Julia Longtin
Julia Longtin is a long time Free Software developer, and 3D printing enthusiast. She has been designing and building 3D printers for over a decade, but has only been working with haskell for the last 8 years, since she discovered ImplicitCAD. An Operations Engineer by trade, Julia comes from the United States, but moved to Berlin with her wife four years ago.
Session
Three years ago, I started what I thought would be a six month project to implement some CAM software for 3D printing purposes, without using any of the existing geometry kernels. How hard can it be, right? I made some choices that seem weird but were done for very good reasons, and ended up implementing some things that are actually new and exciting. Here’s the story of the adventure so far.