Starting a new era in my life

Tomorrow, 1.11.2011 (What a nice starting day) I start my new job at ETH Zürich in the rapid architecture prototyping laboratory, raplab.

At raplab I work in a field that comes natural with my interest in 3D; 3D prototyping, milling, lasercutting, vacuum pressing and whatnot... I help architecture students to transform their ideas in to reality (physical models). Expect to see a lot of information on this topic as well in this blog. Combined with my 3D software experience I think I have to pay attention not to become a mad scientist, hmmmuahahaaa

Kinect for Windows SDK Beta is out!

There was a lot of rumoring going on and some hot previews of what Microsoft Kinect developers are producing with the new Kinect SDK for Windows.

Now Microsoft released the (noncommercial!) Kinect SDK for Windows Beta version.

It runs under Windows 7 and Microsoft has not commented on the compatibility for the upcoming Windows 8.

World-Class Arena Printed in 3D

 
Swedish creative studio WE DO used Z Corp's 3D printing technology to create this stunningly detailed 3D architectural model that helps promote Stockholmsarenan until the 30,000-seat sports and entertainment arena is completed in 2013.

Autodesk AREA Mobile Applications are available!

Very nice to have access to Autodesk AREA on Android and iOS.

The Autodesk® AREA Mobile application is now available in the Apple App Store and in the Android Market.

AREA Mobile brings together support tools, news, forums and training into one place for your post production work in television and film.

Get learning resources to develop your creative skills and explore the new features and workflow possibilities that Autodesk® Smoke®, Autodesk Flame® and Autodesk Flame Premium software can provide.

Click here to download AREA Mobile for iOS
Click here to download AREA Mobile for Android
 
Check out the Application Help on the Settings page for a tour of the application UI and instructions on how to configure and use the RSS reader feature.

Read on for more UI Screenshots

Sculpting.de Forum is back!

Here a hint for former users of the sculpting.de forum:

Hello Sculpting friends.

Today Sculpting restarts, with a new team.
For now in Beta status.
This is unfortunately necessary, because we could only aquire the forum
uncomplete, a previous conversion of the forum software causes a complete
image loss, the same problem happens with your avatars.
Thats why we restart nearly from scratch.
But there is also a positiv effect.
The forum is completely cleaned and in its original condition, ecxept the
pictures.
We have changed many things. But take a look by yourself.  www.sculpting.de

Please read the announcements at the beginning.

Your Sculpting Admin Team. 

--> Read on for the german version 

Roland Introduces iModela iM-01

Roland just introduced a small 3 axis mill for craft and hobby markets. They call it 3D milling, ok, it's legit but just a fancy new word for a 3 axis mill. I have seen other articles calling this mill a 3D printer...

I really like the concept of having a small desktop mill to rapid prototype small objects or to have kids playing and learning with the mill. The pricing is set to around $1000, i don't know any similar mill in this price range.

3D-projection on a car surface

You may know already that 3D-projections on buildings are fun. Compared to what Glue Isobar and Igloo did for Toyota, producing building projections is a piece of cake.

Using cutting edge 3D-projection technique they projected animations on a real car using 7 projectors, a very detailed  3D-car model, a lot of tea and brainwork. Kudos!

And here the making of