Mondays might not be your favorite day of the week, but the good news is that we’re all in this together ladies and gentlemen. As purveyors of prime Grade A web content, the SolidSmack crew has done some of the heavy-lifting to make sure you get your Mondays started on the right track. Welcome to The Monday List. Every Monday, we link you up with some of the most insightful, informative, and socially-relevant stories to keep tabbed, bookmarked, reading listed, pocketed, or what have you to get your week started on the right foot. Be sure to check in each week for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight…

Having started with two founders, a single 3D printer and a bicycle in Amsterdam, 3D Hubs sure has come a long way. Thanks to their ability to interconnect a network of on-demand manufacturers and provide a near-seamless user experience, 3D Hubs has amassed a ton of data on the 3D printing market. Trends, transaction data, market leaders—all valuable industry information that could have quietly lived in a company meeting deck, closed off from the outside world. Thankfully, 3D Hubs is a company hell-bent on the progression of the 3D printing industry as a whole. The company recently released their 3D Printing Trends Q1 2019 Report analyzing five different data sources:…

Don your favorite bathrobe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this week’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. The Weekend Reader features a handful of the most interesting articles featured on the ‘Smack over the past week ranging from tips and tricks to inspirational designs, processes, and more. So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top stories on SolidSmack this past week. Oh and uh…don’t forget to shed some much-needed sunlight on your face, too. The Nintendo Flex Is a Redesigned Game Boy Concept for the 21st Century Even though it has official successors by way of the Game Boy SP and Game Boy Advance, no other…

Pins under the skin of the Metal Jibbler’s jaw scrapped its veins of conduit and carbon fiber. Five tons of its legs pushed through the trees and against the edge of our turrets on each side. We’d have to get the powder charges in five of the nine joints and use the complete heat-syncing capability of these links to do it. David Tilton – Love the playfullness of David’s work, especially the colorful mechs. A small collection but awesome stuff from this Austin-based Concept Artist. Pseudo Design Titles – Need a new job title? How about “Uncompromising Bandit for Unorthodox Design”? Your new role awaits. Stranger Things 3 – Trailer…

A Girls 3D Print Club in Cincinnati, Ohio helps highlight STEM opportunities for students. GE Additive’s dedication to education is helping students of all ages gain access to 3D printing. Jessica Hughes of Hyde Park School is a teacher who is herself dedicated to that same mission. One of the early participants in the Additive Education Program (AEP), working with 3D printers in her classroom through the program since its 2017 launch. Early on, Hughes noticed something, though: the boys in her classes had already had some exposure to and experience with 3D printing. The girls had some catching up to do. This disparity isn’t at all uncommon in 3D…

I just ran out the door with a Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Mobile Workstation tucked under my arm. That’s no surprise to most people today but, at the same time, it’s comical that I can sprint to a meeting clutching a mobile workstation housing a 2.7Ghz 6-core processor, 64GB RAM, and 2 terabytes of SSD storage. I can though, and Lenovo has slammed this new ThinkPad right in the sweet spot of mobile workstation bliss with an option 3D professional can easily use as their primary tool for ‘Getting Things Done.” Let’s take a look at what this ThinkPad has to offer. OVERVIEW The Lenovo ThinkPad P1 is a 15.6″ ultralight…