3D printing
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This week I was supposed to be back in Zurich for a couple of days, visiting the NEST building on Tuesday and the ETH campus on Wednesday. As it was, though, I managed to pick up Covid at last week's TechX event in Atlanta, so I ended up staying at home feeling sorry for myself. […]
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It's the last few days to submit your class proposals for Autodesk University 2022 in New Orleans. The Call for Proposals closes on April 15th.I've now submitted three classes, myself, and would greatly appreciate you voting for the one(s) you would like to see part of the event. This is whether you intend on being […]
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Colleagues in Autodesk Research have been working with Dar Al-Handasah on a project to 3D print a series of footbridges with integrated sensors. It's similar in some ways to MX3D's Smart Bridge Amsterdam, but printing with plastic rather than steel. I've talked about the bridge at a couple of events, now, so I thought it […]
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After having talked about its opening, and its data, it's time to wrap up this week's triptych of posts about the MX3D bridge by taking a moment to appreciate its beauty. The bridge has been printed from stainless steel and has not received any surface treatment – other than sandblasting and the manual removal of […]
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The MX3D team first showed the smart bridge to the public back in October 2018 at Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. I was there with the team to finish and test features such as realtime display of skeletons detected using computer vision. Here's a reminder of how that went: An interesting aspect of […]
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On Wednesday afternoon I headed back across to Zurich airport for my second trip to Amsterdam in as many weeks. This time I was flying with Swiss rather than KLM, and ended up checking in and boarding through an area of the airport I didn't recognise at all. Whether this was because it had been […]
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Now that the weekend has passed and the football is over for another year or so (for me, anyway, as I only pay attention to major tournaments), I thought I'd share some of the work that was done last week on the MX3D bridge, and what's planned for this coming week. The major work done […]
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It's now Thursday night, and tomorrow morning we'll be heading home from Amsterdam. As with any project, some things haven't gone quite as smoothly as they might, but more on that in a bit. My son and I proudly donned our MX3D T-shirts for this morning's pic: Here's another shot from the bridge itself, looking […]
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This morning I headed with our eldest son (he'll be 17 in just over a week – how did that happen?) to Zurich airport to catch our first flight in what seems like forever to travel to Amsterdam to see the MX3D bridge being installed. Even catching the train was surreal: I've certainly done so, […]
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My friend and incredibly inspiring former colleague, Mickey McManus, has been co-hosting a regular (I want to say weekly) live-streamed event under the name of Quarantime. They've just posted the 51st episode (which means they must be doing this more than once per week) which featured another friend and current colleague, Alec Shuldiner. Alec has […]