[alfor]

Cool, another computer nerd into ceramic and glazes!

Glazes is actually glass where you mix all kinds of powdered element from the periodic table and melt them at 1200C to hopefully get a result you like. A unusual kind of chemistry.

I am more interested in the glazes and the results he got than the crud app and the DB. Just read it in diagonal, but I don't see why a simple Django app wouldn't take care of this easily (with admin) and you use sqlite for local use case.

[romwell]

Seconding everything you said.

I'm about to assemble my Cerambot 3D printer and get into the game too :D

But yeah, the year is 2024, and the idea of using a relational database model to store relations is new again. Otherwise, this is a poster use case for SQLite.

[brookst]

CNC pottery is so much fun. Highly recommend getting into Rhino / Grasshopper if you aren’t already. You can go as deep as you want, and programmatically generating gcode means the world is your oyster (or at least the clay is, or at least when it cooperates)

[romwell]

Will, I do all my stuff in OpenSCAD already :)

Like these knotty designs:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C3ZE496Liz7/

I procrastinated on getting into Rhino/Grasshopper because it's not FOSS, and now that I'm about to join the computational geometry team of a competing suite specifically focusing on parametric 3D for manufacturing, it might take even longer :D

[brookst]

Very cool! It will be interesting to see if you can get clay to do that kind of knot!

I do somewhat more conventional stuff, but still taking advantage of full control of gcode generation: https://www.instagram.com/23lumens

[ed]

First time seeing Cerambot - cool!

I was taught that compression of clay is a big factor in ceramic strength.

I’m curious, how fragile are the pieces? Will a cerambot mug survive a small (eg 4”) drop?

[romwell]

I'll try to remember to respond to this comment after printing something with it :D