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Step 7: Voron Print Farm 7 hours ago
This update covers many months of using the printer, working on things, etc. Including a giant burst of printing to get everything together for the Maker Faire and also some periods where the printer sat idle and not-quite-functional because I had to go to funerals and things. General improvements…

Can we not have our 3D printers be like 2D printers? 4 weeks ago
In all of the arguments of late about Open Source and 3D printers and whatever Bambu Labs or Prusa might be doing with 3D printers and whatnot, I guess what I'd really like is for our 3D printers to not end up like 2D printers. Now, when I say 2D printer, I mean some things, none of them very…

An introduction to LED strips 1 month ago
Let's take a brief adventure to the strip mall and highlight some of the things you might find there! (This was a side street off of Chandni Chowk in Old Delhi where LEDs are sold) Christmas lights, made as a series of incandescent bulbs, hit the market a long long time ago. Obviously people put…

A tour of transistors 1 month ago
I guess my problem with almost every proper electronics text is that when they get to transistors, they cover a bunch of deep details and my eyes always glaze over and I never could quite grasp about how to solve the problems I actually wanted to solve. I'm going to mostly skip to the end here, to…

By the determination of the FCC, I am extra (but you knew that already) 2 months ago
I passed all three levels of Amateur Radio written exams today, in one sitting, because of one of my spouse's friends. Passing all three is maybe unusual, but there's a story behind this and maybe some things to think about. Like, for example, why did I just swallow a giant gumball of knowledge…