Okay so an interesting quirk of my #3dprinter (if you can call it that) is that the fans are adjustable up and down. Since I have no way to CFD the design quickly, I've never really known where they should point or be installed to. I have just guessed and tried locations.

Are they too high (ineffectual and cools the heat block/nozzle)? Too low (cools the part, at risk of snagging or dragging on the print)? Tough to say!

And an idea just hit me. I have a thermal camera! It's not perfect but I can crank everything up to temp and dial in the range of the thermal camera to see the effects of cooling on the block/nozzle. And it should be way way faster than modeling and doing #cfd on this design.

I don't know if the active heater will be a problem but I think it SHOULD work! Right?

#nerd #someLikeItHot #noNoTooHot

Today; I did the most #3DPrinter-y thing possible. I got a wild hair about how to make something better, and tore my perfectly functioning custom-ish printer apart. And in the end, my wonderful, amazing plan was a pile of shit and I got to put everything right back together.

Amaizng. I love it. 5 Stars.

In my pursuit of radio / #sdr experimentation, I added to the pool of #ASDB feeders.

Amazing how I am getting ~200 miles of visibility with a cheap antenna on the roof.

I think I'm going to #3dprint a housing for this, to keep down on extensions but I need to find a #pi that is cost effective and power efficient enough. Using a pi4 feels like overkill.