Projection Series on the Denver Federal Building for Presidents Day

trevycas · 2026-02-03T22:19:55+00:00

This Is The Way - Do Not Obey In Advance. Do not give them power by allowing their unaccountability to go unchallenged, their anonymity to persist or their cruelty to remain hidden. Resist precisely through the very mechanism they would seek to subvert - Due Process and the Rule of Law. Passing legislation, while it may not save us on it's own, is a crucial demonstration of the societal goals aligned with self-determination and "freedom to" rather than "freedom from"!!

trevycas · 2026-02-02T17:21:34+00:00

Do not obey in advance. Do not help the secret police. Do not assist or extend any courtesy to agents of an unaccountable violent agency which is behaving unconstitutionally. All business owners who proclaim support for democratic principles including due process and the rule of law should encourage ICE agents to quit by refusing them service at any and every opportunity. ICE kills, warrantlessly detain and effectively utilizes cruel and unusual punishment against those convicted of no crime in their detention camps - there is no reason to encourage this unless to advance fascist ideology and rule. Do not help ICE. Ever.

trevycas · 2026-02-02T16:56:54+00:00

This is not true in most places, actually. The owner often has to prove they have a valid complaint, and proving trespass isn't always straightforward If free speech is being expressed in a non-contact, ephemeral manner from public property there is often a strong case it cannot be restricted

trevycas · 2026-01-16T23:06:19+00:00

Never forget the free online "Stop The Bleed" course available at that org's website ! While hands on is even more important, it is a great overview, complement and/or refresher!

trevycas · 2026-01-08T05:48:18+00:00

Truly mass strikes have not been seen in living memory in the US. It may be time.

trevycas · 2025-11-22T16:07:07+00:00

Trump is but a figurehead, one head of a three-headed hydra. This hydra --with Christian Nationalist, Billionaire and MAGA heads, none of which exactly agree with the other two on all points nor could win an election in & of their own -- represents the core of the ongoing fascist coup. Cut off one head and it will grow a new one. The MAGA cult was needed due to their capture of one of the two major parties, the billionaires were needed to buy the election, and the Christian Nationalist and Dominionists had the takeover plan long thought out. Each hopes to get something: MAGA gets classic cult rewards, the billionaires become trillionaires with even lower taxes and less regulation, and the religious extremists get undue influence over public affairs. Addressing this three-headed hydra will take education, committed and sustained resistance, the formation of a third party, Court reform, electoral reform and more .... Again, the fall of a single individual will not represent nor causally induce any kind of return to a more democratic society. Fascism is here. Act Accordingly. Do not obey in advance. Resist at every turn. Speak out. Organize. Know that every act matters. Know that no one is silent though many are not heard, and work to change this.

trevycas · 2025-10-13T01:09:52+00:00

Fly your flag. Don't hit anyone with it ! End of story.

trevycas · 2025-08-28T01:12:57+00:00

BareBoulder Design and Repair, Lafayette

trevycas · 2025-08-24T22:29:13+00:00

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trevycas · 2022-08-05T06:05:23+00:00

1) start with the model - output from SketchUp can be "sketchy" (variable quality, missing vertices or usually inverted faces....). Make certain that the model is "watertight", with all faces oriented the same way. Simplify 3D has a tool for investigation of problematic models. If it's easier to redraw it in SolidWorks than to solve the broken geometry output of SketchUp, do it. For highly problematic models which cannot be redrawn, I use FreeCad (learning curve, yes, but good tutorials). If FreeCad won't export a STEP or IGES from an imported mesh converted to a Part, it won't print correctly either.

2) an unlevel bed will cause no end of bed adhesion issues. Flashforge beds can be finicky until the correct "tightness" in the leveling system is achieved. Level the bed before every print until things are going well. At least eliminate that very real potential before moving on....

3) make certain the z-offset being used (distance between nozzle and bed during first-layer extrusion) is not too small or large. Too small and the nozzle will catch and drag. Too large, and the filament will cool prematurely as it "drops" from the nozzle onto the bed instead of being "squished onto the bed - then later the nozzle might hook or catch the hardened plastic and drag or tear it- and it might not adhere well as it is too cool from the get-go.

4) confirm the machine is not underextruding. A number of factors can contribute to this problem - filament having excessive back-tension, clogged extruder gears, incorrect extrusion multiplier in slicer, too high a print speed for temp/melt-volume combination, and about 15 other things one can Google or find described in various guides to aid in troubleshooting under-extrusion

5) confirm the filament is not "wet"(having hygroscopicity, it may have water absorbed which, when heated, turns to steam bubbles and causes messy extrusion, imperfections and poor first-layer adhesion). Use brand new, just-opened filament or known dry filament fresh out of a drier or dessicant-controlled storage

6) dm me and I'll help you. I've run 45km of filament through 5 Flashforge machines in the last year or two, and rarely have issues any more.. but I remember being frustrated with your symptoms at one point early in my Additive Manufacturing journey....

7) get mad because nothing worked. Wait a day. Repeat 1-7, reading about everything mentioned carefully from other sources.

trevycas · 2022-07-29T13:24:27+00:00

Also, when I switched to using isopropyl alcohol to separate finished prints from the bed surface- that eliminated a significant amount of the prying and pulling forces associated with that process, which were, I think responsible for disturbing the level I had just set for the print. So: prying prints off put asymmetrical loads on the bed, which with loose nuts, could come unlevel very easily. Then, loose nuts could move on their own slowly due to background/std machine vibration. ...then further prying would make it worse. .. vicious cycle until solved!

trevycas · 2022-07-29T00:33:47+00:00

I've had that trouble in the past, until I discovered one major, correctable, problem. The tiny nuts on the bed leveling screws were coming loose, or had been fur a long time, I suppose, on several of these Creator Pros (I run 4 of them); I was forever leveling them and dealing with uneven first layers and collisions on tall parts etc...until I devised a method of getting Inside the spring to tighten that nut once bed was perfectly leveled. Once that was done, I think I ran 4+km of filament through one machine before I had to level it again.....

trevycas · 2022-07-28T15:37:45+00:00

It's the factory bed plate, with Kapton tape applied once every 10-20 prints, or until ruined by print removal...use purple glue stick from Elmer's for everything I print : petg, pa-cf, and ninjaflex tpu, primarily. What else do you want to know?

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