Why would you need a flexible 11 gear mobius strip? Well, let me ask you this. Why would you NOT? 11 adjoining hypoid gears, plus the added benefit of poloidal rotation… you just never know when that’s going to come in handy in a tight situation. Thanks to Blake Courter you can have that 11 gear mobius and print it too. It’s Mobius strip version 2.0 of the model he created eons (1 year) ago and this time he’s taken it one step further to make it twist through itself.
While modo (and the modo community) offer a wealth of free material presets, there’s always going to be a time when you’ve made your own adjustments and want to save your secret recipe-material as a preset for later use. In this quick tip we’ll give you a rundown on saving out your custom material to use in the future…and make sure it doesn’t get lost with updates or changes to your system.
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’s playlist features the perfect mashup of brand new Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, David Bowie, and a slew of other blood-pumpin’ good vibes.
In a collaboration between 3D printer manufacturer Stratasys’ Education and R&D Departments and MIT’s new Self-Assembly Lab, a new printing technique centered around self-assembling, ‘smart’ materials is being used right now. Hold onto your pants ladies and gentlemen, 4D Printing is here.
No, it’s not a new band bringing back the horn-infused, Caribbean-upbeat swing. It’s a scanner to bring you and your environment into 3d space on the cheap. Manctl has released version 1.0 and a subsequent 1.1 version of Skanect, a new scanning software that turns your Xbox or Windows Kinect scanner into and 3d-tracing tool of mesh-making bliss, proving what looks to provide a quicker set-up and easier-to-use user interface than other software currently available. Here’s a look.