Kategorie: Technology
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Shapeways and Polycount Team Up for Dota 2 3D Printing Contest
Reading Time: 2 minutes3D printing service Shapeways and digital art forum and community Polycount are putting on a 3D printable design competition inspired by Valve’s Dota 2 video game. Leveraging the tasty licensing agreement it has with video games producer Valve (that the latter’s assets become fair game for reproduction), Shapeways is now partnering with…
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LiDAR Scanning Technology Helps Archaeologists Uncover Forgotten Cities
Reading Time: 3 minutesLiDAR scanning technology offers tremendous potential to help archaeologists discover lost cities across the world. Archaeologists are able to speed up their process of discovery and exploration using a high-tech laser technique originally developed to scan the surface of the moon. The technology is based on light detection and ranging scanning (LiDAR)…
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Bitmoji is this week's David Pogue's Rated:App
Reading Time: 4 minutesWelcome to David Pogue’s Rated:App, a new video series. Each week, I’ll install whatever the No. 1 bestselling app is (on the iOS or Android store) and review it, to save you the effort in case it’s a turkey. If you’re viewing this on your phone, in an app or Facebook or…
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Levitate water drops with RGB LEDs and Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesLevitate water drops with RGB LEDs and Arduino Arduino Team — February 19th, 2018 Water normally falls from the sky to the ground, the time fountain from hacker isaac879 appears to work much differently. As shown in the video below, water droplets somehow levitate from a circular orange apparatus to a blue one…
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Artist Documents “Ritual of Habits” with 3D Scanning and 3D Printing
Reading Time: 2 minutesRosalie Yu recreates her sweet treats in hyper-realistic detail with a grand project called a Ritual of Habits. She’s creating a virtual reality experience — and a 3D printed facsimile — of 256 desserts (and counting). Art and technology blend together like a fluffy mousse in a 360-degree virtual reality (VR) experience…
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Daily Deal – LEGO® Worlds, 50% Off
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday’s Deal: Save 50% on LEGO® Worlds!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Wednesday at 10AM Pacific Time Website: LINK
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Download and 3D Print Your Own Hyrule Castle from Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re a Zelda fan and have your own 3D printer, you’ll be happy to hear that there are now a myriad of memorabilia pieces you can create at home. “The Legend of Zelda” series provides some of the most memorable games you can play on a Nintendo system. If you’re hooked…
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12 Kickstarter 3D Printer Projects Live Right Now
Reading Time: < 1 minutePitch: “High-quality PLA filament featuring the patented Furling SLIDER, which prevents your filament from getting tangled-up!” Comments on this Kickstarter 3D Printer Project: Utilising an in-house production system, these campaigners want to develop a full rainbow spectrum of 3D printing PLA filament that’s easy on the wallet. They’ve also devised a…
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Job-Posting: Magic Leap will in den stationären Handel
Reading Time: 2 minutesDer Handel im Internet ist ja gut und schön, aber gerade Wearables wie die noch jungen VR Headsets und kommenden AR-Brillen benötigen eine konkrete Erfahrung, um sie einschätzen und verstehen zu können. In einer neuen Stellenanzeige sucht Magic Leap nun einen „leidenschaftlichen und furchtlosen“ Mitarbeiter, der Store-Konzepte designen und bei der Umsetzung…
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Play Striker Air Hockey on a capacitive touch surface
Reading Time: 1 minutePlay Striker Air Hockey on a capacitive touch surface Arduino Team — February 19th, 2018 After discovering capacitive touch interactions with a Makey Makey device and an Arduino Leonardo, Jason Eldred realized it could also be used to control the Unity game engine. After a night of hacking, he had a basic…
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How 3D Scanning and Printing Helped Team GB to Win Winter Olympics Gold and Bronze
Reading Time: 3 minutesSkeleton skinsuit engineers for Team GB used 3D scanning and printing to help the athletes get a slight advantage over their competitors at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. Skeleton is an Olympic Winter Sport which involves using a tiny sled to plummet yourself down an ice track headfirst. When reaching speeds…
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18 Floors: Room-Escape-Horror ab März für Rift und vielleicht PSVR
Reading Time: 2 minutesDer Publisher Winking Entertainment kündigt einen neuen vielversprechenden Room-Escape-Horrortitel namens 18 Floors von Entwicklerstudio Aoga Tech an, der mit interaktiven Rätselelementen und einer beeindruckenden Grafik punkten möchte. Der VR-Titel soll ab März 2018 für Oculus Rift im Oculus Store erscheinen. Auch eine Umsetzung für PlayStation VR (PSVR) scheint in Planung zu sein.…
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Community Profile: Estefannie Explains It All
Reading Time: 5 minutesThis column is from The MagPi issue 59. You can download a PDF of the full issue for free, or subscribe to receive the print edition through your letterbox or the digital edition on your tablet. All proceeds from the print and digital editions help the Raspberry Pi Foundation achieve our charitable…
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Steam und Microsoft Store: VR-Hinderniskurs The Tower für alle PC-Brillen
Reading Time: 2 minutesDer VR-Indie-Titel The Tower vom deutschen Entwicklerstudio Headroom.one versetzt die Spieler auf einen virtuellen Hinderniskurs, der nur mit vollem Körpereinsatz zu bestehen ist. Das VR-Spiel erschien bereits im Sommer 2017 im Early Access für die Oculus Rift im Oculus Store. Nun dürfen sich auch Besitzer anderer PC-Brillen offiziell an die Geschicklichkeitsprüfung wagen. The Tower…
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Daily Deal – Men of War: Assault Squad 2, 75% Off
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday’s Deal: Save 75% on Men of War: Assault Squad 2!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Tuesday at 10AM Pacific Time Website: LINK
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[DEAL] Sugru Hacks for Your Home Kit, 14% Off at $12.95
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSugru is colorful, moldable and sticks most things to other things. Exactly what you need in a rubbery amorphous thingamajig. And, for now, it costs a little less than usual. We’re all for expounding the benefits and uses of 3D printing around the home, but sometimes you need an even quicker…
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Weekend Project: 3D Printing Sticks for PLA Hot Glue Gun
Reading Time: 4 minutesWho needs a 3D printer when you have a hot glue gun? A new Hackaday project from Donald Papp shows us how to use molten PLA filament to glue 3D printed objects together. When 3D printing ambitiously sized projects, hot glue guns come in handy as a tool to join two separate…
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Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality für PSVR erscheint im April
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMit Rick and Morty: Virtual Rick-ality steht ein spaßiges VR-Spiel zur abgedrehten Serie bereit, welches auch ohne Vorwissen extreme Lachkrämpfe verursachen kann. Bald dürfen auch Besitzer einer PSVR ran, im April soll der Titel für Sonys VR-System erscheinen. Verantwortlich für die Entwicklung sind die Owlchemy Labs, die auch den Job Simulator in die VR-Stores…
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Wacom investiert in 3D-Software Gravity Sketch
Reading Time: 1 minuteMittlerweile tummeln sich einige Anwendungen in den Virtual Reality Stores, die nicht nur zum kreativen Austoben einladen, sondern auch als professionelles Tool funktionieren. Gravity Sketch spielt seine Stärken besonders bei der Erstellung von Design-Konzepten aus. Nun scheint Wacom, der führende Hersteller für stiftähnliche Eingabegeräte, das Potential der Anwendung erkannt zu haben und investiert in…
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Daily Deal – Grey Goo, 75% Off
Reading Time: < 1 minuteToday’s Deal: Save 75% on Grey Goo!* Look for the deals each day on the front page of Steam. Or follow us on twitter or Facebook for instant notifications wherever you are! *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time Website: LINK
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Surgeons use 3D Printed Titanium Implant to Rebuilt Man’s Breastbone and Ribs
Reading Time: 2 minutesSurgeons in Wales used a 3D printed titanium implant to rebuild the chest of a 71-year-old man after a cancer removal operation which took three ribs and part of his breast bone. 3D printing has many medical uses, and for one of the first times in the UK, a titanium implant was…
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Weekend Project: 3D Print Your Own RetroPie Nintendo Switch
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Nintendo Switch games console is an undeniable success. But, retailing for a few hundred dollars, its does require a significant chunk of change. Why not build your own for a fraction of the cost instead? Here’s how (disclaimer: the PiSwitch will not play Nintendo Switch games). Home hackable gaming has never…