Cubehero, like many other web apps, depend on background workers to get many tasks done that you don’t want to do within a web request. These are usually longer running tasks, like sending an emails, calculating a score, updating information…

Welcome, new Cubeheroist! To help you get started, I wrote a quick little walkthrough to help you out. To follow along, you need both git and openscad installed. First signup for cubehero. It’s standard fare–choose a username/password, etc. Then …

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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…

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, …

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…