Posts Tagged ‘reprap’
Fractal Furniture
A fine example of rapid-prototyping. Link
Printing Buildings
"Contour Crafting is an effort to scale up rapid prototyping/manufacturing (a billion dollar industry to make 3 dimensional parts) and inkjet printing techniques to the scale of building multi-story buildings and vehicles. The process could accelerate the trillion dollar (US only) construction industry by 200 times. Projections indicate costs will be around one fifth as much as conventional construction. Using this process, a single house or a colony of houses, each with possibly a different design, may be automatically constructed in a single run, embedded in each house all the conduits for electrical, plumbing and air-conditioning." Link
Open Source 3D Printer Copies Itself
"Based in the Waitakeres, in West Auckland, software developer and artist Vik Olliver is part of a team developing an open-source, self-copying 3D printer. The RepRap (Replicating Rapid-prototyper) printer can replicate and update itself. It can print its own parts, including updates, says Olliver, who is one of the core members of the RepRap team." Self-Replicate
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- Discarded immune cells induce the relocation of stem cellsSpanish researchers have discovered that the daily clearance of neutrophils from the body stimulates the release of hematopoietic stem cells from the bone marrow into the bloodstream, according to a report published today in the journal Cell ...See all stories on this topic » […]
- Oregon stem-cell cloning study contained errors: journalThe study published by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health & Science University and colleagues in the journal Cell included inaccurate information such as duplicate images of "scatterplot" data and has sparked debate over whether the study received ...See all stories on this topic » […]
- Over 600 patients asking stem-cell treatmentsRome, May 23 - Some 600 patients are preparing to appeal in Italian courts for stem-cell treatments following the approval of a law on Wednesday legalizing its therapy, research and permitting those who have begun stem-cell treatments to continue them.See all stories on this topic » […]
- "Each animal reminds one terribly of certain men."Next to a beautiful, elegant woman, between the silky spirals of her train, on the back of a chair, in a dark angle in the background, he accurately painted, although almost invisible, the animal that recalled the face of the protagonist. He thus had a series of ladies and gentlemen from the squirrel, from the lizard, from the sea horse, etc. From "The […]
- Artisinal DenimPark Slope Family Circus: Old Family Circus panels combined with jokes poking fun at denizens of Park Slope, Brooklyn. […]
- The digital equivalent of stashing a dirty magazine under your mattressWhen news came through of Yahoo! buying Tumblr, everyone wanted to know what that meant for all the porn on Tumblr. But it turns out that long before Yahoo! signed a check, Tumblr had been quietly doing something about it on its own: stopping adult blogs from being indexed. [NSFW links] Long-time smut blogger Bacchus has unearthed that over the last few mont […]
- Another day, another real-life case of Breaking Bad. Except all these guys keep getting caught [Weird]
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- It turns out many of the US cities where the most internet porn is watched are also classified as the most religious [Obvious]