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Release Alpha

Well, I’ve been looking forward to it, and I’m glad to say that Cubehero is ready for some tire-kicking in a alpha release. They say that if you aren’t embarassed when you launch, you’ve launched too late. But first a few things! Knowledge of git …

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APIs for Manufacturing

http://amandapeyton.com/blog/2012/09/apis-for-manufacturing/#comment-643619040 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4490591

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See Robokitty in Cubehero Demo

With 3D printers, you can make stuff that you think up, or stuff that other people think up. When you have the ability to make things you think up, it changes the way you view the world. If I need something that’s one of a kind, I can design and p…

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Faster Indeed

Hope you’re doing well and had your fill to eat and celebrate over July 4th. Here’s what I’ve been up to with Cubehero. I’m wary of pre-mature optimization, but the job times for the queues were taking too long for higher polygon counts. After som…

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Lost and Found

It’s been a while! I’ve made some progress and I’d like to share it with you. You know, it’s one thing to have a prototype, but it’s another to go to production. But regardless of the bumps along the road, here’s what’s going on.In the prototype, …

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Comic Time

I drew a comic for you here: Whenever I have to tell people about 3D printers, it inevitably turns to the question: “What would you print with it?” The reactions I’ve gotten have both been imaginative and cynical. The other day, I summed up the cy…

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Happy April Showers

Surprisingly, it’s April already, and it always reminded me that of the time my English teacher made us memorize the first four lines of Canterbury Tales. Thanks for your replies. It’s pretty exciting to hear from you. From your replies seems like…

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Hello. :-)

Usually, you sign up for an invite at some website, and you don’t hear from them for a while. That is, until they launch. By then, you’d forgotten all about why you were interested in the first place.I’m going to try something a little different. …

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Social software around a maker culture to better your world and mine

In the last couple of years, the cost of 3D printing has been dropping dramatically to the point where home and desktop 3D printer kits were available. In 2009, there was one major home 3D printer maker, called Makerbot. In 2011, we’ve counted at …

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