I recently had massive issues reaching my home network from hotel WiFi. I couldn’t even connect my regular VPN on their WiFi, I tried a bunch of stuff with different ports, TCP/UDP, different protocols, nothing seemed to work even for my proton VPN.

I managed to get mullvad running though, then I could connect with tailscale (with mullvad VPN still running) and then disable mullvad after tailscale connected. Tailscale then didn’t drop the connection.

Weird work around, but it was consistent.

Meh…klipper with mainsail and tailscale will get you an even better solution for free.

Starch-based polymer != starch

it will be readily metabolized by the various ubiquitous species populating our biosphere. i suppose it’s a good thing. possibly the only microplastic that doesn’t suck

Not really, it is considered compostable in industrial composting conditions. It will not degrade at a reasonable timeframe in natural conditions and will basically just remain micro plastic.

Looks like you need to calibrate extrusion multiplier, and do a proper calibration of e-steps first and not just adjusting values blindly based on print performance.

here’s a great (comprehensive) guide

I think OP is asking for help with what to try next to fix the issues on the benchy, not what item to print next.

Yeah it’s pretty crazy…prices vary by the hour, and that was only the single most expensive hour in that period though, and it was way above normal. Normally it peaks around 0.35USD/kWh with normal daytime prices around 0.2USD/kWh and nighttime prices around 0.1USD/kWh.

My total electricity consumption in the 5-9pm period is only around 2kWh though, so despite high prices it’s not much money.

Hah, that’s rookie numbers man…we just hit $1.2USD/kWh the other day during the “dinner rush” between 5pm-9pm

I would definitely still tune extrusion rate on the printer profile and flow rates and PA for each filament profile

I’ve always followed Ellis’ guide start to finish. It really makes a huge difference in print quality and especially consistency of printer performance.

As for filament, I’ve found brands I really like that have good and consistent quality and stick to those. Before when I was trying different brands, I found I had to tune filament settings every time I tried a different brand which got really annoying.

And it’ll only take 3-4 months to print it!..oh, and you can’t really use your home while it prints because of noise and VOCs.

I only respond to “ding”

Behavioural modifications through specific patterns of rewards is not limited to dogs…

Pavlov did some very famous experiments that suggests otherwise.

They didn’t…

That’s a pretty cool way to construct a bearing that fits the limitations of especially FDM printing.

I also have issues like what you’re having when I’m printing with PETG, and using gyroid infill pattern eliminates it completely for me.

Is this the same guy that made the marble clock with same working principle?

I just store mine in bins as well… I don’t have an entire room (or wall) to dedicate to just 3D printing filament, and bins with spools stacked in them is by far the least space consuming way to store them.

It prints the skirt first, but yes.