Bambu Lab A1 and A1 mini 3d printer, some stuff, slime mold, thoughts, etc

Recently, on sale, I bought Bambu Lab A1 Combo printer, and by judging the quality, I also got another A1 mini printer. Just to help me for my project on Arctos ARM robotic kit that I have ordered.

Here you can see printers working to make parts for the robot,

I have already managed to print all the parts for the Arctos kit, few days ago I cleared the shipment, so electrical and mechanical parts should arrive soon. Following are the printed parts for it.

I have also got now filaments with multiple colors. It seems I will be spending lot no filament, than just the printer. I have made like 120+ prints in one month, and now I seem to get tired of printing, and running out of ideas what to print, as the print should be usable, but also should not be ‘wasted’ because I just wanted to print, cuz I don’t have any space to keep the printed parts, I more of a minimalist, but I have stuff.

Although after printing some stuff, I decided to design some stuff and print it. I decided to upload the 3d models to GrabCAD, which you can find here: https://grabcad.com/triton7777-1/models

There was also some idea to print a boardgame, but by looking at the amount of material it will use, I decided not to, yet.

But for now,I’m waiting for upcoming order of filaments where I decided to get some more colors, water soluble support from BambuLabs, and also foaming filaments from

An idea includes making of the Helmet with respiratory monitoring module, if at all I decide to do it. Maybe foam padding can be 3d printed with foaming filament. Water soluble filament was bought because of spine structure that I was printing of mine, from a CT scan to which I got spinal fixation rods this summer, the print supports were impossible to be taken out practically.

Few other ideas revolve around cases for electronics and mechanical projects, Seeed round display with Xiao, some T-Display (whose LCD I accidently broke while trying to fix it into the case, shame, but only LCD can be replaced cheap), and a diffuser case for LED neomatrix. But in reality these are my old hobbies, only rejuvenated for a little while in a moment, and 3d print gave them some touch, but I have lost interest, and there needs further development in different aspects of making stuff.

Meanwhile, sustainability group in the university had slime mold workshop, but the mold did not survive because of my incapability to handle microbial stuff in office where there is no chem stuff I can use, and lack of attention I could give due to snoring interests.

Last week, the XREAL Beam pro that I had ordered also came:

But the only issue the released software still lacks camera hand finger tracking, also I cannot use my AI models because its camera (which is black and white) cannot stream to outside world, so an augmented interface say using semantic segmentation remains a possibility to explore. But with time it seems that many other people are catching up, and so my interests dwindle, as I’m not in for competition, even if it can be productive and intense, but I have always worn myself out, facing lack on self care after or other things in life. So I try to stick with some unique thing, but this universe ain’t different for everyone, neither all humans are vastly different, but are most similar in structure, and also ideas in some manner, but fortunately there are plenty of things to do, which can be motivating, but finding what clicks at time can be hard, if someone (for e.g. me) is looking for something or someone else and sometimes not really interested at stuff.

Recently, after spree of emptying money on hobby stuff that I wanted to buy, some of the instruments involved:

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