I live in California and I work as a software engineer. Although programming is what I do for a living, I cast a pretty wide net in terms of interests. In school I majored in CS, physics, and took 2 years worth of control theory. I did my senior thesis on fractional calculus and dimensional regularization and I did research on drone swarm seeking and neuromorphic computing.

After moving to SoCal and getting my apartment, I got pretty into 3d printing. I bought a Ender 3 Pro and inherited a Makerbot Replicator 2x which afaik exchanged 3 sets of hands who weren't able to fix it (my friend's friend's company was the original owner?). I fixed* it. Now I'm using it to build the parts for a Voron 2.4.

*The Makerbot is really fucked. For some reason it homed in the back right corner and thought it was the front left corner so it started to drive the printhead and it makes this alarming sound with the skipping belts. Then what's also really annoying is that the print head gets way too hot so it actually softens the plastic at the extruder gear so it just grinds at it instead of feeding the filament (technical term is "heat creep"). My current fix is to periodically remove the top so the hot air can vent, but not too much as to make the print warp from the cold air. It's an art :(.

Hope this was a sufficient introduction. Nice to meet you guys!