Fighting with computers

 I ordered this printer almost a year ago, but then the MINI appeared and I decided to get a MINI too, so my new order was delayed due to the MINI massive backlog. It was delivered last March, just at the beginning of the pandemic, so I thought I would have plenty of time to devote to it. But I was wrong and it has been sitting inside the box in our home's hall for several months.  To be honest, I knew the resin will be smelly so I was not eager to build this printer unless I had a use for it. That and the almost unavailable Isopropilic Alcohol (IPA) that was needed kept the project on hold. But given I finally got a good deal for IPA on Amazon something needed to be done. So last Saturday morning I started unpacking the several layers of foam with parts and went ahead building the Prusa SL1 printer. I would say it was simpler than the MK3, with lots of folded metal and machined aluminum parts and just a few 3D printed parts. Lots of screws and a good number of active parts and ele

 A while ago I bought my second action camera, this time I made sure it could do a time-lapse video (something the first one I bought was not capable of). Anyway, the camera sat on a shelf for more than a year. But during the summer holidays, I was doing a trip and I thought it would be cool to create a  hyper-lapse of my drive. As usual, things went wrong when I was about to fix the camera to my car's windshield: it was not possible to fix it properly oriented, so the camera did the recording upside-down. I was not sure I could easily rotate the recording but I was positive I could rotate images so I decided to record the time-lapse as a sequence of JPG pictures. I checked there was enough memory available on the SD card and I connected the USB cable from the camera to one of the car's USB power sockets.  I stated the recoding and drove away. I could see the camera was doing its job and then I entirely forgot about it until we arrived at our destination four hours later. Once