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 ten stories on SolidSmack this past week. Oh and uh…don’t forget to shed some much-needed sunlight on your face, too. OpenKnit is the Open-source Machine for Bespoke Clothing Creation “It’s a cyberpunk dream to print clothes like vacation photos and TPS reports. Various companies have tried to combine 3D printing with…
When it comes to equipping tomorrow’s designers and engineers with the tools they need to create compelling projects today, few companies have been as generous in offering access to software, tools and even fabrication facilities as Autodesk has. While the company’s Fusion 360 design software has always been free to use for students and those who otherwise don’t use it for commercial projects, they recently expanded their generous offer to include their entire Product Design Collection to those on the Fab Foundation’s global network of workshops and makerspaces. Facilities that qualify for the $2,460 per year collection will each be granted 10 licenses –– or approximately $25,000 per year to access…
Maryland-based startup M3D gained fame back in 2014 when they successfully crowdfunded their Micro 3D printer on Kickstarter in a matter of minutes (surpassing their goal of $50K and ending with over $3.4M). The fledgling company is hoping for a repeat performance with their latest edition of their 3D printer lineup–the M3D Pro, which again, has already surpassed their initial goal of $100K with over $300K in and more than a month left to go.
With four finished degrees from MIT (BS: Physics, Math, MS: Mech. Engineering, Media Arts and Sciences), scientist and engineer Jeff Lieberman knows a thing or two about –– well, a lot of things. As the host of the TV show ‘Time Warp’ on the Discovery Channel, his interest in the human consciousness took him down a long road exploring events that happen too quickly for the naked eye to register using state-of-the-art camera equipment and editing techniques. It is somewhere along that same road of exploring the art of bending time where Lieberman conceived of his latest –– and perhaps most ambitious –– project to date: a picture frame that appears to…
Crooked fence posts propped up its torso and surly demeanor, clanking a grin as spindles and pumps whirred beneath the translucent neck skin. A movement would send tremors, with keg like mechanisms hitting the ground and spreading light from the cracks of these links. Ivan Smirnov – Super playful, colorful scenes full of all sorts of interesting characters, robots, ships, subs, vehicles and aircraft. Hot Wheels Roadtrip – This is all kinds of brilliant and so well executed. A GoPro Hero4 Session strapped to the top of a Hot Wheels car. Make it Stranger – Enjoy the Stranger Things series? Well, you’ll enjoy this site to make your own Stranger…
When it comes to documenting a build, few people can top Frank Howarth’s creative use of camera shots and storylines to make otherwise mundane processes seem like Hollywood handiwork. And like any skilled videographer, Howarth spends just as much time building his own rigs for specific shots as he does actually filming them. Most recently, the Oregon-based woodworker built what is quite possibly his most impressive rig yet in the form of the Orbiting Time Lapse Camera Rig. Designed to rotate around a fixed point while documenting a process via time lapse, Howarth built the rig in true Howarth fashion –– out of CNC-cut wood parts. Says Howarth: “(This) camera rig…