Still Slicing, Still Learning, and Still in the Lab

Haha, remember how last week I said the slicer would be done soon?
Just kidding.
It’s still in progress. BUT I am making pretty solid headway — most of the hard parts are sorted, and fingers crossed, I really hope to wrap it up by the end of this week. You’ll be able to upload a file, preview it, and get a price right from the browser. Still exciting. Still cooking.

That said… not a whole lot else happened this week.
Orders have slowed down a bit, and I’ve mostly been adjusting to my new full-time job. It’s been eating up a lot of my time, so the business has taken a little bit of a backseat while I figure out the new balance.

One thing I have been doing is diving deep into the art of printing minifigures.
Turns out it’s way harder than just slapping on the smallest nozzle your printer can handle and letting it rip.
Support placement has to be super precise — too close and they fuse to the figure, too far and the print fails entirely. And if I try using dissolvable support material… well, now it takes 10x longer and costs 20x more.
It’s a process. But I’m learning.

Oh — and I printed one of my first home lab server cases this week!
This is part of that new home labbing section I’m building out on the store — more accessories, inserts, and eventually full kits.

That’s all for this week — short and real.
I’ll be back next time, hopefully with a working slicer and a bit more momentum.

—AD