Tanya Weaver, Author at DEVELOP3D

Prime Cuts: Steeling the show at the MX Awards

Posted by Tanya Weaver - December 1, 2011

One of the stars of last week’s Institution of Mechanical Engineers Manufacturing Excellence (MX) Awards were the awards themselves. Made of stainless steel and weighing in at 5.4kg, they were…

Clarks steps up development of its shoes with 3D printing

Posted by Tanya Weaver - February 1, 2012

The real shoe is on the right and the mini 3D printed shoe on the left Last September whilst wandering around TCT Live, I came across the Clarks stand. Having…

Bee mine this Valentine’s Day

Posted by Tanya Weaver - February 14, 2012

Today is all about the love and if you’ve read my most recent comment in the February issue of Develop3D you’ll know that I love honey and bees. So, when…

On a roll: A design to blow you away

Posted by Tanya Weaver - March 8, 2012

I was browsing the nominees for the Designs of the Year 2012 and there are some interesting ones in the product category – Ron Arad’s somewhat wacky eyewear range, Barber…

Engineering students design innovative beekeeping tool

Posted by Tanya Weaver - June 25, 2012

Hefti is a beekeeping aid that monitors the hive weight enhancing the chance of bee survival in the winter Here at DEVELOP3D we’ve been doing a lot of buzz around…

Student tackles beehive design with a unique concept

Posted by Tanya Weaver - July 27, 2012

There has been a lot of coverage on our blog in the last couple of weeks about New Designers however, I have one more to add to the mix –…

3D printed robots are nigh with the creation of life-like tentacles

Posted by Tanya Weaver - September 4, 2012

3D printing seems to very much be the technology of the moment: Our very own Al Dean has a 3D printer in his man shed that he has been tinkering…

A floating air cleaning concept wins Electrolux Design Lab 2012

Posted by Tanya Weaver - October 29, 2012

Conceived by Polish design student Jan Ankiersztajn, the Aeroball consists of small floating balls that filter and fragrance the surrounding environment. Sound a bit wacky? Possibly but the idea behind…

Kickstarter launches in the UK: a good or bad thing?

Posted by Tanya Weaver - November 2, 2012

So far I’ve backed two projects on the crowdsource funding website Kickstarter – one of which I wrote about in a recent issue of DEVELOP3D (the Kick lighting studio from…

A fishing net hauls in the James Dyson Award 2012

Posted by Tanya Weaver - November 8, 2012

Royal College of Art (RCA) graduate Dan Watson has been awarded the coveted James Dyson Award for SafetyNet, a fishing net with in-built rings that enables juvenile and endangered fish…