Shapeways Receives $30M in venture capital @shapeways #makerbusiness

From blog.adafruit.com 6 years ago in Platforms Stores

Shapeways Receives $30M in Venture Capital via Netherlands Inkef Capital, HP & Presidio – 3DPrint.com. Hot off the press comes financial news regardingShapeways, to the tune of $30 million just received in venture funding. One of the worldwide leaders in 3D printing service bureaus, Shapeways promotes not only a way...

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Improving Predictions of Melting Rate of Ice Sheets

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Researchers are tracking the influence of geothermal heat flux on ice.via the Johns Hopkins News-LetterThe ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica comprise more than 90% of Earth’s freshwater ice. When it comes to glaciology, global warming is often touted as...

Reinvented Magazine #8 @ravenscimaven @reinventedmag

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Reinvented Magazine – Reinvented is so excited to share our Issue No. 8 cover!Issue 8 features an exclusive feature interview with Raven Baxter @raventhesciencemaven, science communicator, rapper, and molecular biologist also known as Raven the Science Maven! Get issue #8!...

Turning an Alexa into GLaDOS #SciFiSunday

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On this episode of Mr. Volt, DJ reveals the results of an ambitious project he’s been working on. He turned an Alexa digital assistant into the GLaDOS robot from the Portal universe.You can see all of the build videos on...

Cyberpunk “Patient Zero,” John Shirley, on His New Cyberpunk Thriller #cyberpunk #SciFiSunday

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William Gibson famously called fellow c-punk OG, John Shirley, as “cyberpunk patient zero.” Shirley was writing cyberpunk before it had the sexy label (read City Come A-Wakin’) and was writing books like the A Song Called Youth trilogy that were...

The Mystery of the Pterosaurs and Long Neck

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The mystery is this: how did azhdarchid pterosaurs manage to fly when they had astonishingly long necks and absurdly long heads? Paleontologists are on the case. Here’s more from Science Focus:Fortunately, a new study may have solved the puzzle. While...

Echo Show 10 Teardown

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Thanks to txyzinfo for sending in this tip. They write:it’s just a detailed teardown of the new Echo Show. The giant brushless motor inside! High res photos (pcb+motor) here: https://hackaday.io/project/178825-amazon-echo-show-10-3rd-generation-teardownRead more and see more on YouTube

Five Architecture Documentaries to Inspire Science Fiction Writers | #SciFiSunday

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We love this recent post from Joe M. McDermott up on Tor.com. Often times, the most convincing world building in fiction writing requires at least a small amount of expertise about how worlds are actually built.One of the things I...

New Star Trek Movie Dated for June 9, 2023 #SciFiSunday

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A long time in the making but gives us some time to (possibly) feel safe to return to the movie theater, which we’ve missed tremendously! Via io9.Five years have passed since the last Star Trek film—and now it seems we’re...

New Products 4/14/2021 featuring Adafruit ItsyBitsy RP2040!

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We’ve got the New nEw NEW for you right here:NEW PRODUCTS THIS WEEKGameduino 3X Dazzler for Feather M4 by Excamera LabsThe Gameduino 3X Dazzler is an Adafruit Feather M4-compatible underwing that outputs HD picture and sound to any HDMI display...

Web Serial plotter

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Web Serial plotter & on GitHub.