Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Lyman Filament Extruder II...

Inventors rule!

Most low-cost 3D printers use ABS plastic filament as the raw material from which they produce objects.  This raw material costs ten times what ABS costs in its more common form: pellets.  So Inventables sponsored a contest, with a $40,000 prize, for a low-cost machine that would turn ABS pellets into ABS filament.  Hugh Lyman won the contest with his Lyman Filament Extruder II, at right.

Awesome!

RAW Image File Processing – in JavaScript

Nothing special about this package that I can see except for the fact that it's running in your browser.  Despite the fact that I've been working with web apps for over 10 years now, I'm still blown away that they can do compute-intensive things like image processing and cryptography, in an interpreted language like JavaScript...

Flat UI Toolkit...

Yup, yet another web UI toolkit.  This one is for the trendy new “flat UI” – which looks just like the very first UIs I ever saw on a color screen, way back in the early '80s.  Everything old is new again...