Just today, Shapeways launches Color it! making it possible for you or your little ones to color a 2D image of an oinker, upload and print a colorful masterpiece onto a spectacular sculpture of a 3D printed swine. It’s all done using their full-color sandstone material. But that’s not all they’ve got going on. Interested in a gold-plated pig?
Fab@Home is a project started by Hod Lipson and Evan Malone of the Cornell University Computational Synthesis Laboratory (CCSL). Jeffrey Lipton joined the crew later to start the Fab@Home Student Team with Lipson and push the project to where it is today.
We shot Jeffrey an email to get his take on the fab scene, automation, best 3D software for 3D printing, and of course, the future. Here’s what he had to say.
Ron Patrick is Mechanical Engineer that has no problem with jamming jets into tiny vehicles, so that’s what he did. One modified turboshaft engine, one VW Bug, one sweet Rocket Powered VW Beetle. This was covered years ago by many a blog, but we’re gonna revive it just to get in some process love with the bits designed in SolidWorks and imagine what this guy is working on next.
In an article at Techcrunch, Vivek Wadhwa goes up against some thoughts from Guy Kawasaki on engineering knowledge versus business knowledge, and the need for each in the startup world. Wadhwa basically says, an engineering degree, by itself, isn’t good enough… hmmm, what do you think?
Iron Man 2 starts today and it’s gotta have gadget galore at least as cool as the first one and UI’s way better than the rinky-dink multi-touch phones we use now. As you’ll see in the following videos, the future is filled with transparent displays, table-top interaction, digital feedback and dressing in front of windows. It certainly makes one think about how the ideas could manifest themselves in the not-so-movie-like work life.