With a heated bed, warping is minimal, as far as I understand it. Of course, I haven't even bothered connecting mine to the circuit boards yet... Even with just yellow/white painter's tape on my print surface, I don't get any problems with this on most prints.
Granted, most of my prints could fit inside a 10x10 cm area on the print surface, so they're not very big.
As far as I know, a bridge is a hidden entry node. Unlike regular ones, they're not published on a huge list.. you can only request a few via a certain url at a time.
The rage runs deep here, considering I was just parroting what I read on Wikipedia about the continents a while ago. I'd like ask you people to give my mailbox a rest by no longer repeating the same "raaaah america is only the USA" thing. I got it by now. You don't like me saying such things.
The US is the united part of America, while there's also this continent called.. you guessed it.. America. It can be subdivided into North and South America, but if you just call it America, it's the whole you'd actually be talking about.
I use Blender for anything organic or smooth, or anything that can be done with a bit of simple vertex-pushing. I might look into Openscad for customizable or technical designs, or Sketchup for anything architectural that doesn't have to be very precise.
There's also tools for repairing STL files. You should ask on #reprap on freenode IRC about it. I don't need it very much, forgot the name.
Similarly, I have a Reprap printer. It takes work and knowledge to get it to work and keep working, needing attention like a spoiled little baby, but it's fun to mess around with. I also built my computer from parts, about 4 or 5 years ago. It still serves every purpose I use it for. It also has its share of weirdness sometimes, but I can deal with it.
To those with the patience for it, DIY can be a beautiful kind of project to work on. To those without, surely there's someone nearby who has the right skills and the right price.
FDM printers can already be had for less than $1000, and I built my own Mendel90 for about 500 euros. The PLA I use cost 32 euros per 2.3 kg, although it's a pretty cheap type. Been using it for a while now, still haven't run out. And even if I did find myself lacking material, I could chuck all my failed prints into a filabot or something and recycle it.
My Z axis would be the most accurate axis on my printer, I'd guess. And it's just two simple leadscrews with captured nuts and one stepper motor each, driving them. It's a 550 euro Mendel90, a Reprap variant.
None of the workers really have any responsibility for the decisions made. The responsibility would lie with those who -make- those decisions, the higher-ups. Ideally, you'd just find the person who made the decision to skimp on security. Sadly, that's easier said than done.
Well, paying for academic journals.. it just reminds me of this quote I read just a few posts up: "As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master".
Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
Especially the last part. "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master".
I'd say his family suffered a bit more collateral damage. And the US government is getting its eyebrows scorched, figuratively. No huge damage, but they are seeing a bit of backlash.
One of them ends your life financially and legally, and gets away with it legally too. The other just ends your life. And just gets away with it, if he really is a professional.
As far as I understand, this is a US only thing. France is not affected by this particular law... though yeah, I don't get how the initial three strikes thing went as far as it did either. Good thing I live in the Netherlands, which might almost seem progressive on the copyright front if you don't watch the news too carefully.
So they say their process can reach 0.3 mm, and that's much finer than FDM ones can.
Reprap printers use FDM. Mine printed to a layer height of 0.1 mm right after calibration, with a 2-1 width-height ratio... when I get my broken Arduino replaced (it's been a month dammit), I'm going to check if I can get it down to 0.05 mm or so. Any lower is just insanely slow, but.. saying that 0.3 mm is special compared to FDM is just plain nonsense.
To do that, you'd have to regulate stepper motors, plastic filament (or pellets, with some of the projects going on), materials with somewhat decent electrical resistance, or materials with high heat tolerance. Or home electronics kits, like Arduinos.
My Reprap prints at a layer height of 0.1 mm, when I'm not waiting months for -both- my failed-on-arrival Arduinos to be replaced and sent back to me... I could print this magazine and it would work, but here in the Netherlands there's just no reason to (less crime, also no way to get a gun to go with the magazine). It's made out of mostly off the shelf equipment, except for one RAMPS board that some enthusiast makes (with 3 or 4 alternatives made by other folks), and some plastic printed parts.
I don't see how it'd be at all possible to regulate this, except maybe making the software itself illegal. And in that case, we will just move to Tor or I2P. 3D printers are so simple in their design that it's practically impossible to stop them.
So when the reveal happens, and it turns out one or both of them do require always-on internet.. perhaps we should just kick up the same kind of mess that got SOPA kicked out of everything. That brings things into public opinion.
Though I doubt we'll have support from as many websites as we did back then.
I forgot to mention why recording a 3D scene is useful for anything but 3D scanning. I hope most will already know, but for those that don't: you could do all sorts of things with it. The first things to come to mind is that stereoscopic 3D viewing is easy to achieve with realistic results. You could also look at the subject from different angles, and post-processing could use the 3D data to make extremely accurate green-screen type cutouts even without a green screen or anything like it. If you're clever, you could place the subject in a completely different environment altogether with ease. Good for movies and stuff, but also for journalists and such.
My first thought was that this can do for "true" 3D recording what the Kinect couldn't because of its interference with other Kinects. We could put a bunch of these around someone and reconstruct a very complete 3D scene, including normal information (the camera knows what direction light is coming from), which is useful for motion capture, videobloggers who want a neat gimmick, and -porn-... and the latter has driven all sorts of innovations.
And the geek in me is giddy at the thought of the data you could get of scanned objects with this. Perfect representations:D
SSDs wouldn't be damaged as much by an impact after a long drop. HDDs would, though.
As for getting it running and on the internet automatically, I don't think it quite does that yet. Do you want it to be a robot server, seeking its own internet and power cord?
Let's put it another way: our thought processes are the result of years upon years of experiences building on top of one another. Any mental difference is bound to have a big result.
Perhaps we don't just think differently than the norm and get depressed and stuff because we're geeks and artists-.... perhaps we're artists and geeks because we think differently than the norm and grew up with a different viewpoint.
I don't hope for it to happen, but I've got to agree that people would finally take security a little bit more seriously if it did happen. A little bit.
50 gigs, for one-... like the AC said. AND this thing seems like a sort of personal payback from Dotcom towards the copyright mafiaa. It's not reckless enough to go down easily, but it does seem heavily motivated by that. Which means providing a good service is aligned with his interests.. where every alternative focuses on squeezing the most money out of people.
His personal agenda seems to be counteracting the default business mindset enough to make it worthwhile. I'm intrigued:D
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With a heated bed, warping is minimal, as far as I understand it. Of course, I haven't even bothered connecting mine to the circuit boards yet... Even with just yellow/white painter's tape on my print surface, I don't get any problems with this on most prints.
Granted, most of my prints could fit inside a 10x10 cm area on the print surface, so they're not very big.
As far as I know, a bridge is a hidden entry node. Unlike regular ones, they're not published on a huge list.. you can only request a few via a certain url at a time.
The rage runs deep here, considering I was just parroting what I read on Wikipedia about the continents a while ago. I'd like ask you people to give my mailbox a rest by no longer repeating the same "raaaah america is only the USA" thing. I got it by now. You don't like me saying such things.
The US is the united part of America, while there's also this continent called.. you guessed it.. America. It can be subdivided into North and South America, but if you just call it America, it's the whole you'd actually be talking about.
I use Blender for anything organic or smooth, or anything that can be done with a bit of simple vertex-pushing. I might look into Openscad for customizable or technical designs, or Sketchup for anything architectural that doesn't have to be very precise.
There's also tools for repairing STL files. You should ask on #reprap on freenode IRC about it. I don't need it very much, forgot the name.
Similarly, I have a Reprap printer. It takes work and knowledge to get it to work and keep working, needing attention like a spoiled little baby, but it's fun to mess around with. I also built my computer from parts, about 4 or 5 years ago. It still serves every purpose I use it for. It also has its share of weirdness sometimes, but I can deal with it.
To those with the patience for it, DIY can be a beautiful kind of project to work on. To those without, surely there's someone nearby who has the right skills and the right price.
FDM printers can already be had for less than $1000, and I built my own Mendel90 for about 500 euros. The PLA I use cost 32 euros per 2.3 kg, although it's a pretty cheap type. Been using it for a while now, still haven't run out. And even if I did find myself lacking material, I could chuck all my failed prints into a filabot or something and recycle it.
I regularly print at 0.1 mm layer height, and generally find that it could be better. If I had the patience for it, I'd go for 0.05 or 0.025.
My Z axis would be the most accurate axis on my printer, I'd guess. And it's just two simple leadscrews with captured nuts and one stepper motor each, driving them.
It's a 550 euro Mendel90, a Reprap variant.
None of the workers really have any responsibility for the decisions made. The responsibility would lie with those who -make- those decisions, the higher-ups. Ideally, you'd just find the person who made the decision to skimp on security. Sadly, that's easier said than done.
Either Bitcoin thrives for a decent while, or cancer gets cured. How is this a bad thing? :D
(Intentionally simplifying things, yeah, but still)
Well, paying for academic journals.. it just reminds me of this quote I read just a few posts up:
"As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master".
Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights"
Especially the last part. "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master".
I'd say his family suffered a bit more collateral damage. And the US government is getting its eyebrows scorched, figuratively. No huge damage, but they are seeing a bit of backlash.
One of them ends your life financially and legally, and gets away with it legally too. The other just ends your life. And just gets away with it, if he really is a professional.
As far as I understand, this is a US only thing. France is not affected by this particular law... though yeah, I don't get how the initial three strikes thing went as far as it did either. Good thing I live in the Netherlands, which might almost seem progressive on the copyright front if you don't watch the news too carefully.
So they say their process can reach 0.3 mm, and that's much finer than FDM ones can.
Reprap printers use FDM. Mine printed to a layer height of 0.1 mm right after calibration, with a 2-1 width-height ratio... when I get my broken Arduino replaced (it's been a month dammit), I'm going to check if I can get it down to 0.05 mm or so. Any lower is just insanely slow, but.. saying that 0.3 mm is special compared to FDM is just plain nonsense.
- Electronically/mechanically inexperienced, first-time Reprap builder
To do that, you'd have to regulate stepper motors, plastic filament (or pellets, with some of the projects going on), materials with somewhat decent electrical resistance, or materials with high heat tolerance. Or home electronics kits, like Arduinos.
My Reprap prints at a layer height of 0.1 mm, when I'm not waiting months for -both- my failed-on-arrival Arduinos to be replaced and sent back to me... I could print this magazine and it would work, but here in the Netherlands there's just no reason to (less crime, also no way to get a gun to go with the magazine). It's made out of mostly off the shelf equipment, except for one RAMPS board that some enthusiast makes (with 3 or 4 alternatives made by other folks), and some plastic printed parts.
I don't see how it'd be at all possible to regulate this, except maybe making the software itself illegal. And in that case, we will just move to Tor or I2P. 3D printers are so simple in their design that it's practically impossible to stop them.
So when the reveal happens, and it turns out one or both of them do require always-on internet.. perhaps we should just kick up the same kind of mess that got SOPA kicked out of everything. That brings things into public opinion.
Though I doubt we'll have support from as many websites as we did back then.
I forgot to mention why recording a 3D scene is useful for anything but 3D scanning. I hope most will already know, but for those that don't: you could do all sorts of things with it. The first things to come to mind is that stereoscopic 3D viewing is easy to achieve with realistic results. You could also look at the subject from different angles, and post-processing could use the 3D data to make extremely accurate green-screen type cutouts even without a green screen or anything like it. If you're clever, you could place the subject in a completely different environment altogether with ease. Good for movies and stuff, but also for journalists and such.
My first thought was that this can do for "true" 3D recording what the Kinect couldn't because of its interference with other Kinects. We could put a bunch of these around someone and reconstruct a very complete 3D scene, including normal information (the camera knows what direction light is coming from), which is useful for motion capture, videobloggers who want a neat gimmick, and -porn-... and the latter has driven all sorts of innovations.
And the geek in me is giddy at the thought of the data you could get of scanned objects with this. Perfect representations :D
SSDs wouldn't be damaged as much by an impact after a long drop. HDDs would, though.
As for getting it running and on the internet automatically, I don't think it quite does that yet. Do you want it to be a robot server, seeking its own internet and power cord?
Let's put it another way: our thought processes are the result of years upon years of experiences building on top of one another. Any mental difference is bound to have a big result.
Perhaps we don't just think differently than the norm and get depressed and stuff because we're geeks and artists-.... perhaps we're artists and geeks because we think differently than the norm and grew up with a different viewpoint.
The latency must be horrible though!
I don't hope for it to happen, but I've got to agree that people would finally take security a little bit more seriously if it did happen. A little bit.
50 gigs, for one-... like the AC said. AND this thing seems like a sort of personal payback from Dotcom towards the copyright mafiaa. It's not reckless enough to go down easily, but it does seem heavily motivated by that. Which means providing a good service is aligned with his interests.. where every alternative focuses on squeezing the most money out of people.
His personal agenda seems to be counteracting the default business mindset enough to make it worthwhile. I'm intrigued :D