Collaborate Disseminate
Your run-of-the-mill desktop 3D printer is based on a technology known as Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), where the machine squirts out layers of hot plastic that stick to each other. But that’s not the only way to print a Benchy. One of the more exotic alternative techniques uses a photosensitive …read more
Continue reading Resin Printers are Now Cheaper, Still Kind of a Hassle
With July slipping away and the deadline approaching, the Project Egress builds are pouring in now. And we’re starting to see more diversity in the choice of materials and methods for the parts being made, like these two latches made with very different methods by two different makers.
For the …read more
Continue reading Project Egress: Two Ways to Latch the Hatch
Many Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and large enterprises struggle to deliver a commitment level for an application service. For a tenant, without a proper Service Level Agreement (SLA), it is impossible to manage an application for his or her own user… Continue reading Modern Analytics and End-to-End Visibility
Biometrics have often been used as a form of access control. While this was initially limited to bank vaults in Hollywood movies, it’s now common to see such features on many laptops and smartphones. Despite the laundry list of reasons why this is a bad idea, the technology continues to …read more
Continue reading Fooling Fingerprint Scanners With A Resin Printer
Applications have come to define the digital experience. They empower organizations to create new customer-friendly services, unlock data and content and deliver it to users at the time and device they desire, and provide a competitive differentiator … Continue reading Application SLA: Knowing Is Half the Battle
In yesterday’s MJFChat, Mary-Jo Foley and I discussed the stability and robustness of Office 365 among other topics. The transcript is now online for your reading pleasure, but you might want to opt for the recording instead, if only because my frequent use of “Uh” and “Um” might be less noticeable.
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Continue reading Debating Office 365 Robustness and Stability
Fused-deposition modeling (FDM) printers have the lion’s share of the 3D-printing market, with cheap, easy-to-use printers slurping up thousands of kilos of filament every year. So where’s the challenge with 3D-printing anymore? Is there any room left to tinker? [Physics Anonymous] thinks so, and has started working on what might be the next big challenge in additive manufacturing for the hobbyist: hacking cheap stereolithography (SLA) printers. To wit, this teardown of and improvements to an Anycubic Photon printer.
The Photon, available for as little as $450, has a lot going for it in the simplicity department. There’s no need to …read more
Continue reading Entry-Level SLA Printer Gets Upgrades, Prints Better
An ultrasonic knife is a blade that vibrates a tiny amount at a high frequency, giving the knife edge minor superpowers. It gets used much like any other blade, but it becomes far easier to cut through troublesome materials like rubber or hard plastics. I was always curious about them, and recently made my own by modifying another tool. It turns out that an ultrasonic scaling tool intended for dental use can fairly easily be turned into a nimble little ultrasonic cutter for fine detail work.
I originally started thinking about an ultrasonic knife to make removing supports from SLA …read more
Continue reading Making an Ultrasonic Cutter for Post-processing Tiny 3D Prints
An ultrasonic knife is a blade that vibrates a tiny amount at a high frequency, giving the knife edge minor superpowers. It gets used much like any other blade, but it becomes far easier to cut through troublesome materials like rubber or hard plastics. I was always curious about them, and recently made my own by modifying another tool. It turns out that an ultrasonic scaling tool intended for dental use can fairly easily be turned into a nimble little ultrasonic cutter for fine detail work.
I originally started thinking about an ultrasonic knife to make removing supports from SLA …read more
Continue reading Making an Ultrasonic Cutter for Post-processing Tiny 3D Prints
Sure there are the occasional functional Christmas tree ornaments; we had one that plugged into the lights and was supposed to sound like a bird gently trilling its song, but was in fact so eardrum-piercing that we were forbidden from using it. But in general, ornaments are just supposed to be for looks, right? Not so fast — this 3D-printed ornament has a 3D-printer inside that prints other ornaments. One day it might just be the must-have in functional Christmas decor.
Given that [Sean Hodgins] had only a few days to work on this tree-dwelling 3D-printer, the questionable print quality …read more
Continue reading Have Yourself a Recursive Little Christmas: Ornament That Prints Ornaments