It was going pretty well, actually.

• MakerBlock: “Yeah, listen, I’ve got no technical skills – it was basically a bolt together system.”
• Dude: “Seriously?!  So, what, when you’re ready to print you just send it an STL file?”
• MB: “Um, well, not quite.  I have to take the STL, make sure it’s printable, convert it to GCode, and then convert it into an S3G file, and for maximum resolution/quality save it to an SD chip which I then put in the ‘bot and then…  Hey, where’d you go?”

The fact that it’s not yet a USB plug-n-play system kinda scared him off. 1  I’m confident we’ll get there some day.  And, even if we don’t, I’m still having a hell of a time.

1. Well, that and I heavily suggested my ‘bot could violate any of the three laws at any moment… [↩]