Adrian Bowyer
@adrianbowyer.bsky.social
No worthwhile human achievement has ever been instigated on the basis of demonstrable cost effectiveness.
https://adrianbowyer.com
📍Europe
https://adrianbowyer.com
📍Europe
Vik Olliver's #RepRap Micron has done a #3Dprint with layers!
The cylinder with the big blob* at the top is 500μm in diameter and 10 layers high.
Details:
blog.reprap.org/2025/11/fina...
reprap.org/wiki/RepRapM...
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* First print... Cut Vik some slack...
The cylinder with the big blob* at the top is 500μm in diameter and 10 layers high.
Details:
blog.reprap.org/2025/11/fina...
reprap.org/wiki/RepRapM...
---
* First print... Cut Vik some slack...
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Vik Olliver's #RepRap Micron has done a #3Dprint with layers!
The cylinder with the big blob* at the top is 500μm in diameter and 10 layers high.
Details:
blog.reprap.org/2025/11/fina...
reprap.org/wiki/RepRapM...
---
* First print... Cut Vik some slack...
The cylinder with the big blob* at the top is 500μm in diameter and 10 layers high.
Details:
blog.reprap.org/2025/11/fina...
reprap.org/wiki/RepRapM...
---
* First print... Cut Vik some slack...
Why do we never see a title frame in a movie saying "New York, America"?
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Why do we never see a title frame in a movie saying "New York, America"?
American electronic component manufacturers!
Great products at competitive prices! Well done!
But you know that little flag top right on your website where people can select the language they want?
PLEASE also add one that flips your site from inches to metric...
Great products at competitive prices! Well done!
But you know that little flag top right on your website where people can select the language they want?
PLEASE also add one that flips your site from inches to metric...
November 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
American electronic component manufacturers!
Great products at competitive prices! Well done!
But you know that little flag top right on your website where people can select the language they want?
PLEASE also add one that flips your site from inches to metric...
Great products at competitive prices! Well done!
But you know that little flag top right on your website where people can select the language they want?
PLEASE also add one that flips your site from inches to metric...
Just noticed that a Volvo XC40 petrol car has an interesting piece of styling: no visible exhaust pipe. They're obviously anticipating a time when exhaust pipes become socially unacceptable.
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Just noticed that a Volvo XC40 petrol car has an interesting piece of styling: no visible exhaust pipe. They're obviously anticipating a time when exhaust pipes become socially unacceptable.
November 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
(Here's what's really happening.)
November 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
(Here's what's really happening.)
Bit of a cultural collision...
October 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Bit of a cultural collision...
How much of this is down to cars simply lasting longer?
October 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
How much of this is down to cars simply lasting longer?
OK. So I have now got to the putting-things-in-my-shoes-to-remind-me-to-take-them-with-me-later stage of old age...
October 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
OK. So I have now got to the putting-things-in-my-shoes-to-remind-me-to-take-them-with-me-later stage of old age...
I have one of these. They're the nearest thing to magic that this universe allows.
October 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I have one of these. They're the nearest thing to magic that this universe allows.
This is FUCKING INSANE.
You pay $100...
...Yes. ONE FUCKING HUNDRED OF YOUR EARTH DOLLARS...
...for a NOTEBOOK.
THEN YOU SIGN UP FOR A SUBSCRIPTION FOR TEN FUCKING DOLLARS A FUCKING MONTH SO THEY SEND YOU EXTRA FUCKING PAGES.
And I'm glad you asked. No. It doesn't come with a pencil.
You pay $100...
...Yes. ONE FUCKING HUNDRED OF YOUR EARTH DOLLARS...
...for a NOTEBOOK.
THEN YOU SIGN UP FOR A SUBSCRIPTION FOR TEN FUCKING DOLLARS A FUCKING MONTH SO THEY SEND YOU EXTRA FUCKING PAGES.
And I'm glad you asked. No. It doesn't come with a pencil.
October 16, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is FUCKING INSANE.
You pay $100...
...Yes. ONE FUCKING HUNDRED OF YOUR EARTH DOLLARS...
...for a NOTEBOOK.
THEN YOU SIGN UP FOR A SUBSCRIPTION FOR TEN FUCKING DOLLARS A FUCKING MONTH SO THEY SEND YOU EXTRA FUCKING PAGES.
And I'm glad you asked. No. It doesn't come with a pencil.
You pay $100...
...Yes. ONE FUCKING HUNDRED OF YOUR EARTH DOLLARS...
...for a NOTEBOOK.
THEN YOU SIGN UP FOR A SUBSCRIPTION FOR TEN FUCKING DOLLARS A FUCKING MONTH SO THEY SEND YOU EXTRA FUCKING PAGES.
And I'm glad you asked. No. It doesn't come with a pencil.
Oval office bling on the left; Home Depot plastic on the right.
Trump is correct when he says that there is no spray paint that really looks like gold.
For that you just have to use gold leaf.
Trump is correct when he says that there is no spray paint that really looks like gold.
For that you just have to use gold leaf.
September 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Oval office bling on the left; Home Depot plastic on the right.
Trump is correct when he says that there is no spray paint that really looks like gold.
For that you just have to use gold leaf.
Trump is correct when he says that there is no spray paint that really looks like gold.
For that you just have to use gold leaf.
Drop some TELEPHONES.
September 20, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Drop some TELEPHONES.
September 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." - William Gibson
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September 18, 2025 at 6:50 AM
"The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed." - William Gibson
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A technology has arrived when it's used to make the tat in the gift shop at Naples Airport...
#3Dprinting
#3Dprinting
September 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
A technology has arrived when it's used to make the tat in the gift shop at Naples Airport...
#3Dprinting
#3Dprinting
Hypothsis: when cats* groom themselves they are not just cleaning their fur, they are also neutralising any residual static charge.
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* And maybe other animals, but cat fur is particularly prone to static.
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* And maybe other animals, but cat fur is particularly prone to static.
September 14, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Hypothsis: when cats* groom themselves they are not just cleaning their fur, they are also neutralising any residual static charge.
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* And maybe other animals, but cat fur is particularly prone to static.
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* And maybe other animals, but cat fur is particularly prone to static.
Brothel cat in Pompeii. Been there for 1,950 years. Now on its fourth life...
September 13, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Brothel cat in Pompeii. Been there for 1,950 years. Now on its fourth life...
Gulf of Naples. View from hotel room is definitely Not Shabby. Vesuvius on the left (slumbering...).
September 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Gulf of Naples. View from hotel room is definitely Not Shabby. Vesuvius on the left (slumbering...).
Hello Magazine and all Dan Brown novels MUST be stowed in the hold.
September 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Hello Magazine and all Dan Brown novels MUST be stowed in the hold.
In our house it takes three adults with four university degrees between them and one of these to give a cat a pill.
September 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
In our house it takes three adults with four university degrees between them and one of these to give a cat a pill.