Factory engineering
Taking a break from the usual shiny products in DEVELOP3D Stephen Holmes gets a kick out of conveyor belts, and a buzz out of bottle fillers as he reports direct…
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Stephen Holmes
As Editor-in-Chief, Stephen’s role covers the online space and the magazines. A mix of interviewing designers for in-depth features, and hunting for the latest industry news keeps him busy. If you have a story, get in touch.
MIT meets Manc: new Fab Labs open up RP to the masses
Boasting it’s position as the UK’s new manufacturing heartland (as one tongue-firmly-in-cheek speaker put it: “Sorry West Midlands”) the North West now boasts a Fab Lab. Yes, it’s not on…
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MAXXing out bike design
Tall or short, it doesn't matter; MAXX Bikes is changing the way people buy their bicycles
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Those magnificent men in their flying machines
A Cambridgeshire product designer is well on the path to realising his dream of bringing back to life one of the original British monoplanes. Frances Corbet and Greg Corke recount…
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Laser guidance
Stephen Holmes travels to Belfast to find a prototyping bureau determined to change the preconception that business needs to be done locally
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InterPro workstations IPW-Ci7X
This powerful six core workstation presents an interesting proposition for rendering and CAD/CAM/CAE users who want multi-core performance from a single CPU machine
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Even better than the real thing?
Virtual reality has taken huge strides in recent years with immersive environments delivering imagery that is sharper than anything ever before seen and 3D without the need for glasses. HoloVis…
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New HP Designjet 3D printing solution takes RP mainstream
3D printing is about to go mainstream as Hewlett Packard released their first rapid prototyping machine for office use. We’ve been expecting it for a while now, and as more…
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Head first
A revolutionary new motorcycle helmet is being touted as the most significant development in helmet design since full-face protection was introduced in 1967. Tanya Weaver reports on the Lazer SuperSkin…
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The sound of summer
With a design built around its monocrystalline solar panel, the sound of this summer could be coming from the first in a new era of self powered consumer products
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