Tool of the Week: Google Cloud Print

Google cloud print is a cool tool that lets you print from any of your mobile devices, tablets, or computers to any of your printers, anywhere! It's awesome for me because if I get emailed a PDF I need to print, i can send it to my printer at the office with just one click. To set-up google cloud print,...Read More

Tool of the Week: Online 3D printing (rapid prototyping)

[caption id="attachment_863" align="alignright" width="150" caption="The Cube 3D printer or the makerbot could be a really fun engineering teaching tool."][/caption] Recently, I've been super intrigued by online 3D printing services (Aka: cloud printing, rapid prototyping).  The principal is simple: You upload a modle to a website, it's printed on a rapid prototyper machine, and mailed to you. I've found 3 services online that...Read More