3D Printing is awesome for so many things – but making quick, custom tools and jigs is still one of my favorite use cases! You don’t have to spend hours in CAD to optimize a part to perfection when you can easily print a new revision while you keep working on your project. Stay safe folks!
Month: March 2020
The C64 MOD – add more than 150 Games in Carusel-Mode (2020)
The C64 MOD – Modifizieren des C64 Maxi add more than 150 Games in Carusel-Mode
Libretro Cores Quick Look – Mupen64 Plus Next – 64 Disk Drive Support!
The Mupen64 Plus Next core now finally supports the 64 Disk Drive! In this video you see three games being tested: Polygon Studio, part of the Mario Artist set of game creation tools for the 64DD. Think of a prehistoric take on Dreams two decades ago. Next is F-Zero X Expansion Kit. F-Zero X received a 64DD expansion which bolted on a track editor to the game and added a few new cups. Third is Super Mario 64 Disk Version. It is essentially a proof of concept tech demo for the 64DD meant to show off the relatively fast loading times comparative to the PS1/Saturn’s double-speed CD-ROM drive. This would have been one of the big selling points of the 64DD had it not been continuously delayed well past its sell by date.
3D Printing Ventilator Valves for #Coronavirus AND How YOU Can Help!
3D Printing helped save lives when Cristian Fracassi from Isinnova modeled and 3d printed a Venturi valve for respirators. Italian doctors couldn’t get them fast enough from the manufacturer for the Coronavirus / COVID-19 response.
This story took hold, and many reached out wondering how THEY can help with their 3d printers. Here are some ways to help! UPDATE 3/19: Looks like some of the information I reported was corrected.
The price of the ventilator valves was not $11,000 – and the company behind them did NOT threaten to sue. Also, looks like Josef Prusa and his team stepped up and is helping out.
Sony’s PS5 ‘Reveal’ Is Over – And Boy, Was It a Disaster
Sony’s PlayStation 5 “reveal” event was a sleep-inducing 50 minutes of utter boredom. It’s hard to imagine how it could have gone worse.
- Today’s PS5 “reveal” event turned out to be a 50-minute lecture aimed at developers.
- The sleep-inducing presentation appears to have been initially scheduled for GDC2020 before the event was canceled.
- Not only did Mark Cerny drone on for 50 minutes about the same three things, but we still didn’t learn anything about the PS5’s “killer features.”
Well, that was disappointing. After months of waiting for the PlayStation 5 (PS5) reveal, Sony delivered one of the most boring and utterly pointless events imaginable.
Mark Cerny basically got up on stage and gave a talk aimed solely at game developers. That would have been fine at GDC, where he planned to present it. But Sony talked today’s event up as a gamer-focused PS5 unveiling.
So hundreds of thousands of people tuned in, expecting to finally get some information about the console. Instead, all we got was a bunch of pointless tech speak.
Atari Shock – The Video Game Market Crash of 1983
1982. The game developer Atari is huge. By introducing swappable game cartridges with its VCS console and riding high on the back of a license of Taito’s Space Invaders, Atari had helped make home console gaming massive. This is the story of how it all came crashing down. This is the story of the Atari Shock.
Copper 3D makes the free #N95 mask design to fight #COVID-19 pandemic spread
With the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, many companies have joined the fight to stop the deadly virus by creating and producing various types of medical supplies and healthcare solutions. Clothing companies began to sew aprons and protective N95 masks, chemical companies produced antibacterial gels, public and private universities and research centers started projects to create solutions that would help in a simple and quick way to study and prevent the disease.
Companies from the 3D printing industry have also taken on this challenge by successively presenting projects that are easy and quick to implement, increasing protection and safety of people. Until now, we have described examples of cooperation between The FabLab in Milan and Isinnova, who created the missing valves for an intensive care device for the Italian hospital in Brescia, the Belgian Materialise, which created a simple and fast 3D printing model of a safe door opener or the Czech PRUSA Research, which has created its own antibacterial gel. Now we are presenting another project – it is possible that so far the most functional and useful of all the above …?
Designing a low-cost, open source ventilator with Arduino #CoVID-19 #coronavirus
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and while making your own medical equipment isn’t normally advisable, Johnny Lee’e project explores how to turn a CPAP machine into a ventilator.
The idea is that since these machines are basically just blowers controlled by a brushless DC motor, an Arduino Nano equipped with an electonic speed controller could allow it to act as a one.
OxyGEN Prototype for #CoVID-19 #Coronavirus
Concerned with the Pandemic, we, a group of engineers and makers, decided to join forces from our homes and workshops to try and contribute. With the purpose of freeing medical personnel in extreme situations, we have designed an open hardware device, which provides instructions for the automation of an existing AMBU type breathing system.
Something that anyone can build using very common parts and without special tools. All information is available at https://oxygen.protofy.xyz/. It’s an open project, the more we contribute, the better! Note: OxyGEN is not a certified medical device.