The Endurance has been found, 3000 metres beneath the Weddell Sea, [which is]north of Antarctica.

See nonrestrictive modifiers

I don’t know… Seems like you can pretty clearly see legs and arms flailing.

I just wanna say I love your comment and the KOTH references.

I have never actually tried printing off the device itself, the touch screen is very confusing. I always submit print jobs over the network via OrcaSlicer. But yes, that is exactly the kind of thing I meant when I said it has some odd quirks.

If you zoom in to 1m resolution and then slowly zoom out, you’ll see the name change back and forth several times. Very odd.

I believe it says that the shortest building is less than 50m. It’s not implying that a 50m+ building needs to be there.

What does fiber optic mean in this context? Like a fiber optic cable attached to the drone for communicating with it?

Weirdness: The default g-code for the machine does silly things like park the nozzle over the build plate letting it ooze, instead of over the nozzle wiper/waste container.

The filament change routine is strange, requiring you to remove the bowden tube to cut the filament every time. This is easily fixed by printing a filament cutter and using that to cut the filament.

The bowden tube rubs against the top plexiglass lid for the machine, requiring you to print a riser for the lid to avoid it getting all scratched up.

The door for the machine is an odd shape design with no handle making it a little annoying to get a grip to open it.

The filament holder they include is a very bad design, flexes heavily with a full roll of filament and I have had spools fall off several times while printing.

The touch screen menu isn’t very intuitive and it can be very laggy at times.

Good features for the price point: Fully enclosed with built in chamber heater.

Pretty decent auto leveling system.

Timelapse camera.

Runs klipper/mainsail and input shaping is pretty cool.

I have around 500 hours on mine and I haven’t had any prints fail that were the fault of the machine so I’m pretty impressed by that. And I find the features and capabilities to be pretty great for the price point. They just could use to do some polishing of the design

I have a Qidi Q1 Pro and I’m pretty happy with it. Very fast precise prints and pretty reliable. There’s definitely some strange design decisions and weird quirks to it and Bambu machines feel way more polished. Overall I’d definitely recommend the Qidi machines but they are not quite as simple for people with no 3d printing experience. They are very feature rich and amazing printers for the price.

I’ve been listening to the “Destiny’s Crucible” series by Olan Thorensen. Currently on the 8th book “A Fearful Symmetry”.

It’s about a guy from earth that has been transported, by aliens, to another planet that happens to also have humans but their culture is at a much lower technology level(around what earth was in the 1600s). And it follows him as he adjusts to the culture, and carefully starts introducing innovations.

Whats a reputable source to compare ratings/reviews for these machines? Do you have any personal recommendations?

mAh/Wh is just the capacity of the battery, and it’s often exaggerated or just plain incorrect on these cheap mass produced batteries. So battery life may be slightly different than intended for the product but it won’t cause any issues. As long as voltage is similar(all lipo batteries are 3.7-4.2v, some manufacturers label with 3.7, some with 3.8, etc. But all cells of the same battery chemistry are the same voltage range) it’ll operate and charge just fine.

484588 is the dimensions of the battery. So 4.8mm thick, 45mm wide, 88mm long. Any lipo that fits in there will do the trick, but obviously similar size is best. You should be able to find something similar on AliExpress; it would help to round the dimensions to a more standard number. For example, search “504090 3.7v” assuming a 5x40x90mm battery would fit in the cavity.

Well… I’m sure their point was, that services such as that shouldn’t at all be needed to understand what you’re agreeing to. But thank you for sharing!

That was fantastically relevant and awesome. Thank you.

As an American, it would be weird for me to see it as a decimal, however I can’t say I’ve ever really thought about it. It’s just “traditional” for checks to be written that way here, and how we’re taught in school.

Fair enough, I guess I just end up needing to fix things for other people way more than the average person. And more often then not, a multi tool saves me a trip to my car tool box. Its mainly just the blade, and pliers that get a lot of use. But the scissors and file get used quite a bit, too.

I’m almost curious what kind of life you live? You never find yourself in a situation where having a knife, screwdriver, pliers, or a flashlight on you wouldn’t be a huge convenience?

Are you being sarcastic? $400 for 55in TV is high end… Lower cost 55in are, on average, $240. Affordable TV for most of the world would be under $200-$250

The video portrays a fun chemistry experiment making wood into a more dense, stronger material. It says nothing at all about an “issue” or solutions to “American problems.”