"ockpicking has become a trademark skill of hackers all across the world, and is regularly taught at hackerspaces and maker faires. But a lot of the time, the sets have already been made or bought online somewhere. However, [Sean] has demonstrated how to create a lock picking set with ordinary paperclips in the video embedded at the end of this post."

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FARO technologies, one of the major manufacturer of portable 3D measuring instruments, has recently announced SCENECT 5.2, the new version of the free 3D scan app that FARO is now introducing to the market.

Buyers hit the brakes on purchasing hobbyist 3-D printers in the past year, even as industrial-grade printers are playing a larger role in manufacturing finished parts rather than prototypes. 

I quickly found that just printing this thing was going to be a time consuming and frustrating task.

Adrien est venu y construire son robot pour la coupe E=M6, Antoine y a imprimé ces maquettes d'architecte, Sébastien et Jean-Baptiste y ont développé un outil de mesure acoustique, et nous-mêmes y avons imprimé notre logo. Quel est ce lieu où informaticiens, artistes, mécaniciens, artisans ou bricoleurs peuvent collaborer autour de projets divers et variés ? Le Fablab d'Amiens.

As the sharing economy picks up momentum, its reach has become global. In cities and towns around the world, people are creating ways to share everything from baby clothes to boats, hardware to vacation homes. There are also groups emerging that consciously identify with the big-picture sharing movement. These groups focus on education, action and community-building, and advocate for a cultural shift toward widespread sharing.

The FabLab network is now also expanding within cities: in some cities there will be soon more than one FabLab, and this will be a very interesting step in order to see their local impact and their interactions.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz plays the investing game different from much of its VC cohort. Rather than scattering its money around a relatively large number of startups, the Silicon Valley firm places big bets on a handful of companies and industries. Today, Andreessen Horowitz is placing a very big bet, $30 million, on Shapeways and 3-D printing.

Weeks after 3D printing startup Makerbot announced that it would be selling a 3D scanner, a Canadian startup called Matterform has upped the ante: a C$450 ($443) "Photon 3D Scanner."