jhbruhn

Just like Matrix and it's bot/puppet accounts.

Says who? We can design the markets like that if we want to, but that won't help us reach our climate targets.

If someone takes it near the power plant, and all the infrastructure is there for it. You don't build a (large) nuclear power plant just for these customers though. Generally, with a high amount of renewable but fluctuating supply, we have to get away from the base load model, towards a residual load model.

Good luck modulating nuclear power plants when there is a lot of cheap renewable energy available.

Energy scientist in Germany here. Germany could fully supply it's national grid with German energy production. We just don't do it because it's cheaper to buy i.e. heavily subsidized nuclear power from France, or other sources. In the end, it's all markets across the whole EU - by design. Why should it not be, the European energy grid is interconnected for a reason.

Has the Cricut protocol been reverse engineered already? The primary motivation I had when building respira (controller software for the Brother PP-1 Skitch embroidery machine) was its shitty smartphone-only app. The reverse-engineering of the communication protocol was really doable with LLMs and the decompiled C++/C# code of the app. I can imagine something similar could be done with the Cricut machines.

The tooling is there in Inkscape (same for embroidery via InkStitch). AFAIK Silhouette plotters can be controlled via Inkscape plugins already.

Since the BambuLab A1 series was released, I consider this highly outdated information.

The BambuLab A1 mini is the obvious choice here. Incredible value for the money and IMO quite beginner friendly.

The alternative choice would be the Prusa Mini, although the BambuLab has higher quality and more features than the Prusa.

I would love to get my hands on the CAD-Files to fit my Pixel 9 Pro to this case.

Also, has anyone found a nice solution for a "Standby Mode" Equivalent for Android? I tried a Daydream-Screensaver, but with that my phone get really hot and it also was very bright.

Have a look at the openWakeWord model which is especially built for detecting wakewords in a stream of speech.

That's my guess as well. Either monochromatic OLED (cheap!) and colored icons (not so cheap?) or the other way around. LCD with front panel might also be fine as long as it's bright enough, and the front panel is dim enough.

Can we get this to teenage engineering?