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@pierrenick I had a good time at #VCFMontreal. Lots of chats, interesting talks and I even got to ask CuriousMarc (YouTuber restoring Apollo computing and digital radio equipment) a NASA atomic clock question (they used the same HP clocks he is working on, for measuring Doppler speed changes in the radio signal from the space craft). But for me, mostly #NabuPC stories and history and meeting people.
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@pierrenick I don’t know how it compares to universities, but the #VCFMontreal cafeteria has really good food at the military college, and it’s in the same building as the exhibition hall.
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@pierrenick What is missing is a modular concept, like a laptop from @frameworkcomputer user-exchangeable components for repairability and upgradeability, open designs to allow third parties to contribute components. Also free-software-based firmware/OS, using the code base of #OpenPrinting, #PAPPL, #CUPS, ...
I am open for a collaboration of OpenPrinting and Framework ... or whoever wants to jump in on the hardware side ...
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Since my last post about it early last year, I've had a bit more fun with the "famous" (among the few) "Four-Byte Burger" here in the 'Cellar, thanks to the recent efforts of Stuart Brown in recreating the image after some deep analysis.
I'm not sure my beloved Amiga 1000 has ever shone so brightly.
#Amiga #CommodoreAmiga #AmigaDOS #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #vintagecomputers #retrocomputers #vintagetech #computinghistory #hardware #tech #Commodore #homecompuiter #pixelart #graphics #XboxAhoy
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@pierrenick freecycle AND trashnothing.com
Always good to check both :)
I find that Montreal folks seem to use freecycle more than TN, but compare to Ottawa which uses both equally; or some other cities which use TN more (or solely) rather than Freecycle.
I like that neither site is tied to Facebook or other big sites like that, far more accessible :)
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If I could go back 2 years and knew everything I knew now, I would not buy my #CR6SE just due to my load cell peoblems, but then I would have bought an #Ender3 and then I would rather just buy the CR6 SE again.
As a 100% beginner at the time, the fact that I turned my printer on and it leveled automatically made my life so much easier. I never understood the bed leveling problems with the #Ender3 because I have never done manual leveling in #Marlin and also won't know how.
So, although I am hesitant, this move might have been good by #Prusa if they solved all of these issues.
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The load cell also has some interference problems. The heat and current draw from the hotend affect the accuracy. In the official #firmware, this is still a problem. The #Creality #CR6SE community firmware has solved this by turning off the hotend just as the nozzle touches the bed. Which improves the accuracy. I assume #Prusa has solved this and also did it.
The load cell is also sensitive to bowden tube setups. Because the hotend is basically on a lever, the bowden tube can press down on the hotend in different corners of the printer, resulting in incorrect measurements.
I solved this using the CR6 SE #Discord community to recalibrate the trigger level by using a scale and adjusting the z-offset, but the interference is still there.
I hope #Prusa has solved all of this, and this would also expand the support for load cells.
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I don't know how I feel about the load cell, but I think it is due to my experience with the #Creality #CR6SE.
The CR6 SE was one of the first mainstream machines to use it, but the community is a lot smaller than the #Ender3 community. So, I struggled to get #opensource designs for the hotend. I literally posted my own design yesterday, after having my machine for 2 years now. That's how long it took me.
So, I wasn't able to get upgrades and support for it. The CR6 SE community has grown, and we have a #Discord server now, but it was difficult in the beginning.
Then the problem was also #firmware. #Marlin and #Klippr didn't support the load cell at first, so we have an extra board on our hotend, which had to be reverse engineered by the Discord community, because #Creality didn't make it opensource at first.
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It's interesting -- during the development of the Amiga, artists were contracted to come in and draw impressive and demonstrative digital art using versions of the first Amiga drawing program, "Graphicraft," so early on in its development that file operations had yet to be implemented. The drawings were completed, photographed by Commodore, and then lost to the ether when the system was powered off.
It's amazing to contemplate, so groundbreaking were some of these works, carried out on a $1,295 consumer-oriented computer in 1985.
One such example is "Four-Byte Burger" by Jack Haeger, here scanned from one of the Amiga 1000's manual covers.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/50926604693/in/album-72157604421303889/
Note the CRT scanlines in the image ... and their orientation.
#Amiga #Mac #vintageAmiga #vintageMac #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #pixelart
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@likesoldmacs @pierrenick @nathan the Launcher was really nice. But it feels like everyone moved to #DragThing when Launcher got too full with icons. I wish I could make the Dock more like DragThing.
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@likesoldmacs @pierrenick @nathan the Launcher was really nice. But it feels like everyone moved to #DragThing when Launcher got too full with icons. I wish I could make the Dock more like DragThing.
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@likesoldmacs @pierrenick @nathan the Launcher was really nice. But it feels like everyone moved to #DragThing when Launcher got too full with icons. I wish I could make the Dock more like DragThing.
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@likesoldmacs @pierrenick @nathan the Launcher was really nice. But it feels like everyone moved to #DragThing when Launcher got too full with icons. I wish I could make the Dock more like DragThing.
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@likesoldmacs @pierrenick @nathan the Launcher was really nice. But it feels like everyone moved to #DragThing when Launcher got too full with icons. I wish I could make the Dock more like DragThing.
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Other important things I’ve made in #TomodachiLife: an OPUS Card, and a Mii version of Céline Dion’s D’Eux.
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Sabine and Maxine had a baby daughter and her first word was #Macintosh, they were so proud.
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Sabine and Maxine had a baby daughter and her first word was #Macintosh, they were so proud.
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Added a #Macintosh to #TomodachiLife! This was really fun to paint. Too bad I can’t share it.
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Added a #Macintosh to #TomodachiLife! This was really fun to paint. Too bad I can’t share it.
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Endgame in #TomodachiLife: finally got the #FloppyDisk treasure. 💾
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It was such a great event. Such great and honestly extremely high quality talks! Can’t wait for the next. #FediMTL
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Random quotes from #FediMTL
“Seize the means of computation”
— @pluralistic“Datacenters are centralization of power”
— @cwebber“Ownership and wide reach — you can have both”
— @julian“Toasters are a lie”
“I’d love the Fediverse to stop taking about the Fediverse. It’ll be a great sign of success when we stop talking about the platform we’re on.”
— @paige“What is ‘la fête d’hiver’”
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🚨 New Toronto baby alert: giraffe 🦒
https://www.torontozoo.com/mediaroom/press2026/20260224-giraffe
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@AGMS00 Ohh awesome. When I saw the theme of #VCFMontreal this year was “Canadian Computing”, I immediately thought #NabuPC!
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@g It’s so close to me globally, yet far 😭
I don’t think I’ll go, bit of a deal breaker 😭
I had hoped #VCFMontreal could’ve happened in one of Montreal’s 6 universities (!)
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I always wanted to go to a #VCF!
As someone in Montreal I’m so happy to see #VCFMontreal!
As someone who takes transit, I also expected it to be in Montreal proper.. 😭
(It’s ~1h drive away, or 2h+ transit, at the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean)
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Snow day! She loves snow so much.
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Snow day! She loves snow so much.