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timixretroplays

@timixretroplays@digipres.club

Aussie gamer making new memories from the old. He/him. Writing from Ngunnawal/Ngambri land.

I built a giant Gravis GamePad and am working on USB adapters for old controllers. I beta-tested Secret Agent HD and UnDune2. I once made Toshiba mad at me over copyright. I post mostly #retrogaming, #3dprinting and #arduino stuff here.

Projects:
#Plasbeams
#Thrixels
#CGAPrints
#SerialStinger
#SimpleBreakouts
#SolderingStation
#GravisGamePad

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jake4480, to random
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Glad I learned to cook a little over the last few years, because with restaurant food prices the way they are now, and the high possibility of food poisoning, I'm all set with that nonsense. We probably eat out like MAYBE once a month at this point. If that.

timixretroplays,
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@jake4480 what's your favourite thing to cook so far?

timixretroplays,
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@jake4480 as someone who does most of the cooking in the house, I feel this 😅

As a fellow egg lover, can I give you one suggestion that will improve quality of life - buy one particular nonstick pan that will only ever have eggs in it, and use it to tweak your recipes to your own ideal level. It'll help keep the cooking process consistent, especially if you never fry/sear stuff in it and wear it out (my housemates aren't allowed to use my special egg pan!).

timixretroplays, to Youtube
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This feels like the end of an era. #YouTube won't "allow" ad blockers, I won't "allow" websites to dictate what data I don't download from them, or take a layer of security away from me. So I guess we're breaking up - I won't stand for controlling behaviour in a relationship.

It's going to be fun convincing creators I already support monetarily to move to platforms I can still enjoy their work on, but that's all YouTube will ever be - a platform, and there's plenty more of those in the sea.

rasterweb, to 3DPrinting
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I've been working on a large 3D printed LED using clear PLA filament. It's 4 times the size of the 10mm LEDs we normally use at work.

The first version just used a 10mm LED jammed into the base, but this version has a small PCB with four 5mm LEDs soldered to it.

This is still early in the prototyping stage, so there are a lot of ideas to explore yet.

A large 3D printed LED.
A large 3D printed LED.
Render of a 3D model of a large LED.

timixretroplays,
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@rasterweb I've been wondering how to go about this sort of thing! Looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

jpm, to random
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Imsorrywhatthefuck down to 3°C tonight then up to 24° tomorrow?

timixretroplays,
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@jpm long, warm days for sleeping; long, cool nights for sleeping

SinclairSpeccy, to random

Nothing like partying so hard this morning that I half lose my voice and have a headache :’)

timixretroplays,
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@SinclairSpeccy sounds like you had a good one!

timixretroplays,
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@SinclairSpeccy that's the best sound in the world... for ten minutes or so

rasterweb, to 3DPrinting
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I just realized I modeled a new version of my "Desktop Pen Horizontal Holder" (terrible name) and I never actually printed it...

Here's the first revision, which holds the three items I use at my desk the most.

A 3D printed holder that has an X-ACTO knife, a pen, and a Sharpie marker, along with some sticky notes.

timixretroplays,
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@rasterweb simple, functional, sturdy, perfectly services Adam Savage's principle of first order retrievability, and is a bright, fun colour. 10/10 object.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Some reorganising of the collection. A few new things added, some swapped out, some old neat things brought out for display. And always at the centre, a Quadra 605.

timixretroplays,
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@0xabad1dea @NanoRaptor plot twist: she's photoshopped out the IIvi where all the image manip magic happens

timixretroplays, to random
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Odd question and I'm not sure where best to ask - does armature wire (or similar material) come in 1/2" or above sizes, or does it top out at 3/8" like I seem to be finding in searches so far? I was hoping to find something that was still metallic-looking, conductive and human-bendable at around 20mm in diameter, but so far it looks like I might have to scale down and make do with 3/8" (around 9.5mm). Boosts welcome for reach/ideas.

timixretroplays, to 3DPrinting
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It's not the fabled Gridfinity system, but this is how I've had my store of screws, bolts, standoffs, washers, nuts and grubs organised for the last few months. Each little tub is tall but sturdy, is the right height for an IKEA ALEX drawer, and features a tab that's the right size for a DYMO LetraTag label. They've proven to be the ideal adapter between the bottom of a drawer and the 50-and-counting different things they hold. I'll try and remember to upload some STLs this weekend.

A photo of the same drawer from a higher angle, showing all the different kinds of fasteners in the tubs.

timixretroplays,
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Had the motivation on Friday to make some more - I'm not convinced I love the different colours, but at least when l remember why I have both CR1220s and CR1225s, they'll be easy to spot.

Also added this flat tray, front and centre in the drawer - its purpose is not to store anything in particular, but to keep a clear space around the drawer handle area.

A photo of the same drawer from a higher vantage point. Front and centre just behind the handle-hole in the drawer is an empty flat tray, designed to keep clear space around the handle area.

rasterweb, to random
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I've been feeling more and more like a "Serial Enthusiast" (as @lmorchard dubbed it) lately and I guess that's fine, but it also creates some weird feelings...

Have I abandoned the thing I was really into last year (or months ago) or will I return to it?

Should I feel guilty about it or just accept it?

Sometimes (especially in my "maker" role) I think a lot about sustainability and waste, and things bother me...

I do what I can to not make the world a worse place for us... Sometimes.

timixretroplays,
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@rasterweb as a fellow serial enthusiast this is a very familiar line of thought. The only addition I have is that I've come to see stuff not as waste - perhaps in the physical sense as it's not become functional itself - but as forming part of a learning process that sharpened my skills for another project that did make a thing. And all art has merit as the physical embodiment of some emotion or another, and bottling those up is way worse for my personal world than a few grams of plastic IMHO.

rasterweb, to random
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What even is this thing? Quarter inch stereo adapter to steak?

timixretroplays,
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@rasterweb it's a distant relative of the banana to alligator cable: https://www.auselectronicsdirect.com.au/4mm-banana-plugs-to-alligator-clips

timixretroplays, to 3DPrinting
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I wanted a better way to mount these little spring clamps to the #solderingstation than just jamming them into place, so I've made these little stands for them. No doubt those M3 screws are actually meant for securing grounding wires or something, but they make neat mounting points for the clamps. #3dprinting

A photo of the spring clamps securely mounted into little 3D printed cylinders.

timixretroplays,
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And the clips' final form, on the articulated arms of my . This thing is becoming frighteningly useful and versatile.

timixretroplays,
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@symmetrizer you can have one soon enough, once I reach something I can call v1.0 of every part I'll release it along with an instruction manual!

jpm, to random
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Ugh, babby has given me The Daycare Plague

timixretroplays,
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@jpm ah crap. That's a rough week. Have a swift recovery mate.

Liquidream, to random
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Sees new #Patreon logo...🤮

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@Liquidream

timixretroplays, to 3DPrinting
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Today's update: the baseplate is now totally modular, with the tower now made from separate pieces, rather than being slowly printed in place on top of the base. At the cost of a few extra threaded inserts, the tower is now tall enough that the handle is above the centre of gravity, and the whole thing can now be easily picked up and carted around. No longer does moving this around on my desk feel like arguing with a petrified octopus.

A photo of those parts attached together, revealing the bridge is a tall handle for the whole unit. A spool of soldering wire has been slotted in between the towers, near the base.
A photo of a fully assembled soldering station, made from mostly 3d printed parts. There are four articulated arms extending out from the corners of the base, with various implements attached to them.

timixretroplays,
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And in case you've never encountered heat-set threaded inserts before, here they are - they're just tiny brass tubes with a screw thread on the inside, and a chunky texture on the outside. You can gently push them into 3d printed holes with any cheap soldering iron set to ~250 degrees C, and your PLA parts instantly gain the superpower of being assemble-able with common screws. Discovering these things has absolutely revolutionised how I design multi-part projects.

A close-up photo of three brass threaded inserts. They're tiny metal tubes with a screw thread on the inside and a grippy texture on the outside, and are designed to be permanently installed in holes to enable parts to be screwed together firmly.

SinclairSpeccy, to tech

😭 I'm sorry for the lack of posts. Mental health and school are getting in the way so take this and some other following posts that will come after

The left page from the Jan 1990 edition of PC Mag for Swan Technologies. The main text reads“Values Under Our Wings: Swan... for Quality and Affordability for Your Business.”

timixretroplays,
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@SinclairSpeccy look after yourself mate!

timixretroplays, to 3DPrinting
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, , maybe a question - how do you, personally, describe 3d modelling to a layperson? If you're showing off a 3d printer and someone asks "but how did you make the file?" - not slicing, I mean the actual modelling process - geometry, curves, fillets, subtractions.

Doing anything "in software" never seems to land. My partner's suggested "3d photoshop", but that doesn't quite imply the from-scratch effort I'm thinking of. So far I'm working on "virtual carpentry". Thoughts?

rasterweb, to 3DPrinting
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I had my first failed print on the Bambu Lab P1S today...

Just kidding. It didn't really fail, it just didn't start because I had the print plate slightly misaligned.

I do like the way the Prusa MINI does plate alignment a bit better since it's easier to get it right.

timixretroplays,
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@rasterweb are the plate alignment nubs on the back of the P1's bed tiny like they are on the X1? It's a rare criticism I have for the hardware but it'd be disappointing if they haven't fixed that.

timixretroplays,
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@rasterweb ah yep - they don't look like they've changed much at all. It took me a bit of practice to get it lined up every time.

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