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I feel when you push yourself too hard it will make you look less forward to your next workout. Best to end on a good/interesting note similar to how TV episodes do - making you want to come back for more.


> The lower you set the barrier to entry, for a given activity, the better a chance you give yourself to actually complete that activity later.

Indeed, same reason why some people sleep with their gym shorts on so they are already dressed for exercise in the morning.


Google could keep the search result and just hide the ad.


What 3D printer and software did you use?


I got a prototype of the Lulzbot mini, which I used to print it (and I still have that printer!).

I designed it in a ruby thing that translates things into openscad (crystalscad was the name, but I deprecated it for multiple reasons. There's jenncad in my github repository as its successor, but I didn't have the chance to get it anywhere to stable)

Other software I used were printrun and slic3r.


This is awesome. We seriously need affordable healthcare so it's great to see people innovating in this field to bring costs down.


The Google Distance API does not require an API key, but this is something that should be supported for business licenses and per-key quota limit tracking.

Here are the quota limits:

Users of the free API: 100 elements per query. 100 elements per 10 seconds. 2 500 elements per 24 hour period.

Maps for Business customers: 625 elements per query. 1 000 elements per 10 seconds. 100 000 elements per 24 hour period.

Read more: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/distancemat...


To use different units, you can specify 'imperial' (default) for miles/feet or 'metric' for kilometers/meters.

The wrapper fetches all of the data returned from Google (except for the value fields): http://cl.ly/image/3M003N0s0z3q

It actually might be a good idea to fetch the value fields as well, since that would make conversion to other metrics easier. Thanks for the suggestion.


I do think it would be valuable to fetch the value field, as then the user can format the text however they want - for example, I may want to say "96 minutes" instead of "1 hour 36 minutes".

Additionally, it's much easier to compare two values (e.g. if one wanted to compare distances between X and Y versus X and Z).


Good point. The value field is fetched as of version 0.2.0.


Awesome! That looks nice. Thanks for taking feedback.


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