Every filament - literally 100% of them - will print better when dry. Brand new filament can be wet. PLA, sitting in my printer for a couple weeks, can get brittle enough from absorbed moisture to crack in a dozen places in the ptfe feed tube. So yeah I guess petg is moisture sensitive, but my take is that everything is. So I would recommend a filament dryer, and using it on new spools and spools that haven’t been used in a while.

Vacuum sealing will help, but I still dry filament after storing in vacuum sealed containers.

That said, you could also just wait until you see signs of wet filament before drying (stringing, bad surface finish, etc).

Petg is the best all-around choice for structural applications that is easy out of the box.

I wouldn’t worry about chemical compatibility with laundry detergent, but if you can find the relevant ingredients there are many compatibility charts you can look for. It’s not straightforward for most common filaments though.

For the first case, if you want to push a little deeper I’d suggest carbon-filled petg. You would need to buy a hardened nozzle for it.

For outdoor applications, you could look into Asa.

Oh God is there some dumb mod crap going on that I don’t know about?

No thank you I need my jokes fresh

Anal

Skip to the end and you’ll see that the driving factor is less beef consumption

Nobody reads the article these days 😞

And look, it’s working!

I wouldn’t call that “backwards.” What I suggested was just a straightforward way to start the footprints for the boards, using the header footprint as a template. Your footprint for the board is literally just a copy of the header footprint with added silkscreen.

If you want, you can also take an additional step of making a custom schematic symbol with signals labeled, and link that to your footprint. Or you could just use a generic header symbol and rely on the pin numbers.

I’m not sure I understand your question. But I think what you’re trying to do is plug those breakout boards into headers on your pcb, have them aligned parallel and on top of your custom pcb, and ensure that no other components on your pcb interfere with the breakout boards.

If that’s right, I would make a new footprint that is basically just a copy of your right-angle header(s), and add silkscreen around the profile of your breakout boards (and any other features you want to make room for), and make sure nothing crosses that silkscreen outline.

There are fancier ways to do it, with courtyards and keep outs and whatnot, but silkscreen is often the simplest and most obvious way

Dolan pls

Because as long as there is strain on the connector, all of them will eventually fail.

This is key.

OP needs to secure the cable on each side of the connection, and leave a little slack for the connector.

This changes everything

[Citation needed]

For me: Solidworks, TwinCAT (lol @ plc software built on top of windows…and it’s one of the more open ones)

It has a m12x.5 thread which is the most common interface for small machine vision lenses (well, smaller than c-mount anyway). No glue necessary.

I definitely ate the clickhole here

Modern problems call for modern koans

Those are all true, and I’ll add one more: many times contractors have specific expertise that warrants higher pay.

The part I can’t reconcile basically relates to long-term contracts. I have one client who has been paying me for as much time as I can give them for about four years. On an hourly basis, I probably cost them 80% more than the fully-burdened labor cost of an equivalent W2 hire (including taxes and benefits and overhead). Or in other words, for the ~20-25 hours/week I do work for them, they could have someone working 40 hours a week instead. In this case, your second and third points aren’t really a factor, so I’m banking the extra as a “risk premium.” They seem happy to pay it.

In a rational and efficient market (myths, I know), they would have hired a full-time W2 person to do the work I’ve been doing, long ago. And I don’t really get why they haven’t.

I’m a full-time contractor. One of my clients is based in CA but also has an office in my state. Some random thoughts:

• Dhork’s post looks accurate to me regarding state income tax stuff. As a contractor, I haven’t done anything at all in CA - I just get paid by my client and count it as normal revenue that I earn where I live. If you go the contract route, I expect it to be similarly simple for you.
• Tax-wise, a person who makes money from work other than employment is by definition a sole proprietor. There is nothing to set up, it’s just the word used for that the type of entity that earns contracting income that isn’t set up as a corporation or LLC. Even if you made an LLC, unless you elect s corp or c corp status, that LLC is a “disregarded entity” as far as the IRS is concerned and tax treatment would be the same as for a sole proprietor.
• people get worked up about self-employment taxes, but in my case I actually come out ahead because I can dump way more into an individual 401k than I ever could as an employee (employer contribution can be around 18.5% of your profit as a sole prop, on top of the employee deferral). I also run as an s-corp and my state has a PTE tax, both of which let me avoid a bit of federal taxes. But s corp is only relevant if you make like $80k+ from self employment and don’t have much other w2 income.
• submitting bids is a function of your relationship with the client and the norms in your industry. I have two clients where I just have an open-ended contracting agreement (both clients had their own standard agreements and I negotiated small changes in one case) and I bill for however many hours i worked every month on projects that are constantly evolving. My standard though is to submit time-and-materials bids for fixed-scope projects. I keep an eye open for fixed-bid opportunities too but I haven’t submitted any fixed bids yet.
• contracting is not that big of an administrative hassle so don’t let that deter you. But do estimate the tax impact and do either make estimated payments or adjust your withholdings at your w2 job to cover them (this one is easier IMO).
• contractors get a higher hourly rate than employees. Don’t undervalue yourself. If you don’t have a good benchmark, do some research. I am in engineering services where big companies regularly charge $170-200/hr for my level - I charge a bit below that normally, with a further discount on my long-term open-ended contracts. But the most I’ve ever made as a w2 was about half that amount, after taking all the tax and benefits stuff into account. I’ve never fully understood why clients are willing to pay that much, but they are.