Ruby for Makers: Designing Physical Products With Ruby

Andy Glass
RubyConf 2018
Ruby for Makers: Designing Physical Products With Ruby

Rubyists are creators. While we’re traditionally tasked with building digital products, our skills can cross into the physical medium too. This talk demonstrates a non-typical way to use code to create products: building a Ruby program that generates dynamic plans for laser-cut physical products (e.g. laptop stands, picture frames, notebooks, etc). With size, fonts and patterns as variables, our app programs a system that allows a user, or a computer, to design an infinite number of variants. Attendees will leave inspired to explore new avenues to use their skills to do what we do best: create.

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1. RUBY FOR MAKERS DESIGNING PHYSICAL PRODUCTS WITH RUBY ANDY GLASS | RUBYCONF 2018
2. ANDY GLASS | RUBYCONF 2018 HAS RUBY TAKEN YOU SOMEWHERE UNEXPECTED?
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4. ANDY GLASS | RUBYCONF 2018 Ruby Ruby
5. ANDY GLASS | RUBYCONF 2018 ELATION.
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7. ANDY GLASS | RUBYCONF 2018 HOW CAN THIS WORK? WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF USING RUBY? WILL RUBY BE A LIMITING FACTOR?
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9. ANDY GLASS | RUBYCONF 2018 BEING A RUBYIST MEANS STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF OUR GREAT COMMUNITY TO CREATE WITH LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES.
10. ANDY GLASS | RUBYCONF 2018 LETS BUILD SOFTWARE TO DESIGN PHYSICAL ITEMS WITH LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES (VARIANTS).
11. ANDY GLASS | RUBYCONF 2018 OBJECTIVE: BUILD A RUBY PROGRAM THAT LETS A USER DESIGN INFINITE VARIANTS OF A PHYSICAL PRODUCT TO LASER CUT/ETCH.
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13. ANDY GLASS | RUBYCONF 2018 ‣ OPEN AN ECOMMERCE STORE ‣ ∞ INVENTORY VIA USER CUSTOMIZATION ‣ TRY TO AUTOMATE FULFILLMENT
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15. ANDY GLASS | RUBYCONF 2018 www.makeabox.io
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19. ANDY GLASS | RUBYCONF 2018 Automated printing and fulfillment printful.com
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24. ANDY GLASS | RUBYCONF 2018 BLACK TO ETCH .01 PT RED LINE TO CUT
25. ANDY GLASS | RUBYCONF 2018 COMMON MATERIALS ▸ Acrylic ▸ Thin Metal (Stainless Steel) ▸ Wood ▸ Cork ▸ Leather ▸ Paper
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89. ANDY GLASS | RUBYCONF 2018 THANKS ANDREWGLASS1@GMAIL.COM
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