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. Nintendo Labo: The Accessory for Switch that Brings Cardboard to Life Back when I was a kid, I built a model of the Tardis Console from season 13 using my parent’s cable…

If you’re someone who has the energy to exercise after sitting at a desk for 12 hours… well, of course you should. If you don’t wear your exercise clothes at work, you probably tote around your work bag along with an exercise bag. Shoes, clothes, soap, rubber ducky– the essentials. One person dared to imagine eliminating one bag/combining both bags. Designer David Hundertmark of Farer Design thought there was a better solution to lugging around two bags and wanted something stylish built for his active lifestyle. The Dayfarer is the culmination of a year’s worth of sweating every detail in a bag designed to hold your gym gear and work materials. The bag has…

When we last looked at PolyPort (formerly D3CRYPT3D), they were just buttoning up their shiny start-up pants, but already dropping jaws with their approach to 3D asset protection. They ended up winning the SXSW Interactive Innovation Award for Privacy and Security, presented at SIGGRAPH, pitched at Patriot Boot Camp (PBC) and Veteran Shark Attack, announced a MyStemKits.com partnership, was accepted into the Darkfield cybersecurity accelerator, and released Beta 2.0 of their software. It all added up to 82 high-fives, 156 fist bumps and buckets of grit and determination to push the possibilities of complete 3D asset tracking, management, and IP protection. This month, they released a new preview that shows just how far…

It’s incredible how easy it is to trick the mind into thinking it isn’t doing work. Playing sports makes training your body fun, watching nature shows on TV makes learning biology possible, and playing video games makes puzzle solving compelling. But this particular 21st century device tries to mix both learning and physical activity into one very tiring—and different —workout. The Augumented Climbing Wall is an interactive gaming platform that uses climbing walls instead of standard video game controllers. Using a tracking system and mounted projector that projects different games and objectives, the Augmented Climbing Wall presents players with set routes to climb for the duration of each game. The…

Crystallon is a new feature for Rhino3D / Grasshopper CAD design that automatically generates lattice structures. Lattices are a critical component for the future of 3D printing. Why? Because they create structures that are a) useful, and b) only producible by 3D printing processes. The value equation here is for companies to shift into new products based on “impossible” components produced by 3D printing to raise function and lower costs. Thus lattice generation is a very important capability. At present, there are a few tools to do so, but I ran into one that is entirely free and open source. Well, it’s not entirely free. You first have to have…

Cutting your hair is a remarkable skill to have. After all, eliminating yet one more thing you have to do each month is always a blessing—not to mention saving a few dollars is always nice. That said, getting the results you want isn’t always easy. The CreaClip doesn’t turn you into a bonafide hairdresser, but it does provide you with a guide to which parts of your head hair you’d like to chop off. These plastic clips can be attached to either the front or back of your head and, once your hair has been properly arranged, serve as a bonafide hair stencil for your scissors. While this could be…