Mosaic Manufacturing announced a new cloud-based multi-material software tool for 3D printing, CANVAS. The Canadian company has been busy building and marketing the Palette, which we’ve covered previously. This device is an ingenious 3D printer accessory which dynamically splices differently colored input filaments together in just the right sequence and lengths to enable printing of a multicolored (or indeed multimaterial) object. But while this hardware is quite interesting, there is the matter of software to drive it. How can a print job know where to put which material? Most, if not all, commonly used desktop 3D printing software is focused on single-material (and color) objects. And in the few software…

While not feasible for every product out there, ceramic materials are one of the few natural materials available to us that can be formed into just about anything. Best of all, it’s a sustainable and cheap material to work with. But ceramic furniture? Inspired by German machinery manufacturer Carl Schlickeysen, inventor of the first machine made to produce bricks by extrusion, Madrid-based ENORME Studio recently created a modular furniture system that makes perfect use of that ceramic good stuff. Consisting of a modular metal support bars, the SCHLICKEYSEN system makes use of curved ceramic bricks made through an extrusion-based process that can be used to create something as small as…

What if you could surf on tram tracks? Faced with rough cobblestone streets instead of smooth and paved roads, these creative skaters created a workaround by modding their boards to fit the tram tracks embedded within the cobblestone streets…effectively providing an ultimate smooth ride. Featuring one wheel in the front center of the board and two wheels in the back, the resulting board design lets these shredders shred where no shredder has shredded so eloquently before in the streets of ancient Portugal and beyond: https://youtu.be/3xi5JmMIPRE Helmets, anybody??

This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist knocks you in the pop sockets with head-boppin’ groove tuneage to help propel you through the work week in style. Whether you find yourself inking markers until they’re dry, grinding material through a bandsaw, or working that 3D geometry all day, consider these fresh tracks as a tool for your process. This week we’ll start things off with “Smoke Rings” from Modern Vices and work our way through tracks from Dog Bite, Video Age, Sweet Valley, Henry Hall, and others before wrapping up with “Future Primitive” from Paper Cuts. Have suggestions? As always, let us know what you listen to, what you want to…

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. Each Monday, we’ll 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. Be sure to check in each Monday morning for a new crop of freshly sprouted words curated straight from the source of your favorite homegrown ‘Smack.…

The metal shavers strolled to and fro, peeling layers, shaving sheets and shifting the metal shells of the outer planets. Their arms, battered and scarred from eons of metals shavings flying against them made their skin more armor-like, unable to be penetrated by the sharp shackles of these links. Gao Zhimin – Delightfully dramatic and surreal lanscapes of asian countrysides and seas with a print and embroidered feel to them. Mumu – This wooden toy playset design from Dualai Studio is simple and just about the cutest little wooden toy playset ever. Blade Runner 2049 – The Official teaser trailer for the new Blade Runner 2049 movie starring Harrison Ford…