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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml to c/tinkercad@lemmy.ml

When I'm modeling enclosures for Arduino, I like to have components to work with that match (fairly closely) real life. While the circuit details on some of the pieces might not be completely to the mm accurate, they're close enough to work. Project behind the link.

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submitted 11 months ago by BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml to c/javascript@lemmy.ml

ChatGPT used to have this, and there was a popular forum that had it (though I can't remember what it was/is), where, when you'd click a "delete" link, the confirmation was RIGHT THERE: "delete" faded out, "OK / Cancel" faded in. In the same space. It was really elegant and unobtrusive.

Does anyone know if there's a library out there for it? I searched over github and google, but didn't find anything, probably because I couldn't get the search terms specific enough.

[-] BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

And execs wonder why we torrent.

[-] BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

As long as it keeps me employed I am happy to move pixels all day.

[-] BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 year ago

Windows is just another ad platform, now.

[-] BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

Arduino and hobby electronics. It started out as a continuous loop pad dye machine to save me having to dye fabric by hand, strictly mechanical, but then I wanted to automate adding the chemicals at the right times. Then it was keeping the dye liquor a consistent temperature. Then it was draining the trough automatically. Then I figured out I could design my own PCBs and have them fabricated. It just keeps going...

[-] BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

That's how RICO works: you don't have to have committed the actual crime, but if your actions materially contributed to the commission of the crime, that's considered pretty much the same thing.

[-] BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

I don't think any of the gravy seals have it in them to actually take on the government. Soon as they see their buddies torn in half by a 50cal it's going to blow the fight right out of them. Sure, sure, it's all "I'll die for my country!" but you put a gun to their head and say, "America needs your life now", not one in ten will have the courage of their conviction.

I used to doom-scroll to see what bullshit embarrassment Trump was going to put our country through on any given day. Now I'm doom scroll hoping to read his obituary.

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The fabric on Admiral Marcus' uniform bears the same pattern as the carpet in the Overlook Hotel.

[-] BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago

There isn't anything that Adobe charges money for that you can't find an open source alternative.

[-] BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago

There isn't anything that Adobe charges money for that you can't find an open source alternative for.

[-] BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago

I have no problems saying excuse me in a loud clear voice and blasting right through the center of those conversations. Being a performer at the local Renaissance festival for 30 years teaches you how to blow right through crowds with people in the way.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml to c/3dprinting@lemmy.ml

Ordinarily, I wouldn't turn down bacon for any reason, but in PLA it looks kinda bad. Any ideas as to cause and, more importantly, prevention?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml to c/tinkercad@lemmy.ml

I have several skulls around my shop (no real ones, I'm sorry to say) just sitting on whatever flat surface I could find at the time. I decided to mount them so I'd have my flat surfaces back. This is the first.

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[-] BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

Where exactly does the Bible say that abortion is wrong? Have you read the Old Testament? There are so many dead babies there you could use them for the foundations of the tower of Babel. There's even a method described for inducing abortion.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml to c/tinkercad@lemmy.ml

I'm working on a machine that needs five IR sensors to track the edge of a moving loop: position and speed of position change. Since it is 3d printed, the box that'll hold the sensors was designed in Tinkercad, but I also started the design of the PCB that will connect the sensors to the main board.

Tinkercad enabled me to visualize how it would all fit together: I set the spacing of the sensors and their distance from the base, then used those measurements in Fritzing to design the PCB.

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I'm writing a fiction story. There are two scenes where a woman is put in danger: one involves an almost-rape, the other the kind of language you'd get from an abusive relationship (in both cases the woman eventually comes out on top.)

I've never raped anyone or used abusive language, and as an autist I need something to go by if I'm in completely unfamiliar territory. I've been using ChatGPT for inspiration/ideas (not verbatim content), but when I bring up these scenarios, the AI gets all snooty and proper and lectures me on ethics, morals, proper behavior, etc. That's no help at all, as you can imagine.

So, is there an AI tool that doesn't clutch its pearls when asked for questionable content?

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[-] BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

Not a fan of lemmings, since everything we know about them in popular culture is incorrect - they don't commit mass suicide - and is suicide really the image we want for ourselves? @Lemminary has the right idea.

[-] BillTheTailor@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

All inkjet printers are an ink scam. If you don't need color, or need it infrequently, get a b/w laser printer and be done with it. I bought a used HP Laserjet 2430 back with Ubuntu 18 and never looked back. I print a lot, and just a month ago broke into a toner cartridge I bought five years ago.

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Ender 3 Pro, Slicr, retraction: 6mm; temp: 215; PLA+.

The pin feathers usually happen in the upper layers. Cura doesn't do this, but it's so desperately slow as an app (to load, to slice, to preview) that I'm trying Slicr, (which does everything almost instantly.)

Any advice how to avoid them?

(The top surface is another issue I can't seem to solve, but one thing at a time.)

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Of all the things I've designed in Tinkercad, this project has been the one to get the most redesigns and that gets the most use. It's a gear set to reduce the output of an appliance motor from 1750rpm to ~100rpm, give or take.

The last set I printed in PLA have probably been run for easily twenty hours in total, about an hour and a half at a time. The early sets were about 30% bigger - for the machine they're made for I can't go any smaller without having to throw in a bunch of extra gears to get all the spacing of the outputs right.

There's some filigree in the two upper gears. I don't have to put that in there, and no one ever sees it, but I like knowing it's there.

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