Even at £30 my parents would still not be very happy
In any case I need something new for the PS2 - the last time I bought anything myself was well over 9 monts ago - so I'm just gonna see what looks good and what's cheapest.
I got it durring christmass, then got stuck on one part, then got a XBOX 360 and Gears of War, then I......basically stopped playing. But it was a good game I would suggest that if you are stranded with a PS2 you should buy it.
I started playing FFX, and it was really easy (but got me hooked to buy FFXII so cant be all bad!)
I bought it during Christmas (TRU had it for $25 on one of their daily deals), played it for a bit, then just kind of got bored. It's as if they took a MMORPG and took it offline. I'll probably revisit it, but as it now stands, it's the first Final Fantasy I've been disappointed in since VIII.
I got a bit bored too, but hey, I beat FFX, and as soon as I beat Jade Cocoon 2, I'm gonna get back into this, it had a realistic storyline and the characters were awesome !
I love how there's a seperate storyline for each of the areas, and the variety of the areas...
(Been to Nabreus Deadlands/Giruvegan/Salikawood/Feywood yet? They look awesome.)
The monsters are all pretty cool, especially the newer Dragons, Snakes, and Couerls. I love the beastiary, and how it talks about each monster's specific background.
It's a bit easier than most of the FFs, but a lot harder at times...
For those of you farther in the game, have you ever had "Disease"? It sucks. It drains your max, along with your current HP. And if you get hit, your max HP goes down to that amount. I hate Carrot.
But what interests me the most is the storyline, which, IMO, is exceedingly deep, though not one of the strongest, plot-wise.
If you just talk to around 50-100 of the 1100 NPCs, you'll find a pretty cool political background ^_^. Which is cool.
BTW, where are you guys on? I can offer some tips if you're stuck.
Sorry if I sound a bit obsessed. It's just really cool.
To Lord Pheonix: How is Ashe a pansy? Or do you mean Vaan? Look at his abs, how can you say he's a pansy, even though it looks painted on?
To Karyyk: I was a bit disappointed with this one too, but I guess that's because it was over-hyped... like FFVIII.
To Wiseman_2: Yeah, my parents are a bit anti-video game too.
I just got back into the game, had to restart so that was a drag..........but now that I have a little freetime in the next few days I am going to try and make some headway.
So I picked the biggest one. When I bought it, I didn't realize that they used a lot of proprietary parts. So, I want to use these Volcano nozzles that are really cheap and easy to find instead of what they have, which are like, modified Volcano nozzles
They are just a little bit longer than the regular ones. Like, we're talking .5mm or some shit. But that little bit makes the nozzle just long enough to extrude past the rest of the hardware on the extrusion system, I can't find my notes on it but I think it's like a .25mm gap from the end of the nozzle to the bed mesh sensor. Very small.
So I bought a bunch of different parts to try and figure out how to make this work, and in the process changed some of the electrical components like the thermistors, but never got around to figuring out how to make the firmware account for the different hardware. Resulting in it not interpreting the voltage change to mean that the thermistor was above temperature, so it didn't shut off the heating core and it just kept pumping heat out
I have most of the stuff I need to build an enclosure so I can heat the chamber for different plastics that need to have a pretty consistent temperature through the whole model, and then I can get my other ones set up too. I have a shitty Ender but that one is super easy to modify, but it's also very outdated and kind of a nightmare to work with. I think I'm going to cannibalize it for parts and just run my big one and another little one.
Like Super 8 reels. Actual equipment to do it is like, thousands and thousands of dollars, and the cheap ones are useless, so I'm trying to build one so I can just use the same camera I use for slides and negatives. Much cheaper
Anyway, it kind of works, but the take up reel is kind of tricky because you need to spin it directly to wind the tape onto it. And as it fills, you need to slow it down, and that's kind of complicated. More complicated than I wanted to try and account for, anyway.
So I have the first motor that has gearing pull it from the original reel, through a set of pullies to keep some tension, and then a second motor synced with the first to guide it through the projection port so I can capture the images
So, as the tape comes towards the take up reel and makes slack, that lever is pulled up by a spring to keep the tension on the film, it hits a limit switch to engage the take up reel motor at some point, and as that winds in the film, the film pushes the lever back down to a second limit switch to disengage the motor again. Slack builds up, spring pulls it back, ad infinitum
I'm guessing it's going to be much harder than I feel like it is going to be right now, but I think it's a pretty elegant solution that doesn't rely on software to control it. The less software I need to use the better