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@indenturedexistence.net
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maker. gamer. he/him.

friends with l'esprit d'escalier. spooning the abyss. interested in sweets & filament with dangerous auras.

wasn't cut out to be a vibe coder. cutting my teeth as a trad coder.

teaching myself what i can.
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Cassie got dressed up too.
My dog Cassie wearing a pink and white stripe jacket with green fairy lights.
October 31, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Happy Halloween!

Mask by #Hex3D / Geoff Wicks

Filament is Jessie Premium PLA Green Slime Glitter by @printedsolid.bsky.social
A photo of myself in a black hoodie wearing a 3D printed face mask of the Grinch. I'm seated in front of green-blue striped curtains that are drawn and next to a bookshelf with a tackle box and books visible.
October 31, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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#sundog and #moondog
October 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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September 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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ERCFv2 on #RepRapFirmware is up to 4 consecutive filament changes...

Need to work on unloads...

Need a better buffer...
A photo of a 3d printer, paused mid print. In the lower center is the test print, with four colors printed (dark green, light green, purple and blue). Behind and to the right of the test print is the wipe tower with the four above colors visible.
September 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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September 15, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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Some cool #aurora tonight...
September 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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A Northern Green Frog spotted in the garden. The frog is sitting on top of some mulch next to a stone wall. In the foreground there are pink-purple flowers visible. A monarch butterfly landed in a concrete slab next to a hoofie.
September 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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i've put some thought into this, as you can see:
a screenshot of the Minder program, a 'mind-mapping' tool. It shows a branching tree, each branch a different color. The main branches are MOVE, PRINT, SERVO, STATUS, and SYS. The sub branches for MOVE are FILAMENT and SELECTOR. FILAMENT is for feeding and retracting filament to and fro. SELECTOR has entries for homing the selector and moving to different gates. The sub-branch PRINT has entries for pre-flight/pre-print checks (selector is homed, make sure the gates are loaded & the number of loaded gates equals the filament number in the print file) The sub-branch SERVO has macros for opening and closing the filament cutter and engaging and releasing the filament top-hat servo. The sub-branch STATUS will ultimately have a macro to check which gates are loaded, as well as macros to check filament loading performance. The sub-branch SYS has macros to reassign the filament monitor as a simple trigger during filament moves.
August 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Cassie says "hey."
A picture of my dog, Cassie. She's a golden silky terrier (I think). She's sitting in a black office chair and her tongue is sticking out of the side of her mouth.
August 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The hole in this print was supported ABS. I think I'm finally getting the hang of this.
July 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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The only thing I hate more than crimping cables: rebuilding linear rail blocks.
A partially assembled linear rail block
June 24, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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screenshot from my personal weather station
a screenshot from a personal weather station on Weather Underground. Station Summary Online - Updated 31 seconds ago Current Conditions 92.3F Feels like 115.8F (a simple compass indicating SSW) Wind & Gust - 3.0 / -- mph Dewpoint - 55.8F Precip Rate - 0.00 in/hr Pressure - 28.61 in Humidity - 73% Precip Accum -- UV --
June 23, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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Looks like input shaping was doing some heavy lifting. You can see where it was disabled.
A photo of a 3d printer calibration cube, mid print. The cube is a dark purple color. The tool head of the printer is visible along with the inductive probe mount in red. There is a visible, horizontal,print artifact in the side of the print where input shaping was disabled. the transition is distinct; corners appear slightly sharper and there is ringing that appears as ripples along the features of the print.
June 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Tell me something:

If I hate crimping cables so much, then why am I so good at it.

Make it make sense.
A BME280 temperature-baronetric pressure-humidity sensor with custom cable. The cable has black, woven nylon jacket with red heat shrink. The cable has 6 wires,with a jst-ph plug in one end and individual Dupont plugs in the other end.
June 15, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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My compression gloves from @bibicosplays.bsky.social arrived and they're fantastic. So soft and comfy!
An Xbox controller, the right half of a Dygma Raise keyboard and my right hand holding an Elecom Huge trackball. The hand is wearing a grey, fingerless, compression glove.
June 6, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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#Sunset, 3 June 2025
A sunset; the treeline is in silhouette and the sun is a dark red disc sitting just above.
June 3, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Not a care in the world.
My dog, Cassie, sleeping on a raised dog bed. The dog bed is on gravel and there are pansies and other plants growing out of the ground around the dog bed.
June 3, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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This moth looks like it would be strawberry-banana flavor.
A photo of a rosy maple moth that landed on my door frame. The moth has yellow and pink wings, with a tuft of yellow hair on the thorax and pink legs; ~20mm long
May 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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@teamrazer.bsky.social

why can't synapse 4 have access to the same cloud storage synapse 3 uses?

this is a very disappointing workflow.
May 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Best Star Trek Crew, wrong answers only.
Kryten, Cat, Lister and Rimmer. The cast of Red Dwarf.
May 24, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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First print with ePA6-CF was a success.
The zaribo test cube printed in ePA6-CF (Nylon 6 with carbon fiber).
May 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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See? I was right.

The ones with too much squish will be on the inside where you can't see.
Second layer of a 3D print. There are 5 pieces in the picture. The toolhead is also visible, albeit blurry due to the motion. There is subtle rippling in the second layer visible on the two left pieces due to the nozzle being too close to the bed. Refraction from the interior overhead LED lighting highlights the extrusion lines in two pieces on the right. There is a prime line visible in the lower left corner of the image.
May 19, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Now that's a first layer you can walk away from.

#3DPrinting
A partial first layer of a 3D print. The filament is dark green in color. The physical print is 8 sided. The individual extrusion lines are barely visible. The red and black printed parts of the tool head are also visible in the image.
May 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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the image of this mouse looks like it would not only be difficult to hold but also extremely hot as well
the image is of a "gaming" -style computer mouse with a skeletonized body. the mouse is depicted from it's left-hand side. there is an object in the interior of the mouse that is glowing orange; the glow casts light on the interior of the mouse shell reminiscent of an internal combustion engine. there are back & forward mouse buttons on the side of the mouse and a long rounded rectangular button that appears to be the left-mouse button.
May 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM