Most desktop 3D printers used by hobbyists, such as RepRap and MakerBot, manufacture objects using the ABS ‘extrusion’ method, which is great for producing objects at resolutions at 100 microns on average (like the Replicator 2). While there is nothing wrong with making objects at that resolution, sometimes projects require increased resolutions that those printers…
This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist brings an entirely new face-smack of great music to help propel you through those laborious, tedious design tasks for the next few days.
This week we’re coming off of a nice and long refreshing Labor Day weekend and have put together a solid mix of tracks to help ease back into the flow. We’ll start off with ‘Had to Hear’ from Real Estate and work our way through some Beach House, Tame Impala, Blood Orange, and others before wrapping up with ‘Bowls’ from Caribou.
Have any suggestions for next week’s playlist? How about a playlist specific to a design task? Let us know in the comments!
Of the many titles conferred on Galileo Galilei, ‘The Father of Modern Observational astronomy’, is perhaps the most apt one in context of today’s topic – Telescopes. We all know that the credit of improvements to the telescope and the consequent astronomical observations goes to Galileo. Although the first telescope appeared in the Netherland, it was this grand master who took the invention to the next level.
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from how an ingenious flat-pack lamp design to the most funded project on Kickstarter and more. So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top ten stories on SolidSmack this past week.
In an effort to show how many forms are possible for a single, simple wooden spoon design, Norwegian designer Stian Korntved Ruud has committed to carving one spoon per day for a full year. We’ve seen designers commit to similar feats, such as Spencer Nugent’s daily design sketch goal that he documents over on Sketch-A-Day.Com,…