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Wow! Great start on the blog, I put it in my RSS reader and I’m going to keep up on it. Good tips already, mine is in final assembly now. Similar spec.

I’m constantly vexed by the fact that I won’t touch Meta with a ten foot pole, and now it’s absorbed even the Craig’s List section of the internet. I can’t easily shop for a used one nearby. I’m a menace to my HOA because I demanded a non-Facebook group for the neighborhood. (I promise I’m not as much of a pain in the ass as that paragraph makes me sound like!) New one at Harbor Freight is $370. Maybe I could rent mine out for $50 a month to local builders when I’m done… I just don’t know if I have a long enough stretch of time to get it in over a weekend, and then believing I wouldn’t need it again.

@hahuang65 did you rent one from someone nearby? I’m debating buying one vs renting one. None of my friends are cool enough to have one.

Okay, not the Lambda probe, but @jmaz this looks like it would be helpful for you!

Eh, it doesn't have nearly enough wires. At least compared to the figure in the build manual, so seems unlikely. Sorry!

I'm just thumbing through the build guide instead of doing my actual job, and I haven't built mine yet so this is a shot in the dark, but is that the connector that goes under the car towards the Lambda Probe in the exhaust?

The painted 7 grill was a good choice. And I'm a sucker for two-tone wheels. Now that I see one with a complete headlight delete, it really goes from "face" to "machine" and the character really changes. Not saying I won't do it at some point, but it's a drastic change. I think it needs low beams and high beams as separate mini lights if you were going to do road-use, plus indicators somewhere, which are missing from the one I shared earlier. Then it might look more like a Dungeons & Dragons Beholder with so many little pods?

I haven't done the math comparing what I paid vs today's pricing, but that is a nice checklist of things I did pay extra for when I ordered mine.

If I'm replacing my headlight bowls, I'm going whole hog into micro headlights and removing them entirely. https://kosonorthamerica.com/product/mini-led-headlight-series/ This is a new CSR I saw that did this (https://www.beachmanracing.com/inventory): Would just have to figure out indicators...

"7 wonders of the world" on Blatchat is organizing the buy on the UK forum. He's given me permission to give out his contact info here so anybody who's interested can join, I'll send you instructions and his contact info privately. He's collecting the funds now so I wouldn't sit on it too long. Total USD was $131.61 USD after currency conversion and PayPal fee for 1x, shipping to Texas. Tariffs are a mystery, so that will just be a surprise.

The group buy is happening now, but I don't have a USA price yet. Price is £75 (not £77, typo on my part) per unit incl UK delivery, and I've asked for a USA shipping price but I haven't received it yet.

Message me your address, I can add you if you’re serious. I don’t have a total US price yet though, will be over 77 GBP, that’s what he’s charging UK folks.

Any recommendations @Vovchandr on 3rd party pods?

Wow, nice choice on color!! I really like the graphics package that came with the Encore builds. That's going to be fun!!

I have a Onewheel, and I needed to torque a bolt on it when I swapped out a hub. I asked AI instead of finding the spec sheet, I was being lazy. It gave me a torque spec that was double the actual, recommended torque, and I sheered the bolt off. After the bolt sheered, some significant cursing, and my kids discovering I DID know all the four letter words I said I didn't use, I asked it, "Are you sure that was the right torque setting?" It responded, "Oh, good thing you asked! I checked again and the torque setting should be half the number I previously stated." All this to say, as somebody that lives and breathes IT (in-fact I host a lot of Anthropic, Groq, and Meta's infrastructure) when it is a mission-critical use or references a specific spec, for general purpose LLMs (large language models) you need to treat them like they're college interns. They're great at compiling a lot of data for YOU to check and determine if its real, but all references and specifics need to be double checked. Few LLMs have your intuition, and many just want to "please" you and won't come back with "I don't know." Some tips though: In all my prompts for research I add the line, "Be skeptical. If sources conflict, say so. Don't paper over uncertainty." And in my personal settings with the models (usually in their settings) I add to every prompt to have it ask me more qualifying questions if that would improve the results.