When it comes to YouTube stars who want to bless the world with their obscure (but usable!) knowledge, Grant Thompson (AKA The King of Random) ranks up there among the best of them. Initially inspired to produce videos as a way to give back to the tutorial-rich YouTube community, his YouTube channel now includes over…
Dubai has it, Sydney has it and San Diego is getting it soon. What do these three very diverse cities in very different parts of the world have in common? A severe difficulty of freshwater supply while being right there next to billions of liters of ocean water. Desalination is the magic word that is…
Since raising over $10 million USD on Kickstarter in May of 2012, the Pebble E-Paper Watch for iPhone and Android (AKA Pebble Smartwatch) has gone on to be one of the better success stories that has come out of the crowdfunding platform. At the time of their Kickstarter campaign, the smartwatch concept was still relatively…
With so many cool things coming out each week, it can be hard to wade through all the rock-awesomeness. With ‘Cool Tools’, we’ve done the hard work for you. For our first week of 2015, we saw everything from an 3D printed prosthetic for a turtle to a mini-documentary on people who call a treehouse…
So much news and so little time!
As the world of product design and engineering continues to shift shape thanks to recent developments in digital fabrication, cheaper and more powerful CAD platforms, an ever-increasing interest from a younger generation, and all-around interest in the field, SolidSmack exists to help drive the future of product design and engineering forward by bringing you the news.
Over the last year in manufacturing, we saw an increase of YouTube and Vimeo videos from a slurry of large companies who are becoming more transparent about their design and manufacturing processes, as well as an increase of small studios and designers who are changing the landscape of localized manufacturing.
Here, we’ve rounded up ten of of our most-read stories over the past 12 months that helped lead us into another great year of pushing the boundaries for what’s to come next in 2015.