That stuff about the twitter frame busting code is just so I don’t lose that snippet of code. Plus, I suppose it might be useful to someone.
<script>
function bust () {
document.write = "";
window.top.location = window.self.location;
setTimeout(function() {
document.body.innerHTML = '';
}, 0);
window.self.onload = function(evt) {
document.body.innerHTML = '';
};
}
if (window.top !== window.self) { // are you trying to put self in an iframe?
try {
if (window.top.location.host) { // this is illegal to access unless you share a non-spoofable document domain
// fun times
} else {
bust(); // chrome executes this
}
} catch (ex) {
bust(); // everyone executes this
}
}
</script>
Now that the D-Shape architectural-scale cement printer is online,
there's a plan to print one of my sculptures on it, 6' tall, to be
installed in Vancouver.
Donors get toys. And glory. And remote control of a light in the
middle of it. But mostly glory.
by Bathsheba (b...@bathsheba.com) at January 28, 2012 01:30 AM
by Triffid Hunter (triffid.hun...@gmail.com) at January 28, 2012 12:54 AM
Thingiverse citizen Keff just shared this awesome “Weeping Skeleton Vampire Mummy Earphone Winder.” The earphone cord works perfectly as a faux-bandage around the mummy’s head. This is absolutely my favorite earphone winder of all time. Keff says of his creation:
I got a little carried away making a winder for my new earphones.
Hey Keff – if this is you carried away, don’t ever let anyone carry you back! This is AWESOME!
Check out the the NY Times’ Gadgetwise blog, or yesterday’s print issue of the Times, for a quick FAQ on The Replicator! Warren Buckleitner wrote the piece, “A 3-D Printer for Under $2,000: What Can It Do?” after visiting the MakerBot booth at CES. He answers such burning questions as “What does a 3-D printer use?” and “How long does it take to make a plastic chess piece?” For more info, watch the video interview above that Buckleitner did with MakerBot’s John Dimatos.
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| RapMan 3.2 3D printer |
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| Touchscreen technology now available on RapMan 3D printers |
by Tim, Bits From Bytes (noreply@blogger.com) at January 27, 2012 04:04 PM
This month I got the awesome experience of going on a business trip to Las Vegas for the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show. My company was there launching our new Cubify.com platform and Cube 3D printer.
The show was a blast! Our new products were a hit and our booth was packed the entire time. I can’t even begin to count how many people I spoke with in the booth, I was pretty much loosing my voice by the fourth day of the show lol.
I didn’t have too much time to see all of the rest of the show due to the constant stream of people in our booth. The size of the crowds at this show were wayy larger than the crowds at the Maker Faire’s I have had booths at in the past. Helpful hint when working a trade show; always keep tons of water and throat lozenges around.
I’ve lowered some prices; Igus polymer bushings are now $0.90 a pop, and Prusa Mendel leadscrews-and-nuts sets are now only $50—actually cheaper than you can get the parts directly from Misumi. Pick some up today!
I just played with animating a displacement modifiers in blender today This is also the first blender animation I made that has sound. The sounds have been generated with pure-data and then synced to the video using ardour
you can download the blend file here

Wondering what 3D printing is about?
“2012 may be the year of 3D printing, when this three-decade-old technology finally becomes accessible and even commonplace. Lisa Harouni gives a useful introduction to this fascinating way of making things -- including intricate objects once impossible to create”.
Have a look at this TED talk..... it sums it all up very nicely.
www.ted.com/talks/lisa_harouni_a_primer_on_3d_printing.html
Enjoy!
He escrito esta Guía de calibración de la impresora Prusa Mendel para ayudar a los clones de Clone wars a poner en marcha sus impresoras. No son instrucciones completas, sino más bien orientativas, y que iré completando poco a poco. Es la guía que seguí para poner en marcha las impresoras Maese artorius y Mardan.
La guía incluye los ficheros con mi firmware calibrado, piezas de pruebas, el Pronterface + Skeinforge 41 y los perfiles que utilizo para imprimir. Los detalles están para el entorno que yo tengo: Ubuntu 11.10, pero Maese artorius y Mardan lo instalaron en Windows y les funcionó bien.
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| Noise pots and Sin Cos pots 11 x 8 cm |
by Tim, Bits From Bytes (noreply@blogger.com) at January 26, 2012 11:26 AM
Essential Dynamics have released the Imagine 3D Printer that can print in silicone, epoxies, organices, cheese and most importantly: Chocolate!
When I’m discussing 3D Printing, most people (not all, but most) can’t see the use for being able to print anything. After I mention that there are chocolate printers – their eyes light up they order me to “Get one of those and start printing your fingers off!”
But jokes aside, 3d printing in Chocolate and other food stuffs is (and if it isnt – it SHOULD be!) a part of Molecular Gastronomy – the science of cooking.
The printer can also print in other mediums such as epoxies and the rather untouched field of silicons. Of course, don’t mix up your syringes.
The printer comes in at around $2995 and has $295 shipping.
When starting out with 3D printing there are often questions about generating the g-code that is used to drive the machines. With BfB machines this is done with the Axon 2 program …. So it looks like the guys at BfB have created a very comprehensive manual for Axon and some supporting videos. Worth reading as many of the problems have simple solutions that have been fully documented already.... And there is some great advice about designing your objects, rafts, fills, layers, speeds, support material, wall thickness etc.
The video clips can be found here www.youtube.com/axon3dsoft
And the manual can be found by visiting the "Support>technical resources" section of the website (button on the blue bar at the top of the BfB website pages) then click on the "how to print" link alongside the pictures of the different printers, and finally click the Axon picture at the bottom of the page (sorry for the long description, I couldn’t post a link as you would need the login details and password for that section of the site)
Cette semaine, on se lance dans un projet touffu: la sérigraphie. Au programme: fabrication d’une table à insoler, insolation d’un cadre et tirage du tout premier t-shirt barbu…
Quelques remarques sur l’épisode:
D’abord un petit mot pour m’excuser sur la qualité pitoyable de cet épisode pour plusieurs raisons:
- on a eut un problème avec le son de la caméra principale et donc j’ai été obligé au montage de me rabattre sur le son de la deuxième caméra
- ensuite comme vous pouvez le voir, au bout de quelques temps, l’humidité s’installe dans la grotte et sur la lentille de la caméra, ce qui donne ce côté flou et degueulasse
- enfin pour le montage… une horreur principalement parceque c’était très dur de monter cet épisode, le dernier auquel Edouard (ou @Doud) pourra participer. J’ai essayé d’en faire un exercice cathartique mais au final c’était juste super dur, donc j’ai essayé de faire le montage le moins pire possible… en essayant de préserver quelques moments particulièrement fun qu’on a passé à tourner cet épisode.
Quelques remarques sur la sérigraphie:
- c’est un procédé vraiment génial mais qui demande du temps et pas mal de matériel
- certains coups de main sont important, comme le coup de raclette pour l’émulsion photosensible sur le cadre, mais au bout de quelques tentatives, on devient pas mauvais du tout.
- en cas de doute, n’hésitez pas à prendre conseil chez un professionnel, si il a le temps et l’envie, cela vous évitera pas mal de bêtises et de gâcher du matériel.
- la sérigraphie c’est beaucoup de préparation et beaucoup de travail mais le résultat est vraiment génial.
Vous pouvez télécharger le guide de l’épisode dispo en pdf ici.
Quelques photos de la fabrication de la table à insoler:




Quelques photos du résultat:




Encore quelques tofs…




Enfin un dernier petit mot pour vous dire que d’ici quelques semaines, un lot de tshirts sérigraphiés seront disponibles dans le shop, fabriqué par mes gros doigts poilus avec ce matos de sérigraphie… donc encore un peut de patience.
Comme d’habitude tous vos commentaires sont les bienvenus
by Bryan Bishop (kanz...@gmail.com) at January 25, 2012 08:16 PM
by Bryan Bishop (kanz...@gmail.com) at January 25, 2012 06:49 PM
Click here to view the embedded video.
Alberto Valero y nuestros friki-estudiantes me han dedicado este vídeo de despedida. Me ha encantado
¡Muchas gracias!
Bre recently posted this on the MakerBot blog, and it seems appropriate to repost here:
Here at MakerBot, we make open source hardware and we freely share digital designs for our products on Thingiverse.com. As a business, we strive to be a model for the bold companies of the 21st century that embrace sharing. You can download the design files for the things we sell on Thingiverse.com.
We created Thingiverse to be the digital design sharing utopia of our dreams. Thingiverse.com integrates with open licenses that encourages Thingiverse users to let others copy and change their work so that others can stand on their shoulders and create the products of tomorrow and the solutions for the next generation. Every day I look on Thingiverse and say “Wow!” when I see the new things that have been shared. People who upload designs to Thingiverse are my heroes.
Things, and digital designs for things, are very different than other types of media. Copyright doesn’t work the same way on things as it does with music, movies, and books. If you’re into exploring the intellectual property landscape of things, you need to read “It will be awesome if they don’t screw it up” by Michael Weinberg.
The Pirate Bay announcement of a new category for digital designs is interesting because it’s another place where people can share digital designs for real things. As a technology, torrents are particularly great for super mega giant files because they distribute the downloading load and I’m curious to see what kinds of things will begin to show up in that category. Because The Pirate Bay takes a bold, no-holds-barred approach to sharing, I’m sure there will be controversies as companies and people who long for the proprietary days of the 20th century come to terms with the raw power of contemporary sharing technology. Cue squeaking of the world’s tiniest violin.
In the contemporary age of sharing, those who share will be the leaders of tomorrow. The sharers will be the ones who will emerge in the 21st century as winners in the rapidly changing innovative landscape. I’ve consistently advised individuals and companies to push their comfort level and share more. If you have a company that feels threatened by the idea of someone sharing digital designs for your products, I suggest you join the sharing community and share those design files yourself on Thingiverse.com.
Click here to view the video on YouTube.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lisa_harouni_a_primer_on_3d_printing.html
Good introductory video on 3D Printing.
She discusses the major challenge (creating the designs) and the goes on to the uses of 3D Printing such as printing items to repair something and mass customisation.
A good video to show to people when they ask “What is 3D Printing?”