The Laser Cutter Roundup — a weekly dose of laser-cut love: #123
Hey, Sam here collecting the post from The Laser Cutter.
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Above is a laser cut business card from b-type design.
After the jump, a stormtrooper helmet, desires, madness, and a plotter… (more…)
The Blender 2.67 release includes a feature packed 3D printing toolbox
Blender has long supported the .STL file format used to export for 3D print and it is very welcome news that there will be additional support within the software to help modelers. As a popular, free and open source 3D modeling software package, these new features will greatly help save users’ time in finding issues with their models.
Wednesday May 1 in San Francisco
Art/tech nonprofit CODAME is “exploring the dimensions of 3D printing” — all 4 of them. What’s the fourth dimension of 3D printing? You’ll have to find out from CODAME featured artist and speaker Stefano Corazza.
CODAME 3D PRINTING will be at Adobe Systems in SOMA San Francisco on Wednesday, May 1 from 6-9pm. Tickets are donation only, but $10 is recommended.
There will be performance art, live music, 3D printing show & tell, plus talks on 3D printing as applied to Business, Gaming, Manufacturing, Biology, and Art. Check out the full featured speaker/artist profiles here, including Ponoko CMO Kristen Turner (yep, talkin’ about myself in 3rd person).
So come to CODAME 3D Printing! It’s a lot of bang for your donated buck. Donate bucks ie get tickets here.
Can’t make it to this event? CODAME has an extensive calendar of events lined up for their 2013 program — everything from data visualization and hacking to fundraising and a full-on festival.
The Laser Cutter Roundup — a weekly dose of laser-cut love: #122
Hey, Sam here collecting the post from The Laser Cutter.
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Above is a laser cut acrylic bumble bee necklace from Richardson & Richardson.
After the jump, a diving helmet, a frogs on a plate, a table, and a business card… (more…)
Get 15% off conference passes
Join powerhouse 3D printing companies, professionals, industry leaders, and hobbyists to discuss the 3D printing revolution at Inside 3D Printing.
Inside 3D Printing is April 22-23 in New York City, and Ponoko fans will save 15% off gold conference passes with promo code: P15
You’ll hear keynote presentations by leaders in the field: Avi Reichental, President and CEO of 3D Systems; Peter Weijmarshausen, CEO and Co-Founder of Shapeways; and Terry Wohlers, Principal Consultant and President of Wohlers Associates, Inc.
Featured Session:
How Professional Investors Are Playing the 3D Printing Boom
A panel of venture capitalists, including professionals from T. Rowe Price Associates, Lux Capital, RRE Ventures, and Piper Jaffray, will explore where investors are placing their bets. You’ll learn what types of startups VCs are interested in funding and where to invest your own money in this emerging industry.
You’ll be able to meet with professionals from 3D Systems, Autodesk, MakerBot, Mcor Technologies, Stratasys, Leonardo, NRI, sculpteo, ZoomRP, GoMeasure3D, Solidoodle, and Ponoko’s own director of manufacturing, Dan Emery.
Register here and save 15% with promo code P15.
The Laser Cutter Roundup — a weekly dose of laser-cut love: #121
Hey, Sam here collecting the post from The Laser Cutter.
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Above is a laser cut paper fractals from Queen’s University.
After the jump, a pug, a butterfly, and Blade Runner neon… (more…)
Affordable Canadian 3D scanner sees strong demand
As 3D printing has grown in accessibility, the demand for simple content creation tools has grown as well. With the success of their recent IndieGoGo campaign, Toronto-based company Matterform has tapped into that demand via 3D scanning.
Photon, the home 3D scanner that Matterform has campaigned to produce, aims to make importing physical objects into the digital world as simple as placing an item on a turntable. Once in place, an object is set rotating while lasers map out its surface. The object is then saved as a file that can be edited or 3D printed at will.
Since I live in Toronto, I was able to check out Matterform’s studio last week and see the Photon first-hand. (more…)
The Laser Cutter Roundup — a weekly dose of laser-cut love: #120
Hey, Sam here collecting the post from The Laser Cutter.
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Above is a is a work by fashion designer Winde Rienstra who fuses art and architecture in her work and frequently employs a laser cutter.
After the jump, a tissue box, a collar, laptop stand and an EggLathe… (more…)
Hi-Fi goes Low-fi for some DIY audio gear
Having previously applied some 3D printed augmentation to Apple’s famous little earbuds, Paris-based designer Jean-Christophe Karich has once again turned his talents to the mysteries of portable audio products.
The proposition is simple. How would you go about producing a fully functional pair of audio headphones, without using any commercially manufactured parts? In this research project, only the wire, solder and magnets have been supplied – everything else can be printed on a standard 3D printer. (more…)
The Snow Droid X, in progress.
Technically speaking, winter is over, but someone forgot to tell the weather around here. If we’re going to keep having winter, we might as well enjoy it in true maker fashion with a Rasberry Pi-powered snow blower from Kris Kortright.
Unlike projects intended for use in the mild climate of a living room, the “Snow Droid” is designed to endure the slightly less hospitable environment of winter and all that entails. The camera and servos are all special watertight models, and the 3D printed head of the snow blower (shown in green) is designed to have water, wind, and impact resistance.
The first picture after the jump shows the unmodified Snapper 24″ Snow Blower used as the starting point of the project. The rest show details of the head and control system (being tested with an Arduino). As of the last update, this project was still in process, but we will certainly be keeping an eye on it.
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