Tanya Weaver tracks the design and manufacture of the Othermill — a San Francisco-born desktop CNC milling machine — from an educational research project to a Kickstarter campaign to a…
We've been waiting for it to go public for a while and it's finally here. Al Dean takes a look at the beta release of Onshape's cloud-based 3D design and…
With a move to a new office, Al Dean is spending a little time looking at the equipment that he takes for granted. What’s proving useful, what’s not and why…
It's been a good few months since we last took a look at Autodesk's Fusion 360 offering. With a burgeoning market for cloud-focussed design tools, Al Dean takes a look…
Vero has been through some exciting times, the most recent being its acquisition by Hexagon Metrology. Al Dean looks at VISI 21 and finds a release that centres on combining…
When is a designer not a designer? This is the question Jeremy Pullin has been pondering recently and here he comes to the conclusion that design is a matter of…
The story of how the Freefly virtual reality headset was developed is a lesson in perseverance. Tanya Weaver talks to its designers about the challenges, setbacks and technology market changes…