It really comes down to what you have on hand/ parts for and how much you want to spend. I’m currently rocking an orbiter 2.5 on my A4T v1 and have been pretty happy with it (most of my complaints are around interactions with my BoxTurtle - filament can sometimes get snagged on the lip that cradels the ptfe tube and I had to mess with the guide that sits after the gears for the same reason), it’s a really good out of the box extruder, but does cost a bit more upfront (11/11 and black Friday aren’t all that far off if you’re looking for discounts on parts though).

Not to throw another hat in the ring, but if I needed an extruder in a pinch, I’ve seen folks in the BoxTurtle discord swear by the Wrist Watch extruder. Mostly because it uses the same BMG gears/ motor that stealthburner does, so I’d just need plastic parts and configs to get back up and running.

Unfortunately, I can’t speak to the Sherpas. I’ve been meaning to throw one on my v0.2, but haven’t quite gotten that far yet (currently on a side quest reworking my v2.4 and don’t want more than one printer down at a time).

My naive/ innocent assumption would be that if you happened to purchase mechanical keyboard supplies you might be interested in blank key caps since you don’t need the glyphs.

I think my favorite was “Systematically building electronics component inventory”, but pretty much the same, mostly just my brand preferences and the stuff I tend to buy.

I’m also really deliberate in how I shop Amazon though: sift through my options in a private window and once I narrow down to what I want, copy the link, remove the tracking garbage, open it in my regular window, add it to my cart, rinse and repeat. It’s probably a paper shield at best, but good to know it helps curb the “[spends an inordinate amount of time comparing items, two thirds of which are also available on Ali Express]” inference.

It’s sort of buried in the middle:

If you’re curious what kind of haphazard observations Amazon is keeping on you, you can pull up the page by clicking on the “Account” link under the Account & Lists drop down menu. Scroll to the bottom of the page you land on and click a small link that says “manage your information” and there you have it. On mobile, you click on the profile account icon on the bottom bar, hit “Account,” then “Shopping preferences,” and then “About you.”

Me injecting the makemkv libraries into handbrake/ vlc

If I had to bet it has more to do with Bambu making a boat load more money than other manufacturers. I’d imagine that Bambu is also popular/ reliable enough to start cutting into Stratasys’ enterprise market.

Oh that’s perfect! I’d need to do more than a 10 minute skim (since Creality kinda sucks), but something like the Creality Falcon A1C looks like something much more my speed (and budget).

Thank you!

I’ve been considering the same as I’d love to be able to engrave labels into my prints, but have held off so far because I’ve heard less than great things about xTool’s serviceability, repairability, and warranty. Not that I’m remotely qualified to do DIY work on high powered laser components, but I’m sure as hell not about to drop several grand on a machine only to have a random part break and be left with a paperweight.

According to the wiki page for Rossman himself it’s: Freedom from Unethical Limitations on Users

But it’s really guessing, just like we all are.

Beyond the moralistic objections I have to LLMs, I have serious issues with being fed confidently incorrect answers. I’ve had my share of configuration hell and I’m not above throwing code at the wall to see what sticks, but at least I have the good sense to drop a comment or mention in my commit that “hey, there’s a chance this isn’t right and could cause problems”.

Echoing that the best place to start is to get a handle on programming as a concept. Not because we’re trying to gatekeep the good stuff behind the scary programmer voodoo, but because otherwise you’re basically attempting to edit a book in a language you don’t speak (and the reader is very picky about grammar).

That said, you can absolutely teach yourself to code! Hell, if you figured out self hosting I’m willing to bet you’ve probably already got a handful of transferable skills.

In the interest of disclosure, I learned programming as part of my degree (took a Java class as a resume booster my first semester and ended realizing that I preferred coding to calculus and switched my major), so I’m not exactly a wealth of knowledge in the self study department. However I would recommend a course that has labs/ challenges/ projects to practice what your learning. Everyone learns differently, but I’ve personally found that I picked up programming concepts better when I got hands-on and applied them in my assignments.

The programmer’s open secret is that generally once you know one programming language, it’s pretty easy to pick up another. For example, Java and Python might write them in different ways, but at the end of the day a loop is a loop and as long as you know you need to repeat some code until some condition is met, it’s perfectly acceptable to Google “loop in Python” or “[Java concept] in Python”. In other words, it doesn’t super matter which language you start with; just pick something and stick with it (bonus points if you can turn around and tinker with an OSS app with what you’re learning).

As I understand it, most enterprises have an agreement with Microsoft for commercial licensing of Windows that lets them pay per user instead of per machine. Given that most enterprises tend to lock in a contract with their hardware provider of choice, it wouldn’t surprise me if they had something in there to omit Windows since they already pay for it directly. Plus enterprises windows has features for managing windows at scale (group policy, centralized auth, etc).

I worked for one of the IT departments at my university and we got Ubuntu machines straight from Dell on occasion. I recall those machines being somewhat quirky if we tried to flash them with Windows later (might have been missing a TPM header, or equally arbitrary hardware requirement, but it’s been like 10 years).

In the consumer space, Framework will also let you skip buying a windows licence as well.

Same. My sister bought a kit of two 16gb sodimm sticks back in October for ~$100. I regret trying to wait for holiday deals…

Woo! Congrats on pinning down the source!

I’m taking a complete shot in the dark, but it’s happening on the X and Y axes and what looks like similar spots every layer, which makes me think that’d it be something mechanical that’s only manifesting under some condition (like flow rate or speed). Maybe check your bolts, belts, and rails? My gut says loose toolhead/ extruder (wiggling could cause weird lines like that), but that’s more a guess than an “I’ve seen this before” kind of thing. Failing that, I’d be curious to see if that pattern shows up in a flow rate test.

I know many folks have sworn off Discord, but if you haven’t, maybe try asking in the Voron discord too?

Hi and welcome! Do you have a budget and a rough idea of the kinds of things you’d be looking to print?

Naively, I’d second the core one recommendation, assuming that the price tag isn’t a problem and that you aren’t looking to print multi-color (it’s still possible on that machine, just not something that comes stock).

Pretty much the same. I’d be curious to try PHA, but can’t justify spending 2-3x the cost of my cheap prototyping PLA (Zyltech) or functional ABS (LDO or Polymaker).

West3D stocks Ambrosia PHA for $35 /kg. They also occasionally do sales (just had 20% off for the 4th), so you could probably get it cheaper if you’re willing to wait.

It can be both. The three RAM manufactures (Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix) have a historical record of price fixing and collusion (I believe Gamers Nexus has some excellent reporting on this). It isn’t just supply and demand, it’s that three sketchy companies have the world over a barrel and may well be using the demand spike to keep prices (artificially) high with the knowledge that nobody else can enter the market and that it takes YEARS and a truly ridiculous amount of money to scale up production to increase supply.

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