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Wired Wednesday: Facebook 3D, Google Maps update & SonarPen

ByJohn

This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I spoke about these tech topics for Wired Wednesday with Ben Wilson:

  • Facebook’s plan to unite AR, VR and News Feed with 3D posts (source)
  • Real-time commute and places info comes to Google Maps on iOS (source)
  • SonarPen is a $30 iPad stylus that connects to the headphone jack (source)

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Game Changers: Bre Pettis

ByJohn

Time.com just featured Bre Pettis, CEO and co-founder of MakerBot Industries in their Game Changer series. Bre’s passion for this technology was a huge reason for me buying my own Thing-o-Matic 3D printer and getting into 3D printing in the first place. I think the video captures this quite well along with perfectly explaining the…

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Adventures in 3D Printing: the Prusa Mendel

ByJohn

As part of my continuing adventures with a 3D printer, my next project is printing an actual 3D printer, the opensource Prusa Mendel, a Reprap derivative. Well, printing a good portion of it anyways. Aside from a larger build platform which utilizes a slightly different way of printing from my MakerBot (both the extruder and…

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Tech Tuesday: 3d printed airplanes and a $99 videogame console

ByJohn

This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I discussed these items: Airbus designing the next generation of airplanes to be 3d printed: Currently just in the concept stages, Airbus is looking to build it’s next generation airplanes over the next 20 years. Using large scale 3d printers (80m x 80m) which use additive layer manufacturing,…