Hopefully this will be the first of many I take this season. Hopefully^2^ I'll even take the time to break out my "real camera" at some point and go 🐝 hunting

Well, almost. I didn't give myself enough tolerance in the cutout for the speaker and it doesn't fit well. On to v1.01!

It will be a 240x280x70ish speaker stand. The first go ground with it flat and support free resulted in warping despite a 60°C chamber, so I stood it on its end, cut print speed by a third, and added the breaks to reduce stress.

This will take a while...

Note that the bottom has a chmafer, so although there's a shadow it's not warping.

I turned the grow lights on early this year to grow some potatoes, which I'm sure is a totally a great use of energy. I'm really hoping to grow another round of starts after not having a very good year this year due to keeping our potatos in smaller pots and us not getting a ton of rain. Next year I'll put them in a much larger planter.

I'm also trying to get some cherry pits to seed. I collected the cherries, which were delicious, from a tree in our neighborhood. I'm betting the mother tree isn't a graft given its location and age. If any of you have any tips, I'm all ears. The pits are now a year old and spent the time in dry dirt on this table.

Title basically.

One of my windows computers, which happens to be the one I happen to do the most CAD work on, can't upgrade to windows 11 due to having an Ivy Bridge era Xenon (it's an E5-1680 v2 for the curious, older used workstations are fantastic bang for the buck computers).

Switching to Linux on this computer has been in the cards for a while, but I hadn't been in a hurry to do it. Looks like my hand might be getting forced...

The coaster is shivering timbers at Michigan's adventure.

At least the Canadian wildfires are good for softer light. It's very surreal having a cloud free sunny day without the sun actually being that intense.

The scene smelled delicious!

We saw a pretty good amount of them in our yard this June. It was nice. I can't remember seeing many lightning bugs for years.

I'm going to have to track down a macro lens for my camera body after selling the micro four thirds kit I was using for bees last year.

I've seen Robbins around our lawn sprinkler before... I'll have to keep my camera more handy in case they show up again

Title basically. If anyone else wants to join the printer army feel free to reply.

Guardrails:

• You must provide a STL. Custom parts usually require an iteration or three, as well as hands on access to reference material (eg the failed part, the subject a part will be used on) to get accurate measurements. I could design you part, but odds are it won't be perfect the first time and I would prefer to save us both the effort and heartache
• I will print functional prints for you out of filament I presently have "in stock", which is mostly black or neutral ASA. I may have PLA or PETG in stock from time to time. If you want a different color or material you're welcome to buy a roll of filament
• Parts must be under 250 grams in total. I'm happy to help, but I'm not looking to give away filament. I am willing to barter some with the bullet below
• You must mail me something in return for the parts. This can be anything at all that you made - a cookie, a sketch, a thank you note from your SO, whatever
• I am going to impose a monthly quote of 2 "clients" a month. I have a busy work and home life and am not looking to make this a full time gig

This was about a week or so ago. We're starting to see some bees in the clover now too 🥰

Moths need love too!

This is a vaguely arty shot I took with my A9ii when I was renting the 70-200 f/2.8.

200mm, f/3.2, ISO 100, 1/800

I have a cheap/quick/dirty deer and rabbit fence around our vegetable garden. The doors are simple PVC squares with deer netting that used to attach to the fence via hooks at the top. This design turned out to be very fiddly. The new design seems much easier to manage - simply drop the door section into its slot.

/old man