Why I do what I do. Part 1.
My personal goal is to really impact global wealth in a positive way. Often people are surprised when I say I studied economics and now develop and sell 3D printing technology. This could not...
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Google Glasses have arrived!
Now for something that’s not related to 3D printing (well, not directly), but so insanely cool that I have to blog about it right now (no, this can’t wait another day)! Through a friend...
Talk on RepRap at MIT Innovation Lab March 2010
In March 2010 I gave a talk at the MIT Sloan School of Management on RepRap and the democratization of Fabrication Technology and emergence of open hardware communities, entrepreneurial spin-offs, etc. Bre Pettis and...
DIY Minority report style 3D modeling interfaces
There are so many ways to get to a 3D model. Some are really great if you like programming. It is really powerful to use logic to generate objects, but not for all models....
TranslateAnywhere demo
Have you ever been in a foreign country in need of a translation? Or you stumble across a manual that’s only in foreign languages… Going to google and typing over all the text tedious....
Camera phones as barcode readers: increased buying power
The digital and physical world were once separate. Now, there are more and more physical products with a link to the digital world. The extreme situation is that a product ID will have a...
Physical object generators!
Oskay, from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories made this thing: a snow flake generator. Remember: do not eat the yellow snow. I absolutely love it! I’ll tell you why… Not as much that we can...
iBoot: iPhone 3G finally running the Linux (kernel). And: Canon Hack Development Kit
I’ve settled for a WM6 equipped HTC device: The HTC Touch Cruise. A fairly nice device. It doesn’t look as fancy as the iPhone, but it is very well equipped and there are many...
Angry at Microsoft!
You may have noticed ‘Use Firefox!’ pictures on many websites. There’s a story behind this which applies to me as well. As a web developer, even when you only use Linux, you inevitably get...
von Hippel and user centered innovation
When researching the distributed user-centered innovation process, I came across this lecture by Eric von Hippel (see below). Also, in my presentations I’ve quoted Eric von Hippel a couple of times. He researches how...
The personal fabrication revolution: Status Quo Ante
There is considerable talk about a revolution that awaits us in personal fabrication. A lot of the news reaches me, but mostly not the mainstream media, YET. Fabrication tools (Fabbers) such as the RepRap...
Zeitgeist and paradigm shifts (possible solutions)
If you haven’t seen Zeitgeist the Movie, go see it now (ps. you can turn of the Dutch subtitles by clicking on the CC button). It’s free to watch online and you may copy...
3D printing a greener future: Pictures from the Green City Lab at PICNIC
The pictures of the green city lab are available at fablab.waag.org. All in all, it was a really fun and interesting event where I met may wonderful people!
Dull tasks? Automate them!
Isn’t it great that you can script anything in an open source OS such as Linux/Ubuntu? Dcop rules. A good reason not to use windows (for me that is). If you still bound to...
Creative Wii interfaces
I like new computer interfaces. It’s amazing that the Wii is allowing many people to make their own creative hacks that are actually quite powerful. Wii finger tracking 3D tracking I can imagine that...
Real-Time Collaboration functionality
Okay, this is quite amazing. Instant messaging has always been a function separated from the browser. Historically the browser was for displaying information, but with the rise of rich and interactive websites there is...
Video Tip: Human Computation
Google Video Tip: Human Computation Two statistics: Billions of hours are spent playing solitaire in a year. By comparison: Digging the panama canal took only as much as work as an average day of...
“DéjàVu”, “Minority Report” and the state of the art!
For those who have seen the 3D technology from the movie "DéjàVu"… it’s real. Researchers have found a way to combine satellite images, 3D models of structures (such as buildings) and live (web-cam)...
Upgrade to Edgy eft
The upgrade from Ubuntu Dapper to Edgy Eft. Note: at this time the beta 1 is just released, but I got too curious.
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