It was Flashforge Adventurer 3, and was $600 AUD, this was all pre COVID.

I had a 20+ Yr old car with a key fob that had broken, so it would stay on a key ring and wouldn’t stay closed.

Wreckers wanted $700 for a new key fob case as I’d have to buy the whole second hand keyless entry system.

A small 3d printer cost $650.

I bought the printer, then designed and printed my own key fob case, including replacing the worn out rubber buttons with some harvested out of an old kitchen timer.

No one was ever impressed or interested with the whole thing, so I figured this meets the criteria for inclusion here…

My step kids have never known me without a beard. They saw a photo of me clean shaven from about a year before I met their mother, and my stepdaughter looked at me, then the photo and said “Ew… Gross… Never shave your beard…”

Gotta love the honesty!!!

(I just choose to remember how much my stepdaughter LOVES my beard!! 🤪)

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Among other things, yes…

There are hybrid inverters that support dark start (no grid) but yes, as you mentioned, they only do this when they have internally dropped the grid feed, to prevent such a back feed event.

If cyclone winds lift the panels and damage them, when the sun comes out it can increase the chances of a fire, or some such.

We had a category 2 cyclone approaching.

I only described it as inclement weather, so as not to become “exciting men’s club”…

Congrats - it sure is a milestone…

I was diagnosed at 44yo, finally got to a psychiatrist who said to me: you’re doing every single life hack/strategy we could possibly ask an ADHD sufferer to be doing to manage their symptoms… Did you want to try some medication?

I was like: “so that means, yes, I DO have ADHD?”

He just smiled and said: “yes, absolutely!”

I was so relieved to finally have some kind of answer I broke down on the spot, and had to defer the meds conversation till the next months appt as it was all too much at that point.

I’m 8-9 months in, and wish I’d been diagnosed 35 years ago!

My journey wasn’t anything like yours, it only took 12 months once I decided to pursue it, but even I had to laugh when my GP gave me a list of a dozen psychiatrists and told me to call each one to see if they were taking referrals…

I looked at him and said: you’re giving me a list of 12 things to do with no deadline so I can get diagnosed with ADHD… Isn’t this a terrible idea?!

Yes… I realised member everything in the shower… Even the things I remembered in the shower yesterday…

And have zero ability to get it into my digital journal…

I’ve used airtable for these sorts of “personal use” use cases (eg: home built rocketry flight log) and I was even able to use their iPhone / Android app to enter data.

I haven’t paid a cent for it yet as I’m well under their data caps.

Mk4s owner here and I’m super unhappy with the output of my factory assembled mk4s, due to a consistent first layer problem. The mk4s is related to the core 1 as far as I know as the “next gen”.

Prusa seems to be aware of the issue, but I feel they are still messing around greatly with any kind of actual solution to the problem, that actually led me to pulling the pin on any work purchases from Prusa at all.

I actually got sent a second factory assembled mk4s as a “make good”, and the new unit had the exact same problem, right out of the box…

If I had my time again, I wish I’d have gone the Voron in some kind of pre-packed kit form…

I like the little shuttle golf carts in Japanese airports: each cart plays a different tune as they drive along.

Nah… It’s easy… My previous mk3s+ had hundreds of awwsome PETG hours.

🙏🏻

Can I assume from your response that you have a mk4 or mk4s with this issue then?

Thanks…It’s a good point. I’ve updated the post photo, and I’ll add the worse failure mode elsewhere.

If you wanted to customise the starting gcode, I’m sure you could.

A typical output with PLA.with Zoffset = 0