Tanya Weaver, Author at DEVELOP3D

Jaguar Land Rover gives UK manufacturing a boost and unveils new Jaguar concept

Posted by Tanya Weaver - September 12, 2013

Things at Jaguar Land Rover seem to be on the up at the moment. Reporting record sales, creating new jobs, opening a new £500m engine manufacturing centre, welcoming its new…

Kaymet, Boucepad and Robofold – proof that London is still a manufacturer

Posted by Tanya Weaver - September 19, 2013

It’s the London Design Festival this week with literally hundreds of events taking place across the capital from exhibitions and talks to bike design tours and the opportunity to sneak…

RTT DelaGen 12 – Interview with Benjamin Becker, product manager at RTT

Posted by Tanya Weaver - November 26, 2013

September 2013 saw the release of RTT DeltaGen 12, the latest version of the flagship software from RTT, the leading provider of professional high-end 3D visualisation in realtime. We caught…

Euromold Highlights: Europe’s biggest 3D Printing + manufacturing tool show

Posted by Tanya Weaver - December 10, 2013

For three days last week (4-6 December) Develop3D went over to Euromold – dubbed as one of largest trade fairs for mouldmaking and tooling, design and application development. Taking place…

Half a million Lego pieces + 256 pistons = 1 life-size 20mph car

Posted by Tanya Weaver - December 19, 2013

In a flight of fancy, Australian entrepreneur Steve Sammartino dreamed up an idea of making a car from Lego pieces. By roping in the skill of a Romain ‘technology genius’…

In the making – the Design Museum’s new exhibition

Posted by Tanya Weaver - December 30, 2013

The design duo who created the London 2012 Olympic torch, Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, are curating a new exhibition at London’s Design Museum that celebrates the beauty of the…

Lego tops designers’ and engineers’ toy lists

Posted by Tanya Weaver - January 3, 2014

Do the toys we play with as children inspire our future career choice? This is the question I was pondering before we broke up for Christmas holidays. I put it…

Top female engineer for president

Posted by Tanya Weaver - January 23, 2014

Professor Dame Ann Dowling is set to become the first female president of The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) later this year. Dame Ann is a world authority on combustion…

The (crime preventing) robots are coming

Posted by Tanya Weaver - January 24, 2014

Like me, are you having Sherlock withdrawal symptoms? Well, there is a new detective in town although he doesn’t have a curly mop, trench coat and deerstalker cap. Instead he’s…

Power Up 3.0 – a new smartphone-controlled paper airplane

Posted by Tanya Weaver - January 29, 2014

If, like me, you’ve had unsatisfactory paper plane experiences fear not as there is a new gadget in production that will ensure your planes soar rather than nose dive. New…