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> you can always try the plastic bag + vacuum cleaner trick - take a thin flexible rope, tie it to a small plastic bag, stuff the small plastic bag into the conduit, use a vacuum cleaner at the other end to suck the plastic bag & rope through.

That's absolutely great! Worked like a charm two days ago and everybody cheered and laughed who saw it :-D


> [...] a string [...]

Does someone have a recommendation for a specific material the string should be made of?


Back in my day the local telephone company used waxed lacing cable for that sort of thing[1]. These days it seems that polypropylene string is popular (search on "conduit pull string").

You basically want something that is slippery and will tend to not get stuck. I have used Dacron fishing line, but that is mostly because I had a bunch of it laying around.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing


They also make bottles of cable pulling lubricant for this purpose.


It’s really overpriced. Sex lube and veterinary lube are the same stuff and much cheaper - you can get it powdered and mix your own.

The sell pulling string in the electrical section of the hardware store.

But make sure you don't buy pushing string by mistake!

In a straight line?


Yes, laid end to end, after they've been bent.

If you were to lay them end to then, then bend the them, you'd have a coil of bananas about three to four bananas (bent) in diameter.


ImgurViewer from fdroid on an FP5 opened it blurry after around 5s and 5s later it was rendered completely.

Pan&zoom works instantly with a blurry preview and then takes another 5-10s to render completely.


I'd be very much interested in those documents.

You can reach me via mail to s at username dot eu

TIA


I'll clean up the stuff so I can not be identified as the leaker and send it to you.


I'm a bit surprised that nobody mentioned prusa as a replacement?

FMU that's where Bambu originally copied from!?

My short dive into 3d printers stopped once I was highlighted to the micro plastics pollution they create in the air, but still I would've gone for a prusa, already because all parts are free soft- and hardware.

Or is there anything else I'm missing?


Prusa is not even fully open source anymore, bunch of excuses.. and definitelythey have a pricing god complex...

Bambu still the best machines to date, especially if you consider price. If you do not upgrade NOTHING changes - and its only planned for the X-series as of now. People are being too hysterical.


> I'm a bit surprised that nobody mentioned prusa as a replacement?

Prusa has a pricing issue, I don't think there's another way to go around it.

I've been in the market for a 3D printer, and Prusa is rarely recommended for entry / mid-range printers (at least where I've looked).

I don't know about the high-end range, but a lot of content about high-end stuff still revolves around Bambulab X1C—those content creators could be paid for, of course, even though many claim they aren't. Just seems like Bambulab printers are really good for the price.

Now I get that Prusa is positioning itself as a local manufacturer in EU, and they are just a representation of the cost of making products in this setting - and I'm ok with this! I won't pay for it because I'm not their target customer, but I support it 100%.


It's an evolution of said papers and AFAIU improves the attack to a level that makes it executable.


Did anyone try out the CologneChip GateMate FPGA? It's supposed to have a completely open toolchain, but the dev board isn't exactly cheap at 230€

https://colognechip.com/programmable-logic/gatemate-evaluati...


Some rather affordable dev board is: GateMateA1-EVB

https://www.olimex.com/Products/FPGA/GateMate/GateMateA1-EVB...

This board has RP2040, not the successor RP2350.

Still looking for similar board with 1Gbit-Ethernet.


> Some rather affordable dev board is: GateMateA1-EVB > > https://www.olimex.com/Products/FPGA/GateMate/GateMateA1-EVB...

Cool That looks nice! Thanks for the pointer

> This board has RP2040, not the successor RP2350. > > Still looking for similar board with 1Gbit-Ethernet.

Surprising indeed, that none of the two boards has Ethernet


Place&Route is not yet open:

> nextpnr arch planned in 2023

> nextpnr arch planned in 2024

> there will be a beta version around Q4/2024 or Q1/2025. (24.10.2024) [1]

[1] https://www.fpga.ch/index.php/2024/10/24/gatemate-fpgas/


That's why you do thermo solar in hot regions.

E.g. https://marquesadosolar.com/plant-andasol-3/


If you give a short description of what you need and contact details, your search is maybe already over, as on this site are also some freelancers with FPGA&|Embedded experience.


I just posted some details. Super cool that people have replied.


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