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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • depending on where in the layer it failed, this could cause more problems. It’ll try to print the layer from the start it may get messing (especially if you’re missing perimeters, or printing over partial-layer perimters.)

    The other issue is that homing may be slightly off; that would depend on the printer. (most are okay, but you might find a visible layer shift in the seam,)










  • “I was on something like page 16 of Google search and found a radar survey done by a Mexican organisation for environmental monitoring,” explains Luke Auld-Thomas, a PhD student at Tulane university in the US.

    It was a Lidar survey, a remote sensing technique which fires thousands of radar pulses from a plane and maps objects below using the time the signal takes to return.

    But when Mr Auld-Thomas processed the data with methods used by archaeologists, he saw what others had missed - a huge ancient city which may have been home to 30-50,000 people at its peak from 750 to 850 AD.

    the full section on that. he was looking for the lidar data to analyze.

    I’m not sure why they didn’t just ask the group doing the lidar sweeps for the data, though. I find it hard to believe they’d tell an archeologist ‘no’ for some reason.




  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldto3DPrinting@lemmy.world3D Printable Subaru Impreza 22B
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    I remember when that car first showed up. There’s a few problems with it.

    First, it’s not something you can print at home- it was printed on a commercial FDM machine large enough to print its entire chassis, and the nozzle is freaking huge.

    The next biggest issue with it is that it’s a glorified golf cart. It has no safety rating and likely wouldn’t be allowed to get registered in many places without it.

    It’s also quite low to the ground and dangerous to try and drive on roads because it’s hard to see.

    Is it cool? Absolutely. But it’s not a car in the same sense many would see a car.


  • that was something I never quite understood in star trek.

    Like. with Voyager building the Delta Flyer.

    What kind of incompetent, useless, dumbass engineers would have technology like replicators*, but then design spaceships that don’t use that to build their own spare parts… or entire shuttles, etc. While we’re at it… why design an exploration starship, whose primary power system wasn’t built around fuels that could be easily replicated (and use transporters to suck in, iunno, astreroids, and then use that energy to produce said easily replicated fuel.)

    *Replicators really should be called fabricators. replicators replicate themselves, like in SG:1. fabricators … fabricate other things…






  • Imagine, if you will, hot glue sticks, only in chocolate.

    You won’t need to have the entire printer be stainless, just the hot end/heatblock and heat break.

    Then a feed system that drop more sticks in as the next gos down.

    The stick can be driven by a food safe silicone rubber wheel. Maybe some sort of squashy tread so you get better contact/traction.

    Wouldn’t be able to have super-high retraction, since it’s not a continuous length… but details.