In FAB

The Fastest Nano-scale 3D Printing Device

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How long does it take to cook up a 3D print of a microscopic racecar? Not long at all apparently. A laser beam, some liquid resin and 4 minutes later you have a super tiny, super precise 3D print. It’s a new -printing technology using “two-photon lithography” in conjunction with new, highly-efficient photoinitiators which make the fast writing speeds possible. It’s developed by Jan Torgersen and Peter Gruberand under the guidance of professor Jürgen Stampfl at the Vienna University of Technology. The method is highly accurate and literally setting the mirrors in motion to speed the printing of larger scale objects.

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Thurbotill

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Lying against the planks, he grabbed the edge, peering beneath the tilted deck space. Millions of them! All working away with their surroundings illuminated by the light coursing through their veins. The source of the energy was clear. Buried in the midst of them it glowed, a pebble hare clothed in these links. Andrey Lazarev…

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In DESIGN

Big Words. The Bane of Good Design?

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In the design consulting world, we’re accustomed to words like ‘Strategic innovation’, ‘qualitative and quantitative analysis’, ‘research synthesis’, and ‘concept ideation’. So much so, in fact, that it’s easy to forget just how pompous we sound to the rest of the English speaking world. The next time your significant other says “Honey, we really need to repaint the kitchen,” try responding “Let’s have a creative emergence session to highlight opportunities for innovation in the domestic culinary arts sector!”

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The 3D Printed Stelliform Owl is Stellar

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I know star-shaped owls can be a bit nightmarish, especially the rabid ones with three eyes and wolf fangs, but this one is guaranteed not to carry you or your babies off in the night. Grant Miller of FigureBang is a toy makin’, 3D printin’ He-man fan from San Francisco, California and he’s in the midst of a funding his 3D printed Stelliform Owl Project on Kickstarter. He filled us in on why he’s doing it and a little bit of the design process.

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