Stretching our conscious

I admit I am kind of scared of artificial intelligence. It can be source of exploration and discovery of ourselves and our micro and macro universe. How does this involve and utilize 3d printing Well we have to give commands through something as small as an arduino processor. What if this method could be adapted to interpolate variables that could enable on the fly repairs and responses? We would be able to build with greater safety, accuracy and use more expensive material while defending more precious cargo. Do the dangers of skynet balance against the future of problem solving There will always be new problems let's hope we are not one of them.

Kitchen counter

Food printers will hopefully move forward over the next couple of years. My brother is a huge foodie and constantly watches the food network religiously. I wouldn't classify myself as the same we can all cook but none of us are chefs per se. It is definitely something that as I get older and more grey headed I hopefully will become better at.  But instagram has exposed what was sitting between a party of people on white linen and has gained a cult like following. Before taste was a key part of the experience along w/ presentation. Creating a custom visual that sets your recipe and restaurant from the rest around the world and having this result be reproducible is very important. I hope that with the rise of mixology 3d printers will be sitting in a kitchen right next to the line cook in kitchens around the world.

Shallow end of the pool

I'm dipping my foot back into a previous venture and they are excited to work with me again. I am trying to get better and stretch the limits of working remotely as well as R&D for engineers we do so much work based off of principles that when we start an iterative process from scratch we like our projects to be billable and not guesses. But when we pull from so many areas and stitch and craft. What are we to do? Let's brave forward through the principles of NASA for assistance.

TWI and games

    T.W.I. Weatherford is still on the job with a facility in Canal place. I exchanged e-mails with Aaron Spicer who is setting it up they are busy the location will be in downtown Akron I am a huge supporter of this project because it will be near my friends at Tiny Circuits, The Bike Center (my new friends) and my school (alma mater university of Akron.) So it is very encouraging for me and the future of the industry in the area to see this be completed by the beginning of the year.

   Ohio is teaching game design with 3d at the primetime for kids to design their own games. Now it can jump into a physical form for more permenance for kids in the future. As we all know 7 year olds attention does not last a long time, but that does not mean they cannot create something that kids afterward that they can pick up and enjoy.

3d palooza and Autodesk

Autodesk 100 million dollars through project Spark Investment Fund the money's out there let's innovate. That was a shot in the arm that caught my eye. It distracted me from the second part of the 3d palooza which was live streaming and moved from Faro which was attempting to pioneer laser scanning with applications in architecture and engineering and surveying. Next they moved on to a company using an Nvidia shield as a hand held scanner. It can be found at dotproduct3d.com the scans take less than a minute the files are also small at 5 or 6 mb and the equipment itself is very portable. The price point is set at 5k . This create an application that I am very invested in as far as being a portable solution for scanning potholes.  There was another company at kubusa.com and should specialize in re-organizing industrial floor plans.

Geek Beat 3d palooza

  The first part of geek beat. tv included a demo of a drone that could input navigation way points and fly that route while announcing battery points and then landing in its original location. All with the pilot ( who was a novice on the ground. The cost for the drone came in at a reasonable price of $750 of course I would learn on a mini-drone and step my way up as a pilot. But this definitely increases the versatility while decreasing the learning curve. Next the gentlemen from Autodesk arrived and showed off their rendering software showcasing Han Solo in his carbonite casing. Most of the applications were for rendering virtual environments but they are an offshoot of AutoCad so we will see how it translates.

Effort and investigation

    I am starting to do research on what I missed out on at the mini-maker faire luckily an associate of mine Ken Burns of Tiny Circuits, was one of the featured speakers. So, there's a good chance I could swing by his office and get comments and view points of what was the good and future of the event as this was the second.

   Sunday, I will try.. try to watch Geek Beats event on youtube on 3d. There is at least 6 hrs. of viewing so I would like to do a post a week for the next 4 weeks so if anything interests you as a reader.You have the opportunity to scrub through and find what you like.