Project Update #2: Stretch Goals coming soon. So, what do you want?

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The wild ride continues!!!
Thanks again to all our awesome backers! So... The big question we keep getting is, "When do the stretch goals come out?" It's just about that time, huh?
We have a few ideas of things that you will love, however we want to survey our backers and make sure we are giving you exactly what you want in our product. So, backers, keep your eye out for that survey and be thinking about what features you would like to see beyond what is already listed in the development timeline.
Fun tech update: Daniel optimized a number of cool things yesterday:

  • z retraction no longer changes estimated layer number.
  • new print-time estimate algorithm is super smooth, no more of what a lot of other programs do: "your print will take 5 minutes, no wait, 32 minutes, no wait, 15 minutes, no wait, 5 minutes..." That drives us crazy in other programs! So, we just had to fix it!
  • File management system upgrades - connecting each gcode sliced to the .stl it was sliced from.

Thanks again for backing us, and please continue to spread the word. If you haven't posted or tweeted about us, please do! http://www.astroprint.com/ksshare We really want to get AstroPrint into as many hands as possible.
~The AstroPrint Team
Drew, Daniel, and Josh
Mo and the office Octopus are typically best of friends, but an argument about optimal perimeter speeds got out of hand today...