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[A] A solution... fails, due to the lack of Tetent [gd0090].

A project log for SecSavr Soapavr [gd0146]

A 3D printer that creates multi-layer PCBs with silkscreen, populating it with components.

kelvinakelvinA 05/08/2023 at 20:260 Comments

Nope. Can't do this project at this specific time. The required level of mental compute is much beyond my current capacity. 

Essentially, #Tetent [gd0090] is not something that (just) speeds up my projects. Instead, it is what makes them sustainably managable in the first place. It is the combination of a fast human-computer interface, #Tetrinsic [gd0041], with in-house task managment software for my specific requirements, #TaskPercent [gd0140]. Just like it's long and tedious to wait for a parcel to arrive before ordering the next thing in the basket (instead of just buying them all at once and them arriving all at the same time), having to pause every other project because I don't have enough organic RAM matter is going to take an amount of time I don't have the stamina for.

To give some perspective, the main component of #Coaxial Hotend [gd0144], the heatblock, is still seeing useful tweaks and updates added today, despite thinking that it was manufacture-ready 11 days prior. I created and refined the project for 5 consecutive days before making that call, and starting to realise that this will happen for every subsection of the Soapavr. It even took 72 hours just to have the resolve to decide that creating a feature-reduced, portable L^3 development printer is a recommendable endeavour.

I'm currently deep in thought just on the LED matrix holding handle, let alone anything that's actually doing the printing. If you're wondering, it's a confliction between Aesthetic Compliance and the main objectives of low-cost and durability. Those LED matrix screens are 13mm thick and I don't even need to model it in Fusion360 to know that the matrix and a 27mm OD tube will not fit inside a 40mm diamond square extrusion. Unfortunately, due to the project's expected minimum cost of £900, the solution will be rejected if it doesn't pass aesthetic compliance; DIY-looking projects can only justify DIY-looking budgets, and I can't do much anything on a £100 limiit.

This is the reason why I put a hold on #SecSavr Suspense [gd0105] back late August 2022. I thought I could sidestep now, but it really just seems that I forgot how truly vast and time-expensive even the most basic of [hard/soft/firm]ware projects are. 

If Tetent fails, it sadly really does look like all my projects are going to sink with it. Coaxial Hotend gets a pass in a way because I need a working 3D printer to actually print the components for Tetent, but it's still on thin ice because any single-colour extruder could do that too.

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