Model Airplanes

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The White House won’t comment on a petition signed by more than 270,000 people asking for Justin Bieber to be deported for his alleged crimes. In January, Bieber was charged with driving under the influence in Miami and he also has a pending assault charge and separate vandalism charges for egging his neighbor’s house. It’s just the latest development in a series of troubles for the pop star.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers searched an airplane — thought to be the one pictured — carrying Bieber and others on January 31, at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey. Officers said

Article source: http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/13/showbiz/justin-bieber-miami-plea/

Even as 3-D printing is poised to help democratize manufacturing, it’s often overlooked that many 3-D-printed items are far too complicated for users to digitally design.

Sure, people can now order 3-D-printed items online, or even make wedding-cake figurines using 3-D-printing services at certain stores. But these are simple, largely standardized products. What if you want a chair or car built to your exact specifications?

Now, a team led by researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has developed “Fab By Example,” the first data-driven method to help people design products, with a growing database of templates that allow users to customize thousands of complex items, such as cabinets, jungle gyms, and go-carts.

“When we design things on a computer, the question arises of how to manufacture them in the real world with the necessary physical parts — wood, glass, screws, hinges, bolts and all,” said project lead Adriana Schulz, a PhD student in CSAIL. “For casual users, creating such a detailed model is not just time-consuming, but it’s actually more or less impossible unless you know something about mechanical engineering.”

Fab By Example’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface lets you mix and match materials — and position, align, and connect the different parts — without worrying if the design is actually feasible.

“The technology allows you to design and fabricate practically any off-the-wall idea that’s bouncing around your head,” Schulz said, citing a mega-shelf (pictured above) that takes up nearly an entire room.

Watch a demo of Fab By Example

Video courtesy

Article source: http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2014/csail-team-puts-design-your-hands

By KEVIN NEVERS

After 28 additions
and expansions over nearly half a century, Urschel Laboratories’ current
works in Valparaiso looks–at least it feels–more like a rabbit warren than
a manufacturing facility.

It’s cramped,
labyrinthine, and about as efficient a place to produce precision reduction
equipment as a two-car garage would be.

Urschel’s brand-new
shop–under construction at Coffee Creek Center–is a different animal
entirely: it’s vast but open, vibes airplane hangar more than factory, and
has been designed, of course, to optimize production but also to simplify
any future expansion down the road.

On Thursday a
Chesterton Tribune reporter accompanied Town of Chesterton officials on
a tour of the new facility, which is expected be fully operational by
September 2015.

How much more
efficient a space will Urschel’s new digs be? Bill Schott, the company’s
executive director of manufacturing and last week’s tour guide, put it this
way. The old facility has 235,000 square feet with fully 83 rooftop HVAC
units. The new facility is two-thirds larger, at 385,000 square feet, but
will need one-third

Article source: http://chestertontribune.com/Business/urschels_new_facility_has_some_r.htm

Viv was named after the Latin root meaning live. Its San Jose, California, offices are decorated with tsotchkes bearing the numbers six and five (VI and V in roman numerals). Ariel Zambelich

When Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, the headlines were not about its speedy A5 chip or improved camera. Instead they focused on an unusual new feature: an intelligent assistant, dubbed Siri. At first Siri, endowed with a female voice, seemed almost human in the way she understood what you said to her and responded, an advance in artificial intelligence that seemed to place us on a fast track to the Singularity. She was brilliant at fulfilling certain requests, like “Can you set the alarm for 6:30?” or “Call Diane’s mobile phone.” And she had a personality: If you asked her if there was a God, she would demur with deft wisdom. “My policy is the separation of spirit and silicon,” she’d say.

Over the next few months, however, Siri’s limitations became apparent. Ask her to book a plane trip and she would point to travel websites—but she wouldn’t give flight options, let alone secure you a seat. Ask her to buy a copy of Lee Child’s new book and she would draw a blank, despite the fact that Apple sells it. Though Apple has since extended Siri’s powers—to make an OpenTable restaurant reservation, for example—she still can’t do something as simple as booking a table on

Article source: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/viv/

PEARL HARBOR –
This December will mark the 73rd anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. It triggered America’s entry into the second world war.

A symbol of that attack has always been the U.S.S. Arizona, which almost 73 years later remains at the bottom of that shallow harbor, a memorial to the men who died there.

But what’s happening to the ship after so much time underwater, scientists are trying to figure that out now.

In Phoenix, you can see pieces of the U.S.S. Arizona. At Wesley Bolin Plaza the anchors, mast, and two huge guns from the ship are on display. They’re in great shape, but that’s not the case with the overall ship wreck in Hawaii.

A company is undertaking an amazing project to map and preserve the shipwreck that’s been sitting on the bottom of Pearl Harbor since December 7th, 1941.

Pete Kelsey is from a company called Autodesk. The Flagstaff resident is one of a very select few to dive on the wreck.

What’s left of the battleship Arizona sits on about 40 feet of water at the bottom of Pearl Harbor.

“You’ve got a steel battleship that’s been in salt water for more than 70 years, odds are it’s not the same ship it was even ten years ago,” said Kelsey.

Every year thousands of tourists visit the memorial in Hawaii. Still protruding above the waves, part of the ship’s turret number three. Still entombed below

Article source: http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/story/26254392/2014/08/11/software-company-aims-to-map-and-preserve-the-uss-arizona-wreck

Viv was named after the Latin root meaning live. Its San Jose, California, offices are decorated with tsotchkes bearing the numbers six and five (VI and V in roman numerals). Ariel Zambelich

When Apple announced the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011, the headlines were not about its speedy A5 chip or improved camera. Instead they focused on an unusual new feature: an intelligent assistant, dubbed Siri. At first Siri, endowed with a female voice, seemed almost human in the way she understood what you said to her and responded, an advance in artificial intelligence that seemed to place us on a fast track to the Singularity. She was brilliant at fulfilling certain requests, like “Can you set the alarm for 6:30?” or “Call Diane’s mobile phone.” And she had a personality: If you asked her if there was a God, she would demur with deft wisdom. “My policy is the separation of spirit and silicon,” she’d say.

Over the next few months, however, Siri’s limitations became apparent. Ask her to book a plane trip and she would point to travel websites—but she wouldn’t give flight options, let alone secure you a seat. Ask her to buy a copy of Lee Child’s new book and she would draw a blank, despite the fact that Apple sells it. Though Apple has since extended Siri’s powers—to make an OpenTable restaurant reservation, for example—she still can’t do something as simple as booking a table on

Article source: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/viv/