8.5 GWh / 85 MW = 100 hours, or around 4 days. If they can build it cheap enough, this is the kind of battery we would need to replace nuclear for dealing with the day-to-day variability of renewables.

Will the Mediatek modules also support VESA Adaptive Sync, or will they have fixed frame rate on AMD cards?

STEP is at least marginally better than STL, because it can represent stuff like circles, instead of just a mesh.

It exports as F3D (probably readable by future versions of Fusion) and STEP (standard but with less fidelity) by default.

https://github.com/aconz2/Fusion360Exporter lets you bulk export all of your projects to local storage.

There is some good stuff in this release. Go to Preferences > GUI and check “Show sidebar collapse/expand button” + “Settings in non-modal window”. Now you can put the Preview and Print Settings windows side-by-side, and see the result of every change immediately. This also requires “Background processing”, but that’s been available for ages.

Beginning with Firefox 127, users will be prompted to grant MV3 host permissions as part of the install flow (similar to MV2 extensions).

Hooray! Previously Firefox MV3 extensions had to include a custom button in the UI to prompt the user for host permissions at runtime. It generally made more sense to stay on MV2 than switch from a 2-click to a 6-click install procedure.

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PLA, but I’ve only used it for sanding small models so heat wasn’t an issue. PETG should be more heat resistant.

Yeah, but those sanding pads cost more than generic sandpaper.

Does mechanical error actually matter when using sandpaper? It seems like most of the error comes from holding the tool with your hands.

You could still fill a watertight gyroid lattice with resin, if both volumes are accessible.

Though the defects are probably useful for releasing air bubbles.

That DI-30 tape drive was a couple years older than the rest of the system. That’s why it’s half the size of the hard drive. It was a consumer-grade format with somewhat janky proprietary software.

Those songs were scavenged from the internet, as I never had the musical skill to make them.

I used https://cifkao.github.io/html-midi-player/ to get MIDI working in modern browsers, though it seems less reliable than an adlib synth.

One day filament will come with DRM so you can’t print it backwards. Only a pirate would do that!

I was monitoring this print remotely (Bambu P1S), so I’m not sure what actually happened. It’s possible that it failed for other reasons, and then the tool head got tangled in spaghetti and disassembled itself.

“We are in the late stages of having a user base”

.us is sketchy AF. They should use something.gov.

That’s an unreasonably generic question. Buying almost anything in the modern world requires sifting through garbage to find the good stuff.

I just tested this hook by hanging a 5 gallon bucket and gradually adding water. PLA 1 wall = 1710 g, 2 wall = 1178 g. The thing is, a 1.5 mm hook fails by straightening rather than snapping, so rigidity is more important than strength.

Edit: I also tried PETG: 1 wall = 1441 g, 2wall <998 g (failed to hold the empty bucket)

So the 1 wall hooks can support >40% more weight before straightening enough that the bucket slips off. That’s more significant that I expected.

Edit2: Part of that 40% difference is due to friction; the 1-wall hook has a rough surface that makes the bucket less likely to slip off. But even with bluetack on the hooks, 1-wall has less deflection than 2-wall for the same weight.

Another confounding variable is the weight of the hook itself: 2-wall = (0.83g slicer, 0.78g actual); 1-wall = (0.95g slicer, 0.88g actual). I don’t know if that extra weight is coming from density or volume, but either way the stronger hook is more expensive.

Sigh, reality is so complicated.