December 2011
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Imaging the Future, Arthur Radebaugh, Bohn... →
fulltable.com This was a sus­tained cam­paign by the com­pa­ny to define the Future in its own terms. Their prod­uct may be util­i­tar­i­an but their vision was soar­ing and an appeal to the old spir­it of the New York World Fair, This is Tomor­row. Awesome futuristic war-time ad posters.
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Love These Social Networks Propaganda Posters →
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Managing Startups: Best Posts of 2011  →
Tom Eisenmann Here’s my compilation of 2011’s best posts about managing startups. I assembled similar lists at the end of 2010 and 2009. Please use comments to suggest additional posts. Happy New Year! Very nice collection of posts if you are into the subject.
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The Effect of University Monopoly Licensing in 3d... →
Gerry Barnett, rtei.org Inkjet pow­der 3d print­ers pro­vide a use­ful case study for the effects of uni­ver­si­ty exclu­sive patent licens­ing. In the early 90s, MIT researchers devel­oped inkjet 3d print­ers. They built off much of the tech­nol­o­gy plat­form used for… Great background article on patents in 3D printing. Not sure if I agree on the ending about urging universities to limit...
Dec 31st
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Open Source Increasingly Replaced By Open APIs →
Soulskill, slashdot.org Shark­Laser writes “Open APIs might be the way to get rich in 2012. At the same time, it can also be what ulti­mate­ly hin­ders open source devel­op­ment. A wide range of com­pa­nies, includ­ing Google, Face­book, Ama­zon and Twit­ter, are build­i… Yep!
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2011 Wrap Up! →
Since everybody in the blogosphere is doing a best-of-2011-post, I will do the same. Here is my list. I based it on both number of page views together with a bit of curation by me.
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Printed 3D Titanium Wet Folded Origami
Small, intricate shapes made of metals, ceramics or polymers have a variety of applications, from biomedical devices to electronics to rapid prototyping. One method of fabricating such structures is by direct-write assembly, which the Lewis group helped pioneer. In this approach, a large printer deposits inks containing metallic, ceramic or plastic particles to assemble a structure layer by...
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Finally, a 3D Printer With Closed Loop Control →
Then I read this article on Wired today. It is a 3D printer build in the research lab of Pieter Sijpkes. He built an ice printer. The idea and execution is fascinating, but then my eye fell on this: “After every five layers have been deposited, a laser-displacement system measures the geometry of the top layer and adjusts the valve-control data to correct for any errors.”.
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3D Concrete Printing Could Be The Future Of... →
by Chris, tool-rank.com
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Consumer 3D Printing; Manufacturing’s Big Bang? →
globaltoynews.com For starters, the author, Nick Bil­ton, thinks its arrival on the scene is going to be soon­er than many expect. Here is how he puts it: It won’t be long before peo­ple have a 3-D print­er sit­ting at home along­side its old inkjet… Yes I think it will be!
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Mine Mars Teaser 2 ( Marching Cubes Webgl ) →
johndavidfive, youtube.com I love this dig-a-random-hole demos. Freeform interaction within a game environment will be next big breakthrough in gaming. It will take another few years though…
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WebGL Cheat Sheet →
nihilogic.dk void enable|dis­able DEPTH_TEST Enable/disable depth test­ing. void depth­Func ulong func Spec­i­fy the value used for depth buffer com­par­isons. Para­me­ter func is one… Handy! http://flpbd.it/UHUg
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Reality Check On 3D Printing →
Those two posts flagged my interest because Gartner put 3D printing at the mere top of the hype cycle a few months ago. The next phase is the trough of disillusionment. It seems we are slowly moving into this phase. In my point of view this is a good thing. The previous phase called peak of inflated expectations has done its work. A lot of people are now aware of 3D printing and it is time to...
Dec 26th
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Blogging for your business is worth it even if you... →
by robfitz · December 14, 2011, thestartuptoolkit.com I used to blog out of guilt. Every now and then, my investors would stern­ly sug­gest I blog more. I’d grumpi­ly obey and then point to the flat traf­fic graph as clear evi­dence of blog­ging’s fruit­less­ness. It was a self-fulfilling prophe­cy… Agree
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New release of X3DOM! →
x3dom.org So final­ly: 1 day before christ­mas we did it! Here is our next sta­ble release after half a year of devel­op­ment We have worked on bug fix­ing and added some new fea­tures! Gen­er­al work we did Our participation at the W3C was… I love how fast this project is moving forward. WebGL is a nice technology but without proper support libraries it is just that: a nice technology.
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Students make computer design 3-D reality - San... →
By Jennifer R. Lloyd, jlloyd@express-news.net, mysanantonio.com What do Yoda, the Tower of the Amer­i­c­as, a block of cheese and a snowflake have in com­mon? Stu­dents at St. Luke’s Epis­co­pal School have been able to “print” small sculp­tures of each with a Thing-O-Matic 3-D print­er, one of the few in us… Every school should have a 3D printer!
Dec 25th
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Mineways →
realtimerendering.com Rotate model clock­wise: this is use­ful when you want to dis­play a model on Shape­ways. The view of the model is ren­dered by Shape­ways from the south-south-east. So if your model faces west, you might rotate it 270 degrees to have it fa… Next to your avatars from Minecraft you can also 3D print your maps and buildings. Cool!
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3D Printing and the Coming Rise of Lo-Fi Things »... →
Posted by CarlMorton at 3:00 pm, scribescopycentre.co.uk With the advent of the indus­tri­al rev­o­lu­tion the qual­i­ty of just about every­thing had been on the rise. Print­ing went from black and white mov­able type to high tech dig­i­tal color. Audio went from record­ing on wax cylin­ders to hi-fi… Yes, quality will improve. Technology will get better. It is just cool to sit in the...
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