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3-D Model Support Comes To MediaGoblin

Posted by timothy on from the oh-it's-about-yea-big dept.

paroneayea writes "MediaGoblin and LulzBot have teamed up to bring 3-D model support to MediaGoblin! The announcement shows off a live demo of the new feature... it uses Blender on the backend to render stills and thingiview.js to show realtime WebGL previews. This means MediaGoblin is becoming more useful for 3-D artists and people interested in 3-D printing, especially those looking for a free-as-in-freedom alternative to Thingiverse."

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  1. Alternatives to Thingiverse by Guano_Jim · · Score: 4, Interesting

    About a month ago there was a kerfuffle on Thingiverse coinciding with MakerBot's announcement of the Replicator 2 and a perceived change to the Thingiverse Terms of Service. It resulted in an "Occupy Thingiverse" movement where users uploaded protest models to the site.

    It seems to have died down, but since then a few folks started their own free-as-in-freedom alternatives to Thingiverse-- it'll be interesting to see if MediaGoblin can gain more traction than they did.

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    1. Re:Alternatives to Thingiverse by paroneayea · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Yep, that's definitely part of what drove this, and why Jeff Moe of Lulzbot offered the bounty to add 3d model support. We've wanted it for a long time, but didn't expect it so soon!

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  2. Re:What is MediaGoblin? by paroneayea · · Score: 4, Informative

    Heya, You're right actually, I missed submitting that. MediaGoblin is basically what you can think of as a free software, decentralized replacement to media publishing systems like YouTube/Flickr/SoundCloud... and now moving into the Thingiverse space. :)

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  3. Re:What is MediaGoblin? by compro01 · · Score: 4, Informative

    From context, it appears to be a media sharing website for images and now, 3d objects.

    Not quite. MediaGoblin is a free open source software suite developed by the GNU project for creating your own media sharing site.

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  4. Re:What is MediaGoblin? by jwandborg · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Hey, I'm the owner of http://gobblin.se/. The thing I think most users are afraid of is the CACert certificate that shows a big "WARNING, THIS SITE MAY KILL THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE THE MOST"-style message.

    I like SSL, but I don't want to pay a gazillion dollars for it, or anything at all - I'm already paying the bills for the server. That is why CACert is used.

    CACert validates domain ownership via an email to a typical admin e-mail such as info@gobblin.se, so you should be able to trust them for such things as media storage and serving.

    If you don't want to let CACert in your approved-ca-bucket, just use http://gobblin.se/.

    Also, no guarantees for anything on that server, if you want reliability you should either find someone to pay money for the service or set up your own instance.

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