yeah -- have been playing with this as well, ai's spatial reasoning is not quite there yet but with precise construction instructions it can often do the job
for shapes that are hard to print with a traditional slicer, LLMs are also surprisingly good at generating gcode with fullcontrolxyz if you're specific
it's like that '11 rules for showrunning' doc where you need to operate at a level where you understand the product being made, and the people making it, and their capabilities, in order to make things come out well without touching them directly.
if you can do every job + parallelize + read fast, and you are only limited by the time it takes to type, claude is remarkable. I'm not superhuman in those ways but in the small domains where I am it has helped a lot; in other domains it has ramped me to 'working prototype' 10x faster than I could have alone, but the quality of output seems questionable and I'm not smart enough to improve it
> For instance, the Beepberry project became Beepy – because of Blackberry, legally speaking, raising an eyebrow at the naming decision; it’s the kind of legal situation we’ve seen happen with projects like Notkia. If you ever get such a letter, please don’t hold any hard feelings towards the company – after all, trademarks can legally be lost if the company doesn’t take action to defend them. From what I gather, BlackBerry’s demands were low, as it goes with such claims – the project was renamed to Beepy going forward, and that’s about it.
I think to poke fun at it, they blur out the keeb haha
A Q20 project has actually launched. The Zinwa Q25 uses the Q20 hardware with a new mainboard and battery. I have one, this comment was written with one, and I can say for damn sure: They're real, and they're fantastic.
> User and system-initiated actions that require more complicated interaction may need additional feedback mechanisms to help inform the user that their request was successfully enacted. An example of this is the bulk creation of Issues.
^ this is a great idea and please add it to github actions where it takes like 10 seconds for the new thing to show up on the list after you trigger one
what's good? have been shopping for something to cut medium EVA sheets. seems like brother scan N cut is most likely to work with SVGs + linux, but can't handle anything past 2mm. siser juliet + silhouette get recommended too but I think both rely on proprietary software
laser cutters seem better on the software side, but more expensive, less safe? (and also not safe at all for vinyl)
The silhouette software is proprietary but I am using Linux + inkscape + https://github.com/fablabnbg/inkscape-silhouette which works perfectly (except I can't get the Bluetooth to work but that's probably a me issue). It's less user-friendly (but more power-user friendly) than the official software and doesn't have all the templates and ready-made designs but that isn't a problem for me.
I would like to get a laser cutter at some point but that's a completely different beast. Don't get a cheap ali-express one that is not enclosed if you value your eyes. You will also need ventilation for a lot of materials if you value your lungs. In comparison, my silhouette is a simple thing I can move around easily. It's also able to plotting, engraving, embossing and foiling with the right add-ons
To an exteeeeeeeent. I will point out that Silhouette is owned by Graphtec (who makes normal commercial cutters).
You can get a very smooth upgrade path going from a Silhouette machine to a Graphtec machine running Silhouette software to then moving designs into the Graphtec packages.
Otherwise... yeah. Silhouette machine driven with the Inkscape plugin is 100% the way to go to handle cutting.
I like my Silhouette Cameo, which I use from Linux and Windows with Inkscape + the silhouette plugin. However, the maximum thickness that the latest machine can cut is 2mm, and it seems that is also the maximum thickness that the Circuit Maker 3 can handle. So, you probably do want a laser if you want thicker eva than that. In my book, the best choice is probably both.
I would probably prefer the laser and the pen/knife machine to be separate, and for the price that seems like it would be reasonable to accommodate. However, this is a nice looking machine and the Hot Foil Pen is interesting.
I realize that op asked for a Linux solution. But for those on Windows, Adobe Illustrator with the $30 Silhouette plug in on a Silhouette 4 worked close to as well as the dedicated software and hardware I used professionally once everything was dialed in.
Sandstorm (open source PaaS + app ecosystem) didn't make it but was encouraging to me at the time -- a standardized PaaS would seem to drastically reduce the lift to build and to host self-host things.
(No shade on compose / helm but have never had a 3rd party compose / helm thing that didn't poop the bed in some way after 6 months)
Is that happening here? Is there an ecosystem of other OSS self-host things built on pocketbase?
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