Not directly cocktail related, but malort is always funny. I have a few NA friends, and I felt like they were missing out on the joys of malort... So I did the necisarily evil thing of taking the booze out of malort so they could be part of the collective suffering brought on by malort shots.

Hopefully you get a good laugh out of it.

PS: if you do like malort, infuse a bottle with 3 or 4 Thai birds eye chillies (sliced open) for 3 or 4 days. It makes malort taste surprisingly good! I don't know how, but it ends up picking up a slightly smokey taste, and pushes the flavor more towards an "odd spicy pickel brine" flavor profile!

Title basically says it all. I needed variable stiffness for a project I was working on, I grabbed a roll of siraya tech tpu air thinking this was already a feature that existed. Turns out its not, and instead of redesigning the part I just made the feature.

Give the video a watch for a demo (and maybe help get the feature a bit more visibility), feature branch can be found here: https://github.com/MethodicalMaker/OrcaSlicer/tree/gcode_everywhere

Let me know if you also wanted this feature at some point, or if you have any other ideas of how you can use custom gcode in the x/y plane in a functional way!

tl;dr: my cat was getting lazy, and was developing health issues, so i wanted to make something to trick him into exercising more. I did this by attaching a treat dispenser to a cat wheel, and giving him treats when hes ran certain distances.

This was my entry for the printables smart pet gadget contest. https://www.printables.com/model/1278945-smart-cat-treat-dispenser-for-one-fast-cat-wheel

There were a few back-to-back all nighters right at the end in order to get this submitted in time (managed to submit 7 minutes before the deadline!) - so the code is all kind of lumped in one file. Ill clean the code up in the upcoming weeks, but the short bullet point list of features are:

• Almost entirely 3D printed (other than a motor, 4 bearings, some sensors, and the nuts and bolts
• Detects that the treat level is low before completely running out! no more sad cats that hear the food dispenser going off, only to be left with an empty belly!
• Self hosted wifi configuration page (connect to the AP, go to 192.168.4.1, enter your wifi settings, and it will join your wifi network
• Completely self hosted web UI / API - configure all your settings, vend treats remotely from other smart devices, and track your cats stats!
• MQTT support - connect your treat dispenser to a platform like homeassistant to see graphs of your cats activity and be alerted to when the treat dispenser is almost out of treats.
• simple electronics (no analog components other than resistors for some LED's)
• cool design features like internal wire channels so theres minimal exposed wiring (other than power, and a single connector to connect a hall effect sensor to the treat dispenser for detecting cat wheel rotation)

tl;dr: my cat was getting lazy, and was developing health issues, so i wanted to make something to trick him into exercising more. I did this by attaching a treat dispenser to a cat wheel, and giving him treats when hes ran certain distances.

This was my entry for the printables smart pet gadget contest. https://www.printables.com/model/1278945-smart-cat-treat-dispenser-for-one-fast-cat-wheel

There were a few back-to-back all nighters right at the end in order to get this submitted in time (managed to submit 7 minutes before the deadline!) - so the code is all kind of lumped in one file. Ill clean the code up in the upcoming weeks, but the short bullet point list of features are:

• Almost entirely 3D printed (other than a motor, 4 bearings, some sensors, and the nuts and bolts
• Detects that the treat level is low before completely running out! no more sad cats that hear the food dispenser going off, only to be left with an empty belly!
• Self hosted wifi configuration page (connect to the AP, go to 192.168.4.1, enter your wifi settings, and it will join your wifi network
• Completely self hosted web UI / API - configure all your settings, vend treats remotely from other smart devices, and track your cats stats!
• MQTT support - connect your treat dispenser to a platform like homeassistant to see graphs of your cats activity and be alerted to when the treat dispenser is almost out of treats.
• simple electronics (no analog components other than resistors for some LED's)
• cool design features like internal wire channels so theres minimal exposed wiring (other than power, and a single connector to connect a hall effect sensor to the treat dispenser for detecting cat wheel rotation)

So, i wanted a personal 3d scanner a while back and bought the revopoint mini and creality cr-scan lizard with my own money. I wasn't too happy with either, and ended up buying an einstar afterward.

I made a video comparing the revopoint and cr-scan to show off the pros and cons, but never did a follow up on the einstar. Well, i guess shining3d (the people that make the einstar) saw the original video and thought it was good enough to send me their new handheld scanner (einstar vega, i know... confusing names) to play with for a month, so i did just that and compared it to my own personal original einstar.

I made another (hopefully entertaining) video, and thought i would share. I use the 3d scanner a handful of times per year to make 3d printed bits that fit well with existing real world items, and i have also made some stuff out of clay, and 3d scanned it to use in 3d printed designs when i want more organic shapes that are past my modeling experience.

happy to answer any questions about modeling processes, or the scanners themselves! :)

more of a goofy and fun project, I wouldn’t say it was practical, and definitely won’t change the world... but I enjoyed it, and it got a lot of laughs and acted as a good conversation starter. Hopefully yall find the humor in it :)

so yeah, first time making an electric vehicle. the intent is to reuse the battery and ESC on an ebike.

A lovely person at the event i brought the motorized cooler kart to traded vehicles with me for 10 minutes, and i got to ride his electric mountain bike with a mid mount motor, and it was awesome, so i have the itch for that now.

Anyway, more of a goofy and fun project, I wouldn't say it was practical, and definitely won't change the world, but hopefully is brings some entertainment to your lives! :)