Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

TechShop opens first European outpost in Munich with BMW

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 2, 2013

We’re big fans of the expansion of TechShop, a ‘gym membership’ scheme for workshops and equipment, which has now announced its expansion out of the USA and over to Germany.…

Trending right now: 3D Printing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 8, 2013

The Science Museum’s new 3D printing exhibition Nestled amongst some of the most important historic vehicles, machines and devices in London’s Science Museum is a solitary CNC lathe. Its tape-driven…

World’s first 3D printed record store opens in London

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 12, 2013

In the heart of Soho’s vinyl store mecca, Bacardi’s Beginnings campaign is opening the first 3D printing record store with the help of Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, marking the first…

PTC acquire ThingWorx – an internet of things, and stuff…

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 6, 2014

While the rest of us were hunkering down, preparing for a storm of New Year’s Eve festivities/horrible seasonal weather, PTC was figuratively popping to the shops, clearly having forgot it’s…

Horrendous car = not necessarily bad design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 7, 2014

Our favourite news piece today is about the design and manufacturing history behind the Reliant Robin, a three-wheeled vehicle, weighing 400kg that could seat four, and be driven with a…

Nissan redesigns its London Taxi – City braces for ugly

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 8, 2014

As if listening to our baffled confusion between good design producing a horrible vehicle earlier this week, Nissan has given its London Taxi a facelift to “better reflect the iconic…

‘He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named’ is back picking up a technology paycheck – this time 3D Systems is paying

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 9, 2014

Having eagerly followed the coverage from CES this week, amongst the 3D printing and electrical goods magic on show, we were taken aback by one unveiling in particular. The Technology…

New compact qFlash 3D scanner from Hexagon Metrology with STL file ability

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 15, 2014

The WLS qFLASH, wrapped in a carbon fiber optical housing and employing advanced blue LED high power illumination, is set to become one of the most versatile, portable, medium-sized machines…

Modularity to master complexity: ModeFrontier event to tackle issues facing engineers

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 15, 2014

Esteco has announced its tenth ModeFrontier International Users Meeting to be held in Trieste, Italy, on 12-13 May, 2014. The theme chosen for the event – “modularity mastering complexity” –…

Zuken bringing electrical engineering closer to mechanical design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 21, 2014

Put simply, electrical design can be some fear inducing stuff, usually split off from the design and engineering sectors for a specialist job; but now Zuken is attempting to simplify…