In ROCKIN

Amazing… Leonardo Da Vinci's Resume

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Ancient resumes. I know you have them plastered to your headboard, stuck on your fridge and lining your favorite suit coat. But really, can you get enough of them? I think not. One in particular that may get you and your proclivity for CV oddities excited, is from someone you may know as the father of robots, the father of invention and everyone’s favorite Renaissance Man, Leonardo Da Vinci.

And guess what, he had prove he had the skills too. In a position to work with royalty in Italy, he listed out what set himself apart from others. Courtesy of TheLadders.com, here’s the image of the original document and the translated text to go along.

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In 3D CAD TECH

Robot Caterpillar Propels Itself at High Speed… Into Your Nightmares (Video)

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I’m sorry, but instant death by sudden penetration of a recoiling swarm of caterpillar robots is not my idea of a enjoyable science experiment. Even if cake was involved. Nevertheless, an ambitious group of researchers at Tuft University are fascinated at the possibility of using Biomemtrics to capture the “balistic rolling” action of the Crambidea caterpillar family. The GoQBot is the 4″ long amalgamation of all that thought and research.

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In SMACKDOWN

Friday Smackdown: Popshnaggle

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The curious tumbler tilted it’s motored neck out the door. Everything felt as if it was creaking, Slowly creaking. Pop!, he heard. His eyes adjusted, metal ignited and rolling swiftly toward him were these links. Levi Hopkins – Making light and environment and the mind a cataclysmic event of awe. Truly captivating concept art from…

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In 3D CAD TECH

An iPad Stylus and Case to Put a Smile on Your Face

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You may be familiar with the new crowd-funding product design craze. It’s ridiculous. The number of projects achieving funding is amazing. We’ve featured some on here and know of others who are preparing to launch their ideas into the crowd cashing cosmos.

Recently, two interesting projects popped up which show how a small team is innovating in a very competitive, highly saturated market. Not a large production company, mind you, a small team. My hope is that putting up projects like this will inspire you or pop some ideas into that noggin as you pursue imaginative thoughts of having your own design funded by complete strangers.

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In CONTESTS

Can You Design a Better Airport Chair? SolidWorks Green Design Contest is Go.

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Can you think of a more uncomfortable chair to sit in than an airport chair? I can’t. Add to that the delight of sharing the vast majority of the world’s germs, bacteria and food particles with the other happy people at the airport and really, sitting just doesn’t get any better. One thing that can make it better though, is a better chair for your derrière.

SolidWorks is posing just the challenge to you in the SolidWorks Green Design Contest. The goal? Modify a chair design to be lower impact, and hopefully a bit more stylish than that sheety tube chunk above. Oh, you’ll like this too. The top prize… a trip to a Eco-resort in Belize… fire up the jet engines.

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