Upcoming Events: May/June
Busy season has begun with ProTECHtivity, BreakerFaire, Vancouver Mini Maker Faire and Northern Voice all happening over the next few weeks…
3D Printing
Science World 3D Printing Demo Weekends
Yesterday, our 3d printing club, 3D604, finished our fourth day of 3d printer demos at Science World over two weekends during Spring Break. We had 16 printers the first weekend and 13 the second one – a pretty impressive turnout! It was a lot of fun showing the 3d printing technology to thousands of people…
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Highlights from SXSW 2013 Part 1: The Year of Hardware
Most people ask me, upon returning, what was the one ‘big’ thing you saw this year. The last few years have been full of big applications that blew up due to the influx of savvy tech folks in Austin to get exposed to them. This year felt different though…definitely there was no shortage of street teams shoving t-shirts and branded swag in my face for various online services but the obvious vibe I noticed was that it was the “Year of Hardware”.
SXSW, 3D Printing and Science World
In less than a week, I’ll be making my annual trek to Austin, Texas for the South By Southwest Interactive conference (aka SXSW). I said last year I likely wasn’t going to go again, but things changed when they added a DIY/Hacker/Maker category which meant I could pitch a talk about 3D printing. I was…
Tech Tuesday: 3D Printed Buildings & Using Your Face as a Remote
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I discussed these items: 3D printed building: Coming in 2014, 3d printing goes to a whole new level as Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars plans to make the worlds first 3d printed home using the Italian designed DShape printer. This is the same printer that made the Rygo…
How you know 3D printing is hitting the mainstream
You know 3d printing is hitting the mainstream when…
MAKE international 3D printing meetup
Last night was the first international maker meetup on 3d printing, hosted by MAKE magazine. I was able to help gather about 17 folks down at the Vancouver Hack Space (aka VHS) to watch the live Google+ Hangout and generally geek out about 3d printing. MAKE just published their guide to 3d printing and sent…
Perhaps I shouldn’t have 3D printed this
But I couldn’t resist Landru’s awesome model of the T-800 Terminator Exoskull. It was also my first time printing something with support. I used MakerWare’s built in support option in this 4 hour print using the medium quality settings. The support literally peels off and is kind of like velcro (but looks like a brillo…
It’s the Great Companion Cube, Charlie Brown
During my visit to the Portland Mini Maker Faire in September, I stumbled across Low Voltage Labs and their cool little Great Pumpkin PCB kit. Meant to add a safe, flickery LED light to a pumpkin, I thought it would also look cool inside the Companion Cube box I just printed on my Replicator 2:…
MakerBot Replicator 2 has arrived
As I mentioned previously, I sold my Thing-O-Matic and was waiting for it’s replacement. Well, the Replicator 2 arrived and I’ve been printing stuff like crazy with it. Unlike the Thing-O-Matic, this printer comes (nearly) fully assembled so I was up and running almost immediately. MakerBot already did a great unboxing video so I won’t:…