There’s simply no lack of options for gear to hold your laptop. We each have our own preference, I’m sure, but when my backpack finally gave out recently, I decided to consider other options. One of those options is the Harber London Leather Laptop Case. It’s simple and unassuming, yet durable and well-designed. Harber London sent the case over for me to have a look and share my thoughts. Harber London Overview Harber London is a family run business founded in 2013 that specializes in handmade leather goods. It was born out of a disappointing experience with and lack of quality in available laptop sleeves. They launched their first laptop…

I’ve bumped into a very interesting technique that could save an enormous amount of support material and 3D printing time. Support structures are an inevitable aspect of 3D printing: some geometries are simply not capable of being printed without support for overhangs exceeding the threshold of your device. Typically this ranges from 45 to 60 degrees of inclination. While some models may require minimal support structures, others require enormous amounts of support for huge overhanging sections. These supports require not only time to print and a large amount of eventually wasted material, they also require manual labor to remove them from the print once completed. And they mess up the…

Here we go. Think of controlling your machinery, lighting systems, or robot minions with nothing but AR controls via your phone. PTC, who acquired Enterprise AR developer Vuforia in November 2015, has just released an open-source app to visualize, control, and create connected systems. Vuforia Spatial Toolbox allows you to explore programmatic control scenarios but also allows you to link physical systems together and control their capabilities. The AR control app can be used on machines tracked with Vuforia Engine and via new add-ons that interface with robotic systems, Philips Hue lighting systems, Arduino, or LEGO Boost and Wedo 2.0 sets. Vuforia Spatial Toolbox is available on the iOS App…

By now you’ve heard it’s important to stay in shape during these trying times, but I bet you haven’t taken it as far as former military police officer, Zachary Skidmore. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced his local gym to shut down, Skidmore needed a way to get some exercise. But rather than risk breaking social distancing etiquette to buy a set of exercise equipment, he decided to make his own gym on his family property in Jackson, Ohio. Composed entirely from timber and rope, the idea of making a wooden gym crossed Skidmore’s mind when he saw a fallen tree on his family’s land. After 60 hours of hard chainsaw…

We love toys. And when you add wood and puzzles into the mix, you’ve got a winning combination. MōFU is a line of poseable animal puzzle toys designed by Yoshiaki Ito, an award-winning, Brooklyn-based designer and craftsman. The toys are inventive, dang cute, and now available in a new Kickstarter campaign. Yoshiaki developed the toy line over the last few years and described the process with us and the challenge of designing a folding toy that is also a puzzle: I used Rhino 3D to design all of these animals. A benefit of using 3D CAD is being able to manipulate the shapes in 3 dimensions while drawing. The challenge…

For those unfamiliar with the term, “hydro dipping” is a unique form of graphics application that allows you to apply a hydro film to a 3-dimensional object. The Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) film, floating on the surface of a water tank, wraps the object as it is dipped into the tank. Much like you would with painting any object, your object has to first be prepped, primed, and applied with a base coat that gives the film a surface to adhere to and acts as a secondary color. The graphics are printed on the PVA film using a water-soluble ink using a rotary printer. This film is applied to the surface…