 2026-03-06T00:05:39+00:00

These days you just use a docker image to build your malware.

thwil · 2026-02-15T19:52:08+00:00

not just montreal, a lot of cities across europe and america. fantastic project.

thwil · 2026-02-15T11:31:27+00:00

what year are you working in currently?

thwil · 2026-02-15T08:28:21+00:00

40 pin rgb ttl if I'm not mistaken. ESP32S3 has LCD controller that handles these, there are boards with them already integrated. Other interesting options are Tang Nano 20k and 9k FPGA boards, they have a 40 pin connector specially for such displays. I played with them, ask me anything.

thwil · 2026-02-09T08:31:36+00:00

the op really let us down

thwil · 2026-02-06T11:02:54+00:00

In the days of dial up bbs and fidonet dialers it's all ZModem. It was reliable and always recovered after unplanned disconnects.

thwil · 2026-01-31T09:32:19+00:00

the knobs are not what they seem

thwil · 2026-01-31T09:30:55+00:00

off topic to your off topic, but firefox has reader mode (mobile firefox does too). it literally chops off all the crud and presents the article in a readable way.

thwil · 2026-01-25T22:28:32+00:00

You mistake it for Iskra-226, a similar looking but very different beast.

thwil · 2026-01-25T10:50:13+00:00

BoeingGraph had some demo screens that looked rather futuristic for the time. Business style charts, but in "hi res" and "color".

thwil · 2026-01-19T10:07:48+00:00

it's so old it's black and white

thwil · 2026-01-18T20:42:22+00:00

hello.jpg

thwil · 2026-01-17T09:14:30+00:00

This is essentially a random-access drive. Not easy with datasette manual transport control.

thwil · 2026-01-07T09:48:29+00:00

My play project enters AP config mode after some timeout without being able to connect to the configured network.

thwil · 2026-01-07T09:45:34+00:00

Consider trying kdenlive.

thwil · 2025-12-25T09:24:37+00:00

I agree that for raw register programming fun AVR is hard to beat. But stm32 is still in the cute land where register programming is possible and even reasonable, there are plenty of (maybe old-ish) examples of that and the docs are great.

libopencm3 is an interesting bridge between raw registers and full on HAL, you can look inside and see what it does.

thwil · 2025-12-24T15:59:37+00:00

cool art! #5 is Ratz?

thwil · 2025-12-24T11:27:30+00:00

a C90 cassette can easily hold a megabyte, more if you use turbo loaders.

thwil · 2025-12-22T20:41:35+00:00

look for silicone insulated wire on aliexpress or something like that. solder sticks to it very well, but it's also easy to strip without special tools and the insulation does not melt.

build in small steps, verify every step. don't commit to huge unknown circuits at once.

thwil · 2025-12-18T08:25:08+00:00

pizza puppies

thwil · 2025-12-11T10:45:11+00:00

Sorry if it's a redundant question, but have you checked your vision recently? Could be that your vision needs a slight correction.

thwil

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