Your kid's first 3D printer!

Printing from your iPad

Play-Doh 3D Printer

"First, some quick assembly (of the snap-together variety) and your Play-Doh 3D Printer is almost ready for action. Add 2 C batteries, plug it into your iPad, and launch the free app: iPlay-Doh 3D. Quickly design all sorts of things on the free app and then send them to your Play-Doh 3D Printer. Add up to 3 different colors (they'll blend like soft serve ice cream) to the top of the Play-Doh 3D Printer and then watch your iPad for directions. The iPlay-Doh 3D app will let you know when the printer is ready for you to start cranking."

"There are two different cranks on the Play-Doh 3D Printer: one to drip the Play-Doh down onto the conveyor belt and one to move the conveyor belt back and forth (to make sure the Play-Doh gets in just the right place). Sure, the overall product isn't as sturdy as an expensive 3D printed object, but it will air-harden and can be painted just like one. With the Play-Doh 3D Printer, you'll learn basic CAD skills, bow hunting skills (just kidding), and 3D printing skills. It's time to stop reading and get one now. Go on. Get!"  

thinkgeek.com

Potato video but still worth watching...

3Ding from a to z

The nature of volume is 3D per se. 

Yet the 3D softwares which were originally developped for undustrial applications, found their way to a wider field, thus meeting... sculpture. 

Do not focus on the styles there but on the flexibility of 3D softwares and printers looking forward to discovering, daily, new spaces of expression.

The Ossein Lavallier: "Skeletal Necklace"

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Ossein Lavallier: 3d Model to Physical Object
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Step by step creation of sculptures using 3d modelling, 3d printing and resin bronze casting.

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3D Printing Digital Sculptures.

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Digital Sculpting, 3D Printing and Animatronics.

All credits and copyrights are those of doktorvortexx.

doktorvortexx

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A milestone in 3D printing

Here comes the copyright infringement question concerning 3D printed objects. As 3D printers are getting much less expensive, one can expect a soon to be time when a certain number of objects will be home made. Of course, objects can be designed with a 3D software, but a shortcut would be to scan the original piece and simply copy it.

But we can expect finding online specialised sites which will offer, free of charge or for a small amount, ready to print 3D files. This new market will probably bring up the same problems we are witnessing with music and video downloading:

As soon as some smart ass will create an equivalent to DivX/ MP3 compression standard, 3D files will be easy to get and millions of artefacts, originally designed and produced by industries, are going to be scanned, available and shared online.

While the already obsolete war on piracy is on, it seems that no one has yet anticipated the forecoming problem, as well as the complete market revolution that will occur. Cheers!
Texte by Armand Dauré 


The next Napster? Copyright questions as 3D printing comes of age by Peter Hanna

Erik de Bruijn, co-founder of 3D printing company Ultimaker, working on his 3D printer.
Photo by soulfish

 Read this very interesting article: arstechnica.com

A very interesting illustration: The Penrose triangle

The Penrose triangle, also known as the Penrose tribar, is an impossible object. It was first created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934. The mathematician Roger Penrose independently devised and popularised it in the 1950s, describing it as "impossibility in its purest form". It is featured prominently in the works of artist M. C. Escher, whose earlier depictions of impossible objects partly inspired it.

The tribar appears to be a solid object, made of three straight beams of square cross-section which meet pairwise at right angles at the vertices of the triangle they form.

How to draw the impossible triangle

Made from three 8-inch boards of wood.

It was done in AutoCAD R14

Using Solidworks

In SketchUp

Penrose Triangle In SketchUp

3D printing

A Paradise for Gangsta Designers Geeks and Artists

All sorts of new matters, materials and concepts to turn you on, boost you up, and knock you out...

Much more there: inventables.com

"Everything is a Remix"

Everything Is A Remix: KILL BILL






"Everything is a Remix" (EiaR) is produced using the following tools:

     Apple iMac
     WD My Book Studio II
     Behringer XM8500 Dynamic Microphone
     Zoom H4N
     Canon 7D
     SanDisk CF cards
     Final Cut Studio
     Adobe Production Premium
     Magic Bullet Looks
     MPEG Streamclip
     Scrivener
     Writeroom
     Evernote
     Launchbar
     Dropbox
     1Password
     Default Folder X
     Typinator
     Transmit
     Audacity
     Chronosync
     iShowU

everythingisaremix.info

and now remix of remix of remix!

Homages, Ripoffs, and Coincidences

shotcontext.blogspot.com

3D TODAY
Unforgetable Musics in Unforgetable Movies

#Music

# blast from the past

click "options" + "tools" + "pattern" + "hope"

julianassangecoloringbook.com

Julien Assange

3d-today.org #assange

Skelton yourself with Kinect

XBox Kinect OSCeleton / Kinect Skeleton Tracker

OSCeleton is basically a DIY motion capture system.

It sends 3D tracked body skeletons trough the OSC protocol so you can build anything easily.

So...

"Grab the drivers:

github.com/​avin2/​SensorKinect

Follow the install instructions:

ros.org/​wiki/​ni

Download OSCeleton and run the binary:

github.com/​Sensebloom/​OSCeleton

(use "OSCeleton -h" in the command line for more options)

and the Processing examples in the video:

github.com/​Sensebloom/​OSCeleton-examples

Try Animata too:

animata.kibu.hu/​

  

... and enjoy ;) ...

SenseWall

This is the latest multi-touch installation by SenseBloom. It’s located in the campus bar at the Computer Science Department of Coimbra University, Portugal.

...SoundTrack: KC & The Sunshine Band, Shake Your Booty sensebloom.com"

sources: (SenseBloom) 

Very interesting post by Peter Kirn >> createdigitalmotion.com

High Speed Ideas

Arduino High Speed Photography Trigger

Catch fast action with this simple Arduino-based high speed photo trigger!

youtube.com/mrichardson23

Site Web :mattrichardson.com
Code:github.com/mrichardson23

Source: How-To: Arduino high speed photography trigger

blog.makezine.com

Free Ratio Engine

Example:

Number of stars in the universe divided by number of humans on earth.

number+of+stars+in+the+universe+divided+by+number+of+humans+on+earth


Enter what you want to calculate or know about:
wolframalpha.com

The best online real-time HTML editors internet has to offer | smash!ng apps

"HTML Editor is a software application which is used to create web pages and websites for the internet..."
smashingapps.com

via 3d-today-links

15 Social Networks for Designers to Promote Artwork | GraphicMania

graphicmania.net

 via 3d-today-links

The A-Z List for Web Designers | Six Revisions

sixrevisions.com

via 3d-today-links.blogspot.com

40 Useful Online Generators For Web Designers - Noupe Design Blog

via 3d-today-links.blogspot.com

 >> noupe.com

30 Auto Completion Scripts for Better User Experience

"When developing web applications and you need to allow users of your application to choose some data like countries, currencies or even tags from a drop down, list or even from a text box, and the data is very large. You need to use an auto completion or suggestion script to make this task easier for the end user. You can always implement your own script if you have the knowledge and the time to do this, but if you can’t then you can use a ready to use script. In this article I compiled a list of 30 Auto Completion Scripts to use in you projects..."    Ahmad Hania

Take a tour to look at this article! >> 1stwebdesigner.com

10 Awesome Solutions for Creating Your Online Portfolio

 article byTaimur Asghar ( Twitter: @imTaimur )

>>  1stwebdesigner.com

Effective and Powerful CSS Tools & Generators for Designers | CSS | instantShift

  "Realizing the increasing demand of useful apps across the web, we regularly feature commercial and free software on instantShift, so decided it was time to bring a roundup of highly essential CSS tools & generators applications to your attention. Just keep in mind that this list isn’t a ranking list of web apps. So, Let’s start with this compilation that every web developer, designer and freelancer should consider..."  Siva Kumar

 >>     instantshift.com

ColorSchemer | ColorPix | Galleria | Free

ColorPix is a useful little color picker that grabs the pixel under your mouse and transforms it into a number of different color formats.

You can use the built-in magnifier to zoom in on your screen, click on a color value to copy it directly to the clipboard, and even keep ColorPix on top of all other apps and out of the way.

ColorPix Window with Magnifier

Expanding the ColorPix window to show the magnifier lets you zoom in on your screen underneath your mouse.

You can also control the zoom percentage, up to 2000%.

ColorPix (PC )  colorschemer.com/colorpix

ColorSchemer Galleria ( Mac): colorschemer.com/galleria

Free Audio Editor For Windows

ghacks.net

http://www.ghacks.net/2009/08/10/download-youtube-videos/

Free In-Depth Website Analytic Tool

WEBSITEindepth is a cool web-based tool that allows you to explore in-depth information just about any website. See how much the site worth and its popularity. You can see how other users experience with certain site as well as sharing your experience with the world.  

Enter URL to Analyse:

 websiteindepth.com