Finally doing some design at home.
I'm revisiting the Joystick handle to optimize it for 3D printing, rather than machining, as I spent months doing in the past (fuck, XD)
On the outside there doesn't seem to be much change, but there's a LOT of difference.
Previously I was going to use 20mm aluminium stock, so removing, or leaving, material was a non issue. Switching to additive means I want to either add as little material as possible, or at least NOT need supports.
Charges cause water droplets in an early-Earth atmosphere to build up pre-life chemicals.
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Two Big Court Rulings
Federal district courts deal significant, concurrent blows to the administration’s mass firing campaign.open.substack.com
#PPOD: Blue Ghost got her first diamond ring! The photo, taken at their landing site in the Moon’s Mare Crisium around 3:30 a.m. CDT on 14 March 2025, shows the Sun about to emerge from totality behind Earth. This marks the first time in history that a commercial company was actively operating on the Moon and able to observe a total solar #eclipse. This phenomenon occurred simultaneously with the lunar eclipse we witnessed on Earth. Credit: Firefly Aerospace
Every 7th night, they come in droves. Suddenly fast and aware of my hideouts. They'll smash through wooden doors in seconds and claw their way through stone walls and steel bars.
I survived once by climbing on a roof and sniping them from above and through a hole in the roof when they got in, but they almost collapsed the walls to bring me down.
Now I've built a castle. Workshops, vulture tower and killing tunnel with dart traps. Tonight they come.
#Zombies #7DaysToDie #Survival #Game #Gaming
The tunnel worked. Alas, I got overrun by zombies climbing on top of each other until they reached me on the roof. Then I hid at the safe end of the tunnel, shotgunning any in the face that made it past the traps. This worked until they smashed in the backdoor (and wall) and got me from behind. Close though!
Finally unlocked the crucible to make steel (with lots of mining). Stronger doors and more concrete walls. And I made the tunnel wider so I could install whirling blade traps.
„And I made the tunnel wider so I could install whirling blade traps.“
I have a feeling we’re all going to be saying this a lot more in the future.
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Under fire, the Looney Tunes break ground on the big screen
Warner Bros. has put its legacy cartoon at a crossroads. We spoke to those looking towards the future of the Looney Tunes.AV Club
Tesla hopes to slow down Trump's tit-for-tat tariffs amid financial woes.
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Tesla urges overhaul of Trump tariffs hurting EV industry
Tesla hopes to slow down Trump’s tit-for-tat tariffs amid financial woes.Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
Look at all the sh*t Free Speech hating Elon is doing with DOGE and laugh about this hypocrisy.
With no audit, no thought, and no accountability, Elon Musk is just taking an axe to jobs and services.
But when the same ideological, reckless behaviour is aimed at him, it's suddenly a problem.
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But, that is not what upsets them. They are upset because he was with the Citizen Lab?
We are in Bizarro World.
Anyone need a Drupal specialist? PHP programmer? Javascript programmer?
I've been doing software development for over 10 years.
Police say CEO ran away, tried to hide evidence after boy's hyperbaric chamber death
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#news #health #medicine #fraud
Police say CEO ran away, tried to hide evidence after boy's hyperbaric chamber death
Troy police say Tamela Peterson ran away when asked for her cellphone after Thomas Cooper died in a hyperbaric chamber fire at the Oxford Center.Andrea May Sahouri (Detroit Free Press)
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The image is a four-panel cartoon making a joke about simulation theory. In the first panel, two men are at a kitchen counter with fast food. The man on the left is saying "All I'm saying is that we could be living in one big simulation!" In the second panel, the same two men are at the kitchen counter with fast food and the man on the left is saying "This is all just some crazy video game!" and the man on the right is saying "We're not in a video game. I can prove it." In the third panel, the same two men are standing at a doorway and the man on the right is pointing and saying "Just right down here." In the fourth panel, the same two men are standing in a room with a large pile of corpses. The man on the right is saying "See? Here's a giant pile of dead bodies without any clipping or frame drops." The man on the left is saying "Oh yeah!"
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NASA and SpaceX make second attempt to launch astronauts this week
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/14/nx-s1-5328536/nasa-and-spacex-make-second-attempt-to-launch-astronauts-this-week?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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On Thurs night, the #KennedyCenter concert hall was awash in…howling, passionate booing. It started w/1 or 2 boos & caught on fast, roaring from the rows. I’ve never heard anything quite like it—let alone before a note was played.
The cause of the nearly sold-out house’s audible outrage was the emergence onto the box tier of VP #JDVance, 2nd lady (& newly appointed Kennedy Center board member) #UshaVance…, nearly a half-hour after the concert was scheduled to begin.
14 March 1893 | A German Jewish woman, Grete Marx Emmel, was born in Warburg.
In October 1940 she was imprisoned in the internment camp in Gurs. In September 1942 she was deported from Drancy to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.
The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism
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The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism
It would hardly be notable to make the acquaintance of a Greek Buddhist today. Despite having originated in Asia, that religion — or philosophy, or way of life, or whatever you prefer to call it — now has adherents all over the world.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
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"We are exploring options to expand our manufacturing capabilities."
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Relativity Space may soon move a majority of its operations to Texas
“We are exploring options to expand our manufacturing capabilities.”…Eric Berger (Ars Technica)
I can't keep up with all these people, but going Texas...? Does that suggest a MAGA move.
Are they in that sense similar to the neo-military-industrial startups like Anduril and Palantir, funded by far-right accelerationist types?
And a totally unrelated observation: California for some reason apart, it seems like the pro-authoritarian populace tends to be generally found in the 'hot and bothersome' regions while the more level-headed and cooperative peoples don't mind the cold all that much... (Northern European here)
#MathArtMarch "irrational", pi day, lets assign pi to random variables
with curved-ruler.github.io/webgl-s…
return {
N : 10000,
Fi : [ 0, 0],
dFi: [42, Math.PI],
R : (i) => (Math.sin(i*Math.PI/20))
};
‘Ted Lasso’ Will Return for Season 4 on Apple TV+ - The New York Times
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‘Ted Lasso’ Will Return for Season 4 on Apple TV+
Apple TV+ announced on Friday that the Emmy-winning comedy will return for a fourth season. Jason Sudeikis will be back to reprise the title role.Jeremy Egner (The New York Times)
Hackaday Podcast Episode 312: Heart Attacks, the Speed of Light, and Self-balancing
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Hackaday Podcast Episode 312: Heart Attacks, The Speed Of Light, And Self-balancing
Elliot does the podcast on the road to Supercon Europe, and Al is in the mood for math and nostalgia this week. Listen in and find out what they were reading on Hackaday this week. The guys talked …Hackaday
Ianthe Tridentarius by Starcanist
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#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart
A digital drawing shows a pale-skinned figure with long, blonde hair, a white shirt with gold buttons, dark pants with a laced front, and a fencing sword. The figure is seated with one leg crossed over the other and is holding the sword in their right hand. A gold circle is behind the figure, and the background is a dark color.
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I'm replacing the proprietary BMS with one i can interference with
Stump sighting 🌱
~Current earworm: "Left to Rust and Rot," by If These Trees Could Talk~
#portland #oregon #pdx #pnw #nature #trees #trunk #ifthesetreescouldtalk #photos #photography #fotografie #mobilephotography #digitalphotography #iphone #shotoniphone #iphoneography #smartphoneography #fediverse #pixelfed
Okay, I am impressed. Apparently someone in 19th century Austria released a folk tale collection for a specific grammar school _as teaching material_!
NEW: Insiders tell ProPublica that Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run #DOGE.
One person who has been in meetings with Gleason described her as having “little to no actual decision making” responsibilities.
#news #government #musk #ElonMusk #AmyGleason #Trump
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Who’s Really in Charge at DOGE: Elon Musk or Amy Gleason?
Insiders tell ProPublica that Amy Gleason is only in charge on paper, while Musk’s top lieutenants really run DOGE. One person who has been in meetings with Gleason described her as having “little to no actual decision making” responsibilities.ProPublica
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When humans use AI to earn patents, who is doing the inventing?
US patent law says inventors must be human, but they can use AI. This changes the nature of invention and raises the question: Is this what the founders had in mind when they set up the patent system?The Conversation
Nixie
in reply to Nixie • • •Probably one of the biggest changes is going from a 10x15 flanged bearing at the bottom, to a 11x7 flanged bearing to be able to reduce the width.
I still have to rework the Theta axle to adapt to that, but I think it's fairly doable.
In the image is the original axle, with the bigger bearing at the bottom. Technically, I should be able to keep many of the current measurements with few changes. One thing for sure, you won't be taking the handle out without removing the cables.
Nixie
in reply to Nixie • • •Waw, that handle previously took about 4,5h to print, back then in my old cetus.
Now it's down to 75 minutes. Not bad at all.
I won't be printing it yet (first of all, the PPA-CF I have now, is from work, not mine (there is some arguability about who supplied filament to who in there, since back in the day I provided a few rolls of material I didn't want, but I' dont really feel like argueing about that)
AND
I will probably change things in the handle the more I stare at it, too.
Nixie
in reply to Nixie • • •Nixie
in reply to Nixie • • •Nixie
in reply to Nixie • • •So, I printed a joystick core in PPA-CF, same settings as the pieces from work (except layer thickness, from 0,4mm down to 0,2mm)...and the results where a bit disastrous.
Lots of wavyness, not sure where from, and in general, dissapointing.
I am now going to try a 0,4mm layer (with some changes to the model, like the hexagons, those are gone) and some distances that made single wall details, and see what happens.
I think I definitely need a 0,6mm nozzle.
Nixie
in reply to Nixie • • •I definitely need to get my hands on Siraya Tech CF core PPA-CF, but they don't sell in europe!
Fucks sake.
At some point I'll have to contact a mutual here that can send me a roll or two of that (whenever it is that I have money for that, go figure when.
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Siraya Tech Fibreheart PPA-CF Filament
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in reply to Nixie • • •Nixie
in reply to Patrick Herd • • •@PatrickHerd Yeah, I'm just now finding out about the loose fibers thing in the ones that have simply fivers mixed in them. The one that is only core should be a lot more safe.
Oh well.
Nixie
in reply to Nixie • • •@PatrickHerd I'd like to see more than one study about this, tho:
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