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Alex Gibson - Edumaker

@alex.edumaker.net

I'm here to make your #3dprint innovation happen. Director of Edumaker Limited; Project manager, technologist, 3D printing consultant; Rabbit hole speleologist

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Hmm.
I struggled to get it to set up a Home Assistant build, then any Pi image at all.
Reverted to Win32DiskImager, worked perfectly.
The Pi team normally do a great job of software testing and documentation, I wonder what's up?
Is anyone actually raising bug reports?

05.08.2025 23:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Stealing this whole idea and implementing it in my #3dprinting business.

05.08.2025 12:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And yet despite all this, there is overrepresentation of founders with #adhd.
Creativity, calm in stressful situations and a very high pain threshold for working through issues.

05.08.2025 00:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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illusion Fidget

04.08.2025 03:15 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Are you the gatekeeper?

04.08.2025 17:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

OK, that's out of my area but for a fun time, take that line of thinking down to your local Makerspace:
wiki.hackerspaces.org/Virginia

If you want to know more about printers printing printers, reprap.org/wiki/RepRap

And the current state of the art for printers you can DIY is:
vorondesign.com

04.08.2025 17:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Absolutely.
The saddest thing is that technology is one area where it's possible to truly create value even in a purely capitalist economy, profits can be had on an industrial scale without resorting to rent-seeking, extractive profiteering.

04.08.2025 17:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

It was mostly the last line!
I am not van living, though if my circumstances were to change suddenly, I would embrace it.
I run a 3D printing business, and have on occasion helped with adaptive technologies. 3D print is great for making tech fit the space and body you have, not the other way round.

04.08.2025 16:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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In the attached article. I feel seen.

04.08.2025 16:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So many nice applications for #3dprinting jigs in woodworking. PCTG for the win, very tough.

04.08.2025 16:06 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Print failed successfully. Looks great.

04.08.2025 16:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Yes. Where are you based?

04.08.2025 16:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looks great, very clean!
Have you considered increasing the number of walls?
If you can get to a point where the outer squares are all wall, no infill, without ruining your tolerances/design rules/vibe, you might be able to print faster and save printer wear.

04.08.2025 15:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have carefully reviewed your designs and conclude that b) is the best, because it can serve a dual purpose as an office crazy golf target.
No charge for this service.

04.08.2025 15:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This might not be terribly welcome, and is meant with total sincerity from a very outside Texas perspective:
Is the availability of more guns a service that, on balance, the world needs?
It looks like there are an awful lot of them already?
Now please excuse me while I remove this plank from my eye.

04.08.2025 15:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There's a joke in there somewhere about the number of engineers needed to change a lightbulb.
What a world we are building.

04.08.2025 08:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ironically 1.75mm is far better for high flow hotends.
This is because the ratio of surface area available to heat to volume of plastic is much greater with smaller diameter.
Hence I use 1.75mm on my 2m^3 printer and a [yikes expensive] Bond tech CHT Volcano nozzle.

04.08.2025 00:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don't call them the Z word.

03.08.2025 12:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Shower... Beer?
Is that a thing? I guess you guys have unlimited water?

03.08.2025 11:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Working on the ZX MAX +D and this is my current design for the Mechtrum with FDD..

02.08.2025 15:47 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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The Expanse.

01.08.2025 23:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Awesome stuff!

30.07.2025 21:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So this didn't come up at any point during their modeling of predicted behaviour in response to this policy?

Also, I've been feeding randomised 'personal data' to all these low value social media platforms for years - per all competent cyber security advice!
Now, I have to tell them everything?

30.07.2025 21:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

She can go anywhere she goddamn wants.

30.07.2025 20:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

F.

30.07.2025 20:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Being steeped in the world of #3dprinting I misread as Polyethylene [terephthalate] glycol and wondered what the hell.
In any case, I wish you many successful extrusions.

30.07.2025 20:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Its limit is 300 characters which would only be 60 four-letter words.
I, an intellectual, could never be so constrained.

30.07.2025 00:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New to me, love it!

29.07.2025 08:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Trouble in't'mill!

27.07.2025 23:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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27.07.2025 23:32 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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