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    The Lounge: Show off your solar. Ask questions. FREE SKY JUICE!

    south facing panels will clear faster than your east/west panels. also depends on roof slope.
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    How do we not have a dedicated Lego thread yet?

    When I build with the kiddo (5.5 yo), we use these as our build trays https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/kuggis-insert-with-8-compartments-white-00280208/ And if it's a big/multi day build, the tray nests into one of these nicely with room for storing the other bags & instructions...
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    The new perpetual 3D Printing Thread

    Iirc, a big concern is this will block all the 3rd party print farm mgmt software that is popular with bambus, forcing people to use the subscription based one Bambu offers.
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    The new perpetual 3D Printing Thread

    Ah, shaper trace is only for 2d stuff I think, not sure how well it unskews 3d stuff https://www.shapertools.com/en-us/trace
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    The Lounge: Show off your solar. Ask questions. FREE SKY JUICE!

    2024's solar production numbers: 14338.7 kwh produced 16031.1 kwh consumed (net import of 1692.3kwh) offset of 89% of power usage. estimated savings of $2038.96 in 2024 (lifetime = 591 days) lifetime production: 23123.97kwh lifetime consumption: 27671.84 lifetime estimated savings: $3288.29 avg...
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    The new perpetual 3D Printing Thread

    where did you find drawer slides for 2020 extrusion?
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    The new perpetual 3D Printing Thread

    of the materials i use, petg & nylon are the only ones i really worry about actively drying (i.e. food dehydrater, polydryer, etc, something with heat AND air movement)
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    The new perpetual 3D Printing Thread

    https://github.com/X1Plus/X1Plus https://github.com/X1Plus/X1Plus/wiki
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    The new perpetual 3D Printing Thread

    X1C can also do the fancy custom firmware thing (once you're out of the warranty period)
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    The new perpetual 3D Printing Thread

    i will say, the Bambu P1S will do 95-99% of what the X1C will do, at about half the price.
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    The Electric Car Thread

    Weird, when we got our 2023 bolt euv (purchased in January 2023), it came with a 110/220 charger & a free 'standard' installation of a 220v outlet for at home lvl2 charging (or $1000 towards a non standard install, or some $ value of charger credits)
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    The Electric Car Thread

    hoping Subaru eventually makes an EV version of the outback, but not holding my breath.
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    The Electric Car Thread

    i'd assume musk will push trump to keep something in place for EV incentives so the tesla's keep selling.
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    Soulframe: Half Warframe, half Soul Train?

    NDA kinda dropped today, so more stuff can be discussed & streamed. realized today i've had an invite since... march? logged in, did some stuff, not entirely sure what's going on, but that's ok.
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    The new perpetual 3D Printing Thread

    also, orcaslicer as of 2.2 has multi-toolhead support (haven't tried it yet)
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    The new perpetual 3D Printing Thread

    can also do multi material with a voron v2, https://github.com/DraftShift/Stealthchanger (i've got 6 toolheads on my v2.4 350 right now) recent rushed print for my daughter's halloween costume after she accidently sat on & broke the previous ones, 3 colors of PETG & 1 toolhead with PLA for...
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    The Electric Car Thread

    NACS adapter from Chevy for my Bolt EUV showed up today. Not sure if we'll ever use it, but we have it just in case.
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    The Electric Car Thread

    That building was originally for Lucent Technology. International 's HQ & main office have moved around chicagoland a lot, Chicago downtown, oak brook, warrenville, now lisle.
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    The Electric Car Thread

    My father had been pretty luke-warm about getting an EV or a Hybrid even after he got solar installed on his house (original production estimate was 110%, in actuality its closer to 150% of their annual consumption) to use some of his excess production, but last night he told me he put down a...
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    The new perpetual 3D Printing Thread

    seems OnShape (browser based) is more popular on linux, i've personally never used it, but its also a parametric CAD program. not saying parametric CAD is the right tool for every job, but for certain things, its way easier & faster than other options.