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Especially with the air travel situation what it is right now, fish stores have trouble restocking. So, if you already have some equipment but the market was always too lousy, you might be able to pick up a few bucks. Hard to scale up to a significant income, though.
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I don’t think someone working at a call center has the technical aptitude and financial resources to source and build there own extrusion machine.
Hard times can make hard people. You don't know what someone is capable of until they're backed against a wall. I was a computer repair man until my parent's divorce and the 2008 market collapse which forced me into a CS degree.
Call center -> building machines from scratch based on a medium post.
Sure it’s possible but I don’t think the suggestion really makes sense. You can be blind to the fact that hn is in the 1% of intellect/ability, but it should be obvious that effectively no one can honestly take that suggestion. Unemployed, low on cash, and then in a low-skill industry it doesn’t make sense to risk $500 to $1000 on a project that you likely won’t be able to build.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nF8FH-5f-51-Q_Hzt06jhYMN...
Have they considered teaching their skills online for money? If they worked in a call center, they probably know how to deal with some really hard things. I'd love to learn how they have patience when dealing with angry customers. At http://joinstream.io , we're building a super easy way to host a monetized livestream using Zoom. We generate a marketing page for you, handle billing, attendee management, and notificat…
You can also create courses on https://udemy.com and on https://youtube.com . A great way to identify good targets is explaining newly launched platforms and how they worked for you and what you learned. There's no guarantee that they'll make you a living wage immediately but they have a decent residual value.
Have they considered teaching their skills online for money? If they worked in a call center, they probably know how to deal with some really hard things. I'd love to learn how they have patience when dealing with angry customers. At http://joinstream.io , we're building a super easy way to host a monetized livestream using Zoom. We generate a marketing page for you, handle billing, attendee management, and notificat…
This is cool! What tech/service are you using to handle accepting payments & paying out to event creators? To my knowledge you can't use stripe for things like this (though maybe I'm wrong)
Have they considered teaching their skills online for money? If they worked in a call center, they probably know how to deal with some really hard things. I'd love to learn how they have patience when dealing with angry customers. At http://joinstream.io , we're building a super easy way to host a monetized livestream using Zoom. We generate a marketing page for you, handle billing, attendee management, and notificat…
This is cool
There is shortage of 3D printing filament because of virus, so I've been creating filament and selling it. https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho... This activity also help recycle waste plastic. Production cost of filament is $7.5 per 5kg and filament roll has 850 gram filament and can be sold for $20-30 per spool It's trivial to get the quality right. You can sell rolls on Amazon, eBay and Ets…
> It's trivial to get the quality right. Is it really? I've looked into this a good bit myself and it seems that many who have tried this have trouble keeping the diameter consistent. I suspect that if it really was trivial, then you'd think just about any commercial supplier could get it right, there's a lot of junk filament out there. Maybe you are just very good at it; +-0.02 is pretty good even by commercial stan…
If you'll check my medium post, I've linked a video where I am extruding filament.
Problem with those hobbyist machines is motor torque/power rating. And second, they don't use a special screw and barrel.
The motor used in professional extruders used in real filament factories starts at 5 horsepower for the smallest machine.
If you miss those two things, there is no way you'll get within 0.03mm
Without any PID feedback loop, I can get within 0.03 by setting puller speed manually.
>I suspect that if it really was trivial, then you'd think just about any commercial supplier could get it right
There is no reason to believe that junk filament is coming from people with good machine design. That could be coming from hobbyist underpowered extruder machines like filaestruder and likes.
>Maybe you are just very good at it; +-0.02 is pretty good even by commercial standards. The entire first page of Amazon best sellers are +-0.03 or +-0.05.
At higher extrusion speed you'll get more output per extruder machine time but you'll have lower filament dimensional stability.
So the trivial part is have a powerful motor, use a good screw+barrel and don't extrude too fast.
That said I've offered my telegram in medium post and YouTube video. So anyone who gets stuck can reach out to me. I am not leaving them hanging on their own.
Also, I am looking to make a microcontroller firmware for extruders which basically measures the filament then sets the puller roller speed based on thickness measured. It pulls filament faster if it's thicker than target and pulls filament slower if filament is coming out to be thinner than expected. This will help us reach 0.0020mm accuracy easily!
The problem I am facing is:
1. I am not good with micro controller and control algorithms
2. Laser guage which measure the filament without distorting it is expensive and starts at 2K USD.
So anyone who can help solve these technical challenges are welcome.
But you might not need this much dimensionally accurate filament. Selling within 0.03mm is easy.
Anything better not sure how much it will help FDM quality but yes microcontroller firmware approach will help get more output out of this machine as biggest problem with extruding too fast is that dimensional stability goes haywire.
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I think it's disingenuous to suggest that you can setup an account on these sites and have $50 by the end of the day "if you are willing to focus". With the exception of Mechanical Turk, which pays pennies, the others require you have a skill that people are willing to pay for.
I think the competition is nuts too, when I've been on the other side(hiring) it's overwhelming how many people you get to respond/hard to tell if the person is competent/trustworthy(with regard to allowing access to your tech to work on it). Starting from 0 is really hard(people with former work look more trustworthy).
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Is it? According to the videos, they outperform delivery drivers bound to cars. Sure, with a car you can easily work in rain, cold, long distance deliveries. But usually it does not pay out to commit full time or to a specific, expensive vehicle. If one does plan to deliver (bulky) non time-critical items , payment drops significantly (almost no tips, fixed fee for each parcel).
Are most uber eats drivers buying cars in order to drive uber? That was not my understanding.
There is shortage of 3D printing filament because of virus, so I've been creating filament and selling it. https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho... This activity also help recycle waste plastic. Production cost of filament is $7.5 per 5kg and filament roll has 850 gram filament and can be sold for $20-30 per spool It's trivial to get the quality right. You can sell rolls on Amazon, eBay and Ets…
I don’t think someone working at a call center has the technical aptitude and financial resources to source and build there own extrusion machine.