Adding a long strand of Filament in z direction is what the Author of this article tried. By injecting molten filament into a long channel in the infill.
What i meant that the z-direction does not need to be MORE stable than the other directions.
Adding a long strand of filament in the z-direction in the infill (close to the geometric center of the print) might make the print more resistant to stretching but not necessarily bending.
Carbon rods don't bend but filament does. The wing would break apart at the seams event if it had channels of filament along side its z-axis. It would still be more stable, but not as much as one might think.
Walls give a print most of its strength by a huge margin. And interlocking the walls in z-direction would have a proprietorially larger impact.
I doubt that filling a long thin channel will ever work. The heat + pressure will always collapse the thin infill walls.
In general infills does not provide much strength to a part, it is way better to have stronger walls.
And z-direction does not need to be more stable than the other directions so there is no need for long continuous strands anyway.
Maybe it would work better with smaller, less tall, slots at the inside of the walls.
Lets say 2-3 layer heights tall, continuously filled slots, which are then interleaved with each other. More like bricks less like columns. The outer wall layers would provide stability to prevent collapse. And over spill or bulging would occur towards the inside of the part.
I think, the cost of running and training models is going to fall due to Moore's law and friends.
That also meas that the worth of today's computers declines rapidly and all the money invested in compute power with it.
Compute is basically what the AI VC money is spend on. That money will be gone in a few years due to the hardware being worthless.
On the other side running a model (locally) will become cheaper and cheaper to the point that Ai stuff becomes a everyday commodity running on cheapo devices everywhere.
Then there are optimizations too. Which lowers the cost.
So it's not going away and it's not going to be expensive for the consumer in the long run.
My 5 year old rtx 2027 runs models those output would have been state of the art a couple of years ago.
In a few years something running on the level of today's top models might run under your desk if that progress goes on at this pace.
For your V2: a Can-Bus connector would be great. Should really be standard for toolheads nowadays. Makes cable management so much easyer. And the board does not need the driver for the extruder, the heater contoll and sensors anymore.
So maybe a version which is optimized for Can-Bus toolheads?
And more driver slots, 4 is not sufficient if you want a self leveling bed.
I definitely don't want to be randomly interrupted by Ai garbage.
Those horrible automatic translations are bad enough.
And it seems the slop can't be completely disabled. I guess sooner or later it will spew out"usefull recommendations" and end up being just another vehicle for ads.
It will be shit like "did you know that the singer of band {xyz} likes this brand of {snake oil}?" or
"the song you are listening to reminds me of {insert crypto scam}".
It seems soon antoher browser plug-in is required to get rid of yet antoher annoying anti-feature.
FiDA is a planned initiative that forces first party financial services like banks to provide other services like insurances or investment companies and maybe third parties with their customers data.
From what i understand it is required that this works via a unified API across all of Europe.
Data transfer explicitly requires the customers consent.
My guess is that this would be useful if you change the bank or some insurance to allow easy switchovers and of course tax avoidance and money laundering might be harder.
IMHO insurance companies should not have access to any of their customers banking data (they want to of course, to do price gauging and price discrimination).
And obviously there is no reason why any of those vile datahogs like Google, Facebook, Apple and so on, should have even the slightest access to this.
Its not too hard to detect ads in video streams, even old school analog VCR's could do that.
Watching TV shows without adds was one of the selling points of those back in the day.
Some more modern digital ones had near real time features where they would play with a delay of a lets say half an hour and used that time to remove the ads.
If you have stream from Youtube containing ads you can trivially skip ahead.
And Youtube could do nothing about it because random skipping is one of the base features of every video player ever.
I can totally understand that bikers like to hear the engine and exhaust of their bike but physics and the design of motorcycles is not very accommodating to that.
My bike has the manufacturers default 94db idle exhaust.
It is 94db because anything louder than that is not allowed on certain nice Austrian roads, so the manufacturer set it to 94.
While driving i hear the wind noise on the helmet, the airbox, the drive train and a bit of the engine. I usually wear ear protection.
To be clear 94db is a lot and it is way more if you pull on the gas and i don't have one of those stupid valve controlled exhausts.
I am always astonished how freaking loud that thing is, when i hear it's exhaust echoing over open fields or while going through a tunnel at full tilt.
It just comes down to physics, the exhaust points not at the biker, so the noise is directed into the environment.
There is no engine bay covering the engine and gearbox so that is comparatively loud, also chaindrives are rather noisy as well.
For the exhaust to compete it must be incredibly loud, which of course is obnoxious.
Some modern (sports) cars play engine sounds via the stereo system, maybe someone can build something similar for bikers.
In Europe new motorcycles must have ABS on both wheels since 2017.
Its a good thing.
While it is possible to stop in less distance without ABS, in real live emergency situations ABS usually is of great help due to the no skill required, additional control.
For example if you take the sudden car running in front of you from a side road.
You will instinctively pull the brakes hard on a road with unknown slipperiness.
Maybe the car then stops in the last second or is really fast so there is space, then you need control to ride around the car.
You really don't want your rear wheel locking up and the bike going sideways or doing a stoppie on your front wheel which completely removes any way of obstacle avoidance.
The same is true if over breaking in a curve, if you can handle the bike standing up you can brake astonishingly hard in curves.
I would not recommend it though it feels really weird being slippery in a curve.
On rainy days i do even like traction control. It saved my ass a few times where i accelerated out of a curve a bit to enthusiastically on wet foliage.
What i meant that the z-direction does not need to be MORE stable than the other directions.
Adding a long strand of filament in the z-direction in the infill (close to the geometric center of the print) might make the print more resistant to stretching but not necessarily bending.
Carbon rods don't bend but filament does. The wing would break apart at the seams event if it had channels of filament along side its z-axis. It would still be more stable, but not as much as one might think.
Walls give a print most of its strength by a huge margin. And interlocking the walls in z-direction would have a proprietorially larger impact.