Getting good data would be very hard, a dial indicator probably won’t work very well with 0.2mm layer height and smaller. Maybe a laser would work better, but the amount of noise would be pretty high since 3D prints usually aren’t as consistent to begin with.

A much better way this is done these days is an accelerometer on the print head. Then you can put the printer through a test program which wiggles the thing in different directions at different frequencies. The accelerometer can compare the expected result with the actual result and can pick out any weird oscillations or ringing of the machine. The data from this can then be applied when slicing, to compensate for the machine properties.

This is a pretty standard function on most high-end printers these days. And is even in reach for cheap machines, since you can buy USB accelerometers for this purpose. The downside of those is the USB cable skews the result a little bit, but if mounted permanently and the cable routing is done well it can work great.

We are checking

I might have missed Formuladank more than F1 itself.

Thanks for letting us know! Happy it worked out

Let us know how you get on!

I tried the 45 degrees method, but my print bed wasn’t quite large enough to make it fit. It ended up too short and the hose kept falling out.

How did you do the layer lines?

I tried to print one of these things once, with the layer lines perpendicular to the central axis. So just a tube standing straight up on the print bed. It didn’t work at all. The shop vac was inserted in one end and the other end into the machine. However this meant the interface in between was completely unsupported. With the hose hanging on one end, as soon as I moved the machine around in use, the thing snapped off across a layer line. I tried a couple more times with thicker walls, higher temps and more infill, but the layer to layer bond just wasn’t strong enough. I tried ABS and PETG, the PETG held up best but still broke within a couple of hours of use.

So I ended up ordering an injection molded part, probably glass reinforced nylon or something like that and have been using that ever since. Still bugs me, because it seemed like a perfect time for the 3D printer to shine.

That dude has mad skills and all the experience. He also spent so much time designing and making that hotend. Just because it works for him, doesn’t mean the principle is sound or that it could just work for anybody. I’ve been following him on YouTube for quite some time and am insanely jealous of his workspace and skill level. If anything his videos have shown me it’s super hard to get multi input extruders to work.

Yeah I used these in my manual mill converted to do power drive and some basic CNC stuff. They are excellent and have a lot of torque, but they are also very slow. Especially with the amount of step down gearing in a manual mill, the end result isn’t very fast. But I don’t really care, I’m usually not in a rush to do anything.

I’m sorry, I’m just insecure because I’m a small boi myself with a 8D shaft

Compensating for something are we? /s

Yes he is the son of the team owner.

Stroll is a pretty decent racer with ups and downs, and he does seem to at least get a lot of speed out of a car. Not the same as people like Latifi and Mazepin who were just consistently 1 sec slower per lap than their teammates. But he does pull the dumbest shit from time to time. It’s like he is using all of his focus just to drive the car and doesn’t see anything going on around them.

Compare this to the better drivers who not only drive the car fast, look at their surroundings, but also monitor the race and think about strategy. Lance has the speed to be in F1, but not the race craft. Only reason he got there and isn’t fired yet is because of his dad.

Oh fuck they repaired the car. I know, I’ll just crash on the formation lap and run back to my warm spot. I will blame it on the brakes, those things suck so everyone will believe me. Crashes the car, fuck the thing is somehow still perfectly fine, just my luck. Hey would you look at that, this big patch of rocks is perfect to get stuck in. Oh noes I got stuck, well that’s it for me I guess.

Yeah it’s time for Mick to find somewhere else. It’s kinda sad to see him, with expectations so high he could never live up. He got the drive and turned out to be not good enough. That’s it, go do something else. Don’t go hanging around Toto as a sad puppy looking for scraps. He could do really well in sportscars for example, constantly fishing for another F1 drive just on your name isn’t going to happen.

When your own engineer tells you you’re a cry baby in front of millions of people, you know you fucked up. I hope he learns from this.

Very true, but this was a real life discussion.

Cool! I will check that out for sure, if it’s available easily.

But monolitic apps run fine inside of docker? I’ve tried a couple of home automation tools using docker. They were all monoliths, but we’re able to be run with a single docker command. It included a webserver and database server, plus the entire app and dependencies inside the docker container.

Thanks for your excellent response. The way these two sides were talking it seemed like there is no actual middle ground. But from what you say there actually is.

Sure, but are they the future? At this point there is some microservices oriented software available, but still plenty of monoliths as well.

Are the monoliths dying and microservices the only way forward? Or is there always going to be a balance? Or will microservices turn out to be only worth it in very few cases and become niche?

They race me so hard :'(