Backup power supply

And how much lemon juice they need per day to stay invisible?

CNR.

So you finally bought one? What did you get?

I printed this a few years ago in glow-in-the-dark plastic:

Yet worse the wayback machine didn't archive the STL (can't say I blame them).

I am awaiting delivery of a Creality K1

I was attracted by the open source nature of its software, however there are an awful lot of knobs to twiddle on the slicers.

PS Creality's slicer doesn't work on linux. Crashes.

You will eventually want to come to a deep and meaningful understanding of pretty much all of them, but they should have sane defaults to get you going, then it's a matter of learning what to tweak to fix which defect.

My upgrade plans got put on hold - and now they're talking about the V-Core 4 coming soon.

I feared as much :-(

Indeed. I take it that the applied tweaks can be stored both in the resultant G code file, fir that specific object, and in terms of a generic sort of configuration like "Creality-K1-PLA-print-with-deep-overhangs"

well it seems to me that rather as with gearheads in music, its more important to play the instruments you have than constantly seek to acquire better ones.

I sure think so, I'm still using my MakerBot Cupcake CNC:

This is why I never delete such files. Here's my copy:

How large is your 3 printer? Do you know of a power generator that fits in a cubic foot? (Thermal, maybe? like what NASA uses for inerplanetary probes?)

Only if your printer can print plutonium-238.

Actually a sort of cast iron range stove filled with decay products that would do about 20kW thermal, and boil enough water for a 20KW steam turbine style alternator would be ideal.

I could feed the grid with surplus power.....

Any inkjet can print *that*, but as Shakespeare's Hotspur says 'does it then go critical...?'

-------------------- William Shakespeare “I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?”

― William Shakespeare, King Henry IV, Part 1