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.
This New Manufacturing Method Uses Fabric and 6-Axis Robots to Bring Variation to Cast Objects
“As conventional casting methods have taught us, the best way for reliably manufacturing multiples of any object is to start with an accurate and sturdy mold. For their recent Fabric Forms explorative material study, however, architects Joseph Sarafian and Ron Culver wanted to do something that was anything but conventional…”
New Adventures in Flat Pack Design: The Giacinto Stereo Loudspeaker Set
“While Ready-to-Assemble or “flat pack” product designs have been in existence for over a half-century, the majority of these designs – more often than not from IKEA – have existed in some form or another as a piece of simplified furniture. With the more recent introduction of low-cost DIY electronics and methods of digital fabrication, however, some of today’s forward-thinking product designers are using that same strategy to keep production costs down while adding another layer of interaction to their consumer electronic products…”
GDaaS Gives Frame Some CAD Virtualization Competition
“Cloudalize is a company you’ve probably never heard, but you’ve certainly heard of desktop virtualization. You know, accessing all your apps (CAD, CAE, BIM, etc.) from the cloud via any browser or mobile device? Yes? Well, up until now Frame has been the headlinershowing the possibilities, with quick creation of a virtual workspace, and SolidWorks, Siemens and others using them as a cloud solution…”
Apple Recovered Nearly $40 Million in Gold From Recycled Devices Last Year
“Despite revealing their anticipated new iPhone SE and a smaller iPad Pro at their Keynote last month, the most impressive announcement from Apple came in the form of Liam, an industrial robot designed to tear apart discarded iPhones…”
This New YouTube Channel Exists Solely to Cut Everyday Objects in Half with a Waterjet
“In most cases, using a 60,000 psi waterjet to cut material is a perfectly safe and sane process. For those who have an appetite for the recent phenomenon of object destruction videos, it’s also the perfect tool for cutting everyday objects perfectly in half to see a real-world cross section…”
Watch a Traditional Wooden Lacrosse Stick Get Crafted from Scratch by Hand
“Although the sport of lacrosse may elicit thoughts of East Coast prep schools, the game was in fact invented by a confederacy of six Native American nations – the Iroquois – whose territory once stretched from Lake Erie in the west to Lake Champlain in the east…”
