Something new for Maker Faire

jdodds · September 19, 2016, 12:41pm

Can the vector cuts on something like the luggage tag be ordered such that it cuts the holes before the perimeter?

karen_c · September 19, 2016, 2:03pm

Hi Dan, This sounds great. I plan to attend the New York maker faire. Do you have the schedule yet for that talk to be given at NY? I am wondering if I should get tickets for Saturday or Sunday or weekend. Would appreciate if you can let me know the schedule of all presentations that will be given by Glowforge team. I found the presentation time for Seatle in one of the links but not for NY.

Thanks in advance!

jamesdhatch · September 19, 2016, 2:22pm

I think Dan already posted that he’ll only be there Saturday and leaving the rest of the team to fend for themselves on Sunday

joe · September 19, 2016, 2:44pm

The schedule is up! If you want to see the talk, you want to go Saturday.
Aww, I’m gona miss it

cmreeder · September 19, 2016, 2:52pm

Just watching the youtube reports I was thinking the same. We do fundraisers for childhood cancer, and I would LOVE to do something like this… would be fun and amazing and might raise a bit of coin for our cause.

Also great at parties… the possibilities in crowds make me more and more sure that I will save and protect that rather expensive shipping box.

hansena · September 19, 2016, 3:21pm

Thanks for the name tag!

Jules · September 19, 2016, 3:29pm

I want one of those nametags!

numosbk · September 19, 2016, 3:42pm

You will have a Glowforge soon and will be able to make a bunch of them.

Jules · September 19, 2016, 4:14pm

You misunderstand me…I simply must have one now! ROFL!

karen_c · September 19, 2016, 4:39pm

Thanks, Joe. I see it now after changing the drop down selection.

chevalier_jeanpaul · September 19, 2016, 5:19pm

I love the contrast between the technical precise vector cuts and the etching of the hand drawn text.

hansena · September 19, 2016, 5:24pm

That’s what really impressed my friends that were there! even the small writing at the top has all the little imperfections of my 2-year old writing style.

wesleyjames · September 20, 2016, 12:05am

It’s powered by the Green Lantern Corp. central battery.

dan · September 20, 2016, 3:28am

Yes. If they are separate colors, you can drag-and-drop rearrange them to change the order.

I believe it’s 10:30 EST Saturday, but @bailey can confirm for sure!

You are so very welcome!

chris1 · October 2, 2016, 10:32pm

When I got there, they had already stopped for the day. Looked like the machines were still having a bit of trouble. Fingers crossed for December (2016).

jbmanning5 · October 2, 2016, 10:35pm

Curious - what specifically led you to believe the machines were still having trouble?

chris1 · October 6, 2016, 2:20am

Very little. Watching for a few minutes while they tried to get someone else’s tag going, it seemed at least like the software is still a bit fiddly. It also appeared to skip, but they were quick to declare loudly that the table had been bumped. It’s entirely likely that’s what happened, I don’t have instant replay vision. I’m probably just projecting my own fears and uncertainty, but I got this feeling like everybody at the booth was on edge. They were flipping between snapping at people for stepping over the invisible “I can’t let you any closer” line and all smiles and PR mode. In any case, the thrilling conclusion is mere months away, so I shall practice SERENITY NOW.

Jules · October 6, 2016, 2:37am

ROFL! I can just about guarantee that everyone at the booth was extremely on edge. (Shows are like that.) And everything that can possibly go wrong, does.

As far as the software being fiddly…again, not too terribly surprising. They were probably working with very fiddly artwork.

When they’ve had a few years of shows to get seasoned it will be a different matter, but most of these kids are probably still pretty new to doing the shows.

jacobturner · October 6, 2016, 4:11am

YEspecially since. Glowforge policy is that new employees attend the Faire.

dan · October 6, 2016, 4:49am

Can confirm. Past shows we used screw-together Ikea furniture which we donated at the end of the show. The tables were ridiculously heavy and it took a team of four with power tools to assemble everything. It took 65 boxes (no joke) to move everything around.

This show we used collapsing tables which went up in an hour and were delightful - but were much lighter, and as a result had our first experience with bumps throwing off the engraving. People would wait an hour or more, then have their print ruined by someone jamming the table. Only constant vigilance could keep things moving.

That said, I apologize profusely for anyone on my team who snapped. That’s so unlike the people who worked here I can’t even tell you, but I also know how panicked everyone was about letting you all down because of something so silly. No excuses but I can imagine the pressure; I wish I could have been there to help.

I ran prints for a few hours at Re:Make in SF, and you’re actually designing the product on the fly (resizing and placing the engraving on the pattern) then aligning it with the material. Misalignment of a fraction of a millimeter is visible in the final product, so it’s definitely “fiddly” - not in the sense of the software being fiddly (the Makerfaire build was actually pretty darn robust) but in the sense of it being tricky to mouse precisely under pressure.