Weeks-long isolation brings out the creative juices in us all, but for Japanese Twitter user and cardboard enthusiast koshiyoda, she’s using her powers for one of the most important people in her life: her son. Yes, A Cardboard Laptop After seeing his older brother (who is in junior high school) take part in an online class using his laptop, the young boy went to his mom and asked for a computer of his very own. Now, seeing as a real laptop would be a bit costly, koshiyoda opted to MAKE her son a laptop… from cardboard. But if you thought it was a glue and corrugated paper mess, you’re in…

The practical uses of AR/VR are becoming more apparent every day, especially for design and engineering, where we’re able to design in VR or collaborate in AR. What if you boil it down even further and mix common computer actions with common AR needs? Scan/Capture + Copy/Paste? Cyril Diagne is a french digital interaction artist who just demonstrated one example of what that may look like with a video and example code that allows you to scan and capture everyday objects with your mobile phone camera and paste them into documents or image editing software. 4/10 – Cut & paste your surroundings to PhotoshopCode: https://t.co/cVddH3u3ikBook: @HOLOmagazineGarment: SS17 by @thekarentopacio Type:…

It’s hard to take a break between long computer sessions, whether it’s because you’re “in the zone”, finishing a personal project or slammin’ pixels for project deadline. But with MagnetCubes, I think we’ll find ways to jump off the computer an hour or five for some good ol’ fashion play. MagnetCubes Modular Magnetic Blocks To put it simply, MagnetCubes are a series of stackable magnetic blocks with a variety of connectable tracks. First, you create the transparent cube structure of your dreams, then you snap the red marble tracks through or around the cubes to make your own little marble coaster. Your marble coaster may consist of a one-way track,…

The spindles dropped through the clouds in a rhythm one by one then returning. It had happened for years and only with the clouds of the fifth moon. It wasn’t until years later that we would learn these were the legs of the Clenderbeasts sprinting through the rain layer of these links. Jan Sarbort – Jan is a Prague-based concept artist in film and game with a particular knack for massive sky city scenes. Thanks, Ron! British Museum Collection – The British Museum has put 4.5 million pieces of their collection online from Egypt and the Americas to sculptures, paintings, and more. Citizen DJ – Listen to sounds from Library…

Did you know Autodesk is providing free access to Fusion 360 due to the crisis? Fusion 360 Features Autodesk’s Fusion 360 system is a powerful cloud-based CAD tool that can provide both beginners and full-time professional designers a worthy experience. The system includes a wide variety of CAD features, including 2D sketching, 3D modeling, simulation, sculpting, sheet metal design, CAM toolpath generation and even generative design through cloud servers. Recently they introduced the ability to slice 3D models for 3D printing in Fusion 360, although I felt it was a bit rough. That’s understandable, as it was their first attempt at the function. The accumulation of these features is one…

Stratasys has dropped a full-color 3D printed bombshell with the introduction of the new J55 3D Printer that combines a number of features in a printer that’s sized and priced for small and medium design and engineering business. The J55 is a full-color 3D printer with a rotating build platform, stationary head, odor-free operation, native 3D file format support, 3MF file format support, with clear, 478k color gamut, and Pantone support. This all comes together at a price of $99,000, half of their J8 PolyJet shop series with much of the capability in a footprint that’s just a bit over 4 sq ft. They call the J55 a “full-color, office-friendly…