https://www.newforestobservatory.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Dads_photos0001-scaled.jpg https://www.newforestobservatory.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/ChatGPT-Image-Feb-21-2026-02_08_25-PM.png https://www.newforestobservatory.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/grok-video-56ec11d3-b45d-47ab-8166-9baeac22ee77-mp4-image.jpg My Dad was out in the Northwest Frontier in WWI doing plate photography! I have just a few surviving images that were transferred to photographic paper as the hundreds of plates he had were all destroyed when … Continue reading
If you look on YouTube you will see a lot of recent hype on the progress in controlled nuclear fusion reactors. Without seeing progress I guess the funding would soon dry up, call me cynical. The first nuclear fusion experiment … Continue reading
I just saw an image of the Sombrero galaxy taken by Hubble on X. Prompted me to download the highest resolution image I could find and print it out at A1 size on the HP Designjet T230. Here is the … Continue reading
And here’s the result of very nearly TEN DAYS continous, uniterrupted, flawless printing on the incredible ELEGOO Neptune 4 plus 3D printer. An incredible feat for such a low-priced large-volume printer. I don’t know how they do it – BUT … Continue reading
I have repaired the damaged pinhole of the drain-pipe pinhole camera ready for this Winter’s Solstice. The original pinhole itself was a pinhole in a disc-shaped piece of Aluminium foil. For some unknown reason, some unknown species of bird, took … Continue reading
This is the ELEGOO Neptune 4 Plus 3D printer printing out a Sierpinsky pyramid measuring 300mm on a base line. As you can see, with the brim, this is the maximum size of pyramid I can build on the baseplate. … Continue reading
These are the first few base layers amounting to 4-hours of printing in what will finally be a 201-hour 3D print on the ELEGOO Neptune 4 Plus 3D printer. If it manages to go to completion this will be a … Continue reading
Quite a bit of progress since the last photo of this print – the ELEGOO Neptune 4 plus is a FAST 3D printer that’s for sure. Just one more day to go and the print should be finished some time … Continue reading
At around 11:35 a.m. this wet and dreary Monday morning I kicked off a really BIG 3D print of a Mandelbulb. The first print > 200mm on the new ELEGOO Neptune 4 plus super 3D printer. To produce the GCODE … Continue reading
Came into the study this morning to find a finished Sierpinski pyramid courtesy of the ELEGOO Neptune 4 plus. Superb quality print and I am amazed at this printer’s capabilities.
