You know this, but I’ll say it anyway. Discharging = heat and an implementation with no fan will probably result in shorter component life. Granted, someon else could use a quieter fan or a heat sync big enough to not necessitate active cooling.
If you’re feeling adventurous, up size those resistors with through hole variety and offset them from the PCB so they get a bit more airflow.
Let us know what you end up with!
Not OP, but wanted to chime in.
I get the sentiment Some Gen Xers did grow up with home computers. However, I suspect those people are outliers due to both the cost and general user friendlyness. In the late 90s it seemed like everyone had a home computer, even the normies. This let their kids grow up messing around
It almost seems like we’re heading back in this direction, where normies have moved on to phones and tablets because they “just work”. I don’t think the average kid will grow up as immersed in computers as I did unless their parents are intentionally about making that introduction. I bought my kid a used Thinkpad for Christmas last year. Most of his peers have tablets or just stick to their smartphone.
Agree, but also - what if they aren’t declined and that’s just the way they were all along?
I have a coworker who’s a total idea factory, but struggles to communicate their ideas clearly. They’ve found LLMs grestly help writing their ideas in a way others can understand.
TBH, I am not that fond of the idea. After all, if a LLM can write what I do there’s not really a need for me. But I also wonder if I’m gatekeeping a bit. Even if I have a hard time empathizing with the situation, I understand that we all have different strengths and weaknesses. Maybe they’re just using a LLM to help fill in one of their weaknesses?
It’s probably either a long exposures or a bunch of stacked exposures to get decently even lighting.
These units are somewhat silly IMO. It all comes down to volumetric flow. Big nozzle + thick extrusions + thick layers would probably mean needing to print slower than that speed due to the ability of a hot end to melt the filament.
/ someone who has been mm^3/s constrained for a while now
For quite some time now, Marlin has been the firmware of choice for any kind of custom 3D printer, with only Klipper offering some serious competition in the open-source world
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It does seem like an interesting concept, but I wonder how much benefit it will have, both in tuning effort and final outcome.
Get your self a “fast” lens and you’ll be back to hand holding pretty quickly. Granted, you’ll lose depth of field so this may not work for every shot. Prime lenses are your best bet here. f/1.4 should be plenty but f/1.8 or even f/2 will do.
You can use the exposure information from the photos you took to play the “if I had a faster lens, what kind of ISO and shutter speed could I get away with”. The zoo lights photos I posted a few days ago in one of my comments were hand held.
That seems like a lot of damage for one week, but I guess anything is possible.
In general, plants don’t like sudden changes to their environment. That’s why you should gradually introduce indoor plants to sunlight if you move them outdoors - you’ll give them sunburn. I suspect the same is true for roots. I keep my orchids in bark and let them dry out some between waterings. I suspect if their roots were suddenly moist 24/7 they wouldn’t be too happy about it.
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That your company has an in-house software dev team is impressive. Does the revenue-generating business have access to that team?
Not OP, but in a similar situation. We have in-house dev for both tooling/infrastructure as well as revenue generation. For better or worse, leaders have neglected the software tooling and infrastructure that we use to build and deliver our revenue generating software for decades. Some serious cracks in the foundation showing and we might finally start fixing things.
I find that I’m really choosy with which landscape photos I like, but I really like the post photo and the first photo in the post. Nice work!
That’s probably the same one we have, or at least a closely related sibling.
Mine has two different speeds it follows, but yes - it doesn’t move very quickly. You can also mess with the angle of the sprayer which will impact the amount of water delivered to the area it covers.
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Thanks for sharing! First time growing zucchini? Some of them can get massive if they get away from you. We were gone for 10 weeks in July a few years ago and came back to one that was nearly as long as out toddler was tall.
That’s good to know! We’re trying to get some seeds to start, so I’m not watering that deep. It seems like our first good spring rain drives out a bumper crop of worms - they’re all over the street. My kids enjoy going for a walk to collect them in a bucket to put them in our vegetable garden. That usually happens before the robins arrive though.
I got this one at my local ace hardware. It’s Nelson branded, but this general design has been around decades. I’m sure thrt are a number of different mechanical underpinnings. We’ve had this one 7 or so years in and it’s holding up well. It makes covering a large area very easy.
Same! It’s a great design if you’re lazy and want to cover a lot of area. I bought this one at a local ace 7 or so years ago and it’s been going strong with minimal attention.
And I’ll be the first vendor!
1 and 5: Either should be fine, especially if the seller is reputable and has reviews. Many sells will have a store on multiple sites, but in some cases people will resell other people’s work. See if you can track down the original creator to support them 2: I suspect everyone will want STLs they won’t have to do any processing on. What do I mean? Well, I could give you a STL for a piece that’s massively too large and would need to be split into pieces or a different STL that will be impossible to print well. I suspect print services won’t want to deal with this, will charge for it, and/or you might not be happy with the final outcome 3: If you’re paying someone to print the parts, they will likely have larger format printers. However, this might cost some $$ 5: It depends how thick the designs are and how strong you want them to be (more perimeters = stronger), but keep in mind that you’re also paying for machine time and potentially processing (eg surface finishing, support removal, etc). To get a feel for a quote without buying this design, find some cosplay armor on something like printables and use that for quotes
I think I have two general responses.
I think you’re right in that photography and the style of photographs has evolved with technology. Each of those technological steps has been partially shaped by art (what makes it to market) and taste (what succeeds in the market). Additionally, darkrooms gave a lot of leeway for the look of the final image. This also ties into what makes for a compelling image - you’re often looking for a dramatic scene, a subject that’s a bit out of the norm, and/or unique lighting. Yeah, there are street photographs of everyday people doing everyday things in normal lighting, but they often aren’t that compelling.
In other words, photography is often stylized. I personally think that’s OK, especially when you consider how flat lightly processed photos are.
The good news in today’s world: if you shoot digital you can shoot raw + jpeg and change the look of the image pretty drastically with non-destructive edits. I’ve re-edited photos I’ve taken over a decade ago and changed their look significantly. I can do the same again in another 10 years if it strikes my fancy.
We probably have the same model - the one with the big oval stand. Every once in a while I wish it was OLED and/or higher resolution, but it’s not worth the expensive or all the modern “features” such as these.