Some people should never get access to blender and a 3D printer.

To be precise, one person should not get access to those tools.

I am that person.

#3dPrinting #blender3d #UglyItems #WhoInTheirRightMind

Today's #3dPrinting project was to fix my #MNTReform laptop's broken trackball keycaps.

I could, of course, just have bought a replacement set from #MNTResearch (it's just €20), but since the STL files for the keycaps are publicly available on the internet, I just went ahead and printed them myself.

My filament got even worse, and is now showing severe stringing (which I cleaned up with sandpaper).

I can't wait to get the filament dryer I ordered today.

I am still trying to find proper parameters for #3dPrinting #PETG on my printer.
I think I left the filament out too long, so it might have absorbed too much moisture, limiting achievable print quality...

However, I am quite happy with this print of a toilet paper holder (replacement part). While clearly not perfect, it's way better than the 2 previous attempts (which I am too ashamed to show).

I am really happy that I meanwhile know enough #FreeCAD to draw (and print) things like this.

First successful #3DPrinting project.

This is the soap holder I drew in #FreeCAD yesterday.
It isn't perfect, as I still need to play a bit with temperatures and extrusion speed, but it's decent enough to keep.

#SuperSlicer is pretty impressive too. Slicing the STL file was a breeze. Just a couple of clicks and done.

Printing, on the other hand, took a while. Nearly 12 hours.

I feel so stupid.

I tried to debug why my material edits looked wrong on one instance of a blueprint and not in the others.

After hours I finally found out why....

2019, ÖVP (the Austrian "conservative" party): Hydrogen cars are the future! By 2025 there will be hydrogen fuel stations all over the country.

2025:

#ÖVP #atpol #politics #emobility

#UnrealEngine currently seems to have a packaging bug related to SSL certificates.

Best make sure that the "Verify Peer" setting is explicitly set in your project's ini files. That's in the "/Script/Engine.NetworkSettings" section of DefaultEngine.ini, and the setting is called "n.VerifyPeer".

You can of course just modify the setting in-editor - uncheck and re-check the checkbox - such that it gets written to the ini.

I got my new monitor stand today. This is my new setup for reading stuff on PC. Thankfully #SwayWM allows to send individual outputs to standby, so I can leave the #BooxMira #EInk monitor running, while switching the LCD off/on via keybinding. Sending it to standby instead of using the physical power button has the advantage that all windows I had on the LCD stay on the LCD.

Edit: 1/4

In case you are wondering how many colours the #Dasung #Paperlike Color #EInk display can display, the answer seems to be 8. If my eyes don't deceive me, everything that is not white, black, red, green, blue, magenta, cyan or yellow is dithered. That would mean 3 bits per pixel.

I saw a claim (iirc on Reddit) that it has 4098 colours, and I guess this can be argued somehow by grouping 4 pixels together, but if you want the "vibrant" colours advertised by Dasung, you should settle for those 8.