damn bro don't call me out like that
stares at $1200 3d printer that i use for making fidget toys and dumb clips i could buy on aliexpress for $0.99
Mine has just been gathering dust because I can't be fucked to calibrate my new Sprite hotend.
I bought mine to print out a replacement plastic basket slider for the deep freezer built in the 1980s with a 4 digit Kenmore model number.
But learning how to use the modelling software to make the shape to actually get that done is taking longer than I thought in my spare time. It became a lower priority than other things.
Modelling really is the difficult part. I'm an engineer and CAD is a large part of my day job so I use printing almost exclusively as a way to refine my modelling skills, but it's taken me years to get good enough at it to be quick. Then on top of that, most "good" software is gated behind insane subscription costs that no normal user can afford. So you get stuck with stuff like FreeCAD, which admittedly is OK but very very clunky for anything other than simple geometric shapes, and it makes it much harder than it needs to be.
Auto Desk Fusion is free for personal use, and it's pretty easy once you get familiar with it. I started with Sketchup, though.
Fusion free has a ton of limitations though, namely on model exports and drawing creation and commercial use (so e.g in my case, I can't use it to make contract models to print and recoup my costs from buying the printer, and I also like to make drawings for everything I model esp. if it requires machining). And I'm extremely not fond of the "cloud" model stuff it depends on.
It admittedly is one of the most affordable subscriptions out there, but it is still a subscription. I use it if I have to, but Autodesk is liable to pull the plug on the free part at any time.
...I kickstartered one of the first consumer 3D printers... it's still in the box.
Info? It might have more „historical” value than you think. Multiple 3d printing yt channels would probably like to show such a thing.
Dobot Mooz-1. I have just the 3d printer. They also had a CNC and Laser cutter attachments, which I did not get.
But you're teaching yourself a valuable skill!
That's my justification at least! And I can use it to do small scale contract print jobs for locals and make a little extra side cash, so I guess it works out too.
Hell yeah. That's the same reason I dump money into my homelab; I have never been in IT, nor plan on it, but maybe one day I'll finally get back into home automation and could possibly sell something to a client as a complement to my electrical business. But it's damn fun to tinker with!
Lol, that's mostly what I do with my SDR, although lately I've been watching the ISS SSTV experiment.
I just realized how easy it is to receive satellite transmissions after reading how I could get the ISS repeater using a handheld radio. I'm going to look into using the RTL-SDR to decode signals.
For a moment I thought this was a ham radio sub, not Lemmy Shitposting lmao
Did that a long time ago. These days I just listen to the Radio Garden app on Android, which shows you all the online radio stations dotted around the world.
Want to listen to what they're listening to in Nairobi? Spin the globe to Kenya. Or maybe talk radio from Scotland? You just spin the globe and hit the lock icon.
Scottish talk radio sounds like a trip.
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