I happened to be surfing around and via the Clanking Replicator project website I found a decent – though old – article over on AGORAVOX (link) discussing open source fabrication devices (in general) and RepRap (in particular) and the overall … Continue reading →

Nice entry on the Inhabitat blog (link) discussing Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis’ “contour crafting” system (link) (some of you might recall his name from an earlier blog entry – reLink). I’d suggest that in addition to the video and the Inhabitat … Continue reading →

I don’t recall if I’d previously read about this or not, but I’d not seen it: the Fab@Home additive-process, rapid prototyping device (Link), here shown creating a watch strap. It’s a nice resource site with plenty of information and apparently … Continue reading →

I couldn’t have timed this bit of news any better, coming as it does on the heels of the Nissan virtual vehicle dispenser in Second Life: the Mass Customization blog brings word (Link) of what is possibly the first working … Continue reading →

I caught this yesterday over on Yahoo! News (Link): The bacterium Caulobacter crescentus uses the toughest glue on Earth to stick to river rocks, and now scientists are trying to figure out how to produce the stuff. … The single-celled … Continue reading →