It would probably be better to incinerate the waste plastic after a chance at reuse. LDPE bottles wont be releasing much aside from that cut across the top to form the lid if not cut with a hot knife. Any reuse could prevent someone from buying a bag that most likely would be made from polyester that sheds incredible amounts of microplastics. Reduce, Reuse and finally Recycle.
I am much more concerned about all the rubber particles on the roadways from tires, especially with the new Japanese research that suggests the microplastics in clouds are a rubber product.
That sounds super expensive and a logistical nightmare. Imagine a pallet that has 1500 products on it, now those are reboxed, take more space, use more fuel because there will be more trips for each shipment. You also are now tracking probably a dozen boxes instead of a single pallet. There are a dozen boxes to open and inspect before accepting the delivery. You will still have the trucks in the streets too because it cant be easily eliminated if you want to keep auto shops or any light industry where the item exceeds the weight two humans can safely carry.
It would make more sense to me to legislate new commercial buildings must include a loading dock. Require developers to make the commercial buildings have shared loading dock so several small bodegas and stores can all share a dock on their building. This would reduce the amount of the trucks parking in the street with a liftgate or forklift to lower the pallets.
How is this academia’s moment? People have been publishing bad science since its inception, its why we made tools like peer-review which predate the internet.
The article mentioned how he intentionally crammed together everything to fit on a single unfolded page so they would not need to flip the page over. This article suggests the paper may have been free for Bach though, but I suppose that doesn't account for his time spent writing or rewriting his works. https://www.bach-cantatas.com/Articles/BachPaperSize.pdf
Is self propelled the right wording when you blast a loose propellor with ultrasonic waves? If so I have created a large variety of self propelled robots in my ultrasonic cleaning machine.
I think this is a fascinating effect seen in almost any hobby. I wonder if there is a word for these sort of sub-hobbies or pre-hobbies. I think you can find it's parallels in cars, aquariums, 3d printers, wood working, etc.
I still have my Asus ROG g73S from 2010 and boot it up from time to time when I need a windows machine or CD/DVD/blu ray player. It runs windows 10 these days and doesn't have any issues with drivers, I definitely think its closer to apple in terms of both price and longevity. I use a macbook pro as my daily driver now and love the smaller form factor though.
The load cell is amazing BTW. I have one on the creality CR6MAX, prusa has talked about it being sensitive enough to actually do 3d scanning of low-profile objects with it. I doubt they will implement that into the slicer but I don't doubt they can actually print that flat orange perfect first layer with it.
I agree that sharing Gcode should end as well, I understand how they thought that might be a good idea given how daunting prusaslicer is for non-techies but that wasn't a good solution.
Although Corexy is clearly a more rigid form factor I wonder if the input shaping advancements will make that bed slinging i3 seem much faster than we are expecting.
I think the shear strength is the weakness. I break super glued corals off their ceramic plugs for my aquarium and you can almost always get a perfect break by using flush cutters to slide the coral off the plug instead of trying to pry it off or cut it.
They are about $50 from my search which is about 5x more than the plantower pm2.5 sensors. There is a big difference in documentation and that issue with the new MCU on the plantower units is concerning since they all have the same markings and housing when purchased.
I don't own a modern xbox so I had to do a quick search to learn that this is the famous Dolphin emulator for Gamecube and Wii games which can now be run on the Xbox One which supports apps built for Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform.
Pretty cool! Does anyone know if this requires special firmware does it run on any stock xbox one?
If it writes what would have been open source dependencies based on open source code you no longer have to license that work or your own. Also coders might not want to open source original work for fear they are just going to feed that beast that will ultimately kill them. Sort of a chilling effect if they cannot chose to contribute to that cause or not while also sharing code as open source.
I manufacture my own product that sells well on my website but even as the manufacturer I find selling on amazon to be too expensive and too risky. Instead I have my products listed so I can prevent others from controlling the product pages and reselling them but leave them as unavailable to purchase On that platform.
Given the lifespan of plastic products I don’t think it’s so bad that people let their printers sit unused for extended periods of time. If you don’t have a useful/desired object to print I would rather they not make a plastic object that will last hundreds of years and cannot be currently recycled except by doing it yourself. I would be concerned that achievement hunters would in fact be motivated by your idea and will be printing benchies or other useless objects they don’t actually want to keep the streak up. Maybe instead you could make a handy way for the users to list their print wishlist so they could keep it running with stuff they need/want instead of the ritual.
Are you in the public sector is this a common issue in your industry? I ask because gifts and emoluments are common in my industry (manufacturing) with contracted clients in the private sector.
I think this is kind of a strange position to take when the article is demonstrating you wouldn’t even notice the increased repairability as a consumer. What tight integrations were lost in Apple’s redesign?
My work flow changed from using one printer to using 8 of them. Octoprint is great but I haven’t taken the time or expense to set so many up since each would need their own pi. They are hard to find these days for a reasonably price. It was great when I did everything off the one printer though, I used an aftermarket runout sensor for filament on the gpio pins of the pi. I also kept track of my filament usage, used the webcam for monitoring from my house to the garage, and arc welder plugin to improve some of the prints. I am still a supporter of the program but I now just organize my SD cards neatly and manually sync them all with updated files. If my operation was bigger I would probably organize a networked solution like octoprint though.
I am much more concerned about all the rubber particles on the roadways from tires, especially with the new Japanese research that suggests the microplastics in clouds are a rubber product.