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  • From a 3d printing perspective, I have absolutely no idea.

    But from the perspective of troubleshooting electronics, that’s a pretty awful situation: electrical shocks can cause all sorts of weird havoc with unpredictable behavior and unintuitive symptoms. If I was in your situation I would seriously consider cutting my losses short and replace ALL of the electronics and save myself from a major headache.

    Source: I was tasked with fixing an MF/HF radio station that had been struck by lightning. And the ship it was on was only available around 0300 in the morning. I replaced so many components, including the ones that threw an error, but to no avail. I ended up replacing the entire station, antenna and tuner included.












  • It was reasonably common in the floppy disk era. Some games allowed you to play for a set amount of time, after which it asked you for something external to the game itself. Some examples I remember:

    • Dune 2 asked for some units stats that could be found in the games manual
    • Day of the Tentacle needed you to complete a battery blueprint sketch in game. The missing info could be found in the manual
    • Monkey Island 2 asked for a voodoo recipe. To find the correct measurements, you had to spin two overlaid sheets to align something, which revealed a value.

    All of the above could of course be copied and/or guessed, but it did at least introduce some bar of entry.