🍁 Kicou 🇨🇦 @kicou@kicou.info
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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#Linux user since 1992; not an expert, more like a power user. Current distros: Manjaro (x86, ARM64), Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS. #3DPrinting novice: Ender 3 v2, SuperSlicer, Klipper, OctoPrint
Socially awkward
#PTSD* used to be crippling: it'll always be there, looming, but after a long and painful journey I am now in a much better place and I am able to handle life.
*Actually Complex Trauma, due to years of severe childhood abuse, homelessness
Joined Mar 2018
Nous sommes allés au Parc des Plaines d'Abraham et avons descendus la Promenade des Gouverneurs. Il y avait beaucoup de monde sur la Terrasse Dufferin et encore plus de monde encore en ville. Ça nous a pas mal effrayés : nous n'avons plus l'habitude, chez nous les choses n'ont rouvert que depuis une semaine. Et même en dehors du contexte Covid, j'ai horreur du monde.
Mais malgré tout c'était bien. Beaucoup de souvenirs des deux années passés à Québec, il y a 20 ans déjà !
Covid19, vaccination
Vaccination dans le monde : avec le sérieux fléchissement des quelques derniers jours, je pense que le Canada va péniblement atteindre les 70% de la population totale. Il faut dire aussi que les moins de 12 ans ne sont pas encore éligibles.
Par contre les deuxièmes doses augmentent à vitesse grand V et au rythme actuel toutes les personnes vaccinées le seront entièrement d'ici fin juillet.
As a person who is subject to panic attacks, I chuckled.
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Credit: http://chrisnaish.com (ya, http… TLS cert is invalid)
Region of Waterloo: Covid-19 vaccination pre-registration is now expanded to those 12+ years of age.
I have three temperature/humidity sensors: one under the deck, one in the greenhouse and one in the garage.
They are RF transmitters operating at 433 MHz and I found that you can decode their info with a DVB-T USB stick ($20) and the rtl_433 command-line tool (https://github.com/merbanan/rtl_433), and feed it to #HomeAssistant via #MQTT.
This is pretty cool.
My first attempts at #3dprinting TPU filament (flexible material).
I thought it would be messy but I am pleased with how these turned out.
Ender 3v2 with stock extruder and bowden tube. I just used PLA settings and disabled retraction.
Details are good, some stringing, overhangs are a bit tricky —I haven't tried supports. No extrusion issues.
Overall, this is a nice flexible and UV-resistant material that prints well on a stock Ender 3 and that can be used for nice functional parts.
High School 2021 A.D.
[Originally published in Betty #46, Feb. 1997]
I can see the end of the reel.
My first spool of filament ever: Hatchbox PLA, orange. It has given me near perfect prints from day one.
And yes, I have a print currently going, so I'm a bit nervous I might run out.
Belle-sœur: L'année prochaine notre fille va passer un semestre universitaire au Canada —elle va pouvoir pratiquer l'anglais comme ça !
Moi: Ah oui ? Elle va à quelle université ?
Belle-sœur : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Moi :
It may not seem like much but it is my very first design using FreeCAD: a part that was missing from an old tripod, preventing from locking the height of the centre shaft.
It is very simple but it works and it is my first time making something actually useful from scratch.
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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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#Linux user since 1992; not an expert, more like a power user. Current distros: Manjaro (x86, ARM64), Debian, Ubuntu, Pop!_OS. #3DPrinting novice: Ender 3 v2, SuperSlicer, Klipper, OctoPrint
Socially awkward
#PTSD* used to be crippling: it'll always be there, looming, but after a long and painful journey I am now in a much better place and I am able to handle life.
*Actually Complex Trauma, due to years of severe childhood abuse, homelessness
Joined Mar 2018
