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Here to signal you another category of 3D printable sites, the individual creator portals (sort of like Patreon but for one creator only) like;
https://3dmential.com
Cons;
Everything is for pay most of the time, noting for free, I agree sometimes the price is low, but still... not free.
Products of one creator alone, not a big host of creators to pick from.
There is no forum most of the time, so you can only interact with the content creator, annoying, right?
While all of the STL files for sale have being 3D printed more than once, most of the time is on the heavily modified machine of the content creator, which has no other twin on the planet, hence printing on whatever you own might require some tweaking with your slicer settings.
Also while you can hire the content creator to engineer, print and test for you something you and only you need, hence your intellectual property in the end (not cheap process thou), you cannot expect similar work done for third other parties to be available to pay cheap for in the portal, I guess you would not want your expensive experiment that came to a good end to be cheaply made available to just about anybody either, or maybe you do, cheers to you for that.
At this time I cannot personally think of any pros for visiting such a portal, but if you come up with some be sure to let me know.
Tyranny is when everyone knows the answer but is not allowed to say it.
1) When given a problem, fear rather than reason is used to present the solution.
2) When you're pressured into accepting the solution.
3) When you're not allowed to question the solution.
4) When the solution involves surrendering your freedoms.
5) When your eyes see one thing, but you are legally compelled to believe a different thing.
6) When the solution means giving small groups of people control over larger and larger things.
7) When dissenters are censored for refusing to accept the solution.
8) When dissenters are targeted by accusations from different sources, suddenly and all at once.
The scariest part is it only takes a few short years for the upcoming generation to forget or be duped into the same thing, again.
It amazes and astounds me, that so many actually believe slavery is over, when its just been repackaged.
“If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized … If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance — you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest.” – Ian Watson
and
"When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals.". Edward Snowden
Because
You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality (atributed to Ayn Rand )
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Nature's Incredible ROTATING MOTOR (It’s Electric!) - Smarter Every Day
We invented electric motors, or so we thought, but in reality electric motors existed in nature and our body is littered with rotary electric motrs, actuators and sensors at celluar level, a size we are absoutelly unable to work at, we cannot create such small motors.
Just think of it, sub nanometric electric motor single direction rotating when some protons of hydrogen are pushed through it...
than rotating a lager gear reduction system in either direction according to where it postion itself, out of the gear or inside the gear, also the capacity of starting severall of these motors in the same time if more torque is needed at the reductor gear...
mate, we only started using such technology a thousand years ago (gears) and electrified it only a hundred years ago as human society, just to discover that this is how we actually work inside since... forever...
we are the robots... so whom created this technology?
and what software is a cell running to know what the sensors detectd and what actuators and motors to activate?
on what OS? what CPU?
yes, i don't know how nerves work, but they are very similar to wires, beacuse they are,
would even be interested to know the electrical parameters, like resistance, if it has, and it has
extremelly low but it has
measuring those things requires extremelly fine apartus
your basic multimeter does not cuts it in
a very fine lab multimeter is still to gross for that
it take sensors capable to sense variation of nanovolts and nanoampers
just think of it, the human brain is like a mega rack of servers with the capacity per human being of all the computers ever made and sold on the planet taken together, that in such configuration would need a few thousand terrawatt hour to work, but the brain it only needs a few milliwatt hour to do the same ammount of computing.
And we think that shrinking from desktop to tablet was a revolution in hardware...lol
We need a trillion tablets to equal one human brain, we need hundreds of millons of tablets to equal a mouse brain.
But we want to run A.I on our phones... lol, hilarious.
Scientists still have seen only the surface of things.
Assuming science is like an iceberg, most of it is under water, the visible part above is maybe 5% of it, what we saw is just an ice cube we have put in our glass of cola from that iceberg, not even the part above the water, we just scratched the surface of it.
Scientists are wondering about consciousness; it's something still mysterious and unknown mostly
And that, and ideas, and thinking, is not even happen in our brain they discovered, ideas and thinking seems to happen in the rest of our body little nanao brains than when done conveyed to the main brain for coordination.
Consciousness instead is proven to happen somewhere else out of our bodies, maybe out of this universe, and our brain is but the rack of servers that connect us with that gigantic system through a communication system and antennas that are also part of our body.
A part of it physically we can detect, most of it isn't in the physical or something different.
What's strange is the body seems almost insensitive to magnetic fields.
I would say rather extremelly sensitive, we sense it, measure it with our body sensors, use it maybe for subconscious communications, but we are also very much not negateivelly affected by it unless if it is variable at high frequencyes (radiation), than is disruptive.
Like the strong fixed fields are not disturbing, it could be indeed but we don't so much sense it.
So we are low frequency communicators possible over extreme distances, maybe entire galxies, using quantum communications, hell knows where heaven is located.... lol
Put forinstance a 1.5V battery on your tongue, that's sensing the electric flow...
For magnetic fields, we don't generally feel in the same way as far as I know, there are 7kHz coms with submarines, apparently. We can even listen to it, it's taking care all the time.
People put a wire on sound card and it just works, you can see it. Such low frequency, don't seem to bother us.
You don't sense the air you are breathing either, but you would die without it, same works with the magnetic fields I guess.
Now if you put an effort into sensing it yes, but regularlly you just ignore it.
Try paying the same attention to your magnetic interractions and you will start sensing that too if you put an effort into it.
Like with the birdsthat know the north, I think we have reminisence of magnetic sensors.
We are magnetic sensors, we just ignore it, and rely on technology.
How to whales and dolphins know where they are in big distance, I don'nt know, they may have also magnetic sensor
I think they have their own satelites... lol.
Ants, insects, bees, fish, birds, mamals, all have their geopositoning satelites network... lol.
We are close in architecture to everything when it comes to how we are built, but we are too proud to see it, we think we are better because we talk, and invent technology, maybe that is what makes us more stupid than the rest of them that keep in touch with Base or Mother Nature, or God or the Universe, whatever you define it, on a constant basis while we totally ignore it.
Pertinent but incomplete analysis:
Let's not forget that all the bad things that make our life good are not because we want to have them as antique culture inherited from generations and generations of practicing their use.
It is because we were pushed from behind to want, often against our will.
Just like when they were under Communism or Capitalism, the peasants were taken from the villages in sackcloth and relocated in to the factories in the city to produce for them rich peoples business, because they had control of society and business, and made to live in conditions not at all consistent with their countryside lifestyle, forced to adapt to become something else (much taller, and much sooner), and in order to attract them they had to offer them "advantages" either economic or comfort, gadgets that arouse the envy of the neighbors and parents but... they bring zero extra comfort in reality.
Someone and something had to produce those gadgets, so they invented an economy of "fashion" that is floating and permanently changing in everything.
It's fashionable, so I want it (Well, but do you need it for something?) It doesn't matter, it's fashionable, I deplete my savings, abandon my human dignity, I kiss the ass of whoever I want, I stand in queues for three days and nights, and then I boast into the press that I have it.
I don't need it for anything, but I can brag big time.
Because this mental illness stuck only to those who had a lot of money, most of the population had not fallen ill from "I want to have it even though I don't need it" and therefore they gave access to money at any level, cheap, urgent credit and without any guarantees required.
This gave birth to an enormous wave of mental illnesses on the new version; "instant gratification".
So it doesn't matter anymore that I want to, even though I don't need to, and I'll be saving money for five years so that I can brag when I can have one.
Now I am going to brag in three days, the time needed to make myself a slave for life to whoever gives me the credit, then I not only work as a slave on the plantation to pay the debts (which keep accumulating as more and more fashionable things appear out of nowhere) , but I can't blame anything against whom is directing the planet, leading to my psychological and physical damage, because I owe them, so the "keep your mouth shut or you don't have another credit" to maintain the social status of "I don't actualy need this but... I have it" kicks in provoking self censoring behaviours.
Stop the planet because I want to get off here.
I was Autocad full steam till about 2008 when a friend of mine introduced me to Inventor, that wrecked my Autocad addiction and made me Inventor dependent, I did extrmelly complex projects in Inventor versions 2009 to 2012 and bumped in a lot of the Inventor limitations and bugs because of that.
Fusion 360 is a mini Inventor, bare bone, just like Revit is a mini Autocad, in my view.
I was aiming around the year 2014 to go Catia when somebody pointed me towards FreeCad, a free (like in freedom from oppresion, but also like in not for pay to use, however the accent is in free like in freedom) open source CAD parmetric modeler intended to do anything Catia would do.
I found it scarce and lagging years behind not only Catia but even Inventor wise, however it was usefull, so I started digging in. With time not only constant newer versions came up, but the community started creating plugins that brought it on par with Inventor 2009 version, including the bugs like Topological naming problem just to name the most obvious one (that happened around 2018 for me).
Now is 2024, FreeCad still has bugs, although they sorted out the Topological naming problem and are preparing themselves to release it in Beta testing in the next release, but heck man, it beats Inventor in some aspects, I mean the 2024 Inventor, you ca run it in Inventor like GUI, or in Solid (something) like GUI or in Catia GUI (FreeCAD has several different navigation modes available, that can be set in the preferences settings dialog or changed by right-clicking in the 3D view. For full details about the modes, see the Mouse navigation page), you have various analisys plug-ins, CFD, Stres, Weldings, you have pre made parts stocks when it comes to bearings, nuts, bolts, you have assembling plugins and much more.
Now FreeCad is on par with any paid big league CAD software at the pact you take the time to dig into it (most of you give up too early,waaaaay to early), you can work complex projects like boats, airplanes, blocks of flats, cars, I mean not just the outlines, but the whole assembly bolt by bolt, welding by welding, cable by cable, etc.
There are drawbacks too, it has some limitations that can be worked around with a bit of a headache, and obviously as you drag in more plugins and make it more powerfull, you need computing power, yes it drains a lot of math power, processor, memories, video board and tranfer BUS highway capacity, it is no longer a go cart, we now have a 400 meter long cruise boat that needs 200 people to steer it around and drinks fuel by the ton per minute.
And it grows up and many bugs are sorted, and new ones popup, is a never ending game.
So yes the learning curve is step and painfull unless you come from Inventor, Catia, Solid something world, than is a breeze, and yes, your super duper gaming laptop is by no menas good enoug to run it if you plan to design yoursefl a helicopter from tip to toe and spit out the BOM to start purchasing parts to asemble and fly it, it will actually crash your computer often, thermal runout form over stress, unless if it is water cooled, than it will freeze your screen for hours until it gets the computing done, sometimes I leave mine at night frozen, wake up in the morning still frozen, go to work, come back home, still frozen, and sometimes in the evening I have access again, the CFD is done, or the linear pattern of 400 columns and 300 rows, etc.
I need a better machine, the software needs more computing power, rendering and memory power than any machine under 3000 USD can provide.
So if you ever thought FreeCAD is a poors man choice for basic needs witout any real industrial capacities, well... think again, because you labeled FreeCAD so in your mind, but in reality is the paid counterparts like Fusion 360 or Revit that actually fall into that category not to mention the pleiade of Android and Iphone apps at hand; that are extremelly usefull but also extremelly simplistic and limitative (what? you expected to run a Catia like program on a phone? Get real will ya...)
