Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from an overview on the current state of CAD software subscription pricing (could there possibly be a SolidWorks subscription pricing model on the horizon?) to how Peter Bellerby of Bellerby & Co. Globemakers…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a new iPhone battery concept designed to last a week or more, a new multi-material 3D printer from MIT that costs just $7K to build, a new bicycle tire that never goes…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a behind the scenes look at the new paintball-inspired Nerf product line, the latest touch-based peripheral from Touchjet, a working paper engine model, a closer look at the assembly and testing behind…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from the new P70 ThinkPad Workstation from Lenovo, a new exhibit from Coca-Cola that highlights the design process behind their iconic curved bottle, how one Japanese designer has upcycled thousands of pieces of…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from how to easily turn your smartphone into a holographic projector, an impressive new app from Morpholio that aims to make the creative process easier for designers, the release of the Slide hoverboard…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a profile on why the laser cutter is a design tool to “frickin’ love”, a toolbox mod that features a built-in 3D printer, a behind-the-scenes look at how filmmakers created a video…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a new interface that wants to make CAD modeling feel like a DJ booth, five tips towards getting that design engineer job, Dell’s first all-weather, impact-resistant tablet for shop environments and more…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from how Autodesk is planning on reinventing the near future of design education to how scanning and MoCap technology could change 3D design and more … So lay back, relax and take a…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a toy dinosaur get made from scratch in less than three minutes, how a new vinyl manufacturing company in Portland, Oregon came to be with antique equipment, the story behind Keyboardio, Autodesk’s…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from an update from Frame about when users can expect to install their apps in the Cloud, an interesting look at origami manipulation, a new piece of software that automates furniture designs into…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from an impressive new interface concept from Google that just might change 3D modeling forever to the much-anticipated release of Rhino 5 for Mac and more… So lay back, relax and take a…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from an impressive 40W laser shotgun and a new kind of coffee cup that’s made from coffee grounds themselves to an update on the latest in Rhino 5 for Mac and more… So…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a crowdfunding campaign that was 100 years in the making to a new type of synthetic (and soft) wood-like material to a library of 70 open source 3D print designs that utilize…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from an entirely new way of thinking about action figures to an update on a rebuild of the iconic “Beast of Turin” and more… So lay back, relax and take a load off…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from an Adam Savage-designed and built functioning Star Trek Captain’s Chair replica, an update on the upcoming KeyShot 6 rendering and animations software, how Google is leveraging their new NYC-based hardware incubator, the…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a Daniel Simon-designed, fully-functional TRON Lightcycle, a much-needed update to the popular Paper iPad app, a look behind the process of a soon-to-be-launched-on-Kickstarter design project and more… So lay back, relax and…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from how a science fiction LEGO fanatic is creating working versions of vintage LEGO sci-fi pieces, a perspective on “why it might seem like everybody is out to steal your ideas”, a new…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from how to turn your $399 Apple Watch into a “$17,000 Apple Watch” using some sneaky DIY techniques, the release of a new Maker-centric social network, how a small shop crafts surfboards in…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from an update to Lenovo’s ThinkStation, an interview with Dieter Rams’ protégé, the exhaustive hand-assembly process behind the Porsche 918 Spyder and more… So lay back, relax and take a load off while…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from “smart Silly Putty” to architecture-inspired building blocks and a brand that’s using the “vacuum forming aesthetic” for their soft goods designs and more… So lay back, relax and take a load off…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from an update on what 3D printing mastermind Joshua Harker has been up to, how IDEO is leveraging a 91-year old product designer on their team, a peek behind the scenes of an…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a behind the scenes look inside the mind of eccentric inventor Dominic Wilcox, a new Adobe app that will help you create design presentations on the fly, Motorola’s hilarious take on the…
With the rise of both an interest in hardware development as a whole combined with an increase of readers who prefer to digest their SolidSmack content on the go, the EvD development team have been working hard over the past six months to bring a new kind of experience to our most loyal readers. Starting…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from an exclusive interview with the founder of Frame – which aims to put all of your Windows-based apps in the cloud – to a unique project that blends 3D printing with mold…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from an exclusive interview with two of the biggest names in MCAD to the introduction of our new Design Entrepreneur Series, a new 3D printing technology, some unearthed Buckminster Fuller interviews and more……
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from the release of Onshape to the big Apple Watch reveal -or shall we say – Apple Watch manufacturing video reveal, and more… So lay back, relax and take a load off while…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a new way to build with an unlimited supply of LEGO bricks to a new mobile prototyping station and how Adobe gets their employees excited about spearheading their own creative projects using…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from an update on the future of next-gen CAD pricing to a way of teleporting physical objects via a 3D printer and more. So lay back, relax and take a load off while…
For those living in the Northern Hemisphere, we are currently encased in the harsh grip of Winter and thus, bound to the grueling duty of snow-shoveling. The natural inclination is to say, “how can I build an awesome robot to do this instead?” Well, Ryan ‘Moo Spyker’ of the famously frozen St. Paul, MN, has been building…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from an update on the future of next-gen CAD pricing to a way of teleporting physical objects via a 3D printer and more. So lay back, relax and take a load off while…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a new parametric multi-material CAD program to an update to the popular Paper by FiftyThree iPad app and more. So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top…
Vacuum tubes are still an incredibly niche thing and are commonly associated with Grandmas, your friend Hipster Dan and Satellite communication. For most signal processing and amplification methods, the mighty transistor kills it; consuming less power, creating less heat and is able to be squeezed into the tightest of compartments. However, that doesn’t mean tubes…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a DIY Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) for Viewing Atomic Structures to a modular Nerf Blaster and more. So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top ten stories…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from technology-inspired mandalas to a power saw outfitted with shark teeth and…an opportunity to have your product design manufactured in space? So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a sneak peek of what to expect from the soon-to-be-released OnShape to a behind-the-scenes look at the complicated modeling involved with making the LEGO Movie, as well as what’s been cookin’ at…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. For our first week of the new year, we saw everything from the complicated disassembly (and reassembly) of a Rolex Submariner watch, a design duo who are bring the vacuum forming aesthetic to fashion, a shower inspired by…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. For our first week of the new year, we saw everything from the complicated disassembly (and reassembly) of a Rolex Submariner watch, a design duo who are bring the vacuum forming aesthetic to fashion, a shower inspired by…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a DIY 3D printed vinyl cutterhead project to exciting developments in bringing Buckminster Fuller’s original geodisic domes to life. So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top…
When one considers a fine, exploded blueprint of a mechanical device, do they really consider the blood, sweat and tears that have gone into it? Usually no, since no really appreciates the difficulty of creating correctly-surfaced timing cams and turbine blades. Japanese Artist Atsushi Koyama does, painting ghostly arms and hands and putting them to…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a new cadjunkie series that focuses on the awesomeness of retopology to Adam Savage’s One Day Build of Barbarella’s Space Rifle and more… So lay back, relax and take a load off…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a new method of manufacturing goods on your desktop to a new virtual reality experience that put you in the driver’s seat (literally!) on an assembly line… So lay back, relax and…
Presented last month at Autodesk’s Pop-Up Gallery in Paris, LeFabShop’s Open Toy Project is pretty much as close as you can get to playing with your food in every sense of the phrase. Designed by Samuel N. Bernier at a 2013 workshop at Domaine de Boisbuchet, the project came out of a decision to use…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a Kickstarter project that wants send ‘bits’ of you to space to an update on the latest Photoshop Cloud release and more… So lay back, relax and take a load off while…
While it may have vaporized out of mainstream news, the Red Bull Stratos jump featuring daredevil Felix Baumgartner is still one of the coolest feats that humanity has accomplished in the last few years. The supersonic jump—which occured at 128,100 feet above Earth—was possible thanks to a team of world-class designers, engineers, researchers and other…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a Batman fanatic’s street legal 1989 Batmobile to a behind the scenes tour of Autodesk’s Pier 9 Workshop and more… So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from how Japanese Kokeshi dolls are made to a new line of Steve McQueen-inspired futuristic motorcycles and…you can use SolidWorks to simulate a zombie attack? So lay back, relax and take a load…
Since it was developed by a post-grad student in Kilkenny, Ireland–Jane Ní Dhulchaointigh–Sugru has been an indispensable tool for those looking to apply quick fixes to industrial design problems ranging from weak iPhone cords to sharp edges and protective bumpers. The substance, which came out of Ní Dhulchaointigh’s goal of enabling people “to easily and…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from HP’s foray into 3D printing to a new way of approaching localized bicycle manufacturing and more. So lay back, relax and take a load off while reading the top ten stories on…
Ask anybody who plays in a code-based environment such as Rhino’s Grasshopper and you’re bound to meet some people doing wild and crazy things. While it may take a little bit of time getting familiar with a code environment–assuming you don’t know printf(“hello world”) from an actual printer–the results can oftentimes be stunning and worth…
Don your favorite bath robe, cream that coffee and get comfortable with this weekend’s SolidSmack Weekend Reader. This week we saw everything from a new desktop manufacturing device that blew past its Kickstarter goal to a new analog measuring tool that creates real-time 3D models on a digital device using the live measurements and more.…