Uhh, many thanks for the diagnostics. Happy to hear about the positive news. Also, it is getting colder and wetter again here :)
Great to hear, I'll become a parent in a few months. It's good to hear about how you feel since I used to feel pretty negative about having kids before we decided to have them.
Very interesting one. Although why not just make a nice template for your projects?
The reason why orchids are so special and rare is that they need the mentioned fungus to feed their children plants. In opposition to most other seeds that come with loads of nutrients stored in the first leaves (cotyledons), orchid seeds are microscopic and don't have any nutrient storage. Only the symbiosis with the fungus makes them able to grow at first.
Search for orchids on iNaturalist.org to see where you can find them near your place.
In general they have three habitats. Wet meadows, dry meadows and woodlands. All these habitats need to be poor in nutrients, so usually they are not close to where industrial agriculture is practised.
Wow, I thought it was a real one at first. Be sure to report it on iNaturalist.org for most scientific benefit.
Unfortunately things are not that easy. At least in western europe, if you let a patch of land sit there for decades, it will eventually turn into a forest. While forests are nice, they are not necessarily the most biodiverse places.
Some regular destruction of plants (mowing, animals grazing, etc) is beneficial for biodiversity.
Luxembourg, central western Europe. We have seasons. The growing season usually starts mid May until some time in September. We have lots of rain
Yes, great idea! I love having lil devices around that I can simply look at instead of needing to use my phone or a laptop.
It's a pretty interesting concept. I don't want it here though. I'm just building this for my own needs (mostly fun).
I'll look into this as a consumer though next time I need to plot stuff on a desktop :)
Not yet. I'll reply here once it's published. It will be pretty crappy C++ since I don't care too much about learning it properly. I'm just shaving yaks right now.
Thanks a lot. I mostly did it because I love the looks of it too (and because I've always wanted to build some kind of GUI library). I was also considering using it for something artsy. I like the idea of a watch!
Thanks a lot for having taken time to respond so thoroughly. I must say I haven't thought about things from this angle.
The part about the book and the mediocre comedian definitely rings a bell. Getting stuck in stupid local extrema (like in optimization) more often than necessary is definitely a thing with me.
What of many of the things you're "supposed to do" are things you don't actually want to do and therefore you don't do? What if it's external circumstances define what's called a mental disorder?
Would you feel like you have a mental disorder if you lived in some completely different context?
I'm just wondering if we can call things a disorder that might mostly arise because society is built around working better for more neurotypical people (it at all).
Would you call it a disorder being tall if for some reason most people were short and all our infrastrucure were built for short people?
I'm not questioning the difficulties many people have with their lives. I'm wondering what to do about it and where the threshold is.
I often wonder as well. Then I think: is this not just the human condition. In any case I seem to score pretty high on those online questionnaires.
I've used django CMS for a few projects and I'm quite happy with it. I've been wondering what wagtail has to offer that sets it apart from django CMS. I installed it some time ago but didn't dive very deep.
So what are the strengths and weaknesses of both systems?
After a cold and rainy start of spring, finally the beans are sprouting. We also have a bunch of tomatoes and brassicae.
Let's hope the abundant snails don't take too much.
We got a Tetra hen from a friend who can't keep it anymore yesterday. Fortunately we were looking to get a couple of chickens anyways, so we had purchased a used coop some weeks ago.
To our surprise, our cute new chicken, Clémentine gave us an egg already on the first morning. What a nice surprise.
Don't worry, we won't keep it alone for too long, we're looking to get one or two more friends.
I just got an old Ender 3 for cheap and wanted to replace the crappy extruder with a nicer bowden extruder of my (now) direct drive Kobra Max. When I connect the new stepper, nothing moves. It's a longer stepper and a different manufacturer. Is the wiring different or VREF wrong or are there other reasons why it wouldn't move? The driver is good, since the old stepper is still working.
Thanks for any help!
Hello fellow bike commuters,
I have the impression that my underwear doesn't last as long as it would without me cycling to and from work five times a week. My boxer briefs get holes too quickly between the legs. Since I can't remember a time where I didn't cycle, it's difficult for me to know if this is due to cycling or the normal way for them to die.
Can anyone here tell me about their experience? Is this related to cycling frequently? More importantly, do you know of special cyclist underwear which is not the sporty padded type but something you could wear all day and which would't rip so easily.
Has anyone thought about printing narrower lines in order to get sharper corners? Once Linear advance or Pressure advance is activated, you don't get bulging corners anymore... but can we do better?
Has this been implemented anywhere yet? Does it have a name?
Hey, I've recently designed a Poster about the FHS since I often forget where I should place or find things. Do you have any feedback how to make it better?
Edit: updated with new version
Hey, I've recently designed a Poster about the FHS since I often forget where I should place or find things. Do you have any feedback how to make it better?
Edit: Put up new version
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This Halloween I finally realized my dream from years ago, an articulate T-Rex tail. Unfortunately I didn't have the time to also create a mask/ helmet that goes with it. That's gonna be for next time. The thing is modeled in blender and printed in vase mode. The individual pieces have four holes drilled in and are held together by wooden rods. I initially imagined keeping them together with printed buttons but the rod design worked perfectly on a small scale model.
Made a bunch of improvements to where I actually use it to print kid toys. The printing starts slow to help the first layer stick; it speeds up later in the video. I had to dub it over because the original audio recorded by the phone was too hard to understand. Some other videos: The Z mechanism...
This video by dizekat shows a new kind of kinematic system based on string. It should be possible to make very fast but cheap printers like this due to low inertia of the system. Very interesting!
In my last post I described how I mounted the Orbiter v2.0 to a Kobra Max in a makeshift fashion. This time I show you how the finished mounting looks like.
Previous attempts. The ones in white worked but had the extruder dangle, the black ones failed to be mounted for various reasons.
Find the stl and Freecad file here.
I've been looking to switch the bowden extruder for a direct drive type on my Anycubic Kobra Max. I've always hated the blobbing and stringing due to the bowden mechanism. After having received an LDO Orbiter v2.0 today and a bit of tinkering, I now have what I was after :).
The easiest way to install the new extruder was to simply attach it on top of the existing hotend via a small bowden tube and a coupler. I had to design a little adapter flange that attaches to the extruder and accepts a tube coupler. The extruder now dangles in the air. For now this didn't seem to cause any trouble. In the future I might install it using a fixed bracket though.
While I was at it, I also added some additional insulation to the bed (300x300mm in size, so I had to cut a bit). I'm not sure if it really helps a lot but the bed now heats up from 20° to 60° in 3:40 instead of in 4:00. The printer also seems to consume 100mA less (very inaccurate mental averaging of power meter).
Bonus: First functional part printed with new setup, rectifying some of the original parts issues. !
Up next: Get a second Orbiter and have it feed a mixing hotend. My goal is to make nice Lampshades.
The animated gif shows how it changes throughout the seasons. Found in the Wikipedia article on athmospheric circulation.
