
This technique shared by [Andy Kong] is for 3D printed lenses, but would probably be worth a shot for any resin prints that need to be made nice and clear. The link to his post on X is here, but we…

Comment with my exact question, is this variance beyond MoE? Would love to see their methodology on how this is calculated.
Yeah, makes sense based on where the sensor is, my heater didn't have a thermocouple on it so I drilled a hole for a thermistor midplate, it's super slow to respond is the downside but in theory it should be accurate enough.
I don't have experience with the bambu, in theory everything will experience thermal expansion but for the voron setup, the bimetallic construction is some of the issue, they have different thermal expansion properties so it can cause deflections. Part quality will vary wildly depending on sourcing too, vorons are very diy and open as the draw, but there's just so much variability from sourcing, mods, assembly etc.
I have z braces on my bear modded mk3s too, things reliable as heck and easy to service.
It looked like you have a textured sheet? 0.2 mm variation over the entire built area isn't huge, might be exaggerating it.
How much of a heat soak? If you're going to the edge, let that sit for at least an hour, preferably more, look at Ellis' page on thermal expansion, frame will absolutely expand. I use backers on my 2.4, gantry is giant bimetallic strip, backers do seem to help with that. Klipper does have the ability to correct for this as well, in that link. I do also have a kinematic bed mount (it's coupled loosely to the frame, basically gives the bed room to expand), which again does seem to help, but I'd personally say heat soak is the first thing to do to achieve consistency.
And to echo others, degrease your bed with dish soap & water (unless your surface can be damaged, Buildtak that's a no, don't of that for example). If that's a textured sheet, may need to give a bit more of a squish, but get it good and clean first. Ellis has some solid 1st layer calibration and troubleshooting guides to go through. For pei, personally I've found I needed to rough up the surface a bit with a brass brush, I don't love pei on my voron, usually use buildtak but have had really good results with the fire resistant version of garolite.
Edit: read up on your probe, eddy current based? Sounds really interesting, my first point is probably moot, though possible you could be picking up the texture or if you have strong magnets it could affect it (my bed has an array of strong round magnets, seen others that are just a magnetic sheet), the do call that out in their FAQ.
One part of me hopes the Reform and PCs split again after this, but realistically idk that's happening. Leslyn Lewis will totally run again, if they're doubling down on those ideas might be they select her.
I was looking through, generally custom macros are in the config folder, unsure if they've implemented it differently, here's the Raise3D repo I found earlier, klipper has some code in c for the microcontroller stuff AFAIK with klippy in python, I've not personally dove into the code, just config and macro stuff largely.
Actually digging through a bit, there's some gcodes in /klippy/gcode.py in the above repo I don't see in the Mainline Klipper equivalent, like M9999, it might be a start, klippy lives on the host machine.
From reddit, some stuff, I kinda got the same vibes you did a while back, got a shit disturber vibe, does things to intentionally piss people off, which was what I got from that open carry video in that reddit comment.
Yeah, didn't think it was an image, just images in gcode are encoded.
I did find their github with a klipper config, but yeah, unsurprisingly it's not there. You could see if it has documentation through the klipper console? I'm betting it's not going to be in your klipper config unfortunately. Definitely leaning toward it being the portion that has the firmware validate the key and then set things up.
From the arch wiki
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Set SUDO_EDITOR in your profile to the editor of your choice, benefit is it retains your user profile for that editor, it's also less to type. For stuff like editing sudoers you're supposed to use visudo to edit that. Others can probably give better/more thorough reasons to consider it.
Prefacing this, I have no idea, can't find any information either, I'm just speculating for what it's worth.
.What's kinda interesting is someone posted an identical one to the prusa forums like 2 years ago, no responses unfortunately.
I'm willing to guess it's data, I'd wondered if it was unique per user but if you both have encountered it... don't think that's the case. I'm going to assume it's sending a blob, vaguely reminds me of image thumbnails in gcode, but those are clear that's what they are, maybe it's some executable code that changes printer parameters or how the subsequent gcode is processed by the controller to support the HyperFFF mode.
Don't love it personally, but I'm willing to assume they're doing this way to obfuscate what's happening because its proprietary rather than anything malicious. I don't really have the tools or knowledge to really try to examine it further however, hopefully someone with that skillset is interested enough.
Edit: is this a cloud first printer? Also totally possible it's just telling the printer to download something remotely to support that HyperFFF mode, again, can't really tell, could be worth seeing what's happening network wise.
Canada’s National Observer asked the NDP for comment on the situation and later that day posed the question to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in a virtual press conference on April 22.
Singh did not directly respond to Canada’s National Observer’s question, nor its follow-up question about the Green Party’s complaint.
Instead he said many strategic voting websites regularly promote the Liberal Party and that “if you want to stop Conservatives, vote New Democrat. If you also want someone that's going to … stop liberals like Mark Carney from cutting the things that you need, vote New Democrat.”
An hour later, an NDP spokesperson contacted Canada’s National Observer but did not offer a statement. Instead, they sent information “on background” — indicating it shouldn’t be attributed to the NDP — that pointed out the federal Green Party was sanctioned by Elections Canada in 2016, and said “that website isn’t ours.”
Gotta say I'm unhappy that I'm disappointed in the Federal NDP again, the whataboutism around the green party being sanctioned almost a decade ago is maybe tangentially relevant, but that feels they're more trying to cast doubt on the green's poll. Your candidate linked to the website, it doesn't matter if it's yours, its part of your party's official communication. I don't love that Singh (or any politician for that matter but I align closest historically with the NDP so I'll be critical) seemingly didn't address the questions during the press conference either.
There's something about the current NDP priorities I don't love, while I totally acknowledge their work on pharmacare, ban on scab labour and dental (and understand why they tore up the supply & confidence agreement over back to work), I started being disappointed back when they held back 100% of campaign rebates, I've personally noticed less and less riding level activity from then as well. I don't love that they're supporting S-210, I know a bunch of people who started listening to the NDP specifically because they were pretty adamant in their support for privacy. It's a lot of small things but yeah, they add up.
I'm just happy to still be considered young lol.
My circle, most want the Feds to do more with what they can, but largely place blame on provinces & municipalities for housing & rent, Ontario removed rent controls for units built after 2018 when the pcpo formed government as one example. The lower levels of government have a larger impact on your day to day and yet have the lowest engagement, my (ndp) MPP even sent out a "this level of government is responsible for this" magnet with numbers and departments of it to (I think) help address that.
Yeah that's my understanding too.
I used to get ones from the Tories a few years back, looks only (ignoring content) this is somehow tamer, those looked like Peter Popov mailers complete with the random fake pencil scrawls in the margins, highlighting and blue ink underlining.
As far as I recall, egg freezes, it dead. Always checked my hauling zones after I accidentally killed some dinosaur eggs (pretty sure it's the same behaviour in vanilla)
Should reinstall anyhow, actually really liked anomaly!
That's pretty much how I'd expect it to go yeah, every electrician I've worked with has been super particular about wiring. Even having done my own in-field bodges on wire looms for equipment (just splicing a wire because I didn't have an available spare or time to redo the harness) it doesn't stick out, especially after all the cable wrap or zip ties.
Trying to be vague as heck in the spoilers, totally get it! Don't think there's anything there that's super spoilery (I hope!) But definitely play it safe.
Fingers crossed next run, as for the item there's a
Yeah, I've never had
I did enjoy it and the underlying story kept me going, gotta say after playing it with my partner for a while, the rogue like elements started getting a little grating, especially if you're looking for extremely specific rooms and get crap RNG (took like 12 days to get a
I know there are
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ways to manipulate it or influence like the chess puzzle, but my drafts suuuuuucked, just weight rooms and archives constantly or dead ends as my choice. Probably not running an optimal strategy but was kinda hard to do when I had no other options. Would get screwed over constantly trying to power the lab too.
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Got tedious/frustrating at times but did overall enjoy it.
This isn't even borrowed from the yanks, look back at shit the Tories said during the Harper years, it's literally exactly the same rhetoric, there's a clip on CBC from years ago with Pierre talking about the Omar Khadr supreme court ruling and dude was saying shit like "this is a matter for the democratically elected government, not the courts".
While I get the overlap, we shouldn't downplay our own shit, we've been perfectly capable of having a christofacist party on our own, and exporting it globally (Gaven McInnes - Canadian, worked with the rebel, Jordan Peterson, Harper has been involved with the IDU, Preston Manning's takeover of the Conservatives was cited as an inspiration for Nigel Farage)
Straight arch works great with nvidia cards, gaming was my last hitch too, only thing I really miss is HDR in games, but it's a tradeoff I'm willing to have (had bad times with gamescope and nvidia, I'm content to leave it alone for now, things change rapidly anyhow)
Hudson's Bay Company is nearly $1B in debt, with court filings painting dire financial portrait
Experts say that Hudson's Bay had been in decline long before then, some tracing its issues back to its 2008 acquisition by the American investment firm NRDC Equity Partners, and saying that the company's new ownership prioritized its real estate over a cohesive retail strategy.
Emphasis mine.
Canadian senator challenges Donald Trump Jr. to a boxing match
I was joking about a Trudeau/Brazeau charity match against Trump/Musk the other day.
Canadian 3D printing Supplies
Figured I'd contribute with resources I've used and found really solid, not everything is made in Canada but all are Canadian businesses with fantastic customer service.
Filament
Parts, kits, etc.
Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney says he'd run a deficit to 'invest and grow' Canada's economy
The intent, Carney said during an interview on Rosemary Barton Live, is to invest in Canada's economy "at a time when we absolutely have to build as a country."
The taxpayer dollars would "catalyze many multiples of private dollars" to build homes, energy infrastructure, AI systems and trade corridors — "all of which are fundamentally necessary if we are going to grow this economy, irrespective of how President Trump is feeling on one day or another," Carney said.
Carney also said a federal government led by him would balance its operational spending — such as government-run programs, federal transfers to provinces and territories and debt service charges — over the course of the next three years.
This technique shared by [Andy Kong] is for 3D printed lenses, but would probably be worth a shot for any resin prints that need to be made nice and clear. The link to his post on X is here, but we…
Trudeau announces Canada-U.S. Economic Summit for Friday
Sounds like it's focused on internal trade and global investment, I know 30 days isn't a long time, but maybe we can be better prepared, reducing our reliance on the yanks certainly seems to have public support so there's that.
Poilievre promises to hit fentanyl 'kingpins' with mandatory life sentences
Because mandatory minimums work to deter crime and totally haven't been struck down in the past or anything right?
20mg - 15 years, 40mg is life and Pierre's mentioned using the notwithstanding clause to pass stuff like this in the past.
Layer adhesion is one of the weak points with FDM 3D printing, with annealing often recommended as a post-processing step. An interestingly creative method for this was published in Science Advance…
Paper mentioned in article can be found here.
Annealing prints has been something I've wanting to do more of, probably with proper temperature control as my experience has has more waste than I'd like, mainly warping.
Paper claims some pretty dramatic improvements to interlayer strength, they're running filament through a bath before entering the extruder, not sure how accessible the entire thing would be in a hobbyist environment (using chloroform and specialised microwave equipment). Makes me wonder however if carbon fibre filaments would be able to be processed similarly, how well it'd perform with stuff like abs or nylon and if you could achieve that with consumer microwaves.
Curta'n Wall - A New Castle is Born (Folk/Black Metal, USA, 2022)
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Fecundation - The conclamation (Brutal/Technical Death - Korea/Japan 2024)
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Bandcamp for the album, Metallum for the band I'm not usually the biggest modern tech death person, but there was just something about this album that did it for me. Entire album is just under 28 minutes, definitely recommend a listen.
Recommendations for STL sculpting tools or guides (FLOSS preferred)
Quick question to the community, does anyone have some good tools to sculpt stls or step files?
Context, I'm working on some decorative keychains and have a vector image and text I want to add to the base object. I've used aolidworks for both in the past with alright results but I've switched over to freecad this year, haven't had a lot of luck adding in there, vector image is a tracing of a dog that I was provided, it's simplified but still has a lot of components.
I did look into blender but be honest I'm totally lost using it and have no clue what I'm doing coming from parametric modeling, I'm not an artist at all, my comfort zone is functional parts usually, but was approached by a friend. I did do some mockups in prusa/superslicer where I've added my image and text as negative volumes and merged into a single part. It works but it feels like a really hacky workaround (relevant XKCD) and would prefer to do it right. Any suggestions or resources would be
FYI - Octoprint (with a plugin) and Klipper support cancelling individual objects while printing
Just as an FYI because it's saved me grief in the past, both klipper and octoprint can be setup to exclude certain objects while printing. You need to setup your slicer to provide gcode that enables the feature, but it allows you to stop printing a bad object, can reduce wastage in the case where only one part has failed but the others are ok.
Prusa/Superslicer are what I have experience using it with, I used a preprocessing script to output compatable gcode but apparently there's a label objects option directly in both slicers, the klipper link below goes over enabling that feature.