Categories Events

FRC 2016 PNW District 8

Over 30 teams of high school students with robots have descended on Oregon City, Oregon. The event is the FIRST Robotics PNW district 8 playoffs. I have worked with Team 1540 the Flaming Chickens from Catlin Gabel who will be competing this week. You can watch the competition live:…

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Categories Announcements

2016 Autodesk Summer Internship in Lake Oswego Oregon

Are you an ambitious high school student located in the Portland Oregon area that has participated in FRC and looking for some Summer paid internship with a super cool company? Apply for a 2016 Autodesk Summer Internship with Autodesk. Paid Internship Eligibility Requirements: Must be turning 16 years…

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Categories 3D Printing

Made In Space Additive Manufacturing Facility

Made In Space is developing manufacturing technologies that are enabling people to live and work in space. The Made In Space Additive Manufacturing Facility was launched on March 22nd, 2016 and arrived at the International Space Station on March 26th, 2016. This is a first step toward putting…

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Categories Autodesk Labs

Best of Autodesk Labs

Autodesk Labs has been a long passion of mine here at Autodesk since starting it in 2006. Scott Sheppard has made Autodesk Labs the polished success it has grown into over the years launching many of Autodesk products you know and love today. Engineering.com wrote a nice online…

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Categories Autodesk Labs

Autodesk ReCap 360 on an iPad

The Autodesk ReCap team is looking for iPad users who want to actively participate in the ReCap 360 Mobile preview project using reality computing tools on a mobile device. The projects pre-release iOS application will be delivered to participants using Apple’s TestFlight platform. The team has a limited…

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Categories Announcements

Autodesk Inventor 2017

Autodesk Inventor 2017 was just released today and those who provided feedback and tested it during beta testing it are free to discuss the product publicly. Autodesk Inventor 2017 Arms Customers with Enhanced Design, Interoperability, and Communication Capabilities Ketiv posted a nice video of the new enhancement for…

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Categories 3D Printing

Ember 3D Printer 24X Faster

Some recent software optimizations were updated on the Autodesk Ember 3D Printer resulting in it 3D printing 24 times faster and because it is open source it could be used on a host of other 3D printers. “True to the open-source nature of their 3D printer, Autodesk reveals…

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Categories Misc.

Wonderful Weekend in the Columbia Gorge

I hope you enjoyed your weekend, I certainly did enjoy mine. It has been almost a year since I moved back to Oregon. I am certainly enjoying the outdoors and being back here after 18 long years away. Yesterday I spent the day hiking up Eagle Creek just…

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Categories Events

Bring your Autodesk Fusion 360 Questions April 6th

Mark your calendar now, the next Autodesk Answer Day is coming up on April 6th, 2016, from 6am to 6pm Pacific Time and will be on Autodesk Fusion 360. This is a live Questions & Answers online event where you can get all those burning questions answered by…

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