Printing the Disney Concert Hall - And Other Buildings
Saturday, July 10, 2010 |
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Monday, May 17, 2010 |
Share Article We've been describing it as a "cookbook for gadgets." In its first, simplest form its all about sharing applications for different electronics and gadgets people have. Users submit "implementations" as responses to a goal. An implementation consists of the hardware and software someone uses to solve a problem.You then keep an inventory of the hardware/devices you own in the system, and it helps you discover new applications for what you own already. We are crowdsourcing a database of the devices people can use in these implementations and iterating on a connection engine we've built, so that over time we will be able to model how different devices connect and are compatible, and for what uses.
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Friday, May 7, 2010 |
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Monday, March 15, 2010 |
Share Article The OS (OpenStructures) project explores the possibility of a modular construction model where everyone designs for everyone on the basis of one shared geometrical grid. It initiates a kind of collaborative Meccano to which everybody can contribute parts, components and structures.
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Thursday, January 21, 2010 |
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Tipster Zach points us at a new service: Inventables. Here's the premise:
Inventables exists to make it easy for vendors of materials and technologies to get an initial introduction to potential buyers. These buyers (engineers, designers, marketers) browse our online marketplace with the hope to find and work with vendors that manufacture materials and technologies ranging from water dissolvable labels to scented plastic. Microsoft X-Box, PING Golf Clubs, and Kraft Foods are examples of buyer companies using the marketplace. Dupont, 3M, and Eastman are examples of companies participating as vendors.
The site operates like a search engine. A large, friendly search box appears immediately, where you can quickly type in your materials search term, like "Rubber", "Polyether-Block-Amide Thermoplastic" or "Lego". Each material has a page describing its primary and secondary applications.
Materials vendors can register with Inventables and create a profile that describes their specific product. Then:
When a potential customer is interested in your product, they make direct inquiries. Inventables will email you the pre-qualified lead. You decide it’s value and only pay for leads that you choose to connect to.
That's correct: you can contact the vendor of the material right from the search result page.
Inventables seems to have an enormous variety of materials available, including several relevant to 3D printing:
Printing 3D Flexible Parts
One-Off, 3D Decoration
3D Lamination Stamping
A variety of Thermoplastics
Inventables is an interesting approach to materials marketing, and their site design is highly functional. You might want to check them out!
Via Inventables (Hat tip to Zach)
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010 |
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The Pirate Bay may be fading away, eaten slowly by corporate legal teams, but their inspiration carries on - and not only for bigtime entertainment media. We've just bumped into "The Product Bay", whose intention seems similar to the Pirates. They "want to take all of this to the next level … for real life objects".
Other than intentions, there's not much at the site as of this writing. However, there are some fascinating comments:
We did, too. We're wondering when they'll take the next step and what the reaction of manufacturers might be.
Via The Product Bay (Hat tip to Bryan)
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Tuesday, January 12, 2010 |
Share Article a website dedicated to collecting 3/4/5-view drawings, templates and blueprints for as many objects as possible. Ranging from humans to tanks and cars to mobile phones, the goal is to provide reference material for 3D modelers, scale modelers, replica builders etc.
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Thursday, December 17, 2009 |
Share Article The software world was held back for decades by centrally controlled proprietary paradigms, but blossomed when open source principles took hold. Today we see open source software dominating almost all aspects of software, and software designers often spend their time designing higher-level systems by using open source software as building blocks.
That success was most visibly demonstrated by Debian, a project to produce a specific distribution of the Linux operating system. One of Debian's key features was a means to quickly obtain software or software upgrades very easily by using the APT-GET command. The command pulls down not only the software you requested, but all related items it depends on. This approach was used by Ubuntu, who produce one of the most popular operating systems on the planet.
Bishop and Lipkowitz believe the same approach could break open the 3D fabbing market by making it terrifically easy for makers to access high quality conglomerations of models. The software makers went farther than just using software, however, as they built more complex software on top of simpler components distributed via APT-GET. The same forms of assembly are used to produce 3D objects, and thus the theory is that similar product complexity can be achieved.
Via Youtube (part 1), YouTube (part 2), YouTube (Part 3), Slides here and the SKDB site (Hat tip to Bryan)
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