3-D Model Support Comes To MediaGoblin 37
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."
Alternatives to Thingiverse (Score:5, 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.
Re:Alternatives to Thingiverse (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:What is MediaGoblin? (Score:4, Interesting)
Ok, the real advantage of Youtube,Flickr, et all is that they *are* centralized. I trust a link going to those sites.
I don't trust these highlighted example sites running mediagoblin:
http://wiki.mediagoblin.org/Live_instances [mediagoblin.org]
Re:What is MediaGoblin? (Score:5, Interesting)
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/ [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.