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TCT Awards – 3D Technologies Hall of Fame
On Wednesday I was invited to a rather nice dinner at Birmingham Town Hall organised by TCT to attend their awards ceremony, which was in association with their 3D Printing Exhibition at the National Exhibition Centre. On the left is Kryten from Red Dwarf (or rather,
Ultimaker 3 Extended
A couple of weeks ago we had a giant box delivered… Rewind a few more weeks and Adrian had attended the first 3D Printing Industry Awards dinner where he had received the award for Outstanding Contribution to 3D printing. During
Shop Update
Just a quick update to say that because of a change in UK tax law we no longer need to charge VAT in the UK or EU, therefore all prices on our shop are the flat-rate price that anyone around the
EchoPi
Amazon’s Echo Dot and its online Alexa speech recognition system for controlling the Internet of Things is pretty cool, and so it is taking the world by storm. Therefore what we need is an open-source Thing that it can control to
Extra Senses
As I mentioned in the last blog post, we were inspired by the Feelspace Project (which gives you a magnetic compass sense, like migrating birds) to have a go at making a wearable device that would allow you to feel your surroundings – essentially extending
RepRap Printing on Fabric
I was recently at the FAB 12 Meeting in Shenzhen. One of the things I saw there was a very simple and effective idea: 3D printing on fabric with RepRap to give a flexible and wearable backing. So I decided to give
Stained Glass Window in Local School
Not something 3D printed but ……. We have been working with a local primary school to create some of the materials used in their displays for Art in Religious Studies week. The children were tasked with creating a stained glass
Shenzhen, Centre of the Making World
I have just got back from China, where I went to talk with a company for whom we are doing some work and also to give a presentation at the Fab 12 Conference, the theme of which was artificial self-replication.
RepRap’s Birthday
On this day 8 years ago was the first replication of RepRap. On 29th May 2008 at 14:00 UTC Vik Olliver, eD Sells and Adrian Bowyer assembled the very first child RepRap from a parent which was made by a proprietary 3D