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A Fiskar Karma will display Thursday, Feb 28 @ 5pm in the Design Department. Alexander Klatt, Vice President, Global Design of Fisker Automotive will lecture at 7pm. He will speak on how to create value with a design approach that reflects an understanding of Natures Timeless Beauty, Classic Design Composition, Reusing Material and a focus on Human Passion & Skills.

Looking to purchase instead of building? here's a guide of the available 3D printers in the wild...

The shape of things to come: A consumer\'s guide to 3D printers CES 2013 proved to be something of a coming out party for consumer-facing 3D printers. Sure MakerBot earned a fair amount of attention at last year\'s

Check out this year's CSULB Holiday Greeting from the president!

Long Beach Maker Society is featured 2 mins and 3 secs in...

here's a shortcut: http://youtu.be/tZGIPF7K60I?t=2m3s&hd=1

The video was produced by the Office of Public Affairs & Publications (which included yours truly) and features our very own Benjamin Cannon and others.

I hope you enjoy it.

-Frederick


Here is the message from the president accompanying this video: http://csulb.edu/connect/holiday/2012/

Holiday Greetings from The Beach! The holiday season is a special time of year--giving us the chance to spend time with family and friends to express and share the love and joy this time of y...

to space and beyond...

3-D Printed Satellite Aims for Orbit | Wired Design | Wired.com Jacopo Piattoni of the University of Bologna and colleagues at the University of Rome used a 3-D printer to make the base for a CubeSat — the cheap, 4-inch, cube-shaped satellites that hitch a ride on space-bound rockets.

Staples to offer 'Easy 3D' printing service, put an end to hackneyed hockey masks Just one more robbery and then we can happily retire. But there's this nagging feeling that our criminal swan song should be more than just another Class

A Super Obscure Patent Now Blocks 3D Printing Of Weapons, Food, Prosthetics, Even Human Skin Say goodbye to that Star Trek food replicator.

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NASA 3D prints rocket parts — with steel, not plastic | ExtremeTech 3D printing has become popular for fabricating parts from plastic, but using the technique with metals requires equipment that is a bit more higher end. Is this part of a general trend or will these exotic fabrication technologies be viable only for elite, niche markets?

World’s First 3D Printing Photo Booth to Open in Japan 3D printers – it’s a word that offers glimpses into the future that seems so far, and yet is so close. The technology, which allows you to replicate 3D objects the same way you make a photo copy, h...

On Sunday, November 18th, we will be hosting a crash course on how to design your own 3D Models using SketchUp.

Hosted By Sirac Haile & Steven Peterson.

RSVP now!

http://lbmakersociety.org/maker-series/maker-series-3d/

MAKER Series: 3D Modeling with SketchUp | Long Beach Maker Society

Join EFF’s Efforts to Keep 3D Printing Open | Electronic Frontier Foundation Thanks to the open hardware community, you can now have a 3D printer in your home for just a few hundred dollars, with dozens of printer models to choose from and build upon. Community-designed printers alreadyoutclassproprietary printers costing 30 times as much. This incredible innovation is possi...

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Today is the LAST day to register & pay for the BUILD Series 3D... If you're unable to, don't worry. We will be doing this again in Spring 2013.

We currently have 27 people registered and paid. Our biggest number of participants yet!

Remember to REGISTER & VOTE for the 4th color on our website: http://www.lbmakersociety.org/

Long Beach Maker Society | It's Makerrific! We are a collection of passionate individuals that collaborate to make interesting, innovative projects. We are artists, engineers, designers, scientists, Do-it-Yourselfers, students, teachers... but most of all, we are Makers.

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