flyingfox

A few years back some friends and I 3d printed a large dragon head. It's a little over 1m from the top of its head to the nose. We assembled it from about 120 pieces (from two different printers) and epoxied them all together. We then filled, sanded and painted it. It looks pretty nice, but I'd like to give the whole thing a protective epoxy coating. I have enough of Smooth-On XTC-3D to cover the whole thing but wanted to hear from anyone who has tried to coat finished and painted prints before.

Is this a good idea? Is there something else that might work better?

I have a couple of large 22110 M.2 SSD drives on hand and would like to try to use them with my Desktop. Has anyone found a 4x adapter that both fits in the FW Desktop and also supports the larger 22110 form factor?

Images here: https://imgur.com/a/mXubIuJ

We recently finished construction of an ADU in our backyard. I only have a few pictures from mid construction, but one shows the pipe coming up from the sewer line to where the maching machine now sits.

We just finished and were staying in it to test it out. Yesterday, there was a strong smell of sewer gas. The bathroom was fine if you close the door and the living area isn't too, too bad but the area by the washer is bad.

I ran a crappy borescope down the drain but couldn't get any good pictures. It did go straight down to just below floor level before getting stuck so I'm pretty confident that it goes directly to the sewer line.

Is this

I'm heading out camping for the next few days and thought it would be nice to be able to water my Astobotany plant on the road. I installed Rosy Crow on my phone and sent the .key and .crt files from my Lagrange PC client to the phone. When I try to import them it tells me that the password is incorrect, but I don't have an option to enter a password.

Does anyone have experience importing identities to an Andriod client or a client recommendation?

I'm looking at printing something quite large on my SR and I'm not sure what the best way to partition the model would be. I've seen plenty of videos of people printing massive things where they chop it into cubes but that's not as efficient on a round bed.

Is there an easy way to break something into hexagonal prism segments? Should I just bite the bullet and accept a smaller squared circle?

I'm driving a USB-C display similar to this. The display is 1366x768@60fps and has a touchscreen that shows up as a USB 2.0 device. All is good, but I'm out of ports on the driving device and would like to get a couple of lower speed device ports.

What I'd like is a USB-C hub that will pass the alternate mode video and add a few extra USB-2.0 ports. I don't need power delivery, HDMI breakout, or SD card support. Does such a thing exist?

I've been trying to print a simple sign and can't seem to get rid of diagonal score lines on the upper flat surfaces. Example: https://imgur.com/a/IJSnr2W

The lines com in all directions. I'm printing on a FLsun SR using Cura 4.11.0-BETA with 8 top layers. I've tried all of the following to no avail:

• Speed changes down to 60 mm/s
• Print temperature
• Ironing on/off
• Infill patern and density
• Z Hop (1, 1.5, 2mm)
• Combing on/off

Any ideas what could be causing this? I'm planning to hit this with some primer and paint but would like to start with as smooth of a surface as possible.

I'd trying to make a form in OpenSCAD for casting a metal address plaque. Part of the plaque needs to contain embossed text, the house number, with a slight draft angle to allow the form to be removed from the casting sand. That is, the top of the text needs to be slightly smaller than the bottom.

I thought I could just use linear_extrude with a scale value slightly smaller than 1.0 to achieve this but I'm running into issues. The scale value tapers the entire text string toward the middle. The text on the left is tapered to the right and the text on the right is tapered towards the left.

Minimal Example:

linear_extrude( height=10, scale = .8) 
    text("X", 
         siz

Day 20 motivated me to try to come up with a visualization of my solution but I'm scratching my head trying to coming up with the best way to pull this off. How do you all make these awesome animations?

I'm writing in python so I thought I'd try to reuse some code from 2018. Back then I used pygame and dumped out a pile of sequentially named images and ran them through ffmpeg to generate a video. Is there a better way? The number of frames in my day 20 solution is really quite high.

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am flyingfox on reddit.
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To claim this, I am signing this object:

{
    "body": {
        "key": {
            "eldest_kid": "0120b33c17992e5028e666f3a2849e9b064e6a3912063a07ade78b502648a8626e1c0a",
            "fingerprint": "e557cc307863131e15f3214e4dd76fd80e138529",
            "host": "keybase.io",
            "key_id": "4dd76fd80e138529",
            "kid": "0101f789233b3fd44ca2ec74afb9816bc167b7533fb9580764cca7e3af

So it's been a while since I used the python bindings to libtcod (about 6 years!) but I decided to give it another shot this week. The python tdl package has a fairly nice interface, so I went with that. It basically sits on top of libtcod-cffi which deals with libtcod. All is went well until I try to package up the final product. I've tried py2exe, cx_freeze, and PyInstaller.

I've had the most luck with PyInstaller, but none of them seem able to parse through libtcod-cffi's libcod cross-platform import scheme. Basically, at runtime it examines your environment and loads a .DLL/.dylib/.so as needed and none of the above mentioned tools seem able to follow this. Has anyone been able to