There is a sea change taking place right now. People are becoming more aware of the poorly made electronic gadgets around them and realizing they can choose something better. This is a great shift in a new direction, making people stop blaming themselves and start rising up against the real problem. However, there is a [...]
In the beginning, if you wanted something, you had to make it. You would strap things together, whittle them down, and build your own personal widget that did precisely what you wanted. How well this thing actually performed its task depended entirely upon your skill level in creating it, and someone else may have come up with [...]
This morning an Industrial Designer came up to me with two pieces of rounded plastic that were nearly identical. Each piece was about twelve inches around and completely flat on one side, like the tip of a giant sphere had been cut off. They were both FDM prototypes of the same part that he had [...]