Geez, some people have such great ideas. This post over at GetLoFi.com highlighting an audio sampler made from laser cut cardboard and silk-screened conductive paint got me thinking… has anyone developed an electrically conductive glaze? Seems pretty simple — an iron rich glaze, maybe with some silver? Then you could run low voltage through it [...]
Another piece of nifty 3D modeling software. Open-source. Runs on Linux, OS X, and Windows. Quote from the website: Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java, and should be usable on any Java Virtual Machine which is compatible with J2SE 1.4 or later. [...]
I ran across a post this morning at MAKE Magazine (which is a great mag, by the way) that explains different 3-d printers that are currently available, including both commercial and open source projects. In the last few years Rapid Prototyping(RP) has become more automated and much cheaper. Machines suitable for offices and academic environments [...]
