Oli Smith, Author at DEVELOP3D

V&A’s latest addition: 3D printed gun still worthy of attention

Posted by Oli Smith - September 30, 2013

In the midst of London Design week, a spectacle of innovative modernity, artisanal endeavour and a veiled proclamation of British stylistic superiority, you could be forgiven for overlooking one of…

MakerBot Digitizer scanner: first impressions

Posted by Oli Smith - August 27, 2013

MakerBot, has kept us on tenterhooks with the release of their newest desktop contraption, the MakerBot Digitizer. MakerBot is quickly becoming a synonym for 3D printing in the public eye…

Welcome to the world of tomorrow…today

Posted by Oli Smith - August 13, 2013

With 71 per cent of those surveyed by Ipsos MORI professing to know little or nothing about 3D printing, it’s on the shoulders of Design Museum curator Alex Newson to…

‘Manhattan on six legs’ – architectural homes for hermit crabs

Posted by Oli Smith - August 6, 2013

Hermit Crabs, like footballers’ wives and the American waistline, ‘do not downsize’, and just like the former, they aren’t looking for style or grace: if it’s bigger, they’ll take it.…

3D printing sets sail with the Bucaneer

Posted by Oli Smith - July 31, 2013

The ocean of thinkers and tinkerers whose talents could do so much more if they had access to affordable and convenient 3D printing is about to be unleashed on the…