I know what you’re waiting for. It’s been a long day. Co-workers are finishing up their work, cleaning the sweat from their keyboard and tidying up that cubicle for the day that awaits them tomorrow. You? You’re waiting until everyone leaves. Because, once they do, you can SWAP OUT THAT GPU, BABY! And not just any old GPU, a new NVIDIA Quadro RTX 4000 – 288 Tensor cores, 36 RT cores, and 8 gigabitties of GPU Memory. We’ll be replacing a P4000 in a Lenovo ThinkStation, a ThinkStation P520 to be exact, a mid-range workstation that’s VR-ready and able to take on all the complex modeling, rendering, and animation tasks…

Essentium announced a pair of new materials for its high-speed 3D printer.  The Texas-based 3D printer manufacturer’s claim to fame is its highly engineered HSE series of 3D printers that can operate at 3D print speeds unseen in most other FFF devices. They are able to do so due to the precise engineering of the machine’s motion system, some of which they borrowed from prior experience with high-speed electronics fabrication gear.  But just because the 3D printer’s motion system can rapidly move doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll get a successful 3D print. You must also have a material and material profile to match. Slower 3D print speeds are more forgiving, but…

You might not recall the man’s name, but you’ve surely seen his work somewhere online. Felix Semper, a self-taught Cuban-American artist whose claim to fame is sculpture, doesn’t sculpt wood or stone; he sculpts paper. In a recent interview with WPBT2, he provided some insight into the process behind the paper sculpting that took him a year to perfect. What I do, is take sheets of paper, individual sheets of paper, glue them in stacks, and then I cut them to about the size I think the sculpture is going to be, and then I start carving it. So, all this process is, is eliminating paper. It’s kinda like the…

We have Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality but what if you could explore live scenes, in the next room or distant planet, using the same head-mounted gear? You may recall the scene from Blade Runner where Rick Deckard uses the voice-activated Esper Machine on a photo to zoom in, enhance, track left, pan right, moving around the room as awkwardly as if he were there. Jasper van Loenen’s Esper experiment attempts to recreate a live version of the idea using modern technology — a VR headset and wireless cameras. The installation uses 60 ESP32-CAM wireless IP cameras with a custom mounting and power system, router, PC and a HTC Vive.…

You’ve seen those fake, hollow rock hide-a-key products, but how cool would it be to use a real rock? And, taking it one step further, what if you could add a zipper and turn it into a money pouch? Well, according to avid creator The Q, all it takes is a zipper, some small power tools, and… ya know, a rock, to make a small pouch to hold your coins. Have a look: Of course, this isn’t a real wallet by any stretch of the imagination. This rock wallet would be a bit too bulky for a pocket or bag, but it’s sure to draw some attention. It all starts…

We’ve not seen enough Tesla Model S mods. But that’s about to change. Determined to make the smallest Tesla car ever, Austin Blake of YouTube channel austiwawa took a child’s Tesla Model S Radio Flyer and fitted it with a go-kart engine to make what he calls the “Teskart”: After taking the mini Model S for a test spin and discovering he isn’t quite the same size he was when he was a kid, Austin goes ALL IN on the Model S toy car mod. Rather than using a traditional gasoline go-kart engine, Austin wants to stick to Tesla’s original intentions and plans to install an electric motor. But first,…