printing legion bot
By
@itis
- 4 Devlogs
- 6 Total hours
This bot doesn't slack off. Your printer shouldn't either.
Ship #1
Pending review
I made a Slack bot for #printing-legion that pings printers that are near the location of the request. It is able to fetch stl/step files to find its bounding box dimensions to be filtered by custom per printer filters. I also got beta testers to test, which is where I got some of these ideas. I speedran making this, so somehow, I made everything in 6 hours even though I’ve never made a slack bot.
2h 51m 38s logged
After some feedback from some beta testers, i found that people want dimension filters, since most post companies only accept mail under a certain set of dimentions, and mail is much cheaper than parcel, especially internationally. I wired everything up to threejs and occt and the github api and got the bounding box. Now, there is also a /add-custom-filter command, allowing you to restrict it to any arbitrary set of filters.
37m 57s logged
I got it running on the server, but since most of my time was spent over ssh, that wasn’t captured by hackatime, but anyhow, it runs on the server now, and I also got a bunch of willing beta testers who are also printing for printing legion.
1h 12m 40s logged
I got the database working, and the bot probably almost completely works. There is now a /add-as-printer command where you can specify the region where your receiving prints, and it will only include those. I also got eslint setup and refactored the whole codebase. Next, I need to make and upload all the assets like the icons and stuff and make good documentation. Also, I applied for a best server and I’m waiting for approval.
1h 18m 47s logged
The bot is now able to parse print requests into a json schema using the hack club ai api. Currently the api is down, but it still kinda works with stealth models since they’re free, so right now, i’m using stealth/ox-alpha. I will switch to gpt oss 120b soon for speeeeeed. next, i’ll setup a json db (ik, eww, but it’s easier and im lazy) to store the requests.
