With 4K screens the norm nowadays, you would think there are many an option for portable 4K displays. Well, there are. There are just a couple of problems. First of all, there are a lot of options. Second, the combo of 4K, touchscreen, and features means a price point that skimps on one or the other. The Lumonitor brings the best balance we’ve found among portable 4K displays with the widest range of applications from coding and CAD to streaming and gaming, at a price-point that, while higher than some, is reasonable for what you get. Best Portable 4K Display for Price/Features The Lumonitor was built as a portable 4K…

German startup iFactory3D has now launched their inexpensive belt 3D printer on Kickstarter. Inspired by the 3D print community, Artur Steffen and Martin Huber developed an open source belt 3D printer design way back in 2018. They posted this design on Thingiverse, and apparently received demand from visitors to provide a kit to build the device. Here they discuss how the project started: While open source designs are freely available, that doesn’t mean anyone is capable of sourcing the parts and putting them all together. In reality, there are relatively few people that can do so compared to the masses who cannot. To address their needs, Huber and Steffen decided…

If you thought the Death Star was the biggest LEGO set in existence, then you’re still living in the 2010s, my friend. As of November 2020, the award for the biggest, baddest set in the Denmark-based toy company’s arsenal goes to the new 9,036-piece Roman Colosseum. Just ask LEGO designer Rok Kobe, who talks about the set’s many details in a recent video on the LEGO YouTube channel: According to Kobe, he never intended for the Roman Colosseum to be the largest LEGO set currently in existence; this was actually just a byproduct of him adding more detail to the build. Since the actual Roman Colosseum is a marvel of…

You’ve heard of YouTubers who drop phones and other pieces of tech to test their durability, but have you ever heard of a company actually donating their products for the sole purpose of destroying them? This is exactly what Volvo has been doing recently. In order for Swedish rescue teams to get into the practice of saving lives, the car company has donated ten of their newest models so they can be picked up and dropped from a height of 30 meters. You may be wondering, “Why not just use some old, banged-up cars?” The answer lies in modernity. Cars in scrapyards are often decades old and inferior in many…

Sculpting, be it in clay or soft polyurethane foam requires a few key tools to efficiently bring your creative work to life. And among them, a fluting tool is just the ticket for precisely shaving convex slivers of material away to perfection. Xiem Fluting Tool Set The Xiem Fluting Tool Set caught our eye during a recent search on modeling techniques for sculpting concave “fluted” patterns in the digital world. In our quest to understand fluting we looked at how they are accomplished in the physical world. For that, we turned to the art of pottery making, and voila! The Xiem Fluting Tool is described as a set that provides…

We are cooking with gas now people! Hot off the press. The 3D Manufacturing Format (3MF) file type is about to go prime-time owing to KeyShot and Stratasys. This dynamic duo is bringing an honest to goodness CMF experience to early-stage physical prototyping. For those not familiar, the 3MF format could be likened to a next-gen STL. Bundled inside this potent format is all the information necessary to represent the topology of a 3D model, plus color, material, and finish (CMF) definition. What’s this mean? well with the right software and hardware you can hold within your hand a physical prototype that looks and feels like the real deal. Now…