the scanner does not really appear to like arms due to lack of defining geometry in the middle, so I may end up still making a DTD for the upper body that being said, I've got a scan of my lower body to work with so i can start designing the legs and tail

i miss friendslop games.

Attempt number 2 with the 3D scanner, getting better at it, but I think my bedroom is a terrible environment, lighting-wise. Also decided I'm going to forego the DTD entirely and just get a scan of my body. Forgot you can stitch multiple scans together, so it doesn't really matter if I move a bit.

printer some more wire clips for the 3030 and now the printer is 100% complete (only took 3 months 💀) getting into more advanced testing now, gonna do benchies in IDEX mirror and copy mode, and then try a bi-material print so far so good for the mirror print, and W that Orca supports it off rip

-- rating of today -- + air filter will be complete by the time i go to bed (still printing the last part rn) + gates deck (MTG) has been deemed bracket 4 by The People Who Know Things™️ (it beat eldrazi tonight) - probably got the flu (sore throat, aches, chills) but currently mostly fine rank: B

unstoppable "its gonna be covered by the blower" vs immovable "holy fuck thats ugly"

chamber filter works👍 generating a new compensation mesh for 105C (Z offsets accounting for thermal expansion) then gonna start tuning the filament profile properly and Then I can finally make the permanent housing for the filter and THEN uhhhhhh idk we'll see I guess

filter is now plugged in and I flashed the newest version of RatOS to the Raspberry Pi while I had access to that as well (major reworks meant I couldn't update from the version I had). Going through all the initial config stuff rn, then we are back in business and ready to start with ASA

WOW Orca Slicer is so much better than Prusa Slicer. A few temp towers and minor tweaks to Orca's generic/base profiles and my PETG and TPU is looking SO MUCH BETTER TPU is a bit annoying because the part fan is constantly at 100%, and it's a 12V 40mm server fan, but it's SO CLEAN NOW

3D scanner arrived. definitely gonna have a bit of a learning curve (still a couple of yucky artifacts from merging the scans I got of this thingy they provide), but not too bad for half an hour, I'd say. Actually kinda impressed given the experience I've had w/ Creality products in the past

chud fucked up first-layer vs the chemical that kills you idk why first layer went so close, thermal expansion shoulda been mostly done when i started the print and it did all the calibration stuff, still took a bit to clean with MEK and a razor blade (printing temporary PETG air filter housing)

wait material progression works in real life how it does in minecraft I make the thing with PETG first and then use that for the ASA

Catch 22 of "To print the printer's chamber filter housing, you should use ABS/ASA. To print ABS/ASA, you should have a chamber filter." Gonna tape the enclosure, wear a respirator and vent the shit outta my basement with a shop fan, surely a couple of prints won't give me cancer riiight?

@galadino.bsky.social did NOT admit that they were cute, so they have been cubed. Let this serve as a warning.

was more excited waking up to the news this morning that the tariffs have been deemed unconstitutional by the supreme court than I have been on christmas morning for probably like 5 years

also going to hold off on this for now, I think, as I've got the idea that I can try to get a 3D scan of my DTD when I make that and import that directly into blender to use as a base

can't sleep and I have to be up in 4 hours i hate it here

gonna start over on the design for my legs I think, as I legitimatley don't think anything will be as good for the armor as EVA, so I'm going to do regular legs and then the armor after I'll also make an actual measured reference model of my leg to base it off of, dunno what I was thinking before

lots of stringing and i could probably rip the top of the cabin off, but considering how thin and short those sections were, and how long the front bridge was, i honestly think this is good enough to move on. anything i do will be at least twice as thick, and bridges, if needed, will be supported

so far so good, but the true test will be the thinner parts since those are more similar to what I'll actually be printing will get that info ... 5 hours from now

all my TPU issues appear to be stemming from perimeters on overhangs, which will not be something i actually need, as i will never have both of those at the same time SO time for a proper test. sponge boat

checked my old phone and my Revolt 2FA was still on it, so I've been able to recover that account 🔥 gonna delete the new one and use that. Don't see the user card thing anymore, but here's the username Also, if anyone'd like to use my stickers as emotes, I've made a server for that stt.gg/tnST8eFa

* feeling of being watched (...yes, she was stuck)

certainly not contributing to the "business degrees aren't real" stereotype in any way, today in economics we rolled pasta across a table for 30 minutes

art for a friend #furryart #art #furry

did a bit more reading on what the discord thing entails, and it does appear to really just be NSFW and a few other navigational inconveniences as the fuck-you-on-top does appear they'll try to infer from metadata and context first, which is still gross, but better than giving new data.

I mean this as hard as I can: cancel your fucking nitro. it is LITERALLY the only thing that they fucking listen to.

if discord continues with this bullshit, and they most likely will, ill be done with it. for anyone interested in staying in contact on something like it, ill be reactivating my Revolt/Stoat account whenever the email comes in. ill pin a post with that info when its available.

turns out my printer also doubles as last-resort water damage recovery for trading cards. accidentally spilled some, put the affected cards wrapped in a paper towels between the build plate and the magnet sheet at 50°C for a few hours and the surface texture and color are nearly entirely restored

Backed by statistical proof. (sticker base by Kozke)

did a LOT more tinkering with the printer and the Y resonance graphs are no less shit than before (if not more shit) soooo I'm just gonna take it as it is and settle with a lower max acceleration and slower prints in general. I got the thing for size anyway, not a big deal.

accidentally broke a limit switch with the rail moving freely (belt's off) so guess who gets to pay $30 shipping on a $3 part god bless America (I ordered four of them to offset that a little bit)

as long as the power doesn't go out (it shouldn't)

still a bit wavy and gross but realistically good enough, since my use cases are always going to be sanded and painted. tired of fiddling with the belts, it's time to get moving (could also reduce the speed, this is still a relatively fast 2-300mm/s. increasing the layer height also helped a lot)

Skate Story's OST (and art direction) are so fucking good, holy. It's replaced my whole playlist for the time being lmao open.spotify.com/album/3T3hC1...

As well as messing around with more color contrast and textures, I've also begun employing the revolutionary technology of.... flipping the damn canvas (I get it now)

this guy #furryart

printer is officially bricked up (and rock solid)

(just had a $2000 snack) #furryart #protogen

table is *still* a little too wobbly so the printer is going to be moved to concrete blocks on the floor, which should theoretically be much sturdier unless something is seriously wrong with the foundation of my house.

wobbly table issue may now be fixed, or at least much much better. running the inout shaler calibration again, and will probably check the flatness of the bed since it's been moved around a ton

forgot i had $22 in my phone case, we up

did actually consider this being a thing that could happen when I set new colors last year little do they know it's just my fursona

lowkey flowstate overstimulation game time youtu.be/rjOcS9_FI6s

.. & temps are too hot & the fan's too slow & the table's too wobbly & the PA's too high and LONG story short I've got a lot more walking to do before I can run lmao gonna start w/ the table issue because that'll affect everything else, will also be testing w/ PLA in the mean time since it's easier

spent 3 hours trying to tune a filament profile for my PETG turns out it was just wet :/

there is no driver license and if there is, it's definitely not mine (real talk: yippee)

title vaguely related since this song's a vibe lol surprised I've still got it since I haven't really played in a while youtu.be/ID8Uz7eL2g0

seven hours later, whole collection is sorted (by color) and indexed lol

beginning to understand the stereotypes surrounding business majors/degrees.