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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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kiwa, to random
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lol weird pc case

the inside of the computer, it looks like a kinda normal pc case.

timixretroplays,
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@kiwa what brand of case is that? It looks like a fun mix of different ones from around that time

timixretroplays, to 3DPrinting
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Ok, I think I have a good handle now on managing parts - electronics, fasteners, filament, tools of every kind are all reasonably organised and quick to get at in my workspace. How the hell do I physically manage projects in progress? I've got big ones, small ones, some as big as your head. It's obvious they don't fit the same space or system as individual parts. Do I just get a big array of different sized tubs and stack them in a corner? How do you do it? Boost if you like. #maker #3DPrinting

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I resolved long ago to never mention or even hint at my current workplace or industry here, in order to keep work and play separate (and to protect that separation should I ever become the internet's main character for a day again). There's all the scope in the world between that and "this account is my professional identity, writ large on the internet", so I'm wondering: what's your strategy? Would your colleagues guess you're you? Do you even care? Boost if you like, I'm curious about this.

timixretroplays, to Youtube
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I think 's new anti-ad-block strategy is just to make the experience subtly crappier and buggier. Lately I've seen videos take longer to start, random and sudden skips a few seconds in time, a couple of instances where a long video will just stop buffering and need a page reload to continue, sometimes 1080P will be ticked in the list but it'll actually play at 360P until I click it again. Incredibly bold move to degrade your own service quality to make people want to pay you for it.

timixretroplays, to 3DPrinting
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Introducing the second iteration of my project. I wasn't happy with the results of emulating aluminium extrusion as-is, so this is an entirely new construction system designed from the ground up for , heat-set inserts, and metric everything. Finished structures get M3-bolted together for strength, but prototyping is done with bits of 4mm doweling for speed - it took just minutes to pull apart the little cube and rebuild it into the bigger box!

@3dprinting @3dprinting

A photo of a small section of the parts, disassembled, to show how they slot together.
A photo of a large (roughly 20 by 20 by 30cm frame) built from 3D printed parts.

timixretroplays,
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This stuff is less than half the cost of aluminium extrusion by length before you even consider all the fittings you need to make it work, or the tools and practice to cut it up. The files will be Creative Commons, so if you need a beam that's 12.35cm long, you can just do that. It's also surprisingly strong - long lengths do have some wobble to them, but almost zero twist down the long axis, so I would trust some serious weight to it. Here's a casual metre of it slapped together for a photo.

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Above all else, though: I've been printing it at an easy 0.2mm layer height, there are no overhangs harder than 45 degrees, and the longest beam so far is 200mm. If you've got an old, obsolete printer sitting in the corner that can handle the above specs, you could have it these from leftover PLA and they'll be just as good as if they came off your X1. Or you could load up a belt printer with this model and build a house with them in a week.

timixretroplays,
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@foone I wonder if anyone ever made a gigantic light box for photography with Construx - that's going to be the first thing I build with these.

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The important thing is: I need a name for this system. I don't want to keep calling it fakerbeams (for fear of accidentally pissing off MakerBeam). What are these? Timbeams? Centibricks? Project: Bone Machine?

#3DPrinting @3dprinting @3dprinting

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@xorn @jpm I like it, but trying to google for that after the fact would be needle-in-a-haystack difficult

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@rodgero I really like plas- (the Star Wars EU had things like 'plasteel') and -struct, but "plastruct" feels awkward and easily forgettable. Plasbeam? Sounds like a weapon from MechWarrior.

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@andy_warb I do really like the idea of "bone" or "bones" being part of it - especially printed in white they are basically a skeleton for a project.

Lian Li once did a lower-cost version of their all-aluminium cases, with stainless steel internal structures instead of AL, and called them "metalboned", which was a way cooler name for a PC case than was needed.

And "Bone Machine" additionally appealed as an idea because it was a mission name in MechWarrior 2, and I've loved the term ever since.

timixretroplays,
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@rodgero I think plasbeam is becoming my favourite. I was going more for plastic rather than referencing PLA - obviously they could be printed from whatever you have on hand. PETG would make these as strong and resilient as anyone could possibly need, with the added benefit of not melting if you left it in your car... but I'm tempted to see what polycarbonate would do for these now too!

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Every four beams I print, this box gains ten centimetres in size in one dimension. This one's going to grow to 80cm a side before it's done - with some black and white foamboard, some wooden shelves from IKEA and some LED light strips, this will then become a humongous light box for photography.

Again, nothing here but 3D printed plastic and some cheap wooden dowel holding this together so far - inserts, screws and brackets will all happen later.

@3dprinting @3dprinting

timixretroplays,
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Apparently I've replicated Abby's approximate bounding box with these 3D printed parts. Cat for scale, now, I guess!

timixretroplays,
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Today's milestone: 30x30x30cm (plus the 2cm on each side to account for the width of the beams). This structure's bounding box now wholly contains the entire printable volume of the 3D printer that made it. Also I ran out of white PLA.

This week I want to reach 40cm^3, and add rigid brackets to each corner - apparently at that size, it'll become useful as an enclosure for smaller printers like the A1 mini, so that'll be a good checkpoint.

johanpeitz, to random
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Making tiny games is fun and rewarding but something that keeps being tricky is to know when to stop polishing. When I started with , I kept hitting the restrictions and had to stop, but these days I know so many tricks that I can just keep going.

What's your approach?

timixretroplays,
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@johanpeitz I'm not a programmer, but in my own making journey, I've learned that aspects that look to me like giant, glaring flaws are rarely actually noticed by anyone else, and never seen in the same harsh light as I see them. It's important to try and step back every now and look at your project as a whole, with the freshest eyes you can - often someone else's - in order to put the big issues you see back in proportion with everything else.

timixretroplays,
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@johanpeitz there's a quote from Dune I lean on quite a bit: "Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife: cutting off what is incomplete and saying 'now it is complete because it ends here'." It's not a process or a box you can just tick, it takes forever to tune yourself to recognise when something is "done enough".

moira, to USpolitics
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christ the commentary ahead of the is so fucking terrible

hate to be waiting for the actual speech nattering heads just going bau bau bau bau bau bau bau

timixretroplays,
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@moira cor. Did you make the patties yourself? They're always the least consistent thing when I make burgers so I'm keen for ideas

timixretroplays,
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@moira I mean like, is it just plain mince in there? Or do you add salt, pepper, spices, whatever?

timixretroplays, to random
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I've always wanted to use a Chatpad to make a TV PC remote that isn't a crummy wireless keyboard and trackpad that just explodes when a cat so much as looks at it. Apparently it's possible now to use a 360 pad/chatpad as a PC keyboard now with minimal fuss, but I spotted this lightly-used #XboxOne example and jumped at it.

My plan is to find someone offloading a cheap controller with stick drift (which I don't care about) and bide my time for a cheap wireless PC adapter. Thoughts/suggestions?

timixretroplays, to random
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The existence of PALFINGER cranes suggests the existence of NTSCFINGER and SECAMFINGER cranes

timixretroplays, to animals
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Abby's busy resting and gathering the energy she'll need to get herself through the big afternoon nap.

timixretroplays, to random
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Microsoft Window Compatible. Just the one window.

(blurry photo from eBay)

foone, to random
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Arg. I'm cleaning a keyboard but look at this damn blotch! it won't rub off, so I gotta hit it with a melamine sponge, but it's SO CLOSE to the lettering. I gotta be REAL CAREFUL

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@foone my eyeballs feel sticky just looking at this photo

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