Ruby for Makers: Designing Physical Products With Ruby

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A Ruby program generates laser-ready vector files and a small ecommerce flow: templates and items render to PDF/AI using Prawn + prawn-svg and measurement extensions; icons come from the Noun Project API; tweets via the Twitter gem; outputs cut/etch layers for a Trotec Speedy 400. Examples: notebook sourced at MUJI notebook $0.70, felt sleeve $1.64, phone case $2.40; pattern generators produce equilateral-triangle, square, and nested-cube variants; six laser-cut rubies take ~6 minutes and automation of that laser is impractical.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:32ELATION.
3. 1:48HOW CAN THIS WORK? WHAT IS THE BENEFIT OF USING RUBY? WILL RUBY BE A LIMITING FACTOR?
4. 2:16BEING A RUBYIST MEANS STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF OUR GREAT COMMUNITY TO CREATE WITH LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES.
5. 2:33OBJECTIVE: BUILD A RUBY PROGRAM THAT LETS A USER DESIGN INFINITE VARIANTS OF A PHYSICAL PRODUCT TO LASER CUT/ETCH.
6. 2:44BUSINESS CASE?
7. 2:55OPEN AN ECOMMERCE STORE INVENTORY VIA USER CUSTOMIZATION TRY TO AUTOMATE FULFILLMENT
8. 3:14SIMILAR PROJECTS
9. 5:11LETS MAKE A RUBY
10. 8:30LETS MAKE WITH RUBY
11. 11:11TEXT PRODUCTS
12. 12:12GRAPHIC PRODUCTS
13. 13:53TEMPLATING
14. 19:16NESTED PATTERNS
15. 20:44OTHER RESOURCES
16. 23:42QUESTIONS

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