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  • Bad experience with BatteryGeek

    UPDATE: Not sure if this is a demonstration of the power of a blog or not, but I just got an email from the BatteryGeek guys that my new battery is on its way.  I’ll provide another update when it comes.  Hopefully this one will work better than the last. I posted in the fall…

  • Tiresome? Maybe, but sometimes hard work is.

    .!. OK, where do I begin with this one. Well, let’s start at the beginning. A few weeks ago I posted that UGS had published a specification for the JT file format. This announcement was the fulfillment of a promise we made publicly early in 2006 to make the details of the JT format publicly…

  • Next year's Christmas list

    Is it too early to add some requests for next year’s Christmas list?  If not, I want one: ThrustPac – Empower Yourself True Colors full

  • Sears gets into social production…no, really

    Ulf over on reBang points to the news from Sears that they are now offering a CNC for home users.  While not exactly a 3D printer for everyman, this is a strong indication that home makers (not the kind that make casseroles) are becoming more mainstream…Sears is definitely in the not in the early adopter…

  • Google making more 3D Connections

    This today from Official Google Blog: Super models wanted.  In a move that should surprise no one, Google has cast an open call for 3D models to be submitted by users of their Sketch-up product, acquired last year, to be posted to their Google Earth service. While they still have a lot of features missing,…

  • Free JT for all

    If you’re having trouble going to sleep tonight, you may want to stop by the JT Open website and pick up a copy of the recently released JT Open spec document. Ah, there’s nothing like reading technical specs late into the night. In all seriousness, we finally pushed out the spec this week. This was…

  • Thanks for the work Franco

    In my scramble to make sure my blog doesn’t end up in a CAD pigeon hole (not that there’s anything wrong with that…just want to be able to write about whatever I want, not just CAD), I forgot two important points: 1 – Thanks Franco, for doing the research.  There are a few new subscriptions…

  • I'm number 12!

    .!. Wow, I’m the number 12 CAD blog…I didn’t even know I was a CAD blog ;-). Just to be perfectly clear again, calling this a CAD blog (or a PLM blog, etc.) is a bit of a misnomer.  This is a personal blog: I write about things that are interesting to me.  Since I…

  • iRobot provides a platform for the maker

    I bought my whole family Roomba’s for Christmas a few years ago.  Yes, some took it as a commentary on their sweeping habits, a few of them really enjoyed them.  Unfortunately almost none of them are still in service for reasons as varied as normal mechanical wear and tear to a really curious dog. The…