I used my printed drying cover to heat two spools over a longer period of time, and the results weren't impressive, so I decided to try to improve it. 1. By printing it with thicker walls, and 2. by adding some heat reflecting material. Those two steps did the job!
An accidental find, but I like it. This is hard SF, involving a world past the brink of ecological disaster (with many people unaware or actively ignoring it), the US and China in a kind of military impasse, and Canada hiring itself out as the mercenary pool for the whole world.
Let's get rid of OneDrive and CoPilot and streamline some other stuff... Who needs that crap...
Unfortunately, Microsoft may at random decide to reinstall this crapware, or re-enable some of these settings... sigh.
Audiobook Review + Alexandra Bracken
This is the sequel to Passenger. It's an interesting read, and the main character appears a bit stronger than before, willing to fight. Her counterpart and love interest ends up with the most important power in these two books, purely by (bad) luck.
Based upon my own experiences, and stuff I gathered on the internet.
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Note: a wrong Aruco code may affect bed adhesion!
I own an AMS-HT, but not all rolls / spools fit. You can, however, also dry your filament inside your printer, using the heated printer bed. It may be slower and less efficient, it looks less sexy and it blocks you from actually using your printer for printing, but hey! It works.
Lately I’m encountering a lot of detective / film noir inspired stuff. There’s Sugar on Apple TV, Spider-Noir on… euh… Prime Video? (More about Spider Noir later.) And here’s Dan Willis, who wrote a 10+ series of books, set in an alternative 30’s in the US, where (some) magic works, and dames are still dames.
A cat so dangerous, even a Flerken would keep its distance...
Jonesy (aka Jones) is of course the red tabby from Aliens - and one of the real survivors - but what if Jonesy would have encountered an immature, young alien, at the start of the story? In real cat style, that would have been an awfully short movie 🤔😁
Audiobook Review + Zoe Hana Mikuta
YA NA / FF / Post-apocalyptic / Mechas / First Person Present Tense.
Love betrayal combat mechas.
Can it get any better?
"I love it when a plan comes together."
Yeah, so do I. But sometimes... It doesn't.
So, here's the challenge I set myself: design and build my own filament dryer.
Now what does that have to do with a 123-3D Spool Holder?!?
Audiobook Review + Xiran Jay Zhao
Iron Widow is the first part of a duology / trilogy / series (?) with the same name. It describes Wu Zetian's rise through the ranks, in a Chinese inspired scifi / fantasy setting featuring a mystical 'spirit power' (a kind of paranormal energy source) and very large mecha-like creatures called 'Chrysalis'.
In modern day 3D printers you have a lot of choice in build plates, filaments, temperatures, speeds, making it almost impossible to compare the actual adhesion of the different combinations.
When fooling around with buildplates (see PlateLab) I tried to come up with a way to properly (and objectively) test material / plate adhesion.
Sometimes Windows 11 is sooooooo annoying.
Place a link to a webpage on your desktop... works. Drag it to the taskbar... can't pin it.
Why oh why? Well, here's the work-around...
Jellyfin is a free alternative for Plex (and as you may have noticed Plex has gotten a little top heavy lately).
Unfortunately, the people behind Jellyfin dropped the ball with the latest version - at least for Windows - as it simply doesn't 'auto' install. But fixing it isn't too hard.
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Audiobook Review + Adrian Tchaikovsky
The third installment in the series, and (at first) very confusing, but in the end it all makes sense.
Again, Tchaikovsky takes a 'what if' and spins it all the way to its logical conclusion, in this case it's the Ship of Theseus concept.
Series Review + Apple TV + Sugar
Season one episode one. Very weird, but I love it. I've just finished episode one, and... this is weird.
Who is John Sugar? What is John Sugar?
