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January 16th and 17th. I'm going. In particular, I want to look for interesting filaments. Anybody want to join me? http://2016a.make-munich.de/

I have finally, 7 years after I originally started tinkering with 3D printers, managed to print a good-looking, real thing. Now the designing can begin, and the playing around with various other materials. In other words: Woot!!!

Everything about this machine appears to be random.

Originally shared by Yonatan Zunger I saw this image and realized that, while what it says is both true and false, it is most important when it is false. Sometimes, the cost of being a decent human being is in fact one's whole life – and those are the times when the price is most worth it. So I spent some time thinking about this, and writing some more. h/t Noel Yap for sharing the image which got me thinking. https://medium.com/@yonatanzunger/the-price-of-honor-586e3e2b40ad#.ctyoemi2d

An improvement brought about by switching to Slic3r.

Coil and re-coil.

If only I knew what's up with the X axis.

Not an improvement.

My printer is home for the holidays and getting closer to doing the right thing. With help from Tom Riedl.

I found the local dealer, at the Mittelaltermarkt of all places.

For all my boardgaming friends who have trouble finding local players or just prefer their own company: solo board gaming reviews. https://youtu.be/gO46zwCOCcE

I would support the F out of this if their certificate wasn't expired. https://ideas.lego.com/projects/102740

Things you didn't know you could get through car-sharing. https://www.stattauto-muenchen.de/santa-claus/#more-1461

World leaders agree on tackling large-scale long-term issues. I am impressed. http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35084374

Ok, so the prints are a little funny still, but they are better than I expected for first prints.

Car of the (other) day. I'm going to miss the car spotting when we move. Even though I'd never own a gas car nor anything that expensive, they're nice to look at.

Thomas ten Cate​ https://youtu.be/ZSLnkyPSlEM

I'm taking a note here, great success!

Your Google searches, more and more powered by renewable energy. Originally shared by Clyde McQueen The largest corporate purchase of renewables so far. https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/12/powering-internet-with-renewable-energy.html

Favorite quote from this article: "This processor [in the charger] is a Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller, roughly as powerful as the processor inside the original Macintosh." Originally shared by Shakeel Mahate

So the old Melzi is pardoned, the new one is out, and all the parts move nicely. Unless I use the built-in wires, in which case the extruder motor stutters. Ah, well.

20% efficiency is less than half of the best research efficiency for other types of solar cells, but if you look at the Wikipedia chart for efficiency development ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency#/media/File:PVeff(rev150806).jpg ) the recent steeply growing yellow line is perovskite. Promising at the very least. Originally shared by Tina Casey http://cleantechnica.com/2015/11/30/molecular-soccer-ball-perovskite-solar-cell-already-20-5-efficiency/