Monthly Archives: November 2012

How to justify a 3D printer

Posted on November 29, 2012 by robertwilkie

If you are married, building a 3D printer may get some raised eyebrows from your wife.  Here are 7 tools from Make Mag. that they found that are worth printing out (and justifying the printer your are building). http://blog.makezine.com/2012/11/23/seven-cool-3d-printable-tools/

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Staples to offer 3-D Printing

Posted on November 29, 2012 by robertwilkie

In some spots in Europe only.  The nice thing about this is its like the refreshing of Kinkos for copying.  Instead of paper, its plastic.  If I read the article correctly, it will be setup just like Kinkos/Staples of today … Continue reading →

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Now you can buy your own Mech

Posted on November 29, 2012 by robertwilkie

When I was a kid I remember a game called battletech, now for over a Mill, you can get your own personal “Mech”. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/29/mech/

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Xerox Benefits Portal

Posted on November 29, 2012 by robertwilkie

Interesting article about a portal for health benefits being offered to Xerox Employees. Not sure if its ACS or Xerox employees, or just In Europe, or company wide.  But its news to me.  🙂 http://www.employeebenefits.co.uk/benefits/total-reward/xerox-staff-access-online-benefits/100637.article

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Xerox to Manage Datacenter for Senior medical benefits

Posted on November 29, 2012 by robertwilkie

I keep saying Xerox is going to be the the “government” service provider for healthcare.   Just another step getting there now… http://www.equities.com/news/headline-story?dt=2012-11-28&val=762255&cat=hcare

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Cheap lathe with nails and a grinder

Posted on November 29, 2012 by robertwilkie

Interesting way to make a lathe.  No way in heck I would do this unless desperate…which I have been in the past http://www.instructables.com/id/Use-a-variable-speed-angle-grinder-as-cutter-AND-r/

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A CEO that cares

Posted on November 28, 2012 by robertwilkie

If you didn’t know, Yahoo has been hurting for the past few years.  There last CEO was rated by employees as something like the 5th worst (I think).  Ursula took 1st last year. Well the new CEO sounds very promising.  … Continue reading →

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3D with Paper

Posted on November 28, 2012 by robertwilkie

This is cool, it is basically a CNC that takes a ream of paper and cuts 3D objects out of it.  The video is fun to watch. http://blog.makezine.com/2012/11/26/paper-based-3d-printing-process/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+makezineonline+%28MAKE%29

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Netflix coming to Ubuntu

Posted on November 28, 2012 by robertwilkie

Being an Ubuntu/Mint user, and a Netflix subscriber, all I can say is YEAH!! http://lifehacker.com/5963726/netflix-finally-comes-to-ubuntu-in-the-form-of-an-unofficial-desktop-app  

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Arduino founder calls out startup/kickstarter

Posted on November 28, 2012 by robertwilkie

Interesting article how a startup may have bent the truth on their kickstarter project, and how one of the founders of Arduino has called them out on it. http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/smartduino/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

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