they use tin-cure silicone and not the expensive safe platinum-cure stuff, and the metal is usually nickel plated brass

i mean maybe if you use it too much

could be waiting on a container to fill, could be stuck in customs, shit could be the boat flipped over and your package is at the bottom of the sea who knows

@KING LIAM i wouldn't plug that into my computer, but if you have a really beefy usb wall wart maybe give it a try on that

this thing is too cheap to be a ceramic heater so you've probably just got a length of nichrome in there, and it doesn't specify resistance thereof or current so yknow, might blow out your usb controller with horrible over current

also: with just a length of nichrome it'd be a fire hazard in need of constant supervision whenever plugged in

i kinda wanna get more into earbuds-not-iems

anyone know some good chink earbuds aside from the monk

and the zen and asura those dont count either

qian39, aight

that is a funky lookin earbud

it looks semi-open-back, but it has that big chamber too, seems interesting

oh i forgot about yuin! adding that to the list

not exactly /g/ but this is cute http://www.gearbest.com/tees/pp_606595.html

might grab one

wait china size m only, nvm :<

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/GRBL-control-Diy-1610-mini-CNC-machine-working-area-16x10x4-5cm-3-Axis-Pcb-Milling-machine/32713235348.html i kinda wanna go for it since sub-$200 and tiny desktop size, but i can tell just by looking i'll need to replace the spindle and probably reinforce that horrible 2020 frame

's a cnc router, basically like a milling machine except shit and for cutting flatter things

can't mill steel on the chinese routers but then you need a big knee mill for that

yes but a cnc router from the west is gonna cost a few thousand used

or near a hundred to diy

er

near a thousand

i have two 3d printers and enough experience printing practical parts to know how 3d printed cnc frames will go

it's gotta be all metal

also, for anyone who wants an actual good chinese 3d printers, fuck anet, get wanhao

why would i print a gun

when i can print tooling for making nsfw-lewds

yeah that will delaminate and fall apart under the stresses of a router

unless you have an SLS/SLA printer, which i don't and until the wanhao d7 is a bit more developed can't afford

i've considered it

it's a pretty good option

but then i've seen how some of the chinese routers in the $400-$600 range perform after simply replacing the spindle, and it's pretty impressive

shapeoko is $1100

the big ones a few hundred more

$1100 is cheap for cnc stuff

it was fkn groundbreaking honestly, cnc machining went from six figure price tags and diy and no middle ground to an off the shelf western router for a bit over a thousand bucks

the real cost is still the tooling though

even chinese tooling worth bothering with is expensive

there's cheap "high speed steel" tooling, but it will break and ruin your day

i have a heeeeavily modified wanhao duplicator i3 and i have a kossel

would not recommend the kossel, i have yet to really get it dialed in, was fun to build but cartesian robot is just better

no effector tilt or anything, no ultra-precise measurements with calipers i can't afford required

trivial to add another extruder if you want and don't mind sacrificing some x axis for it

the main downside to the wanhao i3 is the melzi board it uses, you have to replace that if you wanna add a second extruder

but the frame is pretty fkn solid out of the box and if you want you can reinforce it with community-made mods until it makes $2000 pritners look flimsy and jiggly

replace the stock nozzle cooler

micro swiss makes a replacement hotend for it that'll let you print nylon and polycarbonate and (do not do this without a permanganate air scrubber please) POM

it's a pretty common low-end board that basically just combines the arduino and stepper drivers onto one board

it's like shitty ramps kinda yeah

it's the next thing i'm replacing

it works fine if you only need the one extruder

also: they advertise 0.1mm layer height, this is false

i can print at 0.04mm reliably on it

the 0.1 is just to play it safe i guess

also i really wish i knew about huion actually beong good before i bought wacom

i haven't touched my wacom since i got this thing

>supported out of the box in linux no special drivers required >twice the levels of pressure sensitivity >twice the size still costs half as much

fuck wacom

nah

cartesian 3d printers use belts to drive a very lightweight effector and bed back and forth along rails

which is fine when the only stresses you need to overcome are the momentum of a little bit of aluminum and air resistance

but on a router you're pushing a heavy motor around, with a spinny bit on the end cutting sideways through a fairly hard material, so belts will just slip

gotta heva lead screws on all axis for a mill or router

there's a guy working on an EDM head to fit on 3d printers, and that could work, but EDM isn't as versatile as just a really hard piece of tungsten carbide spinning really fast

better to spend the $500-$1000 on one of those 3040 routers

may even mess with spending more for the fourth and fifth axis and maybe even the lathe attachments for

yknow, i should run a chi-fi blog now i think about it

would probably be more interesting than my "bunch of random bullshit on wildly different topics" thing

def. do

make long post in the head-fi chifi thread

@KING LIAM not linking it here i'll get slashdotted

i do _not_ have the bandwidth for that kind of traffic

...well tbh it'd only be for a couple hours max if it happened, super uninteresting blog

not always

see: those monoprice iems

@KING LIAM i will pm then

oh shit i left the link to my shitpost site on there after i took it down

i should bring it back up

i may actually go for that 1610 router, especially since it's somehow the same price with prime shipping as it is straight out of china incl. shipping

re: that pouch thing

it's not much different than the phone belt holsters every blue collar worker around here seems to wear

but yeah tbh tho for just carrying shit around outside work >not just carrying a purse

I wonder how they'd feel about me making my own lol

@𝕄𝕚𝕕𝕠𝕣𝕚 have you messed with those 3020 routers everywhere seems to sell

grey > all

http://i.imgur.com/05lA3dA.jpg here's some cable management i guess

http://i.imgur.com/lnfeiiu.jpg and then the awful truth

i should take a pic of my current project actually hold on

test leads _everywhere_

http://i.imgur.com/YEZcNR4.jpg :^)

chink oscope there btw

super good considering under $400

ye

i would actually recommend a different chink soldering station

the aoyue 937 is a hakko 937 clone

the aoyue one i have works but it's not as nice, didn't know about the 937 until after i got this one

dave jones is a Cool Dude

if anything he might comment on All This Gear to look at one opamp

probably my meter too but hey it'd been professionally calibrated recently so it's better than most low budget hobbyists have to work with