[ale] Central meeting notes

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Apr 5 10:59:46 EDT 2016


I'm up for a Linux 3D printing how-to!
On Apr 5, 2016 10:26 AM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm.  I have a spiffy new 2020 Prusa Mendel I3 built from a kit (
> http://folgertech.com ). I can recommend this kit highly, 'specially for
> the price, a mere $300. First Print was back in mid-March, and I'm now
> busily printing enhancements and making tweaks to her (she's called Cora).
> I'm using my aged IBM R50e running Debian Jessie for control.  The newer
> laptop has artofillusion ( http://artofillusion.org ) on it (my current
> 3d modeling software of choice).  I'm exploring openSCAD (
> http://openscad.org ), which offers some interesting advantages for
> someone who's all mouse-thumbs like me.  I could at least theoretically
> bring the machine in and have it print stuff during the talk.
>
> Is that an interesting subject, or have 3D printers been Done to Death for
> our audience?  I know that folks who have co-memberships in Freeside or
> Decatur Makers probably already have 3D printing exposure and probably
> rabid opinions of their own on what works and what doesn't.
>
> -- CHS
>
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm looking for a speaker for April.
>>
>> May will need a temporary alternate location as I will be out of town and
>> can't host at Emory at that time.
>>
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