2024 Week 7 - 3D Printing

Bambu P1S arrived

My P1S finally arrived after being delayed by the snowstorm. I’m impressed with how quick it was to setup and how well it worked out of the box. Coming from an Ender 3 V2, it’s a huge upgrade. It auto-levels, gets a perfect first layer every time, and prints so much faster.

Since I’m mostly interested in functional prints and prototyping, I opted for the 0.8mm nozzle. That shaved about 33% off of print times, even compared to the already fast out of the box printing.

So far I’ve just been printing some stuff from Thingiverse to test it out.

Learning SCAD

I’m hoping to start designing custom keyboard cases and other functional prints. So I want to learn SCAD, since I think expressing the design in code will be more intuitive for me than using a GUI.

My first evening using SCAD was a little rough, since I spent a while tracking down a rendering bug present in the latest stable release which was released in 2021. It seems the project is still active, but the stable release is ancient. Grabbing the latest nightly build resolved the issue.

I’ve been playing

Finally gave Vampire Survivors a try. It’s a fun gimmick, easy way to kill some times.

Started playing Persona 5 again. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying it, but like any game of its size I have trouble sticking with it. Switched the dialog to Japanese (English text) to get some immersion practice.

osu! released a huge performance update. Lazer finally feels snappy with no noticeable stuttering. I may be doomed if this causes the return of my circle clicking addiction.

https://github.com/ppy/osu/releases/tag/2024.219.0

Japanese progress

Ni No Kuni was a struggle. I’m not quite ready for it yet. Still keeping up with my Renshuu studies, and nearly done with the Japanese Basics section. Going to keep up my daily Renshuu routine, and potentially switch to a Pokemon game for immersion since it’s more text-light. I have Pocket Monsters Red (Pokemon Red) ready to go on my Steam Deck.

Maria