Digitally? Unless that's off limits in this situation. I'm sure there are analog paths you could take too, I just don't know what they would be
Snow tires are way more beneficial than 4WD/AWD. As already said, 4WD/AWD will help you avoid getting stuck, but it can't help you with stopping or turning.
Just take it easy the first snow. Brake early, corner slowly, don't go too fast. It seems like everyone forgets how to drive on snow the first time it snows, which results in more of a mess.
Disclaimer up front: I have very little background in any of this.
Why not do three exposures on three different prices of paper with a color filter in front of each? Green pigment gets the green filter, etc.
Good luck. The company I work at has the exact same problem. Since each system tends to be owned by a different org, and the systems all meet the owning org's needs, you're going to be in for struggle.
Woah, those bullets. I didn't know you could do that.
Great post too!
There is a movement to make it illegal, but the goal isn't to feed the needy. It's to help keep it out of landfills, incinerators, and waterways.
For example: https://www.bergmanndirect.co.uk/articles/new-food-waste-regulations-in-england
Are you in Europe? In the US, our 120 volt mains limit the size of what can go in our normal outlets. I've never seen an electronic grill, unless you mean something that we would call a griddle.
Is the print stopping or does the printer keep going like all is well?
If the printer is continuing like everything is normal, you can surmise that the issue is either the heater, the extruder, or the filament path.
What does your temp graph look like during the print? Oscillations = potential wiring issue, especially if they're not present for the whole print.
Have you caught the printer doing this? Is the extruder clicking? If yes, something is preventing the filament from moving through the extruder. You're either developing a clog or something is preventing the filament from feeding (binding, etc).
If the extruder isn't clicking, and the print continues for a bit, does the extruder slowly chew through the filament? If yes, you probably need more tension on the feed screw. I would still suggest looking for souces of binding.
How long has it been curing and how off was the mixture?
Way too little hardener = will remain tacky
Somewhat too little hardener = will cure, just more slowly
Too much hardener = will cure quickly
The specifics come down to the expoy in question and whether or not the maker pads their ratio one way or the other to make it easier to use.
If you're only somewhat off, I would give it time and you'll probably be OK. If you're way off, I would still give it time but would be less hopeful.
Except BBQs are often against fire code so they're not allowed 😭
Turning leftovers into fried rice generally results in one of my favorite foods. That's not to say I don't like more upscale options too, but man.
I truly don't get PMs who themselves haven't done the thing they're now PMing. I like to think I make a decent PM because I was a user, got frustrated, made my own version of the thing that was way faster and easier, that saw some success, I learned a bunch, and now I PM that space after I figured out I had much stronger opinions on what a thing should do/be and why that mattered than then actual implementation.
This whole thing is nuts to me. From the way the article reads, the patient was likely still breathing and had a heartbeat. I get wanting to keep organs fresh, but this seems... non ideal
I don't know that I would call Harris cake, but I totally agree that she's far less repugnant than Trump.
It looks like a honey bee to me (obligatory not a bug expert) and don't they have corbiculae? Or are there different kinds of corbiculae?
I'm learning lot about insects posting these photos, lol.
Tons of incremental updates.
Based on the printer in the picture I think you have one of the answers, lol.
The other answer is slicers, but if you're using Bambu's you've also seen that change now.
I agree that building a Voron is a project. I had a Pursa I3 clone (knockoff) that I used to print most of my parts on. If you don't already have a 3D printer you can use the Print it Forward program to get printed parts shipped to you. Parts aside, your first build will take an easy 20-40 hours. This isn't because the build is hard, it's just that the build is long - especially if you want to have your wiring just-so. On the upside, you'll have a very good knowledge of how your printer operates at a physical and firmware+Klipper config level once your done.
Be wary of better. From a quality of life perspective I would absolutely put my 2.4 ahead of a Prusa. For example, I can mechanically level my bed via automation. That said, expectations often outstrip reality. Beware of what you're getting into.
I think you got a lot of good replies, but at a glance no one said "Prusa good!" so here's that reply. Prusa printers are workhorses. They run their own machines in a print farm printing parts for the printers they sell and iterate/bring tweaks into production.
If you look at posts from a year or more ago they'll frequently appear as trustworthy/hassle free options. They've somewhat fallen out of favor from a price to performance ratio, but if you want a hassle free printer so you can just worry about printing they're still a good option.
I'm not sure if this is a bee butt or not, but it does appear to have pollen coated rear legs
The world of bee look alike is big! This seems to be a pollinator, and has a decent amount of pollen on its hind legs. It does have an ant body type, but also appears to have wings.
Bee?
Hover fly?
Ant?
Hybrid?
Something else?
I green fired an ugly ceramic test piece made from clay dug out of my yard! It didn't even explode
Years ago, nearly a decade ago in fact, my wife enrolled in a pottery class at our local community college. We planted a shrub while she was enrolled, dug up some clay in the process, and her professor let her make something with it and fire it. To everyone's surprise, it went smoothly.
Enter kids, increasing work responsibilities, etc. A decade passes. Along the way we discovered our yard is 2-3" of top soil followed by nearly 100% gray clay. There's no marbeling, basically no sediment, nothing. Just slightly sandy/gritty gray clay.
I recently buried a gutter downspout and added a French drain in our yard, so I trenched my way through a ton of clay. I set some aside, since our oldest kid is now messaging with clay at our community center.
Here's the quick rundown of how I processed it:
- Manually remove the topsoil layer
- Toss clay into a 5 gallon bucket
- Cover in water, let sit a day or so
- Mix with a grout/thinset/cement mixing paddle attached to a drill to break up the chunks
- Sive for coarse material, like roots. I used some burlap as a screen and poured between buckets
- After you've screened the clay, remove the excess water. You can just let the bucket(s) sit and wait for evaporation to do its thing, you can wait a day or two for some water to separate and pour it off, you can use some fabric you don't care about much as a cheesecloth, etc
- Once the clay is the appropriate consistency, make something!
I made was a ceramic fish following the instructions of our oldest, who had just made something similar at the community center. The one pictured was meant to be the ugly sacrificial test piece before the "nice" one got fired, but our youngest broke the nice one into pieces, so I guess the ugly one is the nice one now.
I left the fish under our porch for a few weeks to dry out. After that, I put them into our fire pit, lit a small fire to warm them up somewhat gradually, and then built the fire up over a half hour or so.
Burningaton:
Post burn:
Overflowing pollen pockets
Yeah, I know they're called basket or corbicula, but pockets is more fun.
There's a bee butt in that flower!
Yesterday's photo may or may not have been a hover fly. This is certainly a bee.
The downside to having a Rose of Sharon
Pros:
- Massive quantities of flowers for about 3 months
- Bees love the blooms
- The plant doesn't need any care to thrive
- We've transplanted a few of the seedlings. They're true to their parent in terms of color, but the parents seems like a double bloom and the children seem like single bloom
- If you want a hedge, this seems like a good option
Cons:
- Seeds! So many seeds. Each of its hundreds (thousands?) of flowers will produce 10+ seeds. They all don't germinate, but it's a numbers game. If you want to avoid pulling volunteers up you're best off pulling the seed pods off the plant before they open on their own
I pulled ~2 gallons of seed pods off a week prior to this picture. My wife dumped them in the compost, so no epic 5+ gallon photo 😭
Black Eyed Susanss
OM-1 with Oly 25 f1.2 pro @ f/2.8
I remain on the fence about this camera, but it can take some pleasing photos if you get it to focus where you want it.
Ever catch yourself spotting burls during your everyday life?
Not that big, but it would still be interesting. I pulled some honey locust from our firewood pile a few years back and incorporated it into a desk. It has a fairly boring grain pattern, but I like the color a lot.
lower navigation buttons missing after update
If you look at the very bottom of the screen shot you can see that the home, search, etc buttons are cut off.
Happy to provide more info to help. I'm on a stock pixel 3a.
Orb spider (?) found us in West MI
This is one of the bigger/meatier spiders we've come across so far in Michigan
I like big beds and I cannot lie, pt 3
I am (slowly) working on mounting ACM panels to my Voron 2.4 to try to get my chamber temps up to reduce/eliminate warping on big ASA prints. I only needed 12 of these parts, so I chose to print them sequentially.
Want to know how slow my progress has been? Well, this photo proceeded this post and I made that post weeks ago... I'll crack open the cable chain and get this ball rolling again soon. Or maybe I'll ditch the chains and go to a USB toolhead. But that will require me to print some parts, so I guess I have to fix this. And if I'm doing that it's going to probably be 'good enough' for quite some time... 🙃
There's nothing major in the print queue, but I do want to make sure the printer is ready to go when something does turn up.
We're growing swimmers
Seeds for those interested. They're called trombettas and they're a climbing summer squash with everything you would expect there - nice, mild flavor, etc. They only have seeds in their 'head'. If you pick them young enough the seeds won't be formed so you can eat the entire thing. If you wait a bit longer, you can very easily scoop the seeds out and slice or stuff the head. Head to tail, these things can easily get over two feet. They can also be a bit curvy.
I've found them to be very hardy over the years. They climb really well without encouragement. The vines in the photo are easily 9 feet long.