We've got a meeting next week!

Date: September 12, 2019

Time: 7pm

Location: WPI Campus Center Mid-Century Room (rm 331) aka. the usual haunt

Topic: Tinkercad codeblocks and more!

I know that a few of us have tinkered with and enjoy using OpenSCAD. However, for many users the learning curve is REALLY steep and this steep learning curve has kept many users away from programmatic shape generation for 3d modeling. Basically writing code to generate a shape.

At our last meeting Frank Sweetser showed off something really cool, which is that Tinkercad has now integrated a "scratch" like language into Tinkercad.

At this meeting someone will be giving a demo of this.

I think we would be remiss if we didn't talk about exFAT and Microsoft's decision to open the patents on it. It *sounds* like we may have exFAT becoming a first class citizen on linux. Is this Microsoft playing some long game of embrace, extend, extinguish or are we moving towards some wild convergence point? In that is the interesting conversation where we think linux will be in another ten years and for that matter Microsoft.

As usual, snacks and refreshments will be provided and afterwards we'll head off for dinner and fall deeper down the rabbit hole!

Later,

Tim.

WLUG President

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