I used wheel balancing weights (tiny 5g iron bars) and built them into my prints.
They are pretty cheap and the included adhesive makes it so they don't rattle around inside if the tolerances of the cavity are not perfect.
Used them in the base of a tall slim model to make it less prone to tipping over.
you bought one? Like in - one time payment with infinite time ownership?
it insists upon itself
Before it was sold, it was at a university library. The uni I went to had an open library, so anybody could come in. So either a student or somebody from the public, I guess.
I have a funny storry:
there is a book I really wanted to read. It is an old af psychology science book. There is no pirated version of it anywhere.
I found one copy of it on the used market and bought it because the price was ok (70$).
At home, I open it up and go through it properly and see that THE MOST IMPORTANT CHAPTER WAS CUT OUT!!! Literally there were the ends of the pages still bound with strings and you can see a wavy scalpel cut where the rest of the page would be.
Thats the physical equivalent of an incomplete torrent. Felt so bad.
telecom is usually enceypted unless you get knocked down to lower g and I never suggested E-Mail or SMS.
Previously I had to use Whatsapp app to to talk with them
ah I see where our views split. I just told people what app to find me on and I'd rather call or write mail than use whatsapp for a tidbid of convenience.
So from my pov the interop will reduce security. From your pov it will be at worst equally insecure.
You just disproven your own first point.
If you chat with somebody and they have a client that is closed source and thus can not be trusted - your conversation is not secure, even if your client is open source and trusted and secure.
So interop makes end to end encrypted communication as a whole less secure, not more.
I guess iphone (one with lidar, so one of the pro models, but it can be as old as 12) with a 3d scanning app might be the best general purpose in this price range...
Whats also interesting are diy rotating bed scanners like https://fabscan.org/ which come at 200-400$
There are a ton of apps and rotating table diy scanners so you can look around.
Afaik hand guided 3d scanners are way more expensive and start at like 3000$.
EDIT:
some quick googling showed relatively positive sentiment about the rebopoint products. There is one that is exactly 1k https://www.revopoint3d.com/products/3d-laser-scanner-metrox but you're in for a software license subscribtion after a year of included use...
and that kids is why you always do an off service archive
(first time I heard of this github repo and I'd love to use it, but now it's gone)
dang son