SCORE!!!!

Talk about anything and everything... Just be nice.
Post Reply
MrDralixx
Posts: 56
Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2017 11:35 am
Has thanked: 7 times
Been thanked: 24 times

SCORE!!!!

Post by MrDralixx » Fri Nov 03, 2017 8:39 am

Between this week and last, I have been lucky enough to be able to nab 2 Raspbery Pi Zeros, 4 Raspberry Pi Zero Ws, a Raspberry Pi 3, and 2 Google AIY Voice Kits.

Getting near the end of the year and realized that I had a lot of vacation still to use up before I lost it. IBM pays Paternity Leave, so I didn't have to take any when my third boy was born back in June. Was so busy after that, I plain forgot. Put in for the whole of Thanksgiving week (the day of and the day after were already off as they are site holidays). Put in for the week of Christmas and the week of New Year's off too. Still had days left over. Sprinkled them around here and there over the other weeks of October, November, and December to give my mother in law a break here and there too (she's the baby-sitter for the baby).

Decided I need a "Me Day". (no. I did not inform the wife of this as she can and will find things for me to do regardless if I have other things planned, so I feel no regret about it) Took last Friday for that. Very nice day overall for Michigan (it wasn't actually raining) and drove to the other side of the state to the closest Micro Center to me. Got 4 spools of PLA, a spool of PETG (not fun stuff to work with it turns out), some cleaning filament, cheap Micro SD cards, and since I had cash, a bunch of Raspberry Pi Zeros and Ws in multiple transactions. Was told about the upcoming release of the Google AIY kits the next day. 2 options for it though: Buy the kit itself for $24.99 or buy a Raspberry Pi 3 for $34.99 and get the kit for a penny. The second option was in-store pickup only. Crap. Too much stuff going on to make another trip the next day. (that and it's like 2 and a half hours from my house one way)

Ordered the kit itself and received an email an hour later that it was on backorder. I was able to reserve one in-store though with no issue. Hmmm... I had co-workers on that side of the state and knew one of them could pick it up for me. The start of this week however, I received a new laptop as I had had my other one for over 4 years now. I lucked out and scored one of their "Developer's" machines. i7 processor, 500gb SSD, 32gb RAM, and 15" display (which means I get full keyboard layout.. yay!!) It is a HUGE leap from what I had too. Problem is, they didn't send me the instructions for setting up the new workstation via their network and one of the things I was told over the phone to try, flubbed the whole thing. I ended up having to take it to the other location they have in Michigan which has Deskside support to restage the machine. It also happens to be situated a short distance from the Micro Center I went to last week. So score. Got the other AIY kit with a Raspberry Pi 3 to boot and nabbed one more Pi Zero W.

Other than being frustrated with figuring out PETG settings, a very fulfilling last week and a half and I'm stocked up to about Christmas now with goodies. :)

User avatar
wermy
Site Admin
Posts: 1346
Joined: Tue May 03, 2016 8:51 pm
Has thanked: 620 times
Been thanked: 1322 times
Contact:

Re: SCORE!!!!

Post by wermy » Fri Nov 03, 2017 9:28 am

Nice! Hopefully we see a bunch of build logs from you soon :D
ImageImageImageImage

MrDralixx
Posts: 56
Joined: Wed Jul 12, 2017 11:35 am
Has thanked: 7 times
Been thanked: 24 times

Re: SCORE!!!!

Post by MrDralixx » Fri Nov 03, 2017 9:41 am

With 2 AIY kits, I get to try it with a Pi 3 and with a Zero W as I am reading people having success with that one too.

I am also not thrilled with Cura and am considering trying out Octoprint for at least one of my printers. I've got several options for that too as Octoprint works with various Pi's, and I am reading that people are now finding it to work with a Zero W as well. So it would be interesting to try it out in a really small form factor and attached to the side of my MP Select Mini. :)

User avatar
wermy
Site Admin
Posts: 1346
Joined: Tue May 03, 2016 8:51 pm
Has thanked: 620 times
Been thanked: 1322 times
Contact:

Re: SCORE!!!!

Post by wermy » Fri Nov 03, 2017 9:57 am

Octoprint is fantastic - I'm using it on two printers. Cura's alright for slicing but I prefer simplify3d - you get such fine-grained control it's insane.
ImageImageImageImage

ZeroContext
Posts: 8
Joined: Fri Nov 03, 2017 12:48 pm
Has thanked: 1 time
Been thanked: 1 time

Re: SCORE!!!!

Post by ZeroContext » Sat Nov 04, 2017 12:03 pm

I am also running Octoprint on a Ras Pi 3, but I am considering changing it over to a 0W so that I can use the RasPi 3 in a Retropie build inside the Neo Geo X Gold docking station (that's where the 0W is now - I modified the case to make it hot-pluggable instead of the Neo Geo X Gold handheld).

Do you think Simplify3d is worth the price? I am a little frustrated with Cura now that I swapped in an E3Dv6 hot end on my Ultimaker.

Post Reply

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest