WillAdams

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by WillAdams 5d ago
Is there a good book (or web page) documenting the history of such small lathes/machines and their designers? There seems to be a lot of misinformation (folks claiming Gingery was melting down working machines to make his, when they we
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by WillAdams 5d ago
"Most households", no, but a statistically significant number? Yes. Two of my co-workers have one each, and another is planning on buying one for her kids for Christmas --- DJI revenge-investing in Elegoo to spite the folks who le
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by WillAdams 5d ago
Blondihacks is a favourite along w/ Clickspring and Pask Makes. Haven't found occasion to watch Artisan Makes yet, but it is queued up for the future.
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by WillAdams 5d ago
Tried the AI studio as noted elsethread and it got much further along than any other tool I've tried thus far. Working on a different project and ran out of free credits, so got out my credit card ($20 for 10,000 tokens) and a few prom
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by WillAdams 5d ago
Yes, but there are some variants such as the Voron, which last I checked was still focused on DIY kits/self-building.
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by WillAdams 5d ago
EDIT: I don't really have room for a manual mill which would be large enough for this sort of thing to make the parts I want(the Grizzly would be really pushing its limits). It's more idle speculation at this point in time --- I d
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by WillAdams 5d ago
Given that the Gingery books folks are shutting down as well: https://gingerybookstore.com/ one wonders what the other alternatives are. I mentioned Taig elsethread, and the Unimat is still available at https://t
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by WillAdams 5d ago
There's a lot to be said for a manual approach for certain tasks. For an extreme example of partisanship on this, see the Youtube channel "Inheritance Machining"
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by WillAdams 5d ago
Taig maybe? https://taigtools.com/ (ob. discl., I work for a hobbyist CNC company, but we don't offer a 4th axis or lathe)
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by WillAdams 6d ago
My Elegoo Centauri Carbon and Flashforge AD5X have been pretty much plug in, load filament, calibrate/configure for that filament, print. It or a similar printer (CoreXY, enclosed if you're going to print filaments which warrant t
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by WillAdams 8d ago
Feels a bit like an extension of having an LLM make a JSON file for text/numbers/dimensions in an image, allowing one to edit it, then use it as a reference when a prompt re-works it --- just one has to find the right node to upda
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by WillAdams 8d ago
Do they support or tolerate? The ambiguity of "right side" is striking.
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by WillAdams 8d ago
I gave it a try, and the on-line studio managed to one-shot a convincing prototype of a type of drawing program which I've asked LLM App-Dev tools to create in the past and which heretofore, none has managed anything resembling a worka
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by WillAdams 9d ago
>Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. --- Anne Herbert
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by WillAdams 9d ago
Reaching further back, the Sylistic line was mostly quite good/durable, and I still use my Stylstic ST-4110 when I need to use an old scanner or control a CNC machine on my back deck when cutting tropical hardwoods. Really miss the tra
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by WillAdams 10d ago
If I buy a new, unread book, I expect to be the first person to open it.
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by WillAdams 10d ago
It gets mentioned in British texts on hand bookbinding.
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by WillAdams 10d ago
If you can find a book with a sewn binding (or better a pair, as-yet unopened), if you open one per the instructions, then open the other haphazardly as one reads it, you will find that over time, the book which was not opened with care wil
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by WillAdams 10d ago
Yeah, really, Barnes & Noble marketing is missing a beat by not printing that as a bookmark to include with new book sales after asking the question at the register, "Has the person you are buying this hardcover for ever opened a n
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by WillAdams 10d ago
Is making parts which actually fit in scope? Because that was what was being criticized, and that seems to be where your project is failing.
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by WillAdams 10d ago
Well, one can damage a hardcover by not opening it properly the first time: https://www.reddit.com/r/lifehacks/comments/7sry7v/open_a_ha... (which was a lesson in 2nd grade, when we got our first-ever ha
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by WillAdams 11d ago
C.J. Cherryh has a memorable quote on this in her _Downbelow Station_. >They were armed, the swift exploration ships, as they had always been, venturing as they did into the unknown; but now they were used in a new way, to visit stations
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by WillAdams 13d ago
From uncertain organic memory royalty was a set percentage (7%? came out to a $1,000 check plus a fee $500?). Print $3,500 as two checks. Books sold for $70 ea. and if sold on Amazon had $12.83 for their fees. Sold a few in person, handed o
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by WillAdams 16d ago
Well, we should use Mercator for its intended purpose (only), which is to accurately show/determine angles for navigation....
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by WillAdams 16d ago
Yeah, I currently have a Samsung Galaxy Note 10+, Book 3 Pro 360, and a Kindle Scribe Colorsoft as well as a Wacom One attached to a MacBook and more styluses scattered around my house and bags than I could easily count, but this makes me a
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by WillAdams 18d ago
That's a divide which I've been curious about for a while --- what texts are suited for an app/interactive version? One which I usually bring up is: https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements&#x
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by WillAdams 18d ago
That was not the impression I got from the Tolkien Estate and Oxford University Press when I asked.
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by WillAdams 18d ago
Most of the typos were linguistic, a couple of German words in the bibliography, Old English in the poem.
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by WillAdams 18d ago
There wasn't much to it --- I contacted the Univ. of Missouri Press, they set a price in terms of initial fee and on-going royalty payments, I returned a signed copy of the contract and they sent a DVD w/ the files. The only wrink
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by WillAdams 18d ago
This hits close to home. When Grayson's _Traditional Archery from Six Continents_ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1662236.Traditional_Arch... went out of print, I actually found it more palatable to buy t

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