For the love of God, or whatever, people!

STOP recommending that people use food preparation things to heat up material you have no clue about how safe they are. It’s likely you are recommending people to poison themselves!!

Great advice! Use two food preparation appliances to heat a material you have no clue about what it offgases in addition to water.

Enjoy your food.

I do something similar. 1st- Never use something that will be used for food again. There are 15€ used microwaves listed in my local secondhand app, but I live in a small apartment, and I don’t have the spare space.

2nd. - I don’t do this stuff in the kitchen.

I have a small induction plate, which can actually be set to temperature or power level, and wich is surprisingly accurate! I spent a morning doing testing, and the damn thing would be within 5°C everytime.

I use an enameled pan, which has been retired from food use, and do this in the balcony. I shake it around every so often, with the temp set at 110°C.

It really irks me how a bunch of Youtubers ignore basic safety measures, like using your oven, microwave etc to dry silica, filament, anneal parts etc. We normally have no clue as to the modifiers, additives, etc, or even the actual effects of fumes of the base plastics (maybe there is research, but I haven’t seen anybody looking for it)

I’m working on a cheapo enclosure, and already have designed and printed a cheap and cheerful filter, to use EVERY time I print, no matter what the filament. If I don’t have hard data about the toxicity of a material heated in my breathing space, I’m going to treat it as toxic.

Safe by default.

Have you taken a look at Sovol? Their SV08 is essentially a Voron. As for multi color, Bondtech is releasing their INDX tool changer later this year, wich in my opinion is far superior to an MMU. I don’t know if it can be installed on the SV08, but if it is, it would be my choice.

1st. You dou you. 2nd. Kudos for the design and ingenuity.

Now the buts:

I personally don’t agree with the concept of “I’m going to print this just to prove I can”, especially if it’s subpar.

I have so much h to print, for me and for others, that I see this as a waste of time an filament.

My own personal point of view.

I like Sovol, I like what they do, and how they do it, but this article makes it sound like Sovol did something groundbreaking.

Eddy? 15€, Rápido UHF (for example, much higher flow hotends out there ) around 70€. Converting an Ender 5 plus (easily found used in the sub 200€ range ) to corexy (Mercury one) around 230€.

So yes, the max is nice, but I’m modifying my 5 plus to be in that category of printer for around 300€, or if I had to buy a used E5+ under 500.

The regular SV08 IS groundbreaking. They essentially made a Voron for half the price.

I can empathize with (part) of your reservations. Others, as you pointed out may be a tad paranoid, and others are simply unfounded, and disregard advancements in general.

Nowhere did I say magic. I said I like the enhanced properties. It’s completely logical to expect enhancements. Progress is littered with unfortunate developments. It’s a price we pay for advancements, but if you assume that by default, advancements are bad, we might as well all just stop breathing and die.

I could spend the next few months listing initial advances or improvements thereof, that are unquestionably good. PLA is such an example, as are other bioplastics, vaccines, seat belts and air bags, air source heat pumps, most renewable energy generation (or rather extraction) methods, BPA free, easily recyclable plastics, like PET, long distance communications both voice and data, accessible long distance travel, fucking tools and fire! And so many more advancements.

Of course there are things like lead in gas, or the systematic attack to efficient mass transport in the US, leaded paint, use of asbestos, hydrocarbon fuels, massively toxic pesticides, PFOAS, Ford Pintos and the corporate decisions behind them, etc.

But the balance I think is positive, and contrary to what many scream, we humans tend to try to redress the harms we cause.

Assertions like “We live in primitive times where biology is only in a precursor stage of discovery and poorly understood.” when we can literally fucking manipulate DNA, is just plain ignorant.

You seem to imply that all advancements are dangerous, or evil. Not so. It may be two steps forward, one back, but we go forward.

BTW, I hope you are making that popcorn from corn you planted from heirloom seeds, and extra virgin olive oil, in a solar oven, else you are probably going to be eating GMO, cooked in fucked-up fats, while breathing fumes from burned hydrocarbons, or being subjected to one of many forms of radiation, etc.

Pouring water with plastic sanding dust may essentually be a “feel-good” gesture. Coffee filters are not fine enough to catch microplastics. Think about it, it lets pass enough coffee particles trough that you have some sediment in your cup.

Also, where is that filter being discarded? Into a “microplastic recycling facility” ?

You We probably leach more microplastics (I’m guessing, no hard data) by using non-stick kitchenware, including oven trays, air fryers, etc… Also much of our packaging is a source of microplastics. Then there are the microplastics we drag into the environment from our car mats, from out fleece jackets, and soooo many of our activities. I’m with you in the desire to reduce microplastics, but let’s be real, if that is such a primary concern to you, you may have the wrong hobby. I’m working on a prototype of a cheap and cheerful enclosure filter, that I will post in one of the model sites,(about 5-6 € including filament, and about 2-3 € for a hepa + carbon filter), but in the end the filter medium will end up in a landfill. There is no practical solution for recycling or removal of microplastics yet, except elimination of as much plastic production as possible.

Don’t worry. TACO.

Could a kind soul ELI5 this? Well, maybe ELI8. I did quite a bit of programming in the 90-00s as part of my job, although nowadays I’m more of a script kiddie.

Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, or even Google. They give a shit about your wellbeing, as long as they profit.

That’s delusional. The try to cater to what will keep you engaged, so that as much of the data you can generate can be milked. That’s like saying that agrobusiness cares about livestock’s wellbeing.

Ignorant here. Would mining rigs work for this?

There are many examples of software where the UI etc can be changed. I have never felt comfortable in GIMP’s UI, but then again I’m much more of a vector guy.

That was my gateway into automation, but it seems that they’ve essentially abandoned the range.

I think they may be British, and want those who wish to criticize to for a queue

I own an HP Proliant micro server gen 8. Sweet machine. I bought it new, but there are plenty used around, great looking device. A real pro server in a small format. Celeron, but you can find i3, i5, or i7, and can take some specific xeons. 4 real HP drive caddies.an extra sata originally for a CD, that can repurposed for an SSD, and USB3 in case you want to add even more drives. Very low power consumption. I have xpenology installed, because of the polished experience, but you can install any NAS OS you want. Xpenology has a ton of apps you can install, and also does docker.

Just curious. Why do you write 3/30 instead of 1/10?

I would either get a used HP Proliant microserver Gen 8 (I own one. Pretty sweet) or get a mini ITX nas case, 4 or more bays. Depending on USB doesn’t seem like a good idea to me. You can always sell your mini PC. I have slowly learned to avoid the sunk cost fallacy.

I have a video conference ring that I set to disco RGB and control with the middle button. Does that count?