OctoPrint With Gina Häußge

09/08/22 • 73 min

3D printing has come a long way in a short time, and the open-source web interface OctoPrint has been easing and extending the 3D printing experience for a decade now. On this ep we had a fascinating chat with creator and maintainer Gina Häußge about the project, covering topics like the work that goes into supporting endless printer models, transitioning from being the sole contributor on a project to managing contributors, doing open source work in Europe, why you shouldn't run your Raspberry Pi on an iPhone charger, and lots more.

SHOW NOTES

Find out more about OctoPrint: https://octoprint.org/

One of Will's oldest 3D prints at Tested.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOrr_HpxBhY

The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google

SHOW NOTES

Find out more about OctoPrint: https://octoprint.org/

One of Will's oldest 3D prints at Tested.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOrr_HpxBhY

The FOSS Pod is brought to you by Google Open Source. Find out more at https://opensource.google

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Blender With Dalai Felinto and Pablo Vazquez

We briefly covered Blender in our sixth episode, and now it's time to delve deep into the past, present and future of this sprawling 3D animation package with team members Pablo Vazquez and Dalai Felinto, who walk us through Blender's closed-source origins and early crowdfunding efforts, the increasing importance of Blender both in developing markets and in game development and film visual effects, managing the parallel workflows of Blender's many sizable components, the importance of diversity in software development and interface design, and a whole lot more.

Find out more about Blender at blender.org.

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Samba With Jeremy Allison

Jeremy Allison has been working in open source almost as long as "open source" has existed, largely on the Samba project that facilitates filesharing between Windows and the Unix world. In this ep we chatted with Jeremy not just about where Samba has been and where it's going, but also a wide range of other topics like the Silicon Valley Unix Wars, why it's getting harder to find good C coders, when SMBDirect is coming to the project, aging out of relevance in software development, and more.

SHOW NOTES

Find out more about Samba: https://www.samba.org/

The HD streaming box Jeremy mentioned: https://osmc.tv/vero/

Jeremy's column about startup life: https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/column07.html

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