One thing Elisabeth and I enjoyed immensely while living in Cali in ‘23/‘24 was having Dim Sum almost every Sunday morning in Mountain View after we’d visit the amazing farmer’s market.

Back home in Va, I started testing recipes and settled on a core set that have enabled us to continue our Sunday tradition at home. Entirely homemade Lo Mai Gai (with Char Siu), Siu Mai, Har Gow and Chili Oil are the current roster. I make batches and freeze them to last a few weekends in a row. #dimsum #food

Trying to figure out Bambu's logic here when I clone this Gridfinity bin 48 times. It initially lays it out with three outside the plate bounds, but they clearly have a place. So I choose auto-arrange and it fits them all, but I get this bizarre spacing.

Any idea if there's some kind of logic / efficiency to this?

#BambuLab #3dprinting

For ages I've been receiving Amazon orders in those blue and white bubble wrap pouches and dutifully tossed them in our mixed recycling bins at home. I only just realized recently that the recycling symbol on them has a line drawn through it. At a glance I'd always seen the usual symbol and assumed something on this scale was using recyclable material.

I realize there's a high level of doubt about how well plastics are being recycled (if at all), but this sure doesn't help. Do better, Amazon.

Told myself to put Higgins (our robovac) on hiatus for the night - even if just the living room - to have time to deal with post-Christmas debris. Promptly forgot, of course.

Gift wrapped itself in the night. This will be fun.

Accidentally destroyed the handy VCC+, GND and TX/RX test points on a board I wanted to re-flash, so decided I'd just go straight to the ESP32 itself.

I don't have a BDM frame or probes, so I fashioned my own with pogo pins, female dupont jumpers, stiff 12 gauge wire and heat shrink tubing. Routed the leads through a bread board to combine grounds, supplied bench power, added a status LED and power switch, tied it to my USB TTL and actually managed to back up and replace the firmware. #esp32

Trying to square their manual with one of their promotional images:

“Note: If the rain gauge sensor was mounted less than 3.3 feet or 1 meter above the ground, the electromagnetic waves would be absorbed by the earth when raining. Which may cause inaccurate rainfall data transmitting.”

I’ve come to realize the level of personal weather station BS paired with the physical impossibility for “ideal” placement by mere mortals is not worth worrying about.