oldcrow

Last week there was a knock on our door and it was a nice young woman who was handing out voter registration information and getting people to sign up for absentee ballots.

Of particular note, she was wearing a hijab. Not that common over on the East Side - we're over by Guthrie and 14th st.

I thanked her for getting out and doing it. I asked her how her experience had been and if people were being nice to her. She smiled and said that everyone had been fine, no problems at all.

I have to admire her, I think she's pretty brave. I would have assumed that when she knocks on the door of a crusty old white dude like me, the reception might not always be a warm one. I'm glad to have been

OK, my OCD nightmare is over and I finally got my prints centered on the build plate. Cura ignored any nozzle offsets with negative values or refused to override where the limit switch stopped the hot-end travel)

Now I can print the whole 220mm!

I had to move my X-Axis limit switch to the left by about 4mm to solve this. I made this adapter which as the advantage of getting rid of that boxy housing and allowing access to the stepper bolts and pulley.

If anyone has interest in this, I'll post on Thingiverse. I might move that M3x4mm bolt a few millimeters to the right.

I'm modding my Ender 3 3D printer and need to drive a 40mm stepper motor. I found this shield that appears to be compatible with it.

Would I need to supply voltage externally? My plan is to pull 12V from the printer's PSU to power the Arduino board if I can find a tap. Otherwise I can get a wall-wart for that.

I've been getting into 3D printing and having an absolute ball with it. I'm leaning Fusion 360 for fun (Nerdstuff) and profit (I work in medical device batteries).

I've made Anakin's Lightsaber, Han Solo's blaster and a Mondoshawan fom the Fifth Element.

I love the problem-solving, making and painting. But once the stuff is finished, it just collects dust.

I think it would be even more fun to make (and probably repair) these things for people who would actually PLAY with them.

I'd really love the engineering challenge of trying to recreate a prop from a movie/anime/game for someone who woul

Yes, language has changed and adapted through all of human history. But for the majority of human history the majority of the population was illiterate and didn't have access to reference materials.

Now we can all access billions of record and documents that are frozen in time on the internet. Will this slow down the rate of change in language?

Or is everything we are writing today doomed to be as difficult to read as Chaucer in a few centuries?

But I guess the police consider it "stalking" if the other person doesn't know me.

Unless it's two o'clock in the morning and you live alone.