Bicycle DT Swiss 370 Ratchet Upgrade

I have a wheen with a DT Swiss 370 hub. This is broadly the same as the DT Swiss 350 hub, but it ships with a different label and different, cheaper internals and freehub body. Ali Express and other place have upgrade kits. I have one on order. Also two tools are needed, cheapest if bought separately:

  • need 370 tool for uninstall old
  • need star ratchet tool for install, non exp version, which is the newer star ratchet system name.

This youtube link shows the upgrade process.

Don Quixote Old Copy

Archive.org has a scan of the 400 year old first translation of Don Quixote from Spanish into English. I ran a quiz for my squad about it! Collots and eggs, what fun: Don Quixote

Pultrusion Filament Design

Recreator3d have a small pultrusion filament maker design. Looks super fun.

Local LLM Helper Site

I have a modest graphics card, but it has much more power than any NPU and can actually run modest models that are modestly useful for coding.

Seems like I should come back to this site a few times a year and figure out which models to try: FitMyLLM

I'm currently grabbing "DeepSeek-Coder-V2-Lite-Instruct-Q6_K"

Klipper Config for 3d printer board

So I have a half build Voron Legacy printer with a SKR Mini e3v3 board in it.

After flashing it, my little linux box recognises the SKR boards as a USB device, so that's nice.

I'm new to Klipper but I have a installed on my linux box. I need a config file for Klipper so it understands the board, and the makers of the board have a config file available here.

I definitely need to update this line to match my specific USB linux path

[mcu]
serial: /dev/serial/by-id/usb-Klipper_stm32g0b1xx_4D003C000B50345033313820-if00

I'll have to compare it with the Voron Legacy config file, which is for a different board. I'm wondering about the kinematics: cartesian which is probably meant to say something about Core XY.

Update 1

The Voron Legacy github includes a sample config file for a similar but different board, also from Big Tree Tech, which is here. Looks like I should use kinematics: corexy.

Coffee Beans Things

So you can get discounted coffee beans. A friend from dancing described how subscriptions go on sale at various times of the year, and the the discounts can be quite big, like %30. 1kg bags are cheaper, and my new grinder works much better than my old grinder with older beans, so I have options.

Inglewood; Sunset BLVD

I found this one sale for $43 delivered for a kilo, which is a great price. I haven't tried this coffee with my new grinder, but I thought it was fine with my old setup.

Code Black Coffee Roasters; Home Blend

This comes in 500g only for $24 and I can pick it up. A pretty good deal but I don't know how much I'll like the blend.

Will & Co; Natural Coffee Beans

Bery good deals available, not yet tried. see here

ST. Ali; Orthodox

Average deals, great coffee

Sensory Lab; Steadfast

Good deals regularly available, medium nice coffee.

A Rainy Sunday

It was raining very lighly in Melbourne as I popped out to get a sandwich. The rain radar was being melodramatic about it:

At 26 degrees, and with the day being grey but bright, the necessary attire was

  • a smaller umbrella
  • sunglasses
  • shorts

Fiddly Connectors Identified

For identifying various small fiddly connectors and the varients, this page is very helpful.

I needed the 4 pin PH varient, it turns out. Confusingly some sellers appear to mislabel this as 1.5mm pitch instead of 2mm pitch, which would make the ZH varient instead.

I needed to identify so that I could be some already wired female connectors so that I can do soldering instead of crimping while adding a motor to this 3d printer tool head board, the 2 piece Stealthburner board by Haarkt.

I tried crimping one myself, but then when securing the wires to it I broke it. In trying to unpin a pin from the connector, I them broken another wire, whilst not removing any of the now useless pins. So I'm ordering one and will then only need to do soldering, which i can achieve.

Good Microfiber Cloths

There are yukky feeling micro fiber cloths are much nicer soft feeling ones. For my future reference these are the latter: 



Hollow Knight Save Game Analyser

Hollow Knight is great, and quite large, and it is hard to figure out what you haven't done.

If you don't mind spoilers, this site can analyse your game file and tell you what you have missed.

https://reznormichael.github.io/hollow-knight-completion-check/

I've just check and there are three things I will go back and complete in the game. Two of them are sword attack variations:

3d Printer Controller Board Curiosity

This curiuos project looks like an amazing high end 3d printer controller board.

Prunt Board 3

I don't have a need, but looks like enormous fun!

Slash by Half algorith

My partner has a better name for the Binary Search Algorithm. She called it

Slash by half

I think this name is fantastic!

Wikipedia link

Short CPU Fan

I'll probably make a customer PC case next year as I've been thinking about it.

For my future reference, here is a low profile CPU fan that doesn't break the bank:

> ID-COOLING IS-50X V3 Low Profile CPU Cooler

Gravel Tyre Option

Ok, so I won't need this till 2028, but I can consider this reasonable priced tyre options for my city bike:

WTB Vulpine 700x40mm

Great Macrons

I got great macrons for Christmas, saving the logo for later, will buy again. 

Christmas Glasses

I got this cool set of drinking glasses for Christmas. Keeping a photo for later in case I want more. 

Moutain Bike Links

My moutain bike model isn't sold any more, so here are some links including specs while it is still easy to search for:

2022 Specialized Stumpjumper EVO Comp Alloy at VitalMTB

2022 Specialized Stumpjumper EVO Comp Alloy at Specialized

I'll be back later to check specs to buy upgrade parts.



Old Shoes

Thanks for your service old blue shoes. Comfy but all worn out.

Thank you for your service old work shoes. They have a hole in the sole! 

Ray Tracer Link

Ray tracer in a weekend link

http://in1weekend.blogspot.com/2016/01/ray-tracing-in-one-weekend.html?m=1