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Choosing wiring kits for Budget DIY CNC/ 3D Printer

There really are three options when you are choosing how to wire a DIY 3D printer:

Buy a 3d printer wiring harness / kit.
Assemble the wiring kit and connectors yourself.
Re-use salvaged wiring.

Buying a pre-made wiring harness is the easiest option and increases your confidence in your build.

You are saved from the worry about the solder join on the second pin for the heater bed shorting out when you walk away from your Franken-printer.

So, let’s talk about what a good wiring harness includes, and give you some examples. Then, I’ll go into options on how to wire your own connectors and re-using salvaged wiring.

Pre-Made Wiring Harnesses

Congrats! If you are reading this, I’ll bet you have a 3d/cnc controller board in your online cart somewhere. This is the start of an exciting journey!

The great thing about buying a pre-made wiring harness is that you don’t have to learn about the difference between JST and DuPont connectors, which male/female connectors are needed, or how to properly crimp ferrules that are smaller than most humans can see (yay!).

Here are my recommendations for the best Wiring Harnesses for different printers:

Colourise old b/w photos with Machine Learning

And as such, for our hackathon in January, our team decided to build a deep learning colouriser tool trained specifically for old Singaporean photos.
An important note here: the point of colourisation is to generate an image with colours that are plausible. It by no means guarantees that the colourised image is an accurate representation of the actual snapshot in time.

awesome work, data.sg.gov

How my CliftonStrengths changed – 2017

For those unfamiliar with the Clifton StrengthsFinder book, it is the result of researching high-performing individuals to see what helped them succeed. I thought it was interesting that the researchers assumed there would be a set of common strengths among all the high performers. Instead, each high performer had their own combination of strengths and weaknesses. The Clifton researchers found those who focused and leaned on their strengths (and minimized their weaknesses) were successful.

I took the Clifton StrengthsQuest long ago and was surprised to find my strengths changed a lot between 2006 and now.

Long ago, I planned to be a pastor and thus inclusion and ‘WOO’ were strengths I used frequently. Now that I’m older, I’m more interested in developing and helping others develop.

Looking at my strengths, it is obvious why I keep asking my friends about their business ideas (input), brainstorming with them (ideation) and then telling them they can do it (activator) and seeing how I can help move it forward (maximizer). Also, I’m less positive than I was long ago- a bit jaded…but I believe in possibility and want to help others move toward it.