In DESIGN

DIY Civilization with the Global Village Construction Set

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Moving dirt. Mixing concrete. Inspiring people. Not something you want to do with a spoon, a bucket and lots of screaming. Especially when your goal is to create entire civilizations from scratch. Typically, you would need a few dozers, a backhoe or three and a lot more money to throw at materials and manufacturing equipment. Not any more. Marcin Jakubowski, founder and director of Open Source Ecology, is taking on the challenge of developing low-cost, open-source, diy machinery with the Global Village Construction Set. They were just funded successfully on Kickstarter last month. Now it’s time to kick the machine-making into high gear.

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In DESIGN

The Flyboard is Insane and Awesome Combined

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I’m convinced that what you’re about to see is the future of water sports, water exploration, water battle and anything having to do with the combination of insanity and awesomeness. Franky Zapata, World Champion professional jet ski/waverunner rider of Zapata Racing, is stepping watersports up a number of notches by retrofitting a jet to propel you, not only through the water, but into the sky. Check. This. Out.

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: The Smoth Mealer.

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And slipping into the grassy depths, the shadows fell, the sun disappeared overhead and the earthy floor tumble out before her. What strange and vibrant things were these passing by? A snail of purple playing didgeriplinks with an elfkin on top launching these links. Amy Sol – Quiet and peaceful. Little pandas sitting on shoulders…

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In DESIGN

Interactive Liquid Sculpture Makes Ferrofluid Look Extremely Cool

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If you’ve ever mistakenly drank ferromagnetic fluid thinking it was coffee, you’re likely dead, or highly magnetized and sitting at In-n-Out gnawing on a burger dressed like Magneto. I am… right now actually, staring into the screen at the Kickstarter project David Markus has launched. Ferrite – Interactive Liquid Sculpture is a visual display of magnetic waveform tubery. Ferrofluid is trapped inside a clear container (just like my arm) with the globs of ferromagnetic particle taking the visual waveforms of the magnet placed against it. Here’s a look at the iconic desktop art piece and more from David about the project.

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In CAD

TopSolid 7 is CAD, CAM and AWESOME Wrapped All Up in One [Review]

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Sometimes you take a look at 3D software and go mad trying to figure out what eye to puncture first. Not the case with TopSolid 7. This review has been a long time coming. At first I was afraid, then I was excited, then slightly afraid again, then really excited. Why? Because Top Solid 7 has a methodology for modeling I hadn’t seen before. A methodology that was strange to me at first, but then became suddenly familiar and fun to learn. There are bits here and there I’d like to be different, but overall I was blown away. I think you will be as well.

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