<p>There are existing slicer and GCode managers for running 3D printers but the current languages of choice are...</p>
<p>Python<br>
Perl<br>
C#<br>
And Java...</p>
<p>Is anything squeak willingly GPL or an equivalent license?</p>
<p>There is also a patent minefield held by Stratasys, HP and various other corporations</p>
<p>Other than being referred to OpenCobalt by a friend... I had never heard of squeak and only knew of smalltalk in passing reference from a book on logo when I was high school 2 decades ago...</p>
<p>Is it possible to have seperate "Applications" within a common runtime?</p>
<p>I understand the "everything is an object" concept</p>
<p>How would you seperate the object you serialize to the printer from the rest of the 3D view?</p>
<p>Detail note, AMF SVG and STL formats are used with a non mesh 3D data structure from my own experience of 3D printers and printing</p>
<p>Fun Facts courtesy of reprap software toolchains as available on github</p>
<p>I'll step away now, I still need to bootstrap a smalltalk environment without squeak or any other working host setup...</p>
<p>So far the environment has host details and I will plugin target modules later....</p>
<p>Hopefully one of the VM wizards will enjoy stripping out non assembly for a target generator?</p>
<p>That should help reduce "undefined behaviour" to a minimum set</p>
<p>Belxjander </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 8, 2013 7:21 PM, "Casey Ransberger" <<a href="mailto:casey.obrien.r@gmail.com">casey.obrien.r@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<br><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Holy cow! This is a great idea, <span>absolutely brilliant. Really the replacement for Logo's screen isn't a turtle on a screen, it's a 3D printer which can print 3D printers and thank you. An old mentor of mine said this two years ago. </span></div>
<div><br></div><div>Bad news: I'm probably not the right guy to do this. I can code, but I have next to no experience with 3D anything, and to be completely honest, I've flunked tests about spatial intelligence. When I try to play first person shooters, I get lost and stuck in the corners of rooms. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Then again, when I was trying to convince people to let me lead a team of 30 to create a Piagetian learning environment which was going to (eventually) simulate basically everything, like a virtual field trip, I spent a lot of time with OpenQwaq, and I didn't get stuck in corners. I just clicked the yellow triangle and it took me where I wanted to go. </div>
<div><br></div><div>That was, by the way, the thing Andreas called overly grandiose. </div><div><br></div><div>I'm so into your idea though, that if someone else who had 3D experience as well as a command of the Croquet codebase wanted to jump in and help, and we were able to raise enough to get it done, I'd seriously consider it. </div>
<div><br></div><div>In other words: great idea, you're in the running already, but there are critical contingencies involved. I won't hustle my friends into thinking I can be the principle engineer in any Croquet based project. I am not qualified to lead the development of something like that. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I want more brilliant ideas. This is already fantastic. Do you have a better idea than this? Jump in. </div><div><br></div><div>I hope this thread will be as fun for everyone else as it is for me. We are immersed in a community which embraces radical ideation, and I can't even begin to express how lucky I feel to have experienced that. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Casey</div><div><br>On Mar 8, 2013, at 12:50 AM, Nicolai Hess <<a href="mailto:nicolaihess@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicolaihess@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite">
<div><span></span></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">Combine Croquet (as a 3d modelling application) with a 3d-printer.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/3/8 Casey Ransberger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:casey.obrien.r@gmail.com" target="_blank">casey.obrien.r@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
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Hello Squeakers!<br>
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My job search is turning up dead ends, hurry up and wait, and unfathomably boring prospects.<br>
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Screw all that! I want to do something cool.<br>
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I'm thinking about doing a KickStarter, but almost all of my ideas are either a) stuff no one else wants which only I could possibly think would be cool, or b) overly ambitious. The words Andreas used to describe my last idea: "a bit grandiose." Gift for understatement at times.<br>
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So I'm looking for something which could be completed by one or two geeks in six months to a year, which people actually want, to be implemented (at least in part) using Squeak, and to be released at the end under the MIT license.<br>
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I've floored my expenses, so I can make my own labor (relatively, for a guy living in Seattle) very cheap. By floored, I mean the room I sleep in isn't even tall enough to stand up in -- I do not presently meet the definition of a free-range chicken -- and I've disconnected my cellular service. I want to be an efficient engine for getting things that matter to me and other people done, rather than go on being some tool used to ship lucrative enterprise crapware.<br>
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So here's the $x question: what do you want me to do? I have a Raspberry Pi on order, so bonus points if you can work that in somehow.<br>
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The person with the best (realistic) idea will be credited for it.<br>
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Inspire me! And thanks for reading all the way down to the bottom of this message.<br>
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Casey<br>
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