The MakerBot Replicator 2 is now available for immediate shipping in the Maker Shed! MakerBot’s latest machine won one of three Best in Class awards in our Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing and is a fantastic all-around printer.
Big news coming out today is that 3D Systems is suing Formlabs and subsequently Kickstarter for patent infringement. We thought we’d do a little roundup of some of the news for everyone.
This recent post at Hack a Day, about Utah-based Adaptive Computing’s 163 LED All Spark Cube, spurred an interesting comment thread about the current world record for voxel count in 3D displays using a spatial grid of LEDs. Of course, once you start talking world records, questions start coming up fast: Do monochrome systems count? What about arrangements that are not cubes? Should hobbyist builds be in a separate category from commercial products? Right now, the title holder seems to be…
Shapeways announces the opening of a Factory of the Future in Long Island City, Queens. And Mayor Bloomberg announces the launch of New York’s Next Top Makers competition.
Learn how sugar, vitamin B2, and UV lighting can combine to create glow-in-the-dark Kryptonite candy that not even Superman could resist in this free webcast!
Using a variety of low- and high-tech components, we’ll show you how to build A Touchless 3D Tracking Interface.
Pioneering bioartist Oron Catts will give a two-part workshop and lecture at Brooklyn’s Genspace later this month.
