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Yep, I tried double-stick tape on one of these. The result was that the double-stick tape got stuck to the surface, making it really difficult to clean to anodize later. The rubber gasket sheet seemed to work decently. I tried using a microfiber cloth but it kept getting caught in the orbital... If I were really thinkign about it, I probably could have FDM printed a jig for it, and if I were doing it in more volume, that's probably what I'd do. The trinket is DMLS 3D printed on PCBWay, so sintered.

Yes, she pretends that she doesn't like being held, but it is obvious that it is a pro-forma complaint, lodged only to protect her dignity.

Yeah, I agree. The cable routing for putting it on the back of the printer would be really annoying, though, and would probably involve drilling the printer chassis, which I really did not want to do. The top is a particularly useful location for some of the addons that are going to come along with it, too. But if you want to mount it to the rear left side of the device, you could easily design a case to do it with a little bit of dremeling, and there should be enough cable length to do that!

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I work for a massive multinational business with 3d print labs around the world. I know it seems odd, but connectivity in workplaces that value security in the convert space make it incredibly hard to work with devices that don’t have usb or Ethernet connection. This extension board with Ethernet alone make it worth the trouble for schools, universities, businesses that all lock down their network access methods.

@@zavierorel2853 You can generalize "ethernet", let's say "network", OK? And wifi is a network. Does this device need continuous high speed network connection? Not really, not for model downloading, that is only few seconds even with the 2.4GHz turtle wifi. Video stream would be worth ethernet, if the camera quality would be better. But this camera is a cr*p, so the improvement would be minimal in the video. Hard to work without USB ? What would you like to connect to this printer, could you name an example please? A mouse instead of touch-screen? You know simply you don't have to communicate with the printer, you send the model and it's doing the job. You can go to eat, or take a nap

@@zavierorel2853 Don't mistake me, I like this development, I like these guys, they are good. Just simply this development is not cheap not simple (I'm a developer too), and it gives no real advantages. I could be wrong.

Whoah I have never #goneviral before. Thanks for letting me know! I think that there are a positive number of people who would buy this thing. So I think there is a good question around building and distributing it, and price point. I need to ask around about how people decide on that… the COGS of each one is not all that high but the direct cost of developing it is definitely getting up there, to say nothing of the time spent on it (and the entire X1Plus program) so far… I should ask, like, the 1b2 folks for suggestions. I still have no idea if the expected volume should be like tens or thousands.

Good question! Join the X1Plus Discord, maybe, as the best option? I am not all that great at, like, setting up broadcast communication, as you can tell :-) If you have suggestions for how you usually get more info about things like this, please let me know.

@@joshuawise Thanks, I never seem to find time for Discords (nor for actually making things like this myself 😂), but for anything involving code, there’s usually a GitHub page that describes the project and has the latest version of the code in it. Whatever the case, good luck on the project, it looks really awesome!

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Wow, great to hear from you, Koen. Yeah, some things never change... two decades later, here I am, still shoehorning weird Linux systems on 32-bit ARMs. I was originally kind of thinking of using ipkg for X1Plus... As it turns out, Jamey and I are working together these days, doing business as Accelerated Tech. Hope you're doing well.

What normal printers don't have wifi? 🤔

@@jamesm3268 I meant: the few Bamboo pro ,( I think that was X1E, ) products that can run without internet access have ethernet, which I prefer. The Bamboo consumer products works as long their mother ship gets your data and can see what you do.

They've added a LAN mode in the production build. It won't have to rely on internet access and it you can set up your firewall to block external comms. Also, I think the X1Plus firmware may give you better control over it as well.

This post is pretty funny. It sort of seems like one of these internet truisms that the less somebody knows about something, the more confidently they post. I have always wondered why this is.

I would say I totally expected the comments to be full of people who have no idea what they are talking about -- it is the Internet, after all :) If you have an OnShape account, I posted the link in the Printables file, I think. Let me know if you have questions / if you get it to work for you -- I'd be stoked to hear if you replicate it!

@@joshuawise Thanks, will do! Seems the important parts are also available where I am, so I'll give it a shot when I have the time. I'll probably add a make to the Printables post if I'm successful.

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I really felt like trash garbage on the first lap, especially after the holeshot got away from me! I’m not sure how much closing the gaps would have saved me, though, especially given how much energy was going into how choppy the terrain was. As I have discovered many times over, it sucks to suck sometimes…

I wonder if they can do something like you mentioned, a long green striped merge painted on the ground. If they just cut the bollards earlier on in the merge (sooner than 35 feet) it'd be totally doable

Yes, a long striped green merge (see San Antonio Rd northbound turning right onto California St, or Sand Hill Rd eastbound at 280) would work well here. Stevens Creek Trail is great for newer cyclists but as a mixed used trail it has dangers of its own (young pedestrians can be unpredictable and difficult to pass), and it's unlit (and, I believe, technically closed) at night, which makes it difficult to use for a commute during the winter. It's an integral part of the way cyclists can get around, but trails are only useful if they connect to useful places - and, as this video demonstrates, the El Camino connection is not one of them!

Ya all I'm saying is completely separated bike trails like in the Netherlands would never have the issue of avoiding cars. Kinda like some folks mentioned yesterday, why is there never funding for a dedicated bike trail like that? I'm positive that a north/south dedicated active transit trail would be used a lot. I suppose it's easier to put something like that out in nature like the bay lands trail. That being said, if we lived in a bike friendly place, central expressway could have a dedicated pedestrian/bike/scooter trail running parallel to it- for example

​@@joshuawiseand absolutely, I can attest that Stevens Creek trail is terrifying at night 😂