In DESIGN

The Amazing Full-Size, Open Source CNC Project from FurnLab

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Every once in a while, something so cool comes along that it makes you stop whittling that sopping wet piece of MDF and stab the jack knife right in your leg meat. This is one of those things. Today, FurnLab has launched their Open Source CNC project on Kickstarter. Headed up by Jeffrey Matthias, they’re shining some light on custom manufacturing possibilities. He and the Furnlab team has been working long and hard to get this project launched, and they’ve got the experience to show. This is V3 of their DIY CNC System and the best part of all… it’s a modular system capable of full-size CNC cutting. Good enough for weekend prjoects or to take your own business to the next level. Check the details…

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In CONTESTS

The SolidSmack Awesome Sauce Design Competition… Starts NOW. Prizes Galore!

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Thanks to everyone who entered the SolidSmack Awesome Sauce Design Contest! You can view all the entries on GrabCAD here. ALl the entries are being judged and the results will be announced Friday, September 30th, 2011 here on SolidSmack and at GrabCAD. Thank you once again for joining in the competition!

Welcome the first annual SolidWorks “Awesome Sauce” Design Competition! This is a contest to explore the ideas we have, passions we chase and interest we have that make people look at us weird. This is a contest for you to take your ideas and get exposure and feedback from other engineers and designers. What have you wanted to design? Fountains? Chairs? Robots? Chainsaws? How about a mechanized Aston Martin DB5 fender with hidden gun compartment? This contest is wide open, but we are looking for a few key qualities.

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Oilioger Creak

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Strips of color wrapped around the icy posts. The oilies, as they were called, with their dark bodies dripping across the snow, floated slowly past the hole where we hid. And suddenly, one stopped. It peered in and what we saw sent chills through our bodies. For made of what were these oilies, dripping on…

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In CAD

Do You Design This Mens Wedding Ring to Be Awesome? I Do.

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There are five reasons I just dropped what was doing to check this out *looks down at fist, punches face*. Fortunately, I didn’t have machined titanium rings on each finger or my face would be a bloody, unrecognizable mess. What’s exciting me to punches is a self-initiated competition going on over at GrabCAD. Put on by user Scott Bruins to design the ultimate Titanium Mens Wedding Ring. Scott is getting hitched next year and since he works in a machine shop, where he’s designed some other (quite fancy) Titanium Rings, he thought he’d offer up a challenge to the GrabCAD community for one of his very own. The challenge is on. Some designs have been submitted and engineers and designers of all sorts are getting excited about wedding rings.

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