Tag Archives: Mike Reeves-McMillan

May 31

3-D printing offers new approach to making buildings

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Originally shared by Jennifer Linsky

Yes; we’ve seen building printers before. But they’ve always been mounted on a frame; this one has a mobile base. That makes a huge difference.

While the platform represents an engineering advance, Oxman notes. “Making it faster, better, and cheaper is one thing. But the ability to design and digitally fabricate multifunctional structures in a single build embodies a shift from the machine age to the biological age — from considering the building as a machine to live in, made of standardized parts, to the building as an organism, which is computationally grown, additively manufactured, and possibly biologically augmented.”

http://news.mit.edu/2017/3-d-printing-buildings-0426

May 29

Story fodder here, not only in the secret passages that enabled silk to be transported without damage through a city…

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Story fodder here, not only in the secret passages that enabled silk to be transported without damage through a city with winding, crowded streets, but in the silk workers’ rebellions. (Yes, plural.)

http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/traboules-secret-passages

May 25

I’m not sure how I’d use this in a story, but it’s certainly cool.

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I’m not sure how I’d use this in a story, but it’s certainly cool. Especially the parts about making shoes quickly, cheaply, locally, and out of natural, biodegradeable materials.

Originally shared by Singularity Hub

How Reebok Is Breaking the Mold by ‘3D Drawing’ Shoe Soles http://bit.ly/2rl9xrq