I made a 1m wingspan flying wing RC airplane that prints in a single Form 4L build in just a few parts. Print-in-place, flexural control surfaces for improved aerodynamics and reduced assembly. It actually survived 2 flights! 3rd one ended because of an unfortunately placed fence... Is this useful for anything?

"deal is oversubscribed... But can you increase your investment?" Funny to see that even Elon Musk has to use typical SV FOMO fundraising tactics. Always be hustling...

A few weeks ago, a Russian missile strike destroyed the warehouse of our main distributor in Ukraine, 3DDevice. Thankfully, no one was injured. But the team lost the building they work in and most of the inventory, including many of our printers and materials. It was heartbreaking to see. We’re helping them recover. When we started @formlabs, I never imagined seeing our printers in the rubble of a missile strike. I wish there were no need to use them in war. But I am proud to see them helping Ukrainians defend their country and the Western world.

Let’s Roll” - A Hero’s Rolex Frozen In Time - Todd Beamer, an ordinary man who rose to the occasion when United Flight 93 was hijacked. Beamer’s gold and steel Rolex Datejust Turn-O-Graph was found among the debris, the date window–frozen in time, still reads “11.”

Everyone out here talking about Apple's new phones. I'm just interested in their design labs running a Raspberry Pi CM4-based resin printer, front and center in this shot lol

Throwing rubbish in a landfill is (usually) better for the environment than recycling it. With few exceptions, recycling ends up emitting more CO2 and costing more money, while landfills are cheap and secure. - Recycling mid-tier plastics (like plastic bottles or butter tubs) costs thousands of dollars per ton of CO2 saved. It's cheaper to do direct air CO2 capture than that! And there is no shortage of plastic, nor any problem with sequestering it in the ground once we're done with it. - Modern landfills are extraordinarily secure and are *much* more than just big piles of trash. They capture 75%–95% of methane gas. Groundwater contamination is doesn't really happen with landfills built since 1990. A study of 31 landfills built since 1988 in NY found no adverse effect at all on local groundwater quality. - The crusade against single-use plastics has driven us to products that use far more materials and energy and would need to be used an absurd number of times to actually be an improvement. A steel straw needs to be used 150 times to be worth using. A ceramic mug needs to be used 1,000 times to beat a polystyrene cup. A cotton bag needs to be reused 173 times to beat single-use. - Some things ARE worth recycling. Recycling metal saves a huge amount of energy and material – recycling aluminium saves 95% of the energy spent on making fresh stuff. So we do a lot of it already: about 30% of steel worldwide is recycled. Modern, well-run landfills cause minimal environmental damage. We have plenty of space for them – less than 0.01% of the US is used for landfill and only about 0.02% of Germany. We can even build on top of old landfills, so the land area is not spent permanently. New in @WorksInProgMag, @robertwiblin and @chalmermagne on why it's usually best to just bury your trash. worksinprogress.co/issue/jus…

Mostly wrong. But the ways that radar and cameras differ point to areas where both are being developed Radar: *Increasing use of passive instead of active *Increase in number of detectors Cameras: *phase sensitive detectors *Active (LIDAR) Any other examples?

Adam Savage @donttrythis inside and outside a Fuse X1.

Has any company that started by committing to spend money, ended up making money?

You can negotiate your realtor fee to half or even less than the typical 2.5 or 3%. Especially if you are a buyer and pitch the realtor on moving quickly. It's basically free money for them. Title insurance is another big scam (in states that regulate a minimum price)

I saw a part in the lab yesterday off a new printing process that I think is going to change the game. It's a primitive little part, but it proves that it can work. It's going to take a few years of hard work to get it out to the world. Looking forward to reposting this...

Prediction: 3D printed gearboxes/actuators are getting good enough that a full humanoid with decent performance (walking, practical tasks. Not Boston Dynamics back flips), will be demonstrated in the next 12 months. They won't match the same power and torque density of conventional metal actuators, but they will make up for it partially by being perfectly customized for each joint and better integrated into the structure.

Battleship, but the ships EXPLODE 💥 This is Capsized, a hackathon project by Formlabs mechanical engineering intern Nathan.The game is built from custom PCBs, a polycarbonate shield, a few capacitors, and a lot of 3D printed parts. Nathan and his team used the weekend to print, test, assemble, and blow up capacitors to create this awesome game The Form 4 SLA 3D Printer was essential to making this project come to life ⚫️ Internal enclosure - printed in Black Resin on the Form 4L ⛵️The boats - printed as a single fleet in Black Resin on the Form 4 🛡️ Knobs and shield handles - printed from Formlabs Tough 1500 Resin #3dprinting #gaming

The final two industries will be healthcare and video games.

It's amazing to have Dan join as an investor and advisor in Formlabs. We got to spend an afternoon with him recently reviewing a long list of product concepts we are working on and get his feedback. One takeaway is that we need to develop even more of these concepts to operate by Apple's "a thousand no's for every yes".