deciding which design is best

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iPhone Amplifiers Grown Using 3D Printer
GROWit was the first service bureau to acquire an Objet Connex500 3D Printer when it was released. Management at this California-based bureau, which specializes in additive manufacturing and rapid prototyping, CAD engineering, and 3D scanning services, likes to keep staff sharp, so they occasionally hold an internal design contest.

Recently, the contest challenge was to see who could design the best non-electrically amplified iPhone dock. All the designs were so good that the bosses decided that GROWit will develop then market one of the designs. The problem with that idea appears to be deciding which design is best. So, they threw the decision out to the market. Read the rest of the story and then vote for your favorite design here.
http://www.objetblog.com/2011/11/14/cool-iphone-amplifiers-grown-using-the-objet-connex-3d-printer/


http://www.growit3d.com/blog/

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http://www.objetblog.com/2011/10/10/3d-printing-meets-stone-age-tools/

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The following photos and pictures were taken from their BC – AD project, an experimental exploration into the fields of design and pre-historic tool making.

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Back in the good old days when you could do these things, I yanked a broken six-cylinder motor out of my '53 Studebaker and dropped in a nifty Chevy 283 V8. I generally drove home from Troy, N.Y. to Boston well after dark to keep the car's various illegalities from the prying eyes of police. One particular evening, on a long uphill section of Route 2, the motor started screaming.

I pulled into a gas station and discovered after some disassembly that the generator had seized. I needed a new rear plate of the generator with its sleeve bearing.

The helpful gas station attendant told me where I could find the nearest Chevy dealer. He pointed in the direction of a small town at the bottom of the hill and said there should be a salesman hanging around to capture the last customer.

Then I asked him the key question: "Is it downhill all the way?"

He thought it over carefully and said it was, so I threw the parts in the trunk and pushed off. A few minutes later, with no additional pushing, I found the salesman and convinced him to sell me a new rear plate of the generator with its sleeve bearing.

And to my amusement, the new part differed from the old part in one important respect: the oil reservoir was much, much larger.

This entry was submitted by Larry Baxter and edited by Rob Spiegel

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