Tanya Weaver, Author at DEVELOP3D

Parents are urged to encourage their daughters into engineering

Posted by Tanya Weaver - March 5, 2014

Abigail Hutty is a spacecraft structures engineer at Astrium working on the ExoMars Rover Mission In a book I’m currently reading, which is set in 1940s London, a young, aspiring…

Ultimaker aims to bring 3D printing to UK schools

Posted by Tanya Weaver - March 8, 2014

Hot on the heels of MakerBot’s announcement to get a 3D printer in every school in the US, Ultimaker GB has launched the CREATE initiative in a bid to do…

An open source design project to help save the bees

Posted by Tanya Weaver - March 13, 2014

As DEVELOP3D’s resident beekeeper, anything beekeeping related piques my interest. It was certainly piqued recently when I stumbled across the work of the Open Source Beehives project. Essentially these guys,…

Mechanical design input needed in tetra shed summerhouse concept

Posted by Tanya Weaver - March 20, 2014

Gone are the days when the garden shed was the domain of the man of the house to tinker and hammer away at various projects. Nowadays with home working having…

Artem bring Titanfall pilots to life in just 9 days

Posted by Tanya Weaver - March 21, 2014

Artem is no stranger to very tight deadlines. Our February cover story revealed how this London-based physical special effects (SFX) company can turn around projects, like the Halo 4 suit…

Female engineer pens an ‘ode to Engineering’

Posted by Tanya Weaver - April 4, 2014

Nowadays, with the speed of email, it’s very rare to get a letter via ‘snail mail’ that isn’t a bill or a statement; even rarer still, to have your name…

Pedal power to celebrate Tour de France coming to Yorkshire

Posted by Tanya Weaver - April 10, 2014

This summer sees the Tour de France coming to Yorkshire for the first time with cyclists starting in Leeds on 5 July 2014. To commemorate the Yorkshire Grand Départ, local…

New sculpture in Heathrow Terminal Two is an engineering feat

Posted by Tanya Weaver - April 30, 2014

‘Slipstream’ contains more than 30,000 unique parts and uses more than 300,000 rivets London’s Heathrow recently took the wraps off its latest sculpture, ‘Slipstream’, by British artist Richard Wilson. Weighing…

How to celebrate a 30th birthday: Like Tebis, scan your guests and mill them in aluminium

Posted by Tanya Weaver - May 20, 2014

Tebis gave all its guests a special souvenir – an aluminium copy of their face I jetted out to Munich for a couple of days last week to attend Tebis’…

A shiny space saving kitchen product – the Armadillo colander

Posted by Tanya Weaver - May 30, 2014

The colander that collapses down to 10 per cent of its size for storage We’ve all seen the collapsible colander but now London-based company RMDLO is hoping to bring to…