Posts by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
(DIR) Post #AlRYJx6KBKLZ3qyNcm by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2024-08-29T01:12:16Z
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@foone I've used all three and I don't know what the stand up comedy thing with Plex is?
(DIR) Post #AoimAi0fVu1jKVCvHk by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2024-12-05T02:13:38Z
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@foone I had misinterpreted this at first and assumed these were servicing instructions for a standalone keyboard and was getting increasingly concerned that you had created a keyboard involving an SSD, ribbon cables, a bios battery, etc or you'd found some "AI Enabled" keyboard that had an entire computer built into it to run Markov chains and displayed suggestions on a little display. Though the idea that they'd put dedicated removable RAM and an SSD into that seemed excessive
(DIR) Post #Aq3ig465jJTCNAiCvY by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2025-01-14T02:36:15Z
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@foone @angelastella We see madness in the stars not because of what's out there, but because we use RF to see it.
(DIR) Post #AvXRps3Mn5doe5Bxfk by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2025-06-27T00:09:19Z
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@foone embed a small battery, accelerometer, controller, and transmitter inside a bouncy ball that you can just throw onto the ground at different heights. Or a grid of positions on a wall that correspond to different letters, motion sensors on each axis trip when you throw the ball at the grid and send the input. Lots of good ways out there to make a keyboard where you type by throwing things
(DIR) Post #AwfUJer0BZ9F4TDOEK by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2025-07-30T19:06:57Z
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@foone When I was looking at IRS jobs (used to work there until this year, no prize for guessing what happened) I noticed a lot of their IT positions have COBOL listed as a requirement/preferred skill.I don't really have a punchline for this I just found it funny. COBOL is still alive and well in the bureaucracy somewhere
(DIR) Post #AwfUk9BK3B3AezLns0 by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2025-07-30T19:11:51Z
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@foone I was in an IRS mailroom back in 2020. The equipment has date tags so I found out that my stapler was old enough to remember 9/11.That stapler was older than some of the people working there now that I think about it
(DIR) Post #Ax4Mac8BcWFurrpETg by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2025-08-11T19:08:04Z
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@foone I thought the problem would be having to stand outside used car dealerships and flailing erratically
(DIR) Post #AzFNTUDXvLtOEkZITg by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2025-10-15T22:24:04Z
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@foone a few random things that might help: -gently tug the filament line to make sure that it takes as little force as possible to pull it off the spool-check the extruder tension (haven't seen what kind your printer has but there should be some kind of idler gear-bump up the extrusion multiplier a few percent if none of that works-If the Z level is too low it can create what looks like a clog so maybe try raising it higher than you'd think? I dunno, that depends a lot on how you have been calibrating it. -Printing a flat 1-layer square to check how much it's squishing the filament is probably the best way to test Z axis calibration
(DIR) Post #Azn5blklVxcmGmhK4G by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2025-11-01T04:44:02Z
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@foone some fun little custom model kits and print-in-place gadgets I've seen, other than that it's storage primarily. But when you get right down to it, what else are you going to want to use a 3D printer for? Unless you're designing stuff yourself and prototyping you're probably just printing silly little things as a hobby. Or like... OpenRC F1 cars or some other big projecthttps://danielnoree.com/the-openrc-f1-build-guide/(I've made one, it's cool except getting the steering arm to fit inside the chassis is a pain and it's way too easy to strip the drive gear)
(DIR) Post #B3l71p8lth18TPpuka by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2026-02-27T21:19:24Z
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@futurebird because their lead designer got tricked by a "charge your phone using a microwave" video and decided to make it real.
(DIR) Post #B3qbQjkh2LWvPtAXkO by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2026-03-02T12:53:14Z
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@foone the main thing that comes to mind is doing this as a keyframe animation or something similar. With each person's location charted with at what times they leave a room and at what times they arrive at the next so you can either do a pre-determined path between the two rooms or just interpolate between them.I could imagine doing this in Unreal Engine and setting it up so that each "person" is an object on a separate timeline within the animation with a sync to a media playback component. Just rigging the thing up as one big "animation" so it can evenly match up to the video's current time and you could jump around without causing any issue (just make it so forced updates to the playback time simultaneously set the animation's current time) But that's obviously a bit overkill, unfortunately I really don't know any software that would be better suited to something like this. I think the concept of making a list of "keyframes" for each person's position is probably the right way to go at least.
(DIR) Post #B4RpD4k9rrvAOUxWpU by Plan_A_to_Y@furry.engineer
2026-03-20T11:51:58Z
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@foone for some reason my brain went to "gender but as in cable connector" which I can't stop thinking about now and so I guess feet are the male connector and shoes are the female. Is a mannequin foot actually just a "male shoe"? Are socks just a very short cable connecting your foot to the shoe?