Ima try to dress up for Halloween but I'm not good with makeup and idk if I'll have enough time
Designing properly sized cat ears and articulating tail for myself maybe to go to FWA or something
Like I'm not a furry but I'd sure enjoy being one and hanging out w/ them
Forwarded from CheeseCats🧀🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 (FagslopBot)
now if only i could re uprade the hotend to print nylon
Wowee today was a just a little bit productive
I don't even remember what I started off with
From what I remember is that I
-harvested components from my old laptop motherboards (MOSFETs, vrms, clock generators, vram chips, attempted to remove the CPUs)
- one of the CPUs silicon shattered and delaminated and I have this old microscope from when I was little so I decided to like combine it with my USB microscope, in doing that I ended up opening the usb microscope up and messing with the firmware, renamed its Wi-Fi SSID after figuring some stuff out, tmrw I'm probably gonna do a dump on the EEPROM chip that I saw since it looks like it will fit into my CH341A programmer that I previously used to reflash my BIOS chips
- while taking apart the USB microscope I noticed that the mechanism that "zooms" in and out has some idk what to call it, backlash? And wobble, so I decided I'm going to make a sleeve to prevent the wobble that fits inside the casing
-went to my lathe to try to make the sleeve out of an aluminum bar I had previously casted from recycled stuff but the lathe still has issues (one of the reasons I haven't used it very much at all), there's wobble when twisting the knob to the carriage on it which is absolutely horrible btw kinda ruins the whole reason for machining, precision
- soooo I dropped what I was doing and then went to re make the knob, I had already modeled one in CAD but that was my first time "reverse engineering" (measuring accurately) parts and I had to do a lot of trial and error to get the previous knob replacement to work, of which is currently replacing the knob on the lead screw
-despite my digital calipers running out of battery I managed to measure the parts needed (metal sleeve with key, multiple diameter cylinders that are connected to eachother at a different point along the center of the part) and honestly I think I did pretty damn well with a ruler and the less precise manual markings on the caliper, turns out the part is mostly metric and with the previous one I was measuring and modeling in imperial which when rounded to the what I thought was correct dimensions were in fact, not at all correct
-finished that model and then replaced the 1mm nozzle with a 0.4 mm nozzle which I thought was 0.2mm but using a magnifying glass and a ruler it was about half a mm, they don't normally make 0.5mm nozzles so it was 0.4mm so I can get a really nice part and FINALLY after all of that it's now printing and I need to shower and shave to dress up tmrw and take pictures of my costume since I have no irl friends and can't really show it to anyone besides online
-harvested components from my old laptop motherboards (MOSFETs, vrms, clock generators, vram chips, attempted to remove the CPUs)
- one of the CPUs silicon shattered and delaminated and I have this old microscope from when I was little so I decided to like combine it with my USB microscope, in doing that I ended up opening the usb microscope up and messing with the firmware, renamed its Wi-Fi SSID after figuring some stuff out, tmrw I'm probably gonna do a dump on the EEPROM chip that I saw since it looks like it will fit into my CH341A programmer that I previously used to reflash my BIOS chips
- while taking apart the USB microscope I noticed that the mechanism that "zooms" in and out has some idk what to call it, backlash? And wobble, so I decided I'm going to make a sleeve to prevent the wobble that fits inside the casing
-went to my lathe to try to make the sleeve out of an aluminum bar I had previously casted from recycled stuff but the lathe still has issues (one of the reasons I haven't used it very much at all), there's wobble when twisting the knob to the carriage on it which is absolutely horrible btw kinda ruins the whole reason for machining, precision
- soooo I dropped what I was doing and then went to re make the knob, I had already modeled one in CAD but that was my first time "reverse engineering" (measuring accurately) parts and I had to do a lot of trial and error to get the previous knob replacement to work, of which is currently replacing the knob on the lead screw
-despite my digital calipers running out of battery I managed to measure the parts needed (metal sleeve with key, multiple diameter cylinders that are connected to eachother at a different point along the center of the part) and honestly I think I did pretty damn well with a ruler and the less precise manual markings on the caliper, turns out the part is mostly metric and with the previous one I was measuring and modeling in imperial which when rounded to the what I thought was correct dimensions were in fact, not at all correct
-finished that model and then replaced the 1mm nozzle with a 0.4 mm nozzle which I thought was 0.2mm but using a magnifying glass and a ruler it was about half a mm, they don't normally make 0.5mm nozzles so it was 0.4mm so I can get a really nice part and FINALLY after all of that it's now printing and I need to shower and shave to dress up tmrw and take pictures of my costume since I have no irl friends and can't really show it to anyone besides online
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