Charles Goulding and Valentina Alzate consider the use of 3D printing in the planning and design iteration process for big projects.
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Book of the Week: Making Your CAM Journey Easier with Fusion 360
This week’s selection is “Making Your CAM Journey Easier with Fusion 360” by Fabrizio Cimo.
Book of the Week: A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering
This week’s selection is “A Dictionary of Mechanical Engineering” by Marcel Escudier and Tony Atkins.
Book of the Week: The Future of Leadership in the Age of AI
This week’s selection is “The Future of Leadership in the Age of AI” by Marin Ivezic and Luka Ivezic.
Book of the Week: The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Building An Unstoppable Team
This week’s selection is “The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Building An Unstoppable Team” by Kelly Roach.
Book of the Week: Blender for Dummies
This week’s selection is “Blender for Dummies” by Jason van Gumster.
Book of the Week: Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD
This week’s selection is “Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD” by Colin Dow.
Book of the Week: Futureproof: 9 Rules for Surviving in the Age of AI
This week’s selection is “Futureproof: 9 Rules for Surviving in the Age of AI” by Kevin Roose.
Book of the Week: FreeCAD Beginner’s Starter Kit
This week’s selection is “FreeCAD Beginner’s Starter Kit” by Aleksander Sadowski.
Book of the Week: 3DU: A Guide to 3D Printing in Every Classroom
This week’s selection is “3DU: A Guide to 3D Printing in Every Classroom: Simple and Affordable Ways to Start 3D Printing in ANY Classroom, No Matter What Grade or Content Area!” by Keven Rinaman.
Book of the Week: 3D Printing with SketchUp
This week’s selection is “3D Printing with SketchUp” by Aaron Dietzen.
Book of the Week: How to Draw
This week’s selection is “How to Draw: drawing and sketching objects and environments from your imagination” by Scott Robertson and Thomas Bertling.
Book of the Week: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers
This week’s selection is “Sketching: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers” by Coos Eissen and Steur Roselien.
Book of the Week: 3D Printing Failures: 2022 Edition
This week’s selection is “3D Printing Failures: 2022 Edition: How to Diagnose and Repair ALL Desktop 3D Printing Issues” by Sean Aranda.
Book of the Week: Digital Crafts: Industrial Technologies for Applied Artists and Designer Makers
This week’s selection is “Digital Crafts: Industrial Technologies for Applied Artists and Designer Makers” by Fabbaloo friend Anne Marie Shillito.
Book of the Week: Sell Your Crafts Online
This week’s selection is “Sell Your Crafts Online: The Handmaker’s Guide to Selling from Etsy, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Shopify and More” by James Dillehay.
Book of the Week: 3D Printing Step by Step
This week’s selection is “3D Printing Step by Step” by Carmelito Andrade.
Book of the Week: Thinkertoys
This week’s selection is Thinkertoys: A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques” by Michael Michalko.
Book of the Week: How to Invent Everything
This week’s selection is “How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler” by Ryan North.
Book of the Week: Cracking Creativity
This week’s selection is “Cracking Creativity: The Secrets of Creative Genius” by Michael Michalko.
Book of the Week: Hit Makers
This week’s selection is “Hit Makers: How to Succeed in an Age of Distraction” by Derek Thompson.
Book of the Week: A Victorian Handbook of Mechanical Movements
This week’s selection is “A Victorian Handbook of Mechanical Movements” by Thomas Walter Barber.
Book of the Week: 3D Printing Without Prior Knowledge
This week’s selection is “3D Printing Without Prior Knowledge : 7 Days To Your First 3D Print (Become An Engineer Without Prior Knowledge” by Benjamin Spahic.
Book of the Week: Dancing With Robots
This week’s selection is “Dancing With Robots: The 29 Strategies for Success In the Age of AI and Automation” by Bill Bishop.
Book of the Week: Designing Pleasurable Products
This week’s selection is “Designing Pleasurable Products: An Introduction to the New Human Factors” by Patrick W. Jordan.
Book of the Week: Invent to Learn
This week’s selection is “Invent to Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering in the Classroom” by Sylvia Martinez and Gary S. Stager.
Book of the Week: Digital Gastronomy
This week’s selection is “Digital Gastronomy: From 3D Food Printing to Personalized Nutrition”.
Book of the Week: Advanced 3D Printing with Grasshopper
This week’s selection is “Advanced 3D Printing with Grasshopper” by Diego Garcia Cuevas and Gianluca Pugliese.
Book of the Week: Understanding OpenSCAD
This week’s selection is “Understanding OpenSCAD: A hands-on introduction to OpenSCAD for 3D printing and CNC milling” by Alicia Doors.
Book of the Week: Make It Fit
This week’s selection is “Make It Fit: Introduction to Tolerance Analysis for Mechanical Engineers” by Jason E Tynes.
Book of the Week: The Engineering Design Process
This week’s selection is “The Engineering Design Process: An Introduction for Mechanical Engineers” by Peter Ostafichuk, Markus Fengler, and Antony Hodgson.
Book of the Week: Practical Electronics for Inventors
This week’s selection is “Practical Electronics for Inventors” by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk.
Book of the Week: Problem Solving 101
Why select a book about problem solving? The answer is easy: because 3D printers break. A lot.
Book of the Week: Advanced Jewellery CAD Modeling in Rhino
This week’s selection is “Advanced Jewellery CAD Modeling in Rhino” by Jack Meyer.
Book of the Week: Create Stunning AI Art
This week’s selection is “Create Stunning AI Art” by Antonis Tsagaris and Andreas Pampoukkas.
Book of the Week: A Guide to Additive Manufacturing
This week’s selection is “A Guide to Additive Manufacturing” by editors Damir Godec, Joamin Gonzalez-Gutierrez, Axel Nordin, Eujin Pei and Julia Ureña Alcázar.
Book of the Week: The AI Cookbook
This week’s selection is “The AI Cookbook: A taste of the future” by Paolo Rosson.
Book of the Week: Making Simple Robots
This week’s selection is “Making Simple Robots: Easy Robotics Projects for Kids Using Everyday Stuff” by Kathy Ceceri.
Book of the Week: Maps for Time Travelers
This week’s selection is “Maps for Time Travelers: How Archaeologists Use Technology to Bring Us Closer to the Past” by Mark D McCoy.
Heavy Metal – Book Review
Charles R. Goulding reviews a new book on shipbuilding, where 3D printing can take a lead role.
Book of the Week: 3D Printing For Money
This week’s selection is “3D Printing For Money” by Richard Licastro.
Book of the Week: Women in 3D Printing
This week’s selection is “Women in 3D Printing” by Stacey DelVecchio.
Book of the Week: The Maker Magician’s Handbook
This week’s selection is “The Maker Magician’s Handbook: A Beginner’s Guide to Magic + Making” by Mario Marchese.
Book of the Week: FreeCAD 0.20 Learn by Doing
This week’s selection is “FreeCAD 0.20 Learn by doing: Sketcher, Part Design, Assemblies, Technical Drawings” by T Kishore.
Book of the Week: Additive Knowledge
This week’s selection is “Additive Knowledge: Everything you need to know about 3D Printing, 3D Scanning and 3D Modeling” by Adam Řehák.
Book of the Week: Troubleshooting 3D Printers
This week’s selection is “Troubleshooting 3D Printers” by Carty Binn.
Book of the Week: Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
This week’s selection is “Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World” by Pagan Kennedy.
Book of the Week: The Science of Supercars
This week’s selection is “The Science of Supercars” by Martin Roach, Neil Waterman, John Morrison and David Coulthard.
Book of the Week: Machine Shop Tools and Operations
This week’s selection is “Machine Shop Tools and Operations” by Rex Miller and Mark Richard Miller.
Book of the Week: 3D Printing in Model Aircraft Construction
This week’s selection is “3D Printing in Model Aircraft Construction” by Thomas Fischer.
Book of the Week: Real-World Stories from the Plant Floor
This week’s selection is “Real-World Stories from the Plant Floor” by Michelle Segrest.
Book of the Week: Integrating 3D Modeling, Photogrammetry and Design
This week’s selection is “Integrating 3D Modeling, Photogrammetry and Design” by Shaun Foster and David Halbstein.
Book of the Week: Building Smart Robots Using ROS
This week’s selection is “Building Smart Robots Using ROS: Design, Build, Simulate, Prototype and Control Smart Robots Using ROS, Machine Learning and React Native Platform” by Robin Tommy.
Book of the Week: Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything
This week’s selection is “Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That’ll Improve and/or Ruin Everything” by Kelly Weinersmith and Zach Weinersmith.
Book of the Week: Product Roadmaps Relaunched
This week’s selection is “Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty” by C. Todd Lombardo, Bruce McCarthy, Evan Ryan and Michael Connors.
Book of the Week: Generative Design
This week’s selection is “Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with JavaScript in p5.js” by Benedikt Groß.
Book of the Week: Autodesk Fusion 360 A Power Guide
This week’s selection is “Autodesk Fusion 360: A Power Guide for Beginners and Intermediate Users” by John Willis and Sandeep Dogra.
Book of the Week: Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD
This week’s selection is “Simplifying 3D Printing with OpenSCAD” by Colin Dow.
Book of the Week: FreeCAD 0.19 Learn by doing
This week’s selection is “FreeCAD 0.19 Learn by Doing”.
Book of the Week: OpenSCAD Cookbook
This week’s selection is “OpenSCAD Cookbook: OpenSCAD Recipes for learning 3D modeling” by John Clark Craig.
Book of the Week: Getting Started in ZBrush
This week’s selection is “Getting Started in ZBrush” by Greg Johnson.
Book of the Week: So… You Want To 3D Print Food?
This week’s selection is “So… You Want To 3D Print Food?” by Michah Bailey.
Book of the Week: Props and Costume Armor
This week’s selection is “Props and Costume Armor: Create Realistic Science Fiction & Fantasy Weapons, Armor, and Accessories” by Shawn Thorsson and MAKE.
Book of the Week: Additive Knowledge
This week’s selection is “Additive Knowledge” by Adam Rehák.
Book of the Week: 3D Printing Without Prior Knowledge
This week’s selection is “3D Printing Without Prior Knowledge” by Benjamin Spahic.
Book of the Week: Neri Oxman Material Ecology
This week’s selection is “Neri Oxman Material Ecology” by Paola Antonelli, Anna Burckhardt, Hadas A. Steiner, and of course, Neri Oxman.
Book of the Week: Battlefields In Miniature
This week’s selection is “Battlefields In Miniature: Making Realistic and Effective Terrain for Wargames” by Paul Davies.
Book of the Week: Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor
This week’s selection is “Identifying Waste on the Shopfloor”.
Book of the Week: Practical Arduino Engineering
This week’s selection is “Practical Arduino Engineering: End to End Development with the Arduino, Fusion 360, 3D Printing, and Eagle” by Harold Timmis.
Book of the Week: 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing
This week’s selection is “3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing” by Chee Kai Hua and Kai Fai Leong.
Beware Of Questionable 3D Print Books
While browsing through some 3D printing books, I came across a very suspicious situation.
Book of the Week: Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay
This week’s selection is “Creating Lifelike Figures in Polymer Clay: Tools and Techniques for Sculpting Realistic Figures” by Katherine Dewey.
Book of the Week: Getting Started with Soldering
This week’s selection is “Getting Started with Soldering” by Marc de Vinck.
Book of the Week: Creating 3D Models for 3D Printing Using OpenSCAD
This week’s selection is “Creating 3D Models for 3D Printing Using OpenSCAD” by David Leithauser.
Book of the Week: More Intermediate Arduino and 3D Print Model Railroad Projects
This week’s selection is “More Intermediate Arduino and 3D Print Model Railroad Projects” by Paul and David Bradt.
Book of the Week: 3D Printing Failures: How to Diagnose and Repair ALL Desktop 3D Printing Issues
This week’s selection is “3D Printing Failures: 2022 Edition: How to Diagnose and Repair ALL Desktop 3D Printing Issues” by Sean Aranda.
Book of the Week: Design for Manufacturability
This week’s selection is “Design for Manufacturability: How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop Low-Cost, High-Quality Products for Lean Production” by David M. Anderson.
Book of the Week: A Practical Introduction to Supply Chain
This week’s selection is “A Practical Introduction to Supply Chain” by David Pheasey.
Book of the Week: Epoxy Basics
This week’s selection is “Epoxy Basics: Working with Epoxy Cleanly & Efficiently” by Russell J. Brown and Ashlyn E. Brown.
Book of the Week: Raspberry Pi 4 For Beginners And Intermediates
This week’s selection is “Raspberry Pi 4 For Beginners And Intermediates” by Craig Berg.
Book of the Week: 3D Printing For Money
This week’s selection is “3D Printing For Money” by Richard Licastro.
Book of the Week: Introduction to Stocks for the Novice Investor
This week’s selection is “Introduction to Stocks for the Novice Investor: A Beginner’s Guide to Help You Feel Confident When Investing Your Money” by Erin Wolfe.
Book of the Week: An Introduction to Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis
This week’s selection is “An Introduction to Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis” by J. N. Reddy.
Book of the Week: HBR Guide to Office Politics
This week’s selection is “HBR Guide to Office Politics” by Karen Dillon.
Book of the Week: Blender 3D By Example
This week’s selection is “Blender 3D By Example” by Oscar Baechler and Xury Greer.
James Dyson’s ‘Invention: A Life’ Book Review
This autobiography is a remarkable book and a must-read for those interested in innovation, design, manufacturing, and business.
Book of the Week: Understanding Color
This week’s selection is “Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers” by Linda Holtzschue.
Book of the Week: Digital Modelmaking
This week’s selection is “Digital Modelmaking: Laser Cutting, 3D Printing and Reverse Engineering” by Helen Lansdown.
Book of the Week: A Manager’s Guide to Large Scale Additive Manufacturing
This week’s selection is “A Manager’s Guide to Large Scale Additive Manufacturing” by Ken Susnjara.
Book of the Week: How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic
This week’s selection is “How to Diagnose and Fix Everything Electronic” by Michael Geier.
Book of the Week: A Beginner’s Guide to 3D Modeling
This week’s selection is “A Beginner’s Guide to 3D Modeling” by Cameron Coward.
Book of the Week: Tinkercard for Dummies
This week’s selection is “Tinkercard for Dummies” by Shaun C. Bryant.
Book of the Week: The Non-Designer’s Design Book
This week’s selection is “The Non-Designer’s Design Book” by Robin Williams.
Book of the Week: Programming with OpenSCAD
This week’s selection is “Programming with OpenSCAD: A Beginner’s Guide to Coding 3D-Printable Objects” by Justin Good and Marius Kintel.
Book of the Week: The 3D Printing Cookbook: Tinkercad Edition
This week’s selection is “The 3D Printing Cookbook: Tinkercad Edition” by David Seto.