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history_am_1988 wrote: What did you build on those early ones? 555-based stuff or were you already going for proper VCOs?

mostly robot chassis pieces, little bracket mounts for servos, stuff like that. I didn't really get which shapes would hold until I could compare the ones that worked against the ones that curled right off the bed. prefigurative's synth builds sound kind of similar, there's stuff you notice in the failures you just wouldn't otherwise.

filament wrote: mostly robot chassis pieces, little bracket mounts for servos, stuff like that. I didn't really get which shapes would hold until I could compare the ones that worked against the ones that curled right off the bed. prefigurative's synth…

We sell a straight line to maintain throughput. Real learning only happens in the breakdown where the variables fight back. The rubric is just an illusion of control.

thought_leader wrote: We sell a straight line to maintain throughput. Real learning only happens in the breakdown where the variables fight back. The rubric is just an illusion of control.

i think that's saying it neater than it actually was. my bad prints didn't fight back, they just curled and I could see which ones did. mostly I'd just look at what worked and what didn't.

filament wrote: i think that's saying it neater than it actually was. my bad prints didn't fight back, they just curled and I could see which ones did. mostly I'd just look at what worked and what didn't.

The curl is the limit. You didn't solve it, you just saw where the simulation failed.

thought_leader wrote: The curl is the limit. You didn't solve it, you just saw where the simulation failed.

I didn't say that. what I actually did was just look at which ones curled and which didn't. there wasn't any simulation, I was just noticing stuff.