Now, when you find the bucket, you must do this. Jump in and out 5 times. At that moment, you’ll find yourself in a land of small shrubs, which smell of bread pudding and shoot these links into your eyebrows.
Tyler Edlin Mr. Edlin creates worlds. Worlds that play hopscotch with your subconscious and then have ice-tea on the porch. Thanks Rod!
Best Magazine Articles Ever – I’ve gotta admit, you start reading some of these and you can’t stop. Here’s the top 5 and the full list.
Shotty – A free tool to help take screenshots, even with the Windows Aero transparency on. Great options.
Free course on Processing and Arduino – Everybody’s doing it, except you. Here’s your chance to go geek and get some learnin’.
Longboarding down NZ hill – where you get up to 100 kph, semi’s are speeding by and your friend isn’t wearing shoes.
Leather iPad cover – 100 times cooler than all the shiny, plasticy covers and just about as affordable.
3D printed Clothing – The weave isn’t so tight, but FOC has a mind to make it happen. Process video to boot.
We’ve seen cool 3D projection on objects before, but this is frighteningly cool. It’s another 3DTV installation from Samsung.
It’s not projection so much, as it is a video which run across hundreds of screens mounted to the side of the Beurs van Berlage exhibition and concert hall in Amsterdam. But it’s mapped perfectly to the facade of the 4 story, 19th century structure. This was put up in May, but if you haven’t seen it yet… here it is.
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Before you pucker your lips up into your nasal cavity at the sight of something called Smart Components, take a breath. You’ll want to know about them if you haven’t used them already.
Smart Components automatically put features into parts when you mate them into assemblies. They take a little bit to set up, but the results simplify a lot of repetitive modeling and external references. Then there’s the issue of working with them in Large Assemblies. Nothing tells how to man-handle them…
…but you’re in luck. SolidSmack reader, Patrick Girvin, figured out how to trick SolidWorks into obeying your will when it comes to moving, grooving and organizing your Smart Components. Here’s how to do it…
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Don’t you dare touch my 3D parts! Oh. you just want to virtually touch them with haptic feedback… nope, that’s still a little out of my comfort zone.
Not so for the researchers at UC San Diego. While they’re not researching researchable research, they’re building cool tech to make it easier. In a recent adventure, they went to Wal-mart, bought a Samsung 3D TV and set it up in the lab with a mirror projecting back into the screen and a Novint haptic feedback controller. The results are a heads-ups VR display that allows direct interaction with the image.
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I DARE you. Try to make a million holes in a sheet metal part with whatever 3D design tool you’re using. Go ahead… I’ll wait… anything happen right before your arteries surface to your skin and workstation starts smoking? Most likely, it can’t be done. I’ve never seen it done… till now.
I received a gift via twitter from Blake Courter, co-founder of SpaceClaim. It was an image of a sheet metal part with 1,000,000 holes. Even though it looked real and the image crashed Photoshop when I tried to save it, I wasn’t convinced. I asked him to prove it… and he did.
This video shows the yet unreleased SpaceClaim 2010, and an actual sheet metal part with 10,000 holes. An order of magnitude less, but still impressive. I’m a little more convinced, but can’t wait to spin up SpaceClaim to see the pure hole-punchin’ power it’s capable of.
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It was the pants. They were large, multi-colored and had the faces of a thousand furry yak babies. But, I’ll tell you this right now. They had enough snort juice to power these link and then some.
Radoslav Zilinsky – If his name is any hint, you’ll know how rad 3D artwork and animations can be, not to mention simply beautiful.
11 Mobile Market Infographics – Pretty much, these show you either have a mobile phone or you don’t, but also how people are using them.
Cloud Canvas – an HTML 5 based image editor. All web-based, all cool.
Rayguns – a sweet freakin’ set of Raygun replicas from Dr. Grordbort. Die-cast and expensive, but probably worth it.
Old school car renderings – GTO’s, Corvettes, and concept art from decades gone past. Thanks Chris.
Amazing fact about hard disk drives – Given that they won’t exist in a few years, we might as well take a journey down memory lane with them.
God of War PB and J – If God of War was a live action film, with a college guy and PB and J sandwich battle.
Carve it. Shape it. Cut it. Smooth it.
Knick it. Clip it. Daft Punk Helmet.
Yeah, you know what’s good for you. 3 minutes of prop building madness from Volpin Props. The prop? The helmet of electronic, supersonic duo supremo, Daft Punk. The process took all of 17 months… yeeeeeah. So ya gotta think, especially after watching the video, couldn’t some of this have been done faster, if 3D printing were used? Yes, yes I think so. Work it.
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This is a guest post by Joris Peels who has enjoyed being the community manager at Shapeways over the past two years. He’s from the Netherlands and makes some mean stoofperen. YOu can find him on Twitter @pilz
CAD and 3D modeling tools have come a long way in letting more people turn their ideas into designs. The tools offered today have become simpler and easier to use as well as more powerful. But, you still need training, skill and a lot of time to master a CAD or 3D modeling app.
Lets dream for a moment of a world where anyone can design. What kind of a tool would make that possible? Well, in my mind, the ultimate solution would be BAD or Brain Aided Design. How would BAD work? Rev up the MRI, have a seat and let’s take a look.
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Let me ask you this. Do you ever have a SolidWorks model that has the same color applied to all the parts? Doesn’t that just frustrate the glitter out of your magenta and chartreuse trousers? I feel your pain, and so does a reader who is looking to add a splash of randomly generated color to his 3D geometry to aid in rendering. But, how to do it?
This one is above my macro-slapping skill, but I know there are some of you who know just how to do it. Is it even possible? I’ve seen random colors applied to new parts, but how about an existing assembly, or a part with multi-bodies?
Any thoughts? Here’s the original question to help you ponder.
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My eyeball lids have peeled back over my head… by themselves. I think I feel pain, but I don’t know, because I’m in shock at the coolness I’m seeing.
Even though there’s nothing this cool in 3D product development, we can imagine if there were… and the time wasted throwing our virtual designs into the sides of virtual walls. Lagoa Technologies Inc, a start-up by Thiago Costa, is showing off his first version of their Multiphysics solver. Definitely keep an eye on this company. Oh, and slap some Vaseline on those eyelids, they’re about to be torn.
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