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Scott Lahteine

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Austin, TX

Marlin Firmware is the most popular 3D printer firmware in the world, and one of the most active open source projects on Github.

As the primary maintainer of Marlin I spend my days…

  • Developing new Marlin features,
  • Fixing bugs,
  • Integrating your contributions, and
  • Writing documentation.

Developing the next version of Marlin is a full-time job, and I am entirely funded by charitable contributions. If you or your company benefits from Marlin development, please consider becoming a sponsor. GitHub will be matching your donations for the entire first year of this sponsor program!

@thinkyhead

The everyday maintenance of Marlin Firmware, example configurations, Auto Build, and the website add up to a full time job, but I want to do so much more than ordinary spacetime will allow. I need to build test rigs and run a regular checklist, update documentation, write a manual, produce photo, graphical, and video content to accompany the written documentation, finish the Configurator for Auto Build, finish the Simulator, and attack a long checklist of refactors and improvements to user experience. (Also, I need to do better at maintaining your humble maintainer.) This goal is intended to launch these initiatives into space and expand on all these efforts with more local involvement. Please chip in if you can!

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Featured work

  1. thinkyhead/Marlin

    This fork is a primary contributor to the MarlinFirmware project, frequently pushing bug fixes, new features, and code cleanup. If any of the experimental branches here look interesting please cont…

    C++ 37
  2. thinkyhead/6502-Tools

    Tools to make working with 6502 Assembly Language, AtariBASIC, and bAtariBASIC more enjoyable, especially with Sublime and Atom.

    Assembly 7
  3. thinkyhead/bAtariBasic

    bAtariBASIC continuing development. I'm picking up from 1.0 and improving the language where possible. Also providing macOS build support.

    HTML 11
  4. thinkyhead/Slic3r-Droplet-for-OSX

    This AppleScript droplet makes it more convenient to batch process multiple STL files with Slic3r and Cura, and can easily be modified to use any other slicing software.

    AppleScript 4
  5. thinkyhead/Deviot

    Sublime Text plugin for IoT development

    Python
  6. thinkyhead/unity-stretchy

    A simple set of behaviors to dynamically stretch an object between any two points or targets.

    C# 2

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Your $5 contribution provides three days worth of coffee, an essential ingredient in Marlin development.

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A $10 contribution provides enough to cover one day's supply of nourishing food to keep my brain and typing fingers functioning at peak performance.

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Your $20 contribution covers a full 1% of monthly expenses for me and the Marlin lab (my spare bedroom). When the other 99% of monthly expenses are covered I am able to acquire test equipment and provide cash bounties for challenging features or bugs.

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If you run a small shop that benefits from Marlin development, express your gratitude and help promote developer well-being by covering our weekly food expenses. We cook all our food in-house because it's just better that way!

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Marlin is under development 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and it takes up all my days and nights just to keep up. If you're a major 3D printer vendor that benefits from Marlin development (and if you believe that programmers and project managers should be rewarded for their hard work) this is the tier for you!

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