Forum Topic: www.eevblog.com Dave checks out the new Makerbot Replicator 3D printer and compares it to the old Thing-O-Matic. EEVblog Main Web Site: www.eevblog.com EEVblog Amazon Store astore.amazon.com Donations: www.eevblog.com Projects: www.eevblog.com Electronics Info Wiki: www.eevblog.com —
Imagine that every time you print a document, it automatically includes a secret code that could be used to identify the printer — and, potentially, the person who used it. Sounds like something from a spy movie, right? Unfortunately, the scenario isn’t fictional. Most color laser printers and color copiers are designed to print invisible tracking codes across every single printed page of their output. These codes reveal which machine produced a document and, in some cases, when the document was printed or copied. For a tutorial on viewing your printer’s secret dots, visit www.instructables.com We are grateful for the support of the California Consumer Protection Foundation. Special thanks to Dan Oberbauer for sound effects. —
We want to see 3D printing, FabLabs and Hackerspaces become a regular feature–in addition to its other services–at every public library in the country. This is a description of our proposal to create a FabLab in the Fayetteville Free Library and gives a brief introduction to what 3D printing is and how revolutionary it will be for those who are unfamiliar with it. A FabLab is a fabrication laboratory (or a fabulous laboratory). A hackerspace is just a public library under a different name (although I’m not aware of any hackerspaces that are publicly funded, its time to change that!), it is a place where people gather to share their knowledge and help each other make whatever project they are currently working on. This video was made in support of Lauren Britton-Smedley’s proposal to create a pilot FabLab at the Fayetteville Free Library. This is Lauren’s final project for the “Innovation in Public Libraries” class taught by Meg Backus and Thomas Gokey. In this class we look at avant-garde art from the past 60 years (social sculpture, relational aesthetics, institutional critique, interventionist practice, hacker/maker/DIY culture) and use it as a way to rethink what the library of the 21st century could be. We remain committed to the essence of a public library as a genuine commons, as a university of the people, as a place where the knowledge of past generations is preserved for present and future research, in short: as a democracy machine. Our class asks how to … —
From: www.cnn.com [ PigMine is on FaceBook, please Like here: www.facebook.com ] April 0, 2011 – The CEO of 3D Systems Corp demonstrates a home 3-D printer, which can print anything from shoes to prosthetics.FAIR USE NOTICE: This video may contain copyrighted material. Such material is made available for educational purposes only. This constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in Title 17 USC section 106A-117 of the US Copyright Law. —
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