It seems as though even less than a year ago, ‘The Cloud’ was still a buzzword for most people–particularly mainstream consumers. With the addition of services such as Netflix, Spotify, Box, and others, we have began to use the cloud without even thinking about it. As innovators, how do we harness the power of the cloud and what will the Cloud look like in ten years? Heck, what will it look like in one year?
You know it, I know it, everybody knows it: The democratization of technology is changing everything from the way we design to how we design it. The self-manufacturing mindset is driving innovation while redefining DIY in ways we’ve never seen before. It seems as though the Maker subculture is growing exponentially and everybody is calling themselves a designer now…but are they really a ‘Designer’? In this forum from AU2012 we meet some Makers who among other things, are turning product sketches with zero knowledge of design into full-scale companies within months.
Have you waited long enough? In 2009, Mcneel announced Beta for Rhino 5. I’ve lost count how many years ago that is. Low and behold, last week, Mcneel announces the release of Rhino 5 in a 34-word blog post and with it, the reveal of a brand new website. Both have been a long, long, long time coming–as has been the Mac version of Rhino 5… which may, as it stands, be a longer time coming.
What’s a 3D Printing revolution if companies go around suing each other for alleged patent infringement? Not much of one at all. This is the sentiment Joshua Harker is passing along in a recent letter to backers. You saw his new Anatomica di Revolutis Kickstarter campaign wherein a video compilation featured the “Top Brass” of the 3D Print industry, including 3D Systems, saying, “Join the Revolution”. Now 3D Systems is out.
Defense Distributed, the infamous 3D Printing Gun Slingers who describe their mission as “…facilitating global access to, and the collaborative production of, information and knowledge related to the 3D printing of arms; and to publish and distribute, at no cost to the public, such information and knowledge in promotion of the public interest….” had an experiment with a reinforced 3D Printed AR-15 Lower Receiver from Thingiverse over the weekend…Sadly, it failed after six rounds.