Saved by the Soap: Recovering from a 3D Printer 'Blob of Death' Just in Time
When a massive PLA filament blob entombed my hotend, I had to completely rebuild my printer’s toolhead to save a time-sensitive project of 220 custom miniature bows.
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Taming the Beast: Using AI to Solve the New FCC RF Exposure Evaluations
If you’ve been keeping up with your licensing requirements lately, you already know that the FCC’s grandfathering rules for RF exposure evaluations are a thing of the past. Every amateur station in the US—no matter if you are running QRP in the backyard or a full legal-limit shack—is now required to perform and maintain an RF exposure evaluation. When I first sat down to audit my three active home transmitters, I dreaded the process. If you’ve ever tried to do these calculations manually or even plugged numbers into a standard web calculator, you know exactly what a pain it can be. ...