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3D Print Infographics That Make You Go 'Hmmmm'

August 14, 2012 1 Min Read

Ever so recently, a number of awesome infographics on 3D printing, and fabrication in general, have appeared on the Interwebs. You probably haven’t seen or heard enough about 3D Printing, so we’d like to share them with you so it’s firmly ingrained into your brain tissues.

What’s 3D printing? – Still have no clue about what 3D printing is about?
3D Industry Matrix – By Tuan TranPham, an energetic fellow I briefly met at GrabCAD.
3D Printing Organs – How, What, When and Why.
A Brief History of 3D Printing There’s a history, this is it.
3D printed some Infographics – It’s possible and we wrote something about it.
And here’s a cool one by Shapeways, right after the jump…

In COOL TOOLS

Cool Tools of Doom n' Stuff: Episode 08

August 14, 2012 4 Mins Read

“Brilliant, you say?” Why, it’s only half a cockle shell I’ve fashioned into a sturdy set of gills at the base of my torso. Fortunately, they’re embedded beneath my skin, providing endless amounts of highly concentrated oxygen due to being soaked overnight in the SolidSmack Cool Tools of Doom n’ Stuff! Have something cool you’ve come across? Don’t hide it in your neck skin! Send it on in to smoth@www.solidsmack.com. Kick it!

In DESIGN

See the Time-lapse Sculpting Process of the Opto Sculpture

August 14, 2012 2 Mins Read

Perhaps high-priced, iconic sculpture added to a scenic seaside village leaves you yearning for a trip to the untainted wilderness, but if the site of carbon fiber and steel structures erupting from the earth make you feel alive, you’ll want to see the process of how this one was created. Bart Hoedemakers captured New Zealand sculptor Phil Price molding and shaping the base and the Mobius like discs of the structure that now sits high above the Australian coast.

In DESIGN

Tangibot – An Exact Clone of the Makerbot Replicator

August 13, 2012 4 Mins Read

Matt Strong has begun a Kickstarter campaign to sell the Tangibot, another 3D Printer. Wait it’s not just any 3D printer – it’s an exact copy of the Makerbot Replicator, and a relatively cheaper one at that. $1,199 instead of $1,749 for a single extruder and $1,299 instead of $1,999 for a dual extruder. Discussion and general discord has exploded across the internet, none in part due to the irony that Matt Strong is replicating ‘The Replicator’ (let me be the first to say … BWAHAHA)

In DESIGN

Eye-popping Omnicron Turns Massive Dome Into 5 Minute Sci-Fi Spectacular

August 13, 2012 2 Mins Read

Feats of Engineering. 3D Visuals. There are plenty of both. Projection mapping and slapping animated light effects on historic building seems to be all the rage. However, the way AntiVJ is interpreting a massive architectural masterwork of the past, in light of the architect’s thinking of the future, makes your blood pulse as much as this incredible light display.