If there’s one outlet that 3D printing really shines, its in finding new ways to upcycle existing products that would otherwise end up as waste. Take the Sprout for example: through a simple design and 3D print, an otherwise disposable item becomes something a heck of a lot more useful…and in some cases, better than the product design it’s emulating.
After months of hype and speculation, the first Cloud-based CAD platform is here from Autodesk in the form of Fusion 360. At $25/month per license, a user can purchase their seat in the Cloud for less than a week’s worth of Starbucks lattes. But despite the low cost-of-entry, how does Fusion 360 stand out as a modeling platform? Will CAD in the Cloud change everything as we know it?
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’ve rounded up some of the best slide guitar-based blues this side of the Mississippi county line. We’ll start with some Sonny Landreth and move through the decades with slide guitar masters ranging from Blind Willie Johnson and Muddy Waters to the White Stripes and Derek Trucks.
So, you’re standing at the base of a tree, commanding it to do your bidding, only to have a squirrel look at you inquisitively, toss a pecan in your face then scamper off. The only way you may actually get a tree to bend its branches all at once is either by falling through them or getting an incredible app from Steven Longay of Algorithmic Botany called TreeSketch (iTunes). Version 3.0 is here and it brings a myriad of new features that make creating 3-dimensional trees easier than growing them or trying to control them with the power of your mind.
When you finally finish fighting off those woolly mammoths from your pillow fort with your four-pronged spear, be sure to listen in to an all new episode of Cool Tools of Doom n’ Stuff! By the way, we love our SolidSmack readers! Have something cool you’ve come across and want to share it on SolidSmack? Don’t hide it in your neck skin! Send it on in to