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A ‘pink’ construction toy to inspire young girls into engineering

Posted by Tanya Weaver - November 13, 2012

There is a new toy in town and although it’s pink and cute it’s underlying principles are not traditionally girlie.…

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Opinion

The year ahead: #10 Martyn Day

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 24, 2013

We asked 13 movers, shakers and thinkers from different industry sectors what they reckon the big trends, developments and challenges…

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Manufacturing

Keep on rolling

Posted by DEVELOP3D - May 16, 2013

With the ambition of creating the world's lightest electric vehicle, three Stanford University engineering graduates founded Boosted Boards. Here they…

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‘Tolerance kit’ to test your 3D printer’s capabilities

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 29, 2013

3DKitBash’s tolerance chips are designed to let you know the capabilities of your machine 3DKitBash, a small group of professional…

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Manufacturing

Power trip

Posted by DEVELOP3D - January 14, 2014

Tanya Weaver meets up with Bare Conductive for a peek into its development processes for products such as Electric Paint…

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News

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…

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News

Live blog: PD+I conference, London – Day 1

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 22, 2014

We’re here bright and early, with a group of exciting industrial designers poised ready to talk. It’s the fourth year…

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Klax axe head – how much can you pack into a product?

Posted by Stephen Holmes - June 10, 2014

You attach the axe head to a standard handle, or one found in the great outdoors Outdoorsmen of the world,…

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Will 2014 go down as the year of the stereolithography machine?

Posted by DEVELOP3D - June 18, 2014

Last year was all about the FDM-based machines. Will 2014 go down as the year that stereolithography became a more…

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News

Shake your power: musical instrument that creates electricity

Posted by Tanya Weaver - June 26, 2014

SPARK is a musical instrument that generates enough kinetic energy to power a light or charge a phone To get…

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