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And I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords

Two weeks later

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Maker Block

On April 14 I posted that ProfileMaker had served up 209 profiles to 58 people. As of right now there’s 598 profiles and 144 people served. That’s a lot of repeat business! 1 The number of people increased by 100%, the number of uses went up by 200%, and the amount of my awesome went up by 37%. 2

I figure this means either:

People really like it and are using it a lot
People really hate it and they are clicking the same button over and over again cursing my name

I hope it is the first one.

And, by business I mean people clicking a button on a free web service [↩]
I’m rounding here [↩]

Patience

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Maker Block

As MakerBots and RepRaps proliferate, so do the websites and content concerning them. Gian Pablo Villamil had a really great post about his adventures with Skeinforge. As with BotHacker’s excellent post about the Skeinforge Cool setting and analysis about the benefits of cooling fans, Gian’s post takes us through each of his Skeinforge changes as well as documenting it’s effect on the print quality.

I wish I had more patience for that. I tried for a while documenting each change… but quickly became enamored with the idea of spinning dials and flipping switches in Skeinforge in the (sadly badly) mistaken belief I could make it better.