This is the best way. Inline duct fan and a flex hose running out of your window (you can print an adapter/connector to fit perfectly). It works very well even if your enclosure is not airtight (and it shouldn't be when printing PLA since you want a constant stream of air getting inside for cooling) - just let negative pressure do its thing.
This is fantastic, thank you for your work! I'm excited to see this project combine a clean API in a popular language, with a fast online playground that requires no installation. Having played with OpenSCAD and CadQuery in the past, this feels like a big step forward.
Some suggestions (I'm sure you've already thought of most of these):
- It would be great to have notebook-like UI to isolate steps and allow faster partial rebuilds.
- live editing is great, but it'd be nice to automatically stop in-progress rebuild if another edit is made while it's computing. Right now it seems to always let a rebuild complete even if it's already out-of-date.
- Search on API/docs page would be really handy
- Face/vertex filtering API looks cleaner than CadQuery's, and I'm excited to try it out. In a lot of cases I would still really like to just be able to click on the model and get a reference in code. Even if it's just an index that would break if topology has changed. Auto-generating stable references/filters would be even better, when possible.
I love RP2040 (especially how circuit designer and firmware dev friendly it is) and even tried building my own MCU with it[1]
However I don't quite see the Bluetooth use case - RP2040 is not really a low power chip, making it pretty hard to use for a battery-powered IoT application. You'd need a pretty giant battery pack to make it last a long time.
Nordic's nrf52 is an order of magnitude better for a typical "sleep-burst transmit-sleep" cycle, and can be suspended to <5uA current. Pico W is $6, Seeed has a $10 nrf52 MCU, or you could get a "just hook up USB and power" bare module for $5-6.
Very cool, and excited to see more "Geometry as Code" tools getting built. In addition to comparing to OpenSCAD it'd also be awesome to see a comparison to CadQuery.
Cool idea, but it'd be great to add an explanation for choosing this over Stripe payment links (https://stripe.com/payments/payment-links). For Stripe, you can configure a redirect on success linking to your paid content so it should work for most use cases paidlink covers, no?
For sure, nothing is 100% secure (and even with multiple U-locks an angle grinder will win out after a while). I've had a good experience with hexlox so far - they are super hard to remove without a key. Haven't had any theft issues in multiple years of parking around San Francisco.
While the overall point of simple racks being better definitely stands, the premise that a bike needs two locks is just silly and impractical. Get wheel locks for your bikes - pinhead, hexlox (my favorite), etc. If your wheels are secured to the frame you just need to lock the frame with one lock/chain.
Takes way less time to park and you dont need to lug multiple 5lb locks (unfortunately thats how heavy secure locks actually are).