• still printing

    The P1 has been printing almost continuously for 3 days. This is impressive and depressive simultaneously. Impressive because a consumer machine is not designed to run in this manner. Depressive because, in spite of the machine’s speed, it still takes too long to print at volume. The customer ordered 500 pieces, at this rate, production…

  • 3d printing

    This weekend will be largely dedicated to 3d printing. We’re making custom coasters for a business friend and, now, customer. For those not familiar with 3d printing (technically additive manufacturing) multi-color or complex geometric shapes can require many hours to print so I am sure there will be time for AI work in the homelab.…

  • homelab – ragflow

    Some colleagues and I have been discussing rag frameworks lately with a bent toward those with strong support for custom development. The complexity of configuration frustrated one of them so he went in search of tools that had a simpler installation and configuration process. Ultimately that lead him to discover ragflow. I haven’t tried it…

  • tired

    There is so much to do and so little time. I haven’t kept my goal of posting daily. This needs to change. Which means I need to change.