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The briefing backlog is now browsable as a newspaper-style feed of articles and videos, newest first. Community posts have moved to Reddit trends.
A Singapore-based startup, Castomize, has developed a 3D printed open cast for wrist, arm and ankle fractures that is breathable, lightweight, and fully waterproof, and which helps avoid…
Preserving historic architecture in digital form has long required practitioners to choose between coverage and resolution. A project at Shijiazhuang…
Experts from Güdel will focus on how harsh and dirty environments impact robot tracks and long-axis linear motion systems. The post How to engineer…
METR can barely measure Claude Mythos Preview with its current test suite. Only five out of 228 tasks cover the relevant capability range. Meanwhile…
OpenAI doubled GPT-5.5's list price compared to GPT-5.4, claiming shorter responses would offset the increase. An OpenRouter analysis of real usage…
For the last few years, the must-have feature that companies are competing to show off on their filament deposition 3D printers is multi-material…
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Fictional portrayals of artificial intelligence can have a real effect on AI models, according to Anthropic.
In 1752, Benjamin Franklin conducted his famous kite experiment, as depicted in this c. 1816 painting by Benjamin West. This experiment established…
Once again we take a look at the valuations of the major 3D printing companies over the past week. The post Who’s The Biggest In 3D Printing…
This is ymawky, a static file web server for MacOS written entirely in ARM64 assembly. It supports GET, PUT, DELETE, HEAD, and OPTIONS requests, and…
What manufacturing communities are talking about, kept separate from the normal news archive.
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So, like the title says, I’m new to 3D printing. I think I figured out how to set everything up (don’t quote me on that), but I’m a bit worried about…
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Hi y'all Currently, I'm doing a apprenticeship as a kind of conventional/CNC machinist. I've been playing guitar for quite a time now and I'm thinking…
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So I have extensive experience in 3d printers and want to get into the cnc hobby using primarily aluminum, steel and the occasional titanium. I've…
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Do you want to be banned from 3d printing? Then I suggest printing this very easy print of a Mayan death whistle I found on thingiverse. Don't print…
Advanced Manufacturing · 3D Printing · CNC · Robotics · AI Vision
Score 528 · 270 comments
So, like the title says, I’m new to 3D printing. I think I figured out how to set everything up (don’t quote me on that), but I’m a bit worried about…
Score 2 · 3 comments
Hi y'all Currently, I'm doing a apprenticeship as a kind of conventional/CNC machinist. I've been playing guitar for quite a time now and I'm thinking…
A Singapore-based startup, Castomize, has developed a 3D printed open cast for wrist, arm and ankle fractures that is breathable, lightweight, and…
Score 1 · 4 comments
So I have extensive experience in 3d printers and want to get into the cnc hobby using primarily aluminum, steel and the occasional titanium. I've…
Score 1708 · 235 comments
Do you want to be banned from 3d printing? Then I suggest printing this very easy print of a Mayan death whistle I found on thingiverse. Don't print…
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The single most common question I see from people trying to get into robotics is: where do I begin? There's so much to learn and most tutorials assume…
A concise editorial note on the signals Factory Signal tracks across automation, additive manufacturing, CNC, robotics, and industrial AI.
