It never occurred to me whenever I was watched a video with drones equipped with shells that the casings were plastic. Pretty resourceful.
I know a little about 3d printing, and hopefully they are using a 6mm nozzle and not the stock 4mm. The difference in throughput would be several hours.
Bamboo has a slightly more expensive printer (599 US dollars as of 04/12/24) and prints about 10 x as fast as a standard bed slinger. I bought one myself and it is freakishly fast. Before that printer, I had used Creality quite a bit. There is a huge user community for Creality. I guess Prusa is popular in Europe, but Bamboo is going to hurt their sales, as they say, big time. I think Prusa printers are overpriced too. I gave away my Prusa after I got my Bamboo printer...I think the engineering for evenly distributing the bed temperature was poor (it is an issue when one uses more advanced material like PETG). I imagine the Ukrainians are using PLA...so much easier to work with....
The only downside is that Bamboo seems to require that their units have access to the internet. I have suspicions that they are collecting information like M$ did in the early days with their co-pilot program as feedstock for their AI endeavors. I think they are hackable (and Ukrainians are tech savy) though AND it may be that Bamboo has changed their policy. Nevertheless, their 3d printers represent an evolutionary step, perhaps revolutionary.
In WWII it was Molotov cocktails, in 2024 it is drones equipped with such munitions. Very impressive...very, very impressive...
Anyhow, do you have a paypal account? I might have missed the link but I would like to help. I'm not rich, but I believe in the utility of what you reported.
Oh, and in the text box saying what the donation is for, don't put anything remotely controversial. This is important, because paypal suspends accounts. Just put 'Frodo' or something like that.
done....it is small amount, and the aim is for you to do as you see fit..completely discretionary...again, great citizen journalism....while I am somewhat of a geek, there are many people into 3d printers, and would instantly be impressed.....i would ship my bamboo printer to whoever, but the cost to ship anything, as an individual, to Ukr is nearly 500 dollars minimum. I was going to send a drone, as part of a group transport but not much in the way of logistic support where i am at....whatever....stay alive.
Thank you very much for your generosity! We are a very small operation so every donation counts. Frodo doesn't need feeding for two months so in the short term this money will be spent on something else - upgrades to second-hand laptops. However, he will need feeding in three months, so you can consider your donation as going to that, as we will be paying for it.
3D printer spec is definitely over my head! But Ukrainians are incredibly resourceful as you say - another survival necessity - and everyone pools knowledge, so I'm confident that the best approach is being taken. I do have a paypal. I don't want to bombard people here with multiple demands for money - substack already heavily promotes subscription - but you should be able to find it with my email address, anna @ annabowles . co . uk . Thank you!
I cannot say I am not conflicted, contributing to the manufacture of bombs. But I understand that survival needs are legitimate. I used to joke with myself that in case of an attack on my plot of land I would take out the old musket and shoot from windows like Grandma Duck. I have been lucky so far that I never needed to...
Yes, I'm sure not everyone will like this. I've concluded that it's better to bomb soldiers who have *some* choice in what to do than to sit back while they bomb kids in their beds.
It never occurred to me whenever I was watched a video with drones equipped with shells that the casings were plastic. Pretty resourceful.
I know a little about 3d printing, and hopefully they are using a 6mm nozzle and not the stock 4mm. The difference in throughput would be several hours.
Bamboo has a slightly more expensive printer (599 US dollars as of 04/12/24) and prints about 10 x as fast as a standard bed slinger. I bought one myself and it is freakishly fast. Before that printer, I had used Creality quite a bit. There is a huge user community for Creality. I guess Prusa is popular in Europe, but Bamboo is going to hurt their sales, as they say, big time. I think Prusa printers are overpriced too. I gave away my Prusa after I got my Bamboo printer...I think the engineering for evenly distributing the bed temperature was poor (it is an issue when one uses more advanced material like PETG). I imagine the Ukrainians are using PLA...so much easier to work with....
The only downside is that Bamboo seems to require that their units have access to the internet. I have suspicions that they are collecting information like M$ did in the early days with their co-pilot program as feedstock for their AI endeavors. I think they are hackable (and Ukrainians are tech savy) though AND it may be that Bamboo has changed their policy. Nevertheless, their 3d printers represent an evolutionary step, perhaps revolutionary.
In WWII it was Molotov cocktails, in 2024 it is drones equipped with such munitions. Very impressive...very, very impressive...
Anyhow, do you have a paypal account? I might have missed the link but I would like to help. I'm not rich, but I believe in the utility of what you reported.
Oh, and in the text box saying what the donation is for, don't put anything remotely controversial. This is important, because paypal suspends accounts. Just put 'Frodo' or something like that.
done....it is small amount, and the aim is for you to do as you see fit..completely discretionary...again, great citizen journalism....while I am somewhat of a geek, there are many people into 3d printers, and would instantly be impressed.....i would ship my bamboo printer to whoever, but the cost to ship anything, as an individual, to Ukr is nearly 500 dollars minimum. I was going to send a drone, as part of a group transport but not much in the way of logistic support where i am at....whatever....stay alive.
Thank you very much for your generosity! We are a very small operation so every donation counts. Frodo doesn't need feeding for two months so in the short term this money will be spent on something else - upgrades to second-hand laptops. However, he will need feeding in three months, so you can consider your donation as going to that, as we will be paying for it.
I will make at least one more contribution once I have a few more ducks in a row. I will shoot for more sooner than later. Sooner than three months.
3D printer spec is definitely over my head! But Ukrainians are incredibly resourceful as you say - another survival necessity - and everyone pools knowledge, so I'm confident that the best approach is being taken. I do have a paypal. I don't want to bombard people here with multiple demands for money - substack already heavily promotes subscription - but you should be able to find it with my email address, anna @ annabowles . co . uk . Thank you!
I cannot say I am not conflicted, contributing to the manufacture of bombs. But I understand that survival needs are legitimate. I used to joke with myself that in case of an attack on my plot of land I would take out the old musket and shoot from windows like Grandma Duck. I have been lucky so far that I never needed to...
Yes, I'm sure not everyone will like this. I've concluded that it's better to bomb soldiers who have *some* choice in what to do than to sit back while they bomb kids in their beds.