In RADIO

SolidSmack Radio | Motown Marty's Magic Carpet Ride

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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 stepping back a few decades and dustin’ off our dancing shoes with some great Motown classics. We’ll start with some Diana Ross love from the Supremes and move through some Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown and others before wrapping up with some Rick James. If you need anything, Motown Marty is the one with the rhinestone skates on the dance floor.

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In FAB

Ultimaker 2 3D Printer To Be Revealed This Friday at the iGo3D Store *Updated*

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Remember the crew over at iGo3D who just opened up their fancy-schmancy brick and mortar store? Well, it seems that little opening is all part of bigger plans to have exclusive launch parties for new and improved 3D printers. This Friday, they will throw another shin-dig, teaming up with Ultimaker, to launch the Ultimaker 2. And, even though you’re not in Northern Germany, they’re making it possible for you to be part of all the fun.

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In FAB

Ready, Aim, Launch: The Super Simple, 4-piece, 100% 3D Printed Catapult

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If I could do a website completely dedicated to 3d printed catapults, I would. In fact, from now on, SolidSmack is all 3D printed catapults, all the time. I kid of course. There are simply not enough 3D printed catapults to make that topic interesting, However, there is one which is quite interesting. Jonas Dalidd designed a four-piece, 100% 3D printed catapult with enough power to launch flaming golf balls out your window. He calls it the Guardian catapult, an entry for the Type A Machine Desktop Warfare contest and, as you might guess, was born out of frustration with the more complicated medieval cow-hurling equipment.

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Harzito Chob

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Each lens dropped the slates of yellow hard against the floor, blurred vertical by the acceleration and increased afterburn of the jump jets. If there were any charred remnants, crispins of fur or chattered casings, it would lay beneath the protective coating of these links. Duarte Pires – Thick lines, bright color in a range…

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Spother Trob

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Gripped by arms of bracken root, the piper played his tune. A sky of gold and blue. A somber prelude, bit by angst and taken to its end. A song that slides and flows and chides and then consumes these links. Landis Fields – A wide mix of mech and concept, among video, illustration and…

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