Alright, fine, I’ll comment on Windows 8.1 having 3D printing support since it seems every news outlet and blog in the world is talking about this. Seriously, I have more links than words. Thing is my recent opinion changing experience with MakerWare has taught me 2 things: With a good slicer it is possible to get great prints without exposing a lot of …
Reevaluating MakerWare
After giving Makerware a public lashing I found myself in contact with Joe Sadusk who is a developer for MakerWare at Makerbot (this blog attracts the Joes doesn’t it?) We spent the weekend talking about MakerWare, the shortcomings it had and Sadusk defended MakerWare extremely well. So I decided to give MakerWare another shot and since I needed to test …
If you want me to believe you, don’t let marketers handle your ad
Can you spot the mistakes? 0:25 This would give depth information for making a 3D scan, but no human being holds still enough for a high-resolution 3D scan with a hand-held camera. At best the scan would be muddy and require some significant cleanup of background elements…which is also never shown. And there is not enough room in that space …
Useless junk? What do you expect?
“All anyone ever makes with 3D printers is toys.” “Why is every tutorial for something useless?” “Shapeways, is wasting amazing technology making inconsequential garbage.” “All that stuff is just designed to do is collect dust on a shelf.” ” I just don’t get this obsession with printing little trinkets.” 3D printing is perhaps the single most useful new technology in …
Rotary IPhone case with printed spring
It’s that cute, a rotary dial on an iPhon…. HOLY SMOKES, it snaps back! I love this sort of thing. 3D printed springs excite me. I tried myself to harness the power of a 3D printed spring, without success. So when I see someone else make it work, even on a novelty level like this, I get kind of excited. …
Makerbot to become Stratasys Makerbot
Rumors have been flying. Rumors have been confirmed. Stratasys will be acquiring Makerbot. When the rumors started that Makerbot was going to sell, but no one knew who to, this to me was the best possible scenario. Stratasys invented the 3D printing process everyone is using now and they’re still innovating today. I would rather Makerbot be in the hands …
Dizingof having his desgins misused by 3DSystems and Stratasys
Thingiverse user Dizingof, well known for intricate latices work designs, recently removed most of his designs from thingiverse in response to 3DSystems and Stratasys ignoring the non-commercial license associated with his things and using his designs to market their product. There are so many facets to this story I can’t decide which one I want to talk about. For starters there’s …
Creating a test print object
Andrew Mazzotta approached me with the possibility of creating a test object similar to, well, lots of test objects out there already, with a little indirect marketing towards his 3DHacker website. The thing about creating a test object, particularly a comprehensive one, is you have to decide who your audience is, what do they want to test and what can the …
Creating 3D objects… with your brain
So the project is pretty limited and hasn’t actually gotten very far yet, but its very promising: an evolutionary algorithm that uses a brain scanner to determine fitness. I suppose that’s the best we can expect since brain interfaces aren’t suited for running 123DCreature yet, not without a surgical implant anyways. The hard part is going to be developing a …
MakerWare vs RepG
For my book (yes, got it in early) I had to explore MakerWare for the first time, for the sake of completeness. Before I’ve never really had any incentive to switch over and I still don’t. I do like like that MakerWare allows you to plate multiple objects easily and I’m currently trying to see if it’s slicer does a better job …