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Category Archives: Maker Movement
Foldify – 3D Paper Art made on your iPad
Foldify is a simple, easy-to-use app for creating papercraft art on your iPad. The concept is pretty basic: use the iPad to create digital papercraft art that can be broadly customized with colors, facial features, designs and more, and then … Continue reading
STAPLES – Introduces 3D Printing Service in Europe
STAPLES, the office superstore, has been doing some serious shape-shifting in response to the global economic chaos. It recently laid off hundreds of workers in Europe, and closed under performing stores in the U.S.. STAPLES is also leaning out to … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Printing, 3D Tech, Architecture, Digital Cutters, Digital Fabrication, Kirigami, Maker Movement, PaperCraft, Physible, Services, SketchUp, Technical Origami, Uncategorized
Tagged 3D Printing with paper, Joseph Feldman, Mcor Iris, paper, Paper craft, paper vs. plastic in 3D Printing, Staples, Telsey Advisory Group
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SketchUp Basecamp – Day Three
The weather changed decidedly early this morning in Boulder.. back to a crisp Fall day with lots of wind and fall leaves blowing about. Today’s more seasonable Fall weather called for a real breakfast, and I knew just the place… … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Tech, Architecture, Dynamic Components, Landscape Architecture, Maker Movement, SketchUp, Uncategorized
Tagged Aidan chopra, Basecamp design charrette, Basecamp in Boulder, Boulder restaurants, Bryn Fosburgh, designing a system for organizing portable devices, Designing the wired-wireless classroom of the future, Fran Ryan, Impact on Education, Luciles fine food, SketchUp Basecamp, SketchUp Unconference, Trimble Sketchup
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The 3D ‘Content Problem’
by Fred Abler A problem with most CAD software companies is they are not abundant thinkers. They operate in a paradigm of scarcity. The market is a zero-sum game. There are ‘winners and losers’, and so content creators and other … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Printing, 3D Tech, BIM, Digital Fabrication, History, Maker Movement, Physible, Reviews, SketchUp, Theory & Concepts, Uncategorized
Tagged Apple Maps fiasco, CAD content, CAD Marketing, copyright on 3D objects, DEP for 3D, Digital Rights Management, DRM for 3D, Google Maps, Intellecutal Ventures, Nathan Myhrvold, Patents for 3D Printing, quality 3D content, software industry, the content problem
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5 things to Know about MakerBot’s new 3D Printer
MakerBot released its Replicator II last week to much fanfare. I largely ignored the press release, as 3D Printing is officially now at the height of it’s Hype Cycle. This is when I generally tune out. Just to underscore this … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Printing, 3D Tech, Digital Fabrication, Maker Movement, Minimalist Movement
Tagged 3D Printing, 3D printing Hype, Additive Manufacturing, Bre Pettis, Businessweek, Downloadable Design, Gartner, makerbot, MakerBot industries, material manufacturing, rapid prototyping, Replicator II, Slate
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The Cube – A Personal 3D Printer
If FisherPrice and 3D Printing had a love-child, it would be The Cube – an adorable 3D printer made by 3DSystems in Rock Hill, South Carolina. The Cube (so named for its 5.5” cubic print space) costs $1250, and makes … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Printing, 3D Tech, Digital Fabrication, For Fun, Maker Movement, Physible, Tools
Tagged 3D Models for Printing, 3D Printing, 3D Printing for kids, Co-branding, Crayola Crayons, Cubify, FormFonts 3D Models, Manufacturing On Demand, My Robot Nation, physibles, Serious Toys, The Cube
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Origami Trend’scends Interior Design
by Fred Abler I am a folding freak. I love Origami – its craft, spatial economy, and especially the conflict-of-perception between the complex finished form vs. its simple construction. And recently, Origami has become on-trend in Interior Design. Designers have … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Models, 3D Tech, Architecture, Digital Fabrication, Interior Design, Maker Movement, Minimalist Movement, Origami, PaperCraft, Theory & Concepts
Tagged 3D Model of Real Good Chair, action origami, conflict of perception, Etsy, Expensive Minimalism, Folding Freak, Folding Furniture, furniture-as-art, Interior Design Trends, Kada Stool, Kirigami, origami coin tubes, Origami Fabrication Techniques, Origami Lampshade, Origmai, origmai packaging, PennyRevolution, reusable coin tubes, simple living, Spacify, Studio Snowpuppe, technical origami packaging
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The Material Web 1.0 and Creative Capitalism
by Fred Abler By now we all know that 3D Printing is Fab’ulous. People are 3D printing everything: jawbones, human blood vessels, medicines, concrete buildings, working semi-automatic rifles, cassette shaped MP3 players, and even entire museum collections. Last week a … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Tech, Maker Movement, Theory & Concepts, Uncategorized
Tagged 3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing, Amazon, disruptive technology, Future of 3D Printing, Future of Construction, Future of Retail, Jeff Bezos, Kinkos, Objects on Demand, Scott Crump, Stratasys, University of Washington, WOOF
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