Learning how to use chopsticks for the first time is no easy task—especially if your appetite isn’t willing to take a backseat while learning a new food-to-mouth delivery method. For those with motor impairments such as Parkinson’s Disease, the experience can be exponentially frustrating. Aiming to solve a problem that affects millions worldwide, Japanese chopstick…
This article, yeah, it’s all about web design and even more, about frameworks used in web/app design and even more about destroying old notions. It’s interesting though. Out of articles like this, I get a lot of inspiration–and see a lot of application–for product design and engineering, both in product and software. “There’s an inherent…
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 laying down some house music vibes to get that blood pumping as we head into the last good month of Summer. We’ll start off this week’s radio with ‘Moving On’ from Break and work our way through some Noisia, Lynx, Logistics, Rootkit and others before wrapping up with ‘Wondertheme‘ from Insideman.
Delightful piece over on D3D today. Definitely worth a skim. IMHO digital design is the new craftsmanship, and manufacturing–additive, subtractive, injection, stamped, punched, pressed, rolled, or whatever you like–is the new craft. Am I less an artist because my chisel can cut ten thousand sculptures at a time?
So your 4 year old drew on the wall. You’re less shocked that it’s permanent marker and more shocked that he managed to outfit your raspberry pi with two motors and a pen to cover the living room wall in a perfect remake of Van Gogh’s Blossoming Almond Tree. Could happen. And, he would have done it with the gocupi. The gocupi is a Polargraph, aka vertical plotter, drawing machine or drawbot, that piggybacks a Raspberry Pi running two motors which controls the location of a pen or other drawing instrument. Brandon Dunson (on hardware) and Brandon Green (on software), with the community at Dallas Makerspace, have create the small drawbot device and just hit their goal on Kickstarter to bring it all to you this side of 2014.