Thanks! Definitely want an umbilical. I’ve been slowly talking myself into a 2.4 over the last couple of years and it never ceases to amaze me how much the meta moves. For ACM - like aluminium honeycomb? Eddy probe looks pretty exciting too.

I doubt it’s a recent thought, knowing civil engineers, they’re absolute perverts when it comes to concrete.

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Afaik the SV08 is Voron derived.

Half planning a frankenvoron with an old CR10 and a few bits and pieces of extra 2040 I planned on making a control box for it with. How do you find it?

This is a surprisingly divisive topic every time I see it or suggest it. I reckon the divisor is “people who use and work across timezones a lot” and “people who don’t”. Fuck I hate timezones.

Old post of mine, I need to get round to making a comm for this stuff - in terms of European BlueBrixx and Cobi are all that I’m aware of, BlueBrixx use Chinese bricks too though, there’s not much avoiding it. As for a particular set, I’ve got a tallneck in the backlog that’s largely technic, is huge and is well under £200 delivered ~7k parts if I remember right.

So, as far as I’m aware BlueBrixx use a brick manufacturer called gobricks in China - these are generally considered top tier. Mould King also use gobricks - they do some good start wars/space/car stuff (not clone kits, Mould King are pretty legit, as far as I’m aware they license/pay MOC designers for plans for the most part as well).

Other brands I don’t have experience with (but have a really good rep) are CaDa, Pantasy and Rastar. CaDa and Rastar both license IPs.

IMO JieStar are also a pretty good brand, they are a brick manufacturer and a set manufacturer. I’ve never had an issue with a JieStar set, their bricks/clutch is a little tighter than Lego which is sometimes beneficial, sometimes a little annoying, but it’s never caused an issue. (I’ve build a couple of 5k+ brick sets from JieStar - worst I had was a single malformed brick that I just hid). They make clone kits and original IP. (Some cool little 50 pc sets you can pick up for £1-2.

Reobrix is the other brand I like, they use JieStar bricks but make their own sets and license MOC designer work. Have some interesting aircraft/vehicles. Their cars are good, their B2 bomber was a bigger set, some of it was a little fiddly, but it holds together - it had 1-2 bricks missing, but I picked up replacements on bricklink for pennies.

I also pick up the odd no-name brand from AliExpress, tbh they’ve mostly been fine too, a couple were mediocre (I didn’t have high expectations £15 for 1000pc sets, they were fine for the price tbh, the bricks were fine for one set, a bit too little clutch on the other - but honestly both look fine when they’re assembled. I wasn’t disappointed considering the price).

In terms of ordering -

YOURWOBB

Youmko/Barweer

Marstoy

I’ve ordered from all 3, they’ve all delivered what they said they would. YOURWOBB doesn’t do clone sets, all original IP (and you can sort by brand) youmko are a mix, though mostly original stuff. Marstoy officially don’t sell clone sets, however they do sell “Brick kits”. If you go on the site you’ll see a lot of stuff with names like M12345 - take M off the name and reverse the number, this is the corresponding Lego set (eg. M12345 would be Lego set 54321)

There’s loads on AliExpress too - usual rules apply here, but choice, buy an item that has a lot of buyers with good reviews. If you buy a MOC off AliExpress chances are the original designer isn’t being compensated - many people will go and buy the design off rebrickable to compensate the designer, but no obligation.

For minifigs there’s:

RebuildVenus

This is the same company as Marstoy, free shipping over $17.

I just put Ubuntu on a laptop 12 years ago and never looked back.

Yep pretty much. Ordered a couple of weeks ago from triangle lab. Kinda figuring it out as I go, there isn’t (or wasn’t when I ordered anyway) a ton of info in using it with the P1S, so I’m posting as I go here to try and keep people informed (at least until it works or I give up)

Jane Mayer’s Dark Money should be a compulsory read.

There’s a link to a Google drive with what appears to be quite a detailed assembly manual and some stls.

BOM

I’ve paid for the year, so I’ll do my damnedest to run up their gippity bill.

Can I enquire as to why not?

Has this not been the state of the games industry for the most of time? Small bedroom coders get a break, build a studio, fire out some games, get bought out of grow huge. The founders move on and start a new studio, rinse, repeat. The games industry has always appeared pretty democratic in that specific regard, barrier to entry is pretty low compared to most other industries.

As for the over performance of older games, have they noticed they get cheaper and less shit than on launch?

I mean at the current exchange rate that’s closer to $2MM

Jeez, did not know that! Thanks.

Kudos where it’s due, but Philips is not a great poster boy(or gal) for a good corp. Outside of the medical field they basically license their name to other companies and make very little themselves.

Yeah pretty much from what I’ve come across this far. I may regret this lol. There’s a couple of videos on YouTube, one’s in silence and the other’s in Chinese.

There definitely seems to be a few in the wild built by English speakers so there might be a few people I can tap up for advice.

I’ll do my best! I’ve gone for the parts kit from triangle labs. I figure worst case it can probably be persuaded to work with something a bit less proprietary down the line. 20-30 day lead time on parts, $75 - I think I’m going to need some Bambu parts in addition, but I’ll do my best to document it as I go.

Welp, I’ve pulled the trigger, let’s see where this one leads.