PW3d Blog

Annoying advertisements...

I am working in an advertising agency which may stand in conflict to some readers with this post but for me advertising should have a benefit for the customer and the company which is offering something... but what I sometimes see out there is really not in anyway fitting into that categories.... there are limits... Why do I talk about that? In Germany there is a new cookie in the advertisings... I got it from a co-worker and it did indeed taste ...

The SocialMedia factor

Blogs, Facebook, Google+, Xing, Twitter and what else there is... they help us commincate, they drive the internet from nerds to normal people and give the possibility to write something in the internet for everybody. But there is something that results of that, that I think many are not aware of... It is much harder to find specific informations than before. If you are searching for "Makerbot Support" or something like that you will get literally ...

Mobile Devices... everything is better?

You can hear it all over again today: "Oh, the newest smartphone is here... the PC is no longer of any use!" or "PS3, XBox and PCs... nobody needs them anymore, my cellphone is better andway..." Before I begin: I like Android and I like my smartphone (own one of the fastest around currently) but these statements are just WRONG. Any good PC is much, much faster than any smartphone... The more performance you need, the better a stationary computer ...

My Makerbot Replicator 2 at work

Here is a video I captured with my cell phone (because of that the shaking camera) to show you how my makerbot works with a larger object with a spool from Plastic2Print and a special spoolholder for that. The file for Makerware to print the spoolholder can be found here: You may find it interesting to hear the loudness/noisyness of the Replicator 2 here, because I am talking with a normal voice even a little less loud than normal maybe here.

Update: Hash Animation:Master v17.0 (d)

The new version is mainly a bug-fix release which solves (additional to other bugs) the memory leak in SimCloth. Additional to that, the 32 and 64 patches per polygon-export-options has been readjusted slightly too. Downloads: A:M v17.0(d), Windows (32bit) A:M v17.0(d), Windows (64bit) A:M v17.0(d), Intel Mac The full change-log can be found here: Complete Change-Log A:M v17.0 (d).