Garrett & Crystal are off island. I'd be up for next Thursday 6/24
Comment by Jerry Isdale on June 15, 2010 at 7:58am
Pop Science July 2010 issue (pg 82) How 2.0 Kit of the Month is the Makerbot!!
This is a 3D printer kit, fully open source.... and as they say in the article, building the kit is the easy part. Figuring out how to make things with it is a lot trickier. I've been working with my own Makerbot (aka Goldbot due to paint color) for about 6 months - with mediocre success. However, some new improvements to the plastic feed mechanism are on their way and should improve the print process. The bot will be on Maui by August and I'm interested in sharing it with other techies. An added bonus interest is the soon-to-be released Frostruder, which uses paste (frosting) instead of plastic.
Comment by Jerry Isdale on June 15, 2010 at 6:25am
How about a meetup dinner next week? Its been a bit over a month and about time for one.
A short documentary was recently posted on Robots and Dinosaurs, a hackerspace in Sydney Australia. Its more electronics focused than what I plan for Maui Makers, but will hopefully inspire ... see it on MauiMakers
Brandyn, don't go! I started a discussion above to see how that works. My knowledge attained exceeds the emailing I am getting so far but lets try the discussion route per Daniel. Lets build this community, have more events, network and share ideas. I came from the MaiTai event this past week fired up about the great conversations and people I met. Daniel provided this, mahalo btw, lets leverage it.
Hi Brandyn - I agree that the empty messages are annoying, but its being greatly exacerbated by the fact everything is being posted to this group's wall rather than being organized in discussions in the Discussion Forum associated with this group (see David Fisher's post above.) If members use the Discussion Forum, they will only be notified of the specific discussions in which they are participating.
You can also select "Stop Following" to end the email notifications for this wall without leaving the group.
(I'm sufficiently annoyed by the uninformative message notification links that I'm signing off this forum. Someone please email me when ning improves.)
I think the issue is bandwidth to ones office. Within a office is 1G/sec transfers. (ideally). From the cloud is at best 5M/Sec (unlikely), and 1M/Sec up. (at best). Moving a large file such as "GeoDatabases" and "High Resolution Imagery", your likely to have 100sec best case time uploading (more likely 5-10 minutes).
For excel, word processing, and typical office stuff I agree with Keith and Reichart, but for these large things, I wonder.
Once you say, well, keep it on a local server, but back it up to QTask (or Google Apps), then you've got the possibility/likelihood of a process error.
Of course, you could run Mozy (or other creatures of it's ilk) on your server, and workstations to get past the backup issues.
She didn't express a need for things to be outside the firewall. If she had, once again, I'd agree.
So the remaining question is, can she get a reliable file sharing solution w/o an IT person? There are dedicated boxes like Drobo which fit the bill.
Now, if we can get Maui wired for Fiber, I'll change my views immediately.
Comment by Keith Powers on June 2, 2010 at 12:50pm
Why any company would ever have on onsite server anymore baffles me. The cloud is here.
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