The Green V0: There's no build without regrets socketwench Sun, 06/28/2026 - 12:28 In the last post , I went over how many of the issues I was experiencing on the Red V0 were fixed in the Green V0 build. That said, there were still several regrets I had in building the machine. Reusing the linear rails One "fixed" issue from the Red V0 was I bought completely new, quality linear rails. The first…
What is abstraction in TADC anyways? socketwench Wed, 06/24/2026 - 17:53 Content warnings spoilers death suicidal ideation mental health A persistent question that hung over me while watching The Amazing Digital Circus is, "what is abstraction"? Within the show, the characters are in a simulation of a circus run by an AI with delusions of godhood. From the very first episode, the character of…
The Green V0: "You have chosen...wisely." socketwench Sun, 06/21/2026 - 15:36 In the last post , I wrote about how this printer evolved out of a desire to build not only a functional machine, but a beautiful one too. The desire to see the machine glow while producing prints drove me through much of the project. It wasn't the only motivation, however. Not all mods are good ones The most risky mod I…
As much art project as it is a printer socketwench Sun, 06/14/2026 - 16:33 In the last post , I outlined all the things that seemed to go wrong in my last Voron Zero printer build (and a few of the things which did go right). I had mentioned I had just completed building a second, entirely new machine -- the "Green v0" -- which specifically corrected many of those issues. However, that really…
Rebuilding a Voron Zero badly socketwench Sun, 06/07/2026 - 13:28 For the last half year I've been building...yet another Voron Zero printer. One would think that I would have been done with it after building, rebuilding, and completely re-rebuilding my existing one. Yet, after completing the last one I felt I simply wasn't "done", and that I wanted to go back and do some things differently all…
The Nolan Batman films don't work for me socketwench Thu, 05/28/2026 - 09:19 Content warnings US politics A running theme of all the Nolan Batman films is the city as a metaphor. The League of Shadows wishes to destroy Gotham as they view it as a source of humanity's corruption. It's Babylon. Whereas Babylon was destroyed for their arrogance to God, Gotham is painted as a center of decadence who's…
Keeper of the library socketwench Fri, 04/03/2026 - 22:36 It's 2am, you get a riddle on Signal from a number you've never seen before. You don't reply. By 4am you have an answer and a set of GPS coordinates, a date range, and a size in gigabytes. You wait. You go. You find a single board computer running off of a dingy solar panel; it copies everything to your drive as soon as you insert it. When…
For those with (rack) ears to hear... socketwench Sun, 10/12/2025 - 19:36 About two weeks ago I had the idea of building a small rack for my home's networking. Most people just put a wifi router on a shelf or stick it on the wall and call it good. That's actually what I've been doing for years myself, but I've recently wanted to make my setup a bit more flexible and not reliant on such a single…
Sometimes it's okay to let a project fail socketwench Sun, 10/05/2025 - 14:28 Over the last week I've been working on a new project. Previously, I had most of my home's networking hardware in mounted on a wall. This worked pretty well when most everything used Wifi and I didn't have many ethernet cables ("hardline") running throughout the house. As I added more and more ethernet lines, however,…
Fixing a Pi crash with the SKR Pico socketwench Thu, 09/04/2025 - 20:23 It was almost a year ago that I mentioned I was going to rebuild my first self-built printer, the Voron Zero. I had assumed that it wouldn't be that harrowing of a build, as I already did have an entire printer in front of me. As I got deeper into it, however, I started to notice all the problems that contributed to that…