I found that simply reversing my featherboard makes it function very well as a thin ripping jig to make repeated (thin) cuts on the non-fence side of the blade. The featherboard's hard side is simply set at the appropriate distance from the blade on the side opposite the fence. Then the fence is moved to support the larger "offcut" side as with a typical thin ripping jig, and you can make the cuts with push sticks as usual.

Tiny, fast controlnets for SDXL via T2I-Adapters!

Sep. 8, 2023. We collaborate with the diffusers team to bring the support of T2I-Adapters for Stable Diffusion XL (SDXL) in diffusers! It achieves impressive results in both performance and efficiency. We release T2I-Adapter-SDXL models for sketch, canny, lineart, openpose, depth-zoe, and depth-mid.

Another EV with the base model dropped almost immediately. A frustrating trend for sure.

As if some Titan-born Marvel villain snapped his infinity-stone-laden fingers, the base option for the 2024 Chevy Blazer EV has vanished into thin air. The previously announced 1LT trim level, which was to start at $44,995, is gone, leaving the front-wheel-drive 2LT trim (pictured at top) in its place at an as yet unnamed price.

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A Chevrolet spokesperson told Automotive News that the brand envisions higher trim levels on the upcoming Equinox EV will meet the needs of potential Blazer EV 1LT buyers, but with the Bolt twins on hiatus, we lament the removal of another budget-oriented option.

The graphic above summarizes the median 512x512 render speed (batch size 1) for various GPUs. Filtering is for single-GPU systems only, and for GPUs with more than 5 benchmarks only. Data is taken from this database (thank you vladmandic!). Graph is color-coded by manufacturer:

• NVIDIA consumer (lime green)
• NVIDIA workstation (dark green)
• AMD (red)
• Intel (blue), seems there's not enough data yet

This is an update/prettier visualization from my previous post using today's data.

I made a small kitchen knife this weekend from scrap wood (an offcut of a coffee table I posted previously). It's a toy knife made for my son, who likes to hang out it the kitchen with us and play with his toy food set. We got the set secondhand from our neighbors, but it sadly lacked a knife, so into the shop we go! Process:

• Sketched a rough outline onto wood
• Roughly cut it out with a jigsaw
• Sanded it into shape with my belt sander (which is mounted upside-down into a purpose-built holder jig that clamps onto my bench)

More images below.

Cutting out the shape:

Shaping on the belt-sander jig:

I couldn't find recent summarized data for the (excellent) benchmarks provided via the sd-extension-system-info repo, so I went ahead and pulled/summarized it. Here is the median It/s for each GPU with more than 10 entries in the table (single GPU setups only).

Source: https://vladmandic.github.io/sd-extension-system-info/pages/benchmark.html

Note: updated (found an error in the original post where I hadn't actually eliminated dual GPUs etc.)

A repost (from Reddit) of a project I finished last summer. It's made from the excess of a (nicer portion) of a slab that a friend cut using an Alaskan sawmill. Edges are chamfered using a circular saw. Knot and void are filled with a scrap from the slab + epoxy. Legs (and epoxy) were purchased from Amazon. Finish is danish oil + a topcoat of lacquer that I wiped on and buffed with steel wool to make it matte. I expect it'll warp some, and this was mostly a quick "let's see what I can do with some epoxy and a scrap slab", but I ended up really enjoying the process and the finished result. I still have the "better" section of this slab drying in the garage (it's destined for a desk). That's a project for this summer. So far, it hasn't noticeably warped and is holding up well to my toddler's best efforts at destruction.

I finally finished the dresser I've been working on (it's #2 of 2, built to fit in our closet). No drawer slides, just paste wax, and made pretty much entirely from plywood and glue.

The project was pretty simple, but I went for (fairly) tight tolerances (a few mm clearance), so I was grateful for having made a crosscut sled on this one.