John Ward (left), owner of JJ Specialty Vehicles in Mooresville stands with some of his drones and remote control cars. One is being held by Matthew Hanner who was at Community Day in Pioneer Park Saturday. Photo by Susan Carter.
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Carbon3D
3D printing company Carbon3D has closed a $100 million Series C investment round led by Google Ventures. The company intends to use this capital to further develop its technology with the goal of making 3D printing a core part of the manufacturing process.
Founded in 2013, Carbon3D’s aim is to help commercial firms move beyond basic prototyping and extend 3D printing into the actual manufacturing space. Targeted industries include aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, athletic apparel, medical/dental, and industrial groups. The hope is that this will usher in a renaissance in how products are produced, thereby helping to reduce costs.
The dream of 3D printing has yet to be realized. Carbon3D’s approach is different from the traditional model, something which it describes as offering limited material choices, “mechanically weak” hardware parts, and untenably long printing times. Of course, when most people think about 3D printing, they are probably thinking about MakerBot or similar services
Carbon3D will invest in the printer device itself, specifically the hardware, software, and materials from which objects will be made. Just a few weeks ago, the company introduced the world to its 3D printing technology, Continuous Liquid Interface Production, or CLIP. Carbon3D promises it will advance the industry beyond basic prototyping and can produce a 3D object with a smoother surface finish than is currently available.
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Article source: http://www.businessinsider.com/carbon3d-raises-100m-from-google-ventures-and-others-to-help-manufacturing-embrace-3d-printing-2015-8
I always hated kits.
My Cub Scout career lasted two meetings. The handbook for knot tying was so much less interesting than my own efforts to hang the dog from a low branch, only to have the slipknot slip. I wasn’t an animal abuser. He was the only nearby heavy object with a collar. Fortunately, my knot experimentation came to fruition later, when I learned how to suspend a backpack with cheese in it from a tree branch so as to save my dinner from the bears. I invented the clove hitch. (Although modesty requires that I admit that I was probably not the first).
I hated model airplanes. I did like the smell of the glue, so my dislike of the kits probably saved me from a serious addiction. Anything with numbered parts and instructions continues to irritate me. When assembling various toys and appliances over the years, I try to put things together by sight and logic and refer to instructions only when stymied. I know . . . it’s stupid. Kits and instructions are convenient and save time and trouble.
But not in education.
It’s a lovely thing to have childhood biases confirmed. My innate inclination was affirmed by the recent report on the relative benefits of Lego kits vs. Lego “free play.” The findings
Article source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-nelson/common-core-the-lego-kit_b_8020956.html
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Boeing Co. and a key supplier are wrestling to produce a crucial component for the new version of its workhorse 737, amid concerns that a shortage will derail what is supposed to be the fastest-ever increase in production of a jetliner.
Difficulty consistently manufacturing part of the engine thrust reverser that slows jets on landing have been flagged by Boeing as the biggest development challenge at the plane maker’s commercial…
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When a volcano erupts, ancient rocks and magma — known as ejecta — spew into sight for the first time. Pennsylvania-based artist Anthony Cervino’s exhibition at Flashpoint Gallery, titled “Ejecta,” sends private aspects of Cervino’s life bubbling to the surface, exposing them to viewers for interpretation. The show is the result of a close, two-year collaboration with curator Shannon Egan, Cervino’s wife, who adds her own stories to the mix. It’s the first time they’ve worked together. “It’s all about collaboration, balance and equity,” Egan says. “This is the weirdest show I’ve ever done,” Cervino adds. Many of the works on view explore Cervino and Egan’s relationship, as well as their professional and personal successes and failures. Here are three pieces that speak to the couple’s distant and not-so-distant pasts.
Flashpoint Gallery, 916 G St. NW; through Sept. 12, free.
‘At Once Was I’ 2008–2015
In 2007, Cervino came across some discarded model airplane parts in a dumpster. “They belonged to a kid named Ed Stuber,” Egan says. “His childhood diary and scrapbook were also in there.” Cervino salvaged these cast-off remnants of childhood, arranged them on a canvas and doused them with model-airplane-gray primer. At Cervino’s 2008 Flashpoint exhibition, “At Once Was I” was the central piece. “It’s one of the only pieces of my artwork that I actually like,” Cervino says, “yet it’s been sitting in a box for the past seven years, and it’s never been shown anywhere else.” Cervino
Article source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2015/08/20/in-ejecta-at-flashpoint-an-artistcurator-couple-surface-the-detritus-of-their-lives/
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