Can I just say my mail in ballot never got counted as far as I can tell, every past election we get notice from BallotTrax that the ballot was received and counted. No one I know got that notice; I got the BallotTrax "your ballot has shipped" mail but not that it was received and counted. I wonder if there's huge delays in processing mail in ballots, which might change results.
We just did a full watch-through of Adventure Time with the kids, and we were inspired to model all of Finn's main swords. We wanted to follow the constraint of keeping them pixel-aligned like a vanilla swords, so we had to make some shape compromises, but I think they worked out! The list we worked from is here: https://adventuretime.fandom.com/wiki/Finn%27s_swords#Main_swords
Not that it matters but she didn't brag about her service in the IDF, it was compulsory and she has spoken against mandatory military service and voted against Bibi; you can dislike someone without lying. Americans pay taxes which give bombs to Israel, any American that pays taxes is a part of a compulsory system of oppression as much as an 18 year old being told to join the military like everyone you know or go to jail. Purity testing stuff like this turns allies into enemies.
I've posted previously to the saga, and I have some updates. My prints are getting better, but still have room to grow. Thus far I have:
It's looking MUCH better, but I'm having a stringing issue which is preventing the keycap from installing. I think this is a much easier fix, and I have knobs to turn on this:
Love the show and hope the crew finds a way to continue it without Ethan. Olivia's goss talk, Love's random zoomer jabs, Zach's sound bytes, AB trying too hard to be cool...the ensemble was great, and even though this is a bridge way too far with Ethan, I hope there is room for the crew to continue something so they not only have income, but we can still have something to enjoy. Having Harley and Kate take over for a while would be great, but I'm sure there's a lot of asset transfer and stuff to figure out.
Ethan is still not a zionist baby killer, he's still pro-palestine...he's just a personal piece of crap, but it doesn't validate all the other unfair criticism he, his family, and the crew have been subject to.
Most of the crew has unfollowed Ethan and a bunch of the crew have unfollowed Tamara, leading to speculation she's the other woman, but that is yet unconfirmed.
Repost of H3 instagram story:
Hila's Post: https://www.instagram.com/kleinhila/p/De00ijxjhPR/
Crew post on Podcast Account: https://www.instagram.com/h3_podcast/p/De05Eaho7nD/?hl=en
AB's X/Twitter Posts about it: https://x.com/_Starkilla
Harley on Discord, hoping to continue AD:
Kate on X/Twitter: https://x.com/GWAMtweets/status/2113511259534712880
Nate Insta Story:
Do yourself a favor and think before you post, learn that the definition of Zionist doesn't cover people that are pro Palestine, and realize downvotes don't save Gazans. You are free to block this community.
I took it off for demonstration, but usually I have this fan shroud on; or a version of this I've modified a bit: https://www.stlfinder.com/model/craftbot-cooling-fans-adaptor-for-barts-custom-hotend-ivdK9eKM/7784427
First, thanks for all the feedback and suggestions, I've been going through and looking for areas to tweak. I decided, in the interim, to print a bigger model to see if I can expose the issues more, and I think I accomplished that. This is the snail from Adventure Time, and I'm mostly very happy with this print; I could have added a tree support under the lower arm, but the detail is great and the layer lines are barely visible...until you get to the raised hand a bit, and to the eye stalks. Looking at what's going on, it looks pretty clear the layers are NOT getting enough time to cool and harden before the next starts.
I thought I had that accounted for with the following settings, but as far as I can tell, these settings are not being respected:
I would expect the printer to slow down a bit to its minimum, then when the minimum layer time is reached, it would go off to the side...but I think instead it's hovering close to the print and not giving it space to cool down.
I don't really want to switch slicers, but I am wondering if there's some Cura tip to uncover what I'm doing wrong here; I've read a ton but I am just not understanding how to get the printer to take its time on these tiny objects.
Here is a video of it printing, it's clearly not respecting the minimum layer time: https://photos.app.goo.gl/nhE7LjvDH9avutxd7
I have settings that I thought would mitigate that, but I don't think it's working right? I was going for "print the layer at normal speed, then go off to the corner for a while and wait" but I don't think that's working; it was minimum speed, minimum layer time, and lift head.
I've tweaked the line width a lot, going down to .175 but not lower. It didn't seem to make a difference. I did try to add another junk model next to the caps just to offset the heat; it unfortunately didn't help. Which settings are you looking at with pressure advance; the main thing I have been touching is flow rate.
I have a combination of 3 settings set to do that, but I don't think it's working? Minimum layer time, minimum speed, and “lift head” which I thought would make the print for that layer finish and then the head would move out of the way for cooling.
I can try when I swap the hot end back out; I had that thought and was going to print a silly model in the same print just to have more stuff to do each layer.
I do, but I feel like it's not getting respected? It's a combination of 3 settings; minimum layer time, minimum speed, and "lift head" which I thought would make the print for that layer finish and then the head would move out of the way for cooling.
Yea, I've adjusted it down a bunch, but I think I bottomed out at 90%; do you think I should go lower?
I'm a bit stumped, and am looking for advice. I have an extremely old (Circa 2015) Craftbot Plus. It's hardly any parts of the original unit, kept alive with custom parts out of just spite. I use cura as my slicer, and it works fine for my needs. Recently, my kids have wanted to print custom keycaps. This is a difficult FDM print to begin with, and my old hardware isn't doing me any favors; it might be impossible. That being said, my prints turn out good, except for the tiny details in the actual stem. The picture is attached of various settings; I've tried a ton of stuff. I can share a cura profile, but the gist is I'm printing in PLA and have experimented with 195-210 degrees, .1mm layer height, line widths between .175-.2mm, various speeds, minimum speed and minimum layer duration, I've disabled ironing, and I've played with retraction. I'm kind of stumped, and am wondering if anyone has things I should try.
I went from a .4mm nozzle to a .2mm nozzle. When I went back the other way, I forgot to update the nozzle profile and despite cura knowing the line width was .4mm, it extruded as if it was .2mm forcing severe underextrusion until I figured it out...weeks of failed prints later. I rebuilt the printer like 3 times assuming it was physical.