Printrbot Simple Maker Review: 3D Printing on the Cheap – Tom's Guide
Printrbot Simple Maker Review: 3D Printing on the CheapTom’s GuidePros: Cheap, simple intro to 3D printing; good documentation and support; respectable quality for basic print jobs. Cons: Small build area; construction is not robust; requires some tweaking for best results. Verdict : The Printrbot Simple Maker is a …
The U.S. Military Is Trying to Build an "Iron Man Suit." It's Not Going Well. (Reason Magazine – Hit and Run)
"Basically, I'm here to announce that we're building Iron Man," President Barack Obama joked last February at a press conference for his high-tech manufacturing hubs plan.
"I'm going to blast off in a second," he went on. "This has been a secret project we've been working on for a long time. Not really. Maybe. It's classified."
There is a bit of truth in the president's jest about the Marvel character. As reported by _The Wall Street Journal_, the military is creating a "suit to protect and propel elite U.S. Troops by encasing them in body armor equipped with an agile exoskeleton to enable troops to carry hundreds of pounds of gear." The project is called TALOS, which stands for Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit but its nickname is the Iron Man suit.
And the project is indeed not so secret. In fact, the nickname Iron Man suit was picked precisely "to attract the attention and excitement of the industry and academia and, yes, the media," Mike Fieldson, TALOS project manager told _Defense News_.
That attention may have something to do with diverting eyes away from the project's hefty price tag. U.S. Special Operations Command has spent …
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