DARPA MENTOR Award to Bring Making to Education | Makerspace O’Reilly Media’s Make division, in partnership with Otherlab, has received an award from The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in support of its Manufacturing Experimentation and Outreach (MENTOR) program. The Team will help advance DARPA’s Mentor program, an initiative aimed at introducing new design tools and collaborative practices of making to high school students. Makerspace, developed by Dale Dougherty of O’Reilly Media and Dr. Saul Griffith of Otherlab, will integrate online tools for design and collaboration with low-cost options for physical workspaces where students may access educational support to gain practical hands-on experience with new technologies and innovative processes to design and build projects. The MENTOR effort is part of the DARPA’s Adaptive Vehicle Make program portfolio and is aimed at engaging high school students in a series of collaborative distributed manufacturing and design experiments. Saul Griffith, Ph.D. is a serial entrepreneur.
Jameco Electronics - Electronic Components Distributor The Jameco Difference Jameco has been in business for over 35 years and carries over 50,000 semiconductors, passives, interconnects, electromechanical, power supplies, LEDs and other popular electronic components. Learn More About Jameco » At Your Service Talk to a live agent ortechnical assistant. Will Call Hours Monday-Friday 8AM TO 5PM PSTClosed Holidays 1355 Shoreway Road, Belmont, CA 94002Click here for directions Copyright ©2002 - 2014 Jameco. No Straight Lines | Making sense of a non-linear world Icon Archive HackerspaceWiki otherlab 7 Creative Ideas for Custom Die Cutting You could take a bunch of ordinary business cards, run your thumb across the stack, and never be able to tell the difference between any of them. Meanwhile, a business card that uses custom die cutting is unmistakable in both look and feel; you can’t help but notice it. The captivating effect of custom die cuts doesn’t end with business cards — it applies to folders, brochures, postcards and any other bit of print media a designer might need to create for a client. Source: mbradyclark.com Source: zychowicz.com To get you comfortable with thinking outside of the box, here are just a few of the many ways you can use custom die cutting to create an unforgettable design. 1. Die cutting acts like a target for your audience’s eyeballs. And nothing is more deserving of the audience’s attention than your company’s logo. Source: cardview.net Die cutting to emphasize a logo helps to show its unique shape and bring it forward so that the audience immediately recognizes it. Source: behance.net 2. 3. 4. 5.
Alan Moore: The Last of the Kodak Moments I am little sad of the passing of Kodak. Some of us, of a certain age, have piles of Kodak slides and snaps, uniquely connecting us to our childhood, and personal histories. Hearing about Kodak's recent demise, filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy, also got me thinking about the current woes, of other organizations and industries that are struggling and failing as they are unable to adjust to what is to them an ambiguous world. The challenge of living in an ambiguous world When faced with disruptive ambiguity few embrace that ambiguity, to understand it, to listen deeply and think very hard about transformation -- how to transform, and how to design for transformation. I would argue that our industrial world has reached the edge of its adaptive range, Kodak, Nokia, the banking crisis, pensions, venture capital, the NHS are all examples. The trilemma of our current age The institutions, organizations and systems that we still use were designed and built for a less complex world.
3D Printing Directory You are in: Future Technologies : 3D Printing Directory 3D Printing Directory 3D printing creates real, solid objects one layer at a time using digital data. 3D printing may therefore soon do for manufacturing and medicine what computers and the Internet have already done for the creation, processing and storage of information. For an explanation of 3D printing technologies, opportunities and implications, please see the 3D Printing page, my 3D Printing videos, or my book 3D Printing: The Next Industrial Revolution. The 3D printing marketplace is now evolving extremely quickly. - o O o - Industrial 3D Printer Manufacturers The following all manufacture 3D printers for commercial applications that range from rapid prototyping to direct digital manufacturing (DDM): 3D Systems3D Systems is the largest 3D printer manufacturer, and makes hardware for both high-end industrial clients and end consumers. Personal 3D Printer Manufacturers 3D Printing Design Software 3D Printer Resellers Bioprinting
3D Robotics' Chris Anderson discusses a drone-filled future (video) You'll likely miss 3D Robotics on first pass. The company's San Diego R&D facility is headquartered in an unassuming building amongst similarly nondescript offices in a maze of a business park. Enter through the back and you'll find yourself in the middle of a small manufacturing assembly, where industrial Pick and Place machines buzz loudly and a handful of women are QAing finished product. Until earlier this month, the site was mostly off the radar, save for a devoted group of online enthusiasts. Then, Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson announced he was leaving the magazine in order to head up the company. Anderson's off grabbing lunch as we arrive -- like us, just off a flight from the East Coast for a brief visit before jumping on yet another plane. Anderson foresees a future in which sports teams use autonomous vehicles to shoot matches and farmers employ them to monitor crops. Comments