First Flight of 3D Printed Plane

You no longer need high-tech machines to create a plane. Armed with a 3D printer, Jim Scanlan from the University of Southampton and his team designed and built a drone in just a week. Even moving parts were produced all in one go - doing away with the need for assembly. In this video, you can watch the plane take to the skies for the first time in an airfield close to Stonehenge in the UK.

To find out more about the project, read our full story here.

The Impossible 3D Print v2 !

This is a quadruple bearing that rotates on each other. Printed at 150 micron / 0.15mm per layer on the UP Plus 3D Printer from 3DPrintingSystems.com 
Thanks to Idea Beans for the awesome design http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:51806

3D Metal Printing Of Rocker- Metal: Titanium

3D Printing Titanium Metal

This is a 3D metal print job done for our RC Car. Speacial thanks to Amit Bandyopadhyay and Stanley Dittrick for donating their time and equipment to comple the print job! For more information on the LENS machine refer to this link: http://www.optomec.com/Additive-Manuf..

3-D Printing - The Metal Age

3-D printers are revolutionizing the way we make things using plastic, and now are being developed to print in metal.

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http://autodesk.com/gallery A concept car unlike anything else, the Mercedes-Benz Biome is built from a lightweight biological material that is grown from a seed. This stunning concept car is featured in the Autodesk Gallery in San Francisco, California. The gallery is open Wednesdays and Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with a guided tour every Wednesday at 12:30 p.m. Admission is free.


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The Evil Style Queen: Lilli Palmer (1914 - 1986)

The Evil Style Queen: Lilli Palmer (1914 - 1986)



I have just read the blog at the address above about Lilli Palmer and Carlos Thompson.  I used to work for them when they lived in the South of France.  It brought back many lovely memories of that time, as they were charming and very amusing!  Lovely people that I still think about often.

Such a sad end for her husband ( which I did not know about).  As time went by there was less contact as I had moved to Ireland, although 'Our Lilli' as Carlos and myself would call her, contacted me to ask me to work for her in Switzerland as her secretary and to travel with her.  She was writing books at that time so it would have been easy for me to type, as that was my training.  Unfortunately I was brought up to follow my husband, (things have changed a lot since then.) so even though she offered to let my husband come too (he is a french chef) he did not want to go, so that was that!



But Lilli Palmer has always been a part of my fond memories,  and always will be.