Trying to gauge what is normal.
Wife’s ID.4 charge port door doesn’t latch. Car’s under bumper to bumper, no big deal. How long should a competent VW dealer need the car for that repair?
Posted in this CD thread: https://www.chiefdelphi.com/t/limelight-2026-1-critical-fixes-and-updates/519044?u=billfred
The SPARK MAX controllers (in white) and NEO 550 motors are FRC equipment standing in for A301s, and are a fine choice since we know A301 will also be CAN-based and brushless.
Also note the power tool battery in the background (looks like a Milwaukee M18, could be wrong).
Strikes me as a good place to be with over a full year to go before it’s legal (let alone required) in FTC.
I got asked to help out with a program that has a fleet of near-zero-runtime XYZ DaVinci Mini W+ printers. At least a dozen of them, and they'd been sitting a while.
On research, I know this is a dead end for camps. Woefully out-of-date format, no heated bed, chipped filament spools, company out of business, software abandoned, no spare parts, support nowhere to be found in Cura or OrcaSlicer, no on-device UI. I got the proprietary software running on a burner laptop and made the printer run, but it was rough (and, of course, nothing would stick to the bed).
Even if you do the manual steps to flash the open filament firmware where steps include "grab this random executable from a Google Drive", it's still the wrong answer for a program about to go headlong into two or three months of weekly summer camps.
I recommended they start sourcing A1 Minis for their camps out of raw pragmatism. But that leaves this stack of XYZs. I know I'm falling into the old maker trap of "it'd be a shame to waste this", but has anyone done interesting projects with them?