Architects Create a 3-D Printed Column That Survives Earthquakes

Architects Create a 3-D Printed Column That Survives Earthquakes

In the last half decade there’s been a Cambrian Explosion of 3-D printers, filling every axis of competition from price to size to print resolution. Most engineers and designers have been fixated on tuning up the machines, but a California-based architecture firm called Emerging Objects is focused on pushing the limits of 3-D printer materials. […]

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This Gun Makes And Fires Paper Airplanes

A6 V1.0 Paper Airplane Gun
Papierfliegerei, screenshot from YouTube

Sometimes, a person accomplishes something so great, so revolutionary, that all they can do is smile as wide as humanly possible and show off the thing. This paper airplane gun, crafted by a 3-D printing and paper airplane enthusiast, is such a device. Wordlessly, the operator fires a series of paper airplanes. Then, with the top of the device removed, he reveals the assembly line inside the weapon. The gun folds the paper and then shoots it out the end — at a rate of almost one a second.

Watch this ridiculous coolness below:

[via Joe Hanson]

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