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Interrobang is such a suitable name, fun and slightly suggestive.

slurple | 8 years ago | on: Poly – Browse, Discover and Download 3D Objects

It has the Utah Teapot at least: https://poly.google.com/view/3pxNWuQ-iii

slurple | 8 years ago | on: 3D metal printing is about to go mainstream

Mostly cost & benefits over existing metal 3D printing technologies.

Current metal 3D printing machines cost well over $1 million, and have some significant caveats for part design. Due to the residual stresses in the parts, supports structures are required for many part geometries. This means your parts that have been designed to be unmachineable, now have support structures that then need to be machined off. The easily removable supports are a huge win for Desktop Metal here.

Repeatability has also been an issue in metal 3D printing. This is partly due to the nature of the sintering/melting process, but mostly because the majority of parts produced on metal 3D printers are actually designed to be manufactured using another process. I have higher hopes for the production system than the studio system for improvements in that area, but remains to be seen at this point.

slurple | 8 years ago | on: Tesla hires Andrej Karpathy

Have there been advances in using LIDAR in rain/fog/snow? For all the autonomous car demos this seems like too large of a use case to gloss over...

slurple | 9 years ago | on: Flying Cars Probably Won't Happen

I always think of this breakdown of 'Flying cars and You' whenever this comes up: http://i.imgur.com/qm5t6.jpg

slurple | 9 years ago | on: 3D printing with cellulose

Sounds promising for both 3D printing applications and the need for non-petroleum based plastic-like materials.

slurple | 9 years ago | on: Female engineer sues Tesla, describing a culture of 'pervasive harassment'

Women are promoted into management at much lower rates then men are in many industries, which ends up in underrepresentation at the highest levels.

https://www.ellevatenetwork.com/articles/7823-lecturing-men-...

slurple | 9 years ago | on: I am an Uber survivor

The best way for men to counter this in a toxic environment is to call it out when they see it. This sends a message that being outwardly dehumanizing and dismissive is not okay, and is not the accepted norm.

slurple | 9 years ago | on: My CAD software called home, and no-one answered, so it shut down

I'm confused why they didn't even try to export any of the 1000s of parts to a neutral format to try anything else in the 35 years since...

slurple | 9 years ago | on: A Ferrari 250 GT PF Coupe Was Hidden in a Hollywood Apartment for Decades

"Anyway, if you look through the documentation, every time he wanted parts in the ‘70s he would hand draw the part. For example, a light bulb or a brake caliper, or whatever it might be. The sketches are so intricate they look like a photograph. He’d make multiple copies of his sketches and mail them out, asking shops if they had these parts."

I would love to see those!