Pre-Launch Jitters

Well, tomorrow is the big day. Maybe "big" is an overstatement. There will be a lot of changes over the coming weeks. I didn't give myself enough time for launch(in my defense, I have a day job and I thought some functionality would be built into our e-commerce platform instead of getting nickel-and-dimed), and it will be a chaotic mess. Good thing starting the actual company happened May '22 so I don't have that organizational figuring-out to do as well. I'm taking off a half-day tomorrow to properly manage the launch, so that means updating pictures, trying to add functionality, and more.

In other news, I was going to have a really cool print to share with this blog post. It failed after 22 hours of printing and getting 92% done. That's 3d printing for you. Even with a quality machine, there will still be failures. The joy of this one is that it detected there was a problem and kept it from getting worse. 

I do hope that we get some interest in the CAD/3d printing side of things. I tried for years to get into 3d modeling when I first got into computers. Rhino3d was amazing but too complicated for my younger self, although I did manage to make some image compositions with X-wings flying above a local lake. Fun times. Fusion 360, though, was the first program I ever found that let me take what's in my head and put it solidly into a computer. I started using Fusion on 12/20 in 2015, and since then I've put hundreds of hours into creating things. In August 2019, I went half-in on a Prusa i3 MK3S to start my 3d printing adventure. It has opened many doors and brought insights to me that I would not have just by working in software. Today is not that day nor is this post an example of what is to come, but I hope to write more detailed posts in the near future once we are officially launched. 

Until then (about 14 hours from now), I just have to keep all my plans on something resembling a track. And hey, it's not like anything's gonna happen on launch day, right? That'd be pretty crazy and very statistically unlikely. Please forgive the current (as of 10/19/22) mess and check back often. I want to build community here.

P.S. This print[see featured image] failed in at least 2 ways, but I'm putting it up here to remind myself that any process can fail, it's how you recover from your failure that matters. I could have put another image of a CAD success I had; the only thing holding me back from my first b2b sale is that he hasn't tested it yet. That would be neat, as it's a well-engineered part. However, while I can sell both that and the subject of this post's featured image, I imagine more people will want the latter.