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For water, I almost always keep a glass by my keyboard so I keep hydrated otherwise I'd probably put it off rather then get up.

I think I suffer from a slight mental handicap that forces me to subconciously try to knock over any glass on my desk

I position my drink strategically where my hand can only bump it off the desk and not onto my keyboard and monitor

Therefor I have to utilized capped containers

Have you ever tried the mighty mug

It actually works pretty damn well

I’ve never knocked a drink some how in a very long time

And when I did it was when I only had an Xbox and no keyboard to ruin

TIL you can't start a YouTube livestream from a mobile device unless you have 1K subscribers

Luckily IP webcam is free and works like a charm for setting up a 3d printing monitoring system

Have you tried octoprint? Besides allowing control on your 3d printer, a webcam allows you to stream your print if your the only one who needs to view it.

I've been thinking about setting up octoprint

I had one set up back when octoprint was relatively new and the cam quality wasnt that great

But a quick search shows it supports USB cameras now which hopefully means higher resolution video stream since it's no longer the rpi cam

My friend uses octoprint with a Logitech C920

Using a Pi 3 or 4 is best because using a webcam along the rest of octoprint functions needs some more compute to avoid dropped frames.

Good to know, thanks gonna pick up a 4 and a buck converter

And probably a C920 actually

Really nice to see the Pi's now come with onboard wifi modules. Now my only gripe with them really is no eMMC

If you need onboard storage you could get a raspberry pi compute module 4 but then you would need a breakout board.

The compute module would also let you run PCIe devices like an Nvme drive if you prefer that.

Damn that's really not half bad. I kind of fell off paying attention to the pi's around pi2 and I dont believe they were making a pi compute module 2 so I figured they were straying away from the compute module indefinitely

Gonna try and get that set up with octoprint

So I want to get a 3D printer I would like to get the endet 3 v2 but I do not really want to pay China any money. Any ideas for other good printers that are not to much money but are not made in China?

I have the ender 3 pro I just picked up last week; super happy with it. Unfortunately in that price range you'd be hard pressed to find a non-chinese made one that also works that well

There were a couple back American made ones back in the day, but they've been pushed out of business

I'll ask some of my former coworkers at simplify3d though see if they know any. theyre more in touch with the 3d printing industry than I am these days

Asked; they said nope creality is the top dog right now

https://all3dp.com/2/3d-printer-plans-3d-printer-blueprints/

Could build from a blueprint, and source american parts

labor will be 100% american! 😄

cost will be around 300-500 for most of them, although im sure with creative sourcing of parts you could get it lower

Just used some hard earned money to treat myself to a HomePod mini, it’s great and I recommend it

Whenever possible, I recommend going this route

Gives you a way better understanding of how it all gets put together and when stuff eventually breaks you'll have a better idea of how to fix it

This is my first printer I put together 8 years ago

That being said though, if you want to just hit the ground printing economically, the ender 3 is really hard to beat. That printer costs me ~$800 to source whereas I picked up the ender 3 for less than $250

Jet engine pc

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