Dave Akerman

We updated our F9P board now with a 672 channel(!) ZED-F20P board for all your high precision location needs. Offically no support for GLONASS but does seem to receive it. store.uputronics.com/products/ubl... Also operates independantly of the Pi via the USB header with any Win/Linux/Mac machine.

This is an ePaper display connected to my van WiFi and Pi4 running HA. Some icons faked awaiting actual hardware. The weather picks up the van's GPS location using an Uputronics GPS HAT. Schedule is from Google calendar. Sensors are switchbots (temp/RH) and Mopeka (levels).

Impressive technology!

As a lone engineer, having chatgpt by your side is like being surrounded by a large team all of whom are willing to answer questions, with answers from perfect down to completely wrong, all delivered with equal confidence.

I asked chatgpt to design a printable funnel for me. It was doing so well and then ...

Designing for printing, minimizing or eliminating supports or the need to print in parts, can be a challenge with the solution not always being obvious at first. But it is rewarding.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

My investments vs Trumpconomics ...

New toy. Er, I mean, vital workhorse. As always, the first things to print are models designed by users to fix design issues left by the manufacturer. That said, it's a lovely piece of kit.

Loving this "easy nylon" from Overture. Nylon has a rep for being hard to print but this was my very first attempt, using the recommended settings, an enclosure for the printer, a heated container for the reel, and a PTFE tube from there to the printer.

Alexa is in literal mode today ...

I've managed to connect a pair of BM6 vehicle battery monitors to Home Assistant, via an ESP32 running an ESPHome script to poll them. So now I can tell when I need to charge the motorhome batteries :)

Go to Google Search "Gulf of Mexico" Click the 3 little dots next to "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)" Choose "Send feedback" Click "Gulf of America" Click "Inaccurate content" Click "Incorrect" Tell Google the correct name en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of...

Saw an amazing meteor at a few minutes past 11 this evening. Totally at random when I popped out to get something from the shed. Bright green and broke up. I'll check the meteor camera network in the morning!

Skew-T Log-P xkcd.com/3032

After a few days of coughing with a chest cold, I've lost my voice. No, it's not where I last left it.

I use a web "to do" app which lets me type in the day/month/year for when it needs to be done by. The year box accepts up to 6 digits. I guess it's future-proofed but hey, even my list doesn't reach that far out!

I think that the sign is underplaying this ...

1 - Design novel rotatable fitting. 2 - Try to explain to other half. Fail. 3 - Print it then show her. 4 - "Oh, like that thing on my vacuum cleaner?" 5 - Oh. Yes. Like that.

All the filaments are MINE ...

3D printing is a constant learning process, and my current thing is to print complex (for me) ABS parts in several pieces and solvent-weld them together. This can help with avoiding overhangs and supports, both of which are problematic with ABS.

This is less Artificial Intelligence, and more Artificial Social Desirability Bias: chatgpt telling me what it thinks I want to hear:

3D printing peeps - I have 2 models of the same printer (Creality Ender 3 V3 SE, so pretty basic), one much newer than the other, and the newer one is printing the same gcode file and same filament rather more quickly than the other. What's the reason likely to be?

Spending hours with ChatGPT can save you minutes of reading the documentation.

Achievement unlocked: my mini 3D print farm running at full capacity 😁