This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I talked about: North America’s largest 3d printed object comes to Vancouver: The Rygo exhibit will be unveiled at VanDusen Gardens on Thursday, July 26 and is currently the largest object ever produced by a 3d printer in North America. JF Brandon worked with designer Bathsheba Grossman to…
This weekend (July 28-29), Vancouver Island is hosting it’s first Mini MakerFaire at the Panorama Rec Centre in North Saanich. A few of us from 3D604 will be taking our 3d printers on the ferry to spend the weekend at the Faire: Can’t wait for the 3d printer village road show!
My friends (and co-makers from MakerFaire as well as co-founders of the 3D604 group) at Tinkerine Studios have finally launched the crowdfunding campaign for their awesome Ditto 3d printer over at Indigogo: This marks the third unique 3d printer design to come out of our local club (Derek’s Citadel Mendel was the first, followed by…
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,…
This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I discussed these topics: Twisted light: New tech can transmit 70 DVDs worth of data per second: Researchers at USC have found a way to send data at up to 2.5 terabytes per second (the equivalent of 70 dvds) by twisting the light used for transmission. Regular fibre…
This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Penn researchers 3D print vascular networks with sugar – bioprinting organ research hit a milestone when it was recently discovered that printing a structure out of sugar made it much easier to print living cells in that can actually support blood flow. The…
After printing a box full of trilego at MakerFaire last weekend, my MakerBot decided it needed a break…actually one of the pins on the heater board decided it needed to break (the HEAT pin near the middle of the photo): The constant motion of the print platform, and the wires connected to it eventually jiggled…
Finally, after months of waiting, I received my Raspberry Pi: I had pre-ordered it (from Element 14) in March and it finally shipped this week. What is it? It’s touted as being a $35, credit card(ish) sized Linux based computer. The entire computer is what you see in the above photo (it doesn’t currently even…
Recently I met Steve Dotto at a party, one of Canada’s best known technology broadcasters and a personal tech hero of mine. We got to chatting about what I do and that ended up in my appearance on his weekly radio show talking about 3d printing. We had a great chat in studio (also with…
This week on News 1130 in Vancouver, I talked about these items: ArduSAT – a fantastic Kickstarter project to put a private satellite in space that you can control. Based on the amount pledged to the campaign you can get to control the cameras onboard, run experiments or even broadcast your own message from space…