Next big advancement in consumer 3D printing:
Dual Independent Extruders (IDEX) on CoreXY.
Much faster than filament switchers or tool changers, with the added option of dual simultaneous printing.
I'm excited to see the Rat Rig V-Core team pull this off.
The Pixel Pump handheld pick-and-place tool by @robin1337 sets the gold standard for crowdsourced, open-source hardware projects I've seen lately
Everything from the hardware to the packaging to the CrowdSupply supporter updates have been first-rate.
Fun feature in AutoDesk Fusion 360:
3D textures for materials like wood: Wood rings and grain stay consistent and realistic across 3D shapes.
Nice effect for woodworking projects.
Intel's new Xeon MAX 9480 has 64GB of high-speed RAM packaged next to the cores.
Four large squares in the center are CPU cores (14-cores each)
Four rectangles on the outside are HMB2e RAM (16GB each)
Interestingly, it can boot and run a full OS without any extra DIMMs installed!
External RAM will operate in a tiered fashion.
ScanOfTheMonth
produces excellent analysis of CT scans of interesting objects.
This month: coffee making equipment.
Fascinating to see the quality different between an old Moka pot (left) and a new model with low-quality porous casting (right)
It's wild that we can literally look at molecules using atomic force microscopy.
It's especially satisfying when the resulting images look like their structural formulas.
