Tag: Downloadable Design - Page 4
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Customizable, Downloadable DIY Dutch Furniture By Minale-Maeda
Boldly colored Dutch furniture designs that can be downloaded, customized and assembled at home.
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Furnlab Open Source CNC Can Make Production Local Again
Four years ago, when we built a whole website around the idea of 3D printing, I predicted a trend toward what I called a 3D Kinko's, where anyone could get a CNC cutout or a 3D printout at a neighbourhood shop like they get a photocopy now. I thought
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A Vision Of The Future of 3D Printing (Video)
A few weeks ago a National Geographic video about 3D printing a wrench went viral, and was picked up by The Dish; A commenter there noted that this was a) not such a big deal any more, and b) not yet very practical. However the commenter pointed to an
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Cruiser Charisma: A Future Living Seriously Off The Grid, Every Grid
For his project at the Royal College of Art, Jonas Loh studied intentional self-sufficient communities from Earthaven Ecovillage to the Amish. But he also had an opposing inspiration: "an extrapolation of
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3D Printing With Just Sun And Sand
In the 1967 Star Trek Episode Arena, Kirk had to scrounge around a planet and find the materials necessary to build a primitive weapon. Imagine if they were making the show today; Kirk would emulate artist Markus Kayser and
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Now You Can 3D Print Ceramics At Shapeways
These little bunnies are not only cute, but they are the harbinger of things to come. They are 3D printed in ceramics in a new process: layer by layer, a binder is deposited on a bed of ceramic powder. When all the layers are
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Wood Design from Spain: Fab Lab Houses, Wooden Islands and Spanish Guitars - Part 2 (Photos)
Last week I posted a stunning wooden bicycle, and the beautiful heritage of wooden ceilings in Andalusia from a series of wood design from Spain that Confeadera put together. Other works include the Fab Lab House, some
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On Knowing The Price Of Everything And The Value Of Nothing, Updated
Five years ago, when I was particularly upset about comments regarding the cost of a British product, I quoted Oscar Wilde's complaint, suggesting that the commenters knew the price of everything and the value of
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Downloadable Designs: Build Your Own Pinhole Hasselblad
British set and prop designer Kelly Angood has a hobby on the side: He has "created a range of functional replica objects. Their creation stems from my desire to own them (despite never setting eyes on
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Now You Can Do 3-D Printing Out of Sawdust
Used to be, if you wanted to make a detailed shape out of wood -- for a nice little fruit bowl, say -- you had to carve it by hand using a big chunk of timber,
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Living Room Furniture Set, Made of Bulletproof Fiber, Weighs Just 16.5 Pounds
If your living room went on a crash diet, it'd look 'round about like what you see here. The Light-room, by the staggeringly talented Dutch designer Studio Bram
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Kinko's For Kidneys Is Just Around The Corner
Thousands of people are waiting for kidneys, waiting for the next motorcycle accident so that they can be "harvested". But people are living longer and seat belts are saving too many prospective donors. Last year Anthony Atala, Director of the
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Hits And Misses for 2011: 100 Predictions from JWT
J. Walter Thompson said "Advertising is a non-moral force, like electricity, which not only illuminates but electrocutes. Its worth to civilization depends upon how it is
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Knit Your Own Little Doggie
It's the answer for those who can't have a real dog: too allergic, work too hard, place too small, afraid of them, etc. etc. Knit your own.
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Seriously Living With Less: Your Life On A Hard Drive
Chris Yurista lives out of his backpack. He tells the BBC that "It's always nice to have a personal sense of home, but that aside - the internet has replaced my need for an address." He's got a job and moonlights as a DJ, couch-surfing in friends'
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Elegant Lightform Shades Use Digital Technique To Make Every Piece Unique
Digital design and fabrication makes things possible that could only be dreamt of earlier. Dwell shows a lampshade that is not only designed using computers, but students at Ball State's Institute for Digital Fabrication wrote a program that modifies
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Green Holiday Gift Guide: The DIY'er (Slideshow)
Handmade gifts come with a meaning all their own, whether you're packaging up a tin of your grandmother's famous holiday cookies or making a collage of photos from your parents' wedding day. And if you're giving to someone who has a knack for hands-on
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Robot Bricklayer Comes To New York
Gramazio & Kohler of Zurich's ETH Faculty of Architecture have been in TreeHugger before with their bricklaying robot. Now they have come to America for the first time, and have digitally fabricated a wall on Pike Street in
