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January 14

 
 
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comic

Happy Monday, dear futurist!
Above: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal's rather funny 3D printing prank ideas (thanks @makenai for submission) **Warning: slightly NSFW

Enjoy the latest edition below!

 

3D Printers

 

The new CubeX 3D printer has an unusually large build area and up to three print heads

"The CubeX is available with one, two, or even three prints heads [...], giving it the ability to print in three colors simultaneously. An interesting switch from the usual model of using spools of plastic filament is the use of print 'cartridges' which contain the filament."

Read more on Ponoko's blog

 

Innovation

 

Panasonic Debuts World’s First 4K Printed OLED TV, Just Half An Inch Thick

"The use of 3D printing tech should also eventually help super high resolution OLED TVs come down to manageable pricing levels, as the manufacturing process improves over time."

Read more on Tech Crunch

 

Chopper: Partitioning Large Models into Smaller 3D Printable Parts

"Chopper automatically partitions a given 3D model into parts that are small enough to be 3D printed and assembled into the original model."

Read more on Shapeways

 

Open Source Politics

 

Signing your 3D prints with digital/physical signature

"Raster made a lightweight frame to hold a GoPro Hero3 camera and shared the design STL files on Thingiverse. Some days later he found a GoPro Hero3 Frame was sold on Shapeways by someone else, not himself.

It happens almost everyday that things you made are copied by others. Chris, a Chicago maker came up with a special solution: signing your 3D prints with a digital/physical signature."

Read more on 3ders

 

See you next week!

 

In This Issue

  1. 3D Printers
  2. Innovation
  3. Open Source Politics

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