Wired Wednesday 002
Weekly technology talk with Ben Wilson on News 1130 radio in Vancouver
3d printing
The 3DCanada Project
The 3DCanada project will capture thousands of Canadians in 3D & Douglas Coupland will use their likeness in one of the largest 3D printed art projects.
Tech Tuesday: Facial Recognition blocking glasses & tiny 3d printable batteries
This week on News 1130 Radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Privacy visor glasses jam facial recognition systems to protect your privacy: Currently being developed at Japan’s National Institute of Informatics, these glasses have a number of near-infrared LEDs embedded in them that are invisible to the human eye but blinding to facial…
Tech Tuesday: SoftStop and NASA’s 3D Printed Pizza
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Using water and light to stop truck accidents: Not unlike what recently happened in Washington State, after too many over height trucks crashed and caused damage in many tunnels, authorities in Sydney, Australia implemented “Soft Stop” technology. If a driver ignores the…
Tech Tuesday: 3d printing props for the Hobbit & reusing those electric car batteries
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver I talked about these items: The Hobbit gets 3d printed: Props for the upcoming Hobbit movie from Peter Jackson were largely 3d printed by Weta Workshops. Everything from weapons like the Orcrist and Sting to apparel such as helmets and buckles. Even prostetic pieces likes noses and…
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:…
Tech Tuesday: 3d printers for jewellers & Samsung’s Android camera
This week on News 1130 radio in Vancouver, I talked about these items: Jewellers now have a 3d printer for custom castings: 3d printing has begun to affect another industry with the announcement a new 3d printer, the 3Z Studio from Solidscape, which is targeted at jewellers. The desktop printer creates complex wax patterns from…
3D Printing explained (Infographic)
Sculpteo has posted this great infographic that covers off many aspects of 3d printing: It was actually posted last year but is still a great explanation of the technology and where it’s going. (via 3Ders.org)
3d scanning with Xbox Kinect & ReconstructMe
On the weekend, during the Vancouver Island Mini Maker Faire, we had a chance to finally play around with ReconstructMe. It’s software that allows you to create 3d models using the Microsoft Xbox Kinect Sensor. Long story short, we can not believe how well it worked our first try: The software was a little fussy…
Tech Tuesday: Bioprinting and the rumored Higgs Boson discovery
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…