Amos Manneschmidt
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Amos Manneschmidt
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Maker of deliberately unsellable objects.

[ Functional 3d printing, programming, Blender, robots, science ]

Also on Mastodon: @amoose136@3dp.chat
I wish BambuStudio, PrusaSlicer, OrcaSlicer, and Cura could all agree to work towards using standards compliant 3mf as much as possible instead of creating proprietary data structures inside 3mf. The current software interoperability is really poor. Too many flavors of 3mf exist.
November 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Spotify put an AI generated song in my weekly recommendations and ugh. Wish there was a way to globally turn that off.
October 23, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Reposted by Amos Manneschmidt
remember how burn is useful for 2d masks? it works just as great for 3d masks
October 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I have been waiting for this for 4 years. It makes it possible to do all kinds of neat simulation stuff that otherwise isn’t possible without grids. #b3d #geometrynodes

code.blender.org/2025/10/volu...
Volume Grids in Geometry Nodes — Blender Developers Blog
In Blender 5.0, Geometry Nodes support for volumetric data will be significantly better.
code.blender.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Hot take: the last 24 seconds of Monster Mash aren’t good. The song is otherwise an iconic masterpiece.
October 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I think something can be called "shipped" when it's first in possession by the carrier and not when you've just printed the shipping label.
September 17, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Why doesn't Wago make a 4 position 221 series lever nut?
July 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
My soul yearns to board the high-speed spite train
tjtjtj.tj TJ @tjtjtj.tj · Jun 5
trump should make a comprehensive high-quality national high-speed rail network. that would make elon so mad
June 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Andor is easily the best Star Wars ever made and there aren’t lightsabers in it. Instead we just have believable dialogue and a coherent story with character development. Action wise season 1 felt a slow burn getting started but season 2 was continuous and had plenty of tension in every scene.
June 5, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Unfortunately relevant again in light of the PBS defunding.
May 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081
April 25, 2025 at 3:32 PM
An incredible out of context quote from “Careless People” was, “…I’m informed that Big Bird can’t take the stage after dark, and that Big Bird and his team are not prepared to do any more accommodating for Mark Zuckerberg.”

Love the image of Big Bird and his muppet posse being like “Nah, Mark.”
April 4, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I can wait to put it in the fireplace and get the flame going behind it. Just the perfect ambience for reading the news.
March 12, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Is there a simple way to make a list that just excludes certain accounts you follow? Some accounts I follow mostly post about The Daily Horrors and I’d like to banish that stuff to its own tab by default.
March 1, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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PrusaSlicer 2.9.1 alpha is here, and sequential printing just got way more exciting with our new collision detection & arrangement.
We’ve also added multi-material interlocking—shoutout to the devs of Ultimaker Cura & OrcaSlicer. Try it out! ⤵️
github.com/prusa3d/Prus...
February 18, 2025 at 12:57 PM
More AI no *user* asked for.
February 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Too many physical products market themselves as having AI in them. AI is not a well defined term but my sense is that the general public sentiment is negative towards “AI” so it’s strange to use it for marketing. It’s also like saying, “this widget has ✨inefficient black-box-algorithms✨ included!”
January 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
The genie is out of the bottle but I think I generally agree with this. The damage LLMs have caused and continue to inflict to the information space outweighs their value in net. It’s difficult to find quality information about any niche topic amidst the query-bespoke sea of AI chum.
live in about 10 hours from now - subscribe/mark your calendars/tell your friends/share etc. c:

Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opB...
Generative AI is a Parasitic Cancer
YouTube video by Freya Holmér
www.youtube.com
January 3, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I watched The Grand Budapest Hotel for the first time and now I really want to recreate the pastries. The packaging is also a required part of the experience.
January 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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couldn’t be me, nope 🙃
December 23, 2024 at 2:37 PM
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Black Friday nah, I'll take Hack Friday! Join the Friday call to show what you are working on tonight at 9pm EST. Sign up here:

forms.gle/9xVqYwxvSkHv...
a group of people are standing in a store with a sign that says " superstore " on it
ALT: a group of people are standing in a store with a sign that says " superstore " on it
media.tenor.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:25 PM
I’m mildly shocked that a giant international company like Coca-Cola would think it’s okay to release this. Only mildly shocked because Pepsi had the guts to release the even more tone deaf “Jump In” ad in 2017.

youtu.be/IQWUKWM2JrQ?...
Coca-Cola - Secret Santa (AI-Generated Christmas Ad 2024)
YouTube video by LLLLITL
youtu.be
November 29, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Reposted by Amos Manneschmidt
New post: Prusa has learned nothing
blog.thea.codes/prusa-learne...
Prusa has learned nothing - Thea Flowers
The Prusa CORE One sees Prusa slip into being a follower rather than innovator.
blog.thea.codes
November 24, 2024 at 6:27 PM
Good news: while the default configuration is still terrible and there are definitely some rough edges, FreeCAD 1.0 is actually usable. Some stuff like adding a text emboss to a body is enormously clunky but the basics at least actually work now.
November 20, 2024 at 3:28 PM
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For the past 4.5 years, I've been hosting a call for #makers and #3dprinting folks every Friday at 9 Pm EST. I post a sign up link on Twitter and send out an invite just before the call. Now I'm going to start posting here too. Sign up, bring a project!

forms.gle/9xVqYwxvSkHv...
a black and white photo of a band with the words hey ho ! lets go
ALT: a black and white photo of a band with the words hey ho ! lets go
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2024 at 9:23 PM