I think that’s a default setting.

I hadn’t heard that, thanks! An annual $100 is well within what I’m willing to pay for my hobbyist use.

Nicely done! I’m still in the “slowly pecking at it for 11 months” stage, but in my case its closer to 24 months now. My biggest problem is that FreeCAD still feels like work and Fusion360 feels like something I can just eff-around with and still get good parts out of.

I’ve been thinking about trying out CAD Sketcher for Blender except that I’m not really proficient in Blender either.

It took me a few months to save the money for my first printer. I used that time to watch loads of videos about 3D printing. And then I bought a printer kit so I got experience with all the components. By the time I made my first print I felt pretty good about my ability to print and fix common errors. I was still an inexperienced idiot, but I was a lot better off than I might have otherwise been.

There may be a more straight forward way to do it now, but the traditional way is to add a condition to the automation based on the automation’s (or maybe the light or motion detector) last_triggered property. You need, AFAIK, to use a template for this.

A condition with something like this should make it so it can’t fire more than once every hour (60 seconds times 60 minutes): {{ (as_timestamp(now()) - as_timestamp(state_attr('automation.driveway','last_triggered'))) > 60 * 60 }}

I didn’t. I planned to seal it (to at least mitigate micro-crazing / bacteria traps) but it turns out my spray sealant is potentially toxic. For dry seeds I’m mainly worried about mold, which is at least prone to making itself known. If I end up with mold (or rancid seeds) I’ll print a new seed tray and seal it with resin or similar.

The squirrel, but not in the way you think.

It spent summer 2022 trying to find a way get to a window mounted bird feeder. It tried leaping from a window AC unit, coming down from a plant hanger on the eve, and shimmying across the window ledge with just its from paws. It was like a slapstick version of Mission Impossible. I decided it deserved a meal.

Nice. I want to get into RC but I need to learn the electronics.

Thanks!

The other side of the board is The Squirrel You Know It’s True Burger

There’s a Jay that seems perpetually frustrated by how much Teddy eats.

It’s been by every day since I put it out. It’s definitely Teddy.

Here is Home Assistant’s Blog Post on the subject.

I have 1 light in my house that can’t be put on a smart switch because of wiring issues. For it I have printed a couple of locks (the light has 2 switches) similar to these.

I know you said you don’t have a printer, but check etsy. Every good model ends up being sold by somebody on etsy. Or you can check to see if your local library offers use of 3d printers, mine has a whole maker space in it now.

This is my guess based on OP not mentioning changing printer profiles or rerunning a wizard.

I don’t understand the threat to revenue streams. From gun manufacturers

It doesn’t have to be from gun manufacturers. Any manufacturer can go to the politician they own and say “People are making open source versions of our highest profit margin widget, find a way to make it stop.” Then politician says, “Well, New Yorkers want more gun laws, we can abuse that…”

And if I download a parts list, buy the components, and make the printer myself I guess I can just cruise new york “printing guns” for people without any hassle from the man.

Printing ghost guns, so far, is just a boogyman politicians trot out when one of their corporate sponsors thinks one of their revenue streams might be threatened by DIYers.

I will call my Alexa replacement Mr Homn, because it will never talk back after I tell it to do something. By the way did you know that you request an extension to this comment by saying, “Alexa, please shut the fuck up.”

Yeah, I’ve had no complaints. I subscribed to their filament of the month club for a while, but it was 2kg every month and I soon ran out of storage space.

Jesse PLA from Printed Solid is my go to. Great range of colors for $21/kg and it prints like it’s $30/kg filament.

Somebody call Anthony Michael Hall, it’s time to Weird Science our way to mental health!