In space resources are limited.  I’ve had a chance through friends who work at NASA to explore the Houston mock-up of the ISS.  It’s surprisingly large, but imagine having to keep everything a group of people might need for months. Continue reading →

Do you want in on the 3D printing revolution?  Sure your could purchase a few shares of one of the large publicly traded companies, but it’s more exciting (and potentially more rewarding) to get in on the early stages of a company doing novel and exciting things.  Right now WhiteClouds is raising funds over on Wefunder.  Continue reading →

We’ve written before about “3D Printing for Dummies“.  That one was literal about the entertainment kind and this one is too about the car crash kind. In this case the company Humanetics is using 3D printing Continue reading →

According to the Associate Press:

A federal judge in Seattle has issued a temporary restraining order to stop the release of blueprints to make untraceable and undetectable 3D-printed plastic guns.

Defense Distributed has complied with the order.  Stay tuned.  So many conflicting rights in this case.  As I’ve heard said, “when rights collide, courts decide.”

Several years ago we wrote about Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed about 3D printed guns and he’s back in the news this week in a big way. Through a settlement with the state department over a several year legal battle, the files for a 3D printed gun will be legally available for download beginning tomorrow (August 1st).  The plans were originally held-up under a trade restriction given the fact that “weapon technology” could be downloaded overseas.  You can learn more about Cody Wilson here and 3D printed guns in general here.

We’ve seen before printed soles or inserts for shoes, but Nike moves it up a level printing the “upper” part of the shoe. Continue reading →

This was  one of the coolest things I had seen in quite sometime in regard to space research.  It’s one thing to explore new places and keep humans alive, it’s another thing to use space to benefit those of us still on the planet.  Continue reading →

NASA’s ISS mockup in Houston that I was privileged to tour.

We’ve written about Made in Space before and it now looks like their footprint in the ISS will be expanding even more!  Made in Space already has 2 printers in orbit Continue reading →