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Wikifactory has raised $4.5M for its ‘GitHub for hardware’ to make almost anything remotely

TechCrunch

Today Wikifactory , billing itself as a “GitHub for hardware”, announced it has closed a $3 million funding round, taking it to a total of $4.5M, pre-series A. This allows product developers to review and discuss 3D models in more than 30 file formats in real time. Perhaps that day is edging closer.

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Bild takes in funding to share, collaborate on hardware designs in the cloud

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When Pradyut Paul was a hardware engineering program manager at Apple, he saw firsthand the challenges of building and sharing hardware products using antiquated tools like email and spreadsheets. Users can use Bild’s web-based viewers to interact with 3D CAD, board files, bill-of-materials, schematics, drawings and simulation data.

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Firehawk’s rocket engines and 3D-printed fuel hit testing milestones ahead of first launch

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The breakthrough made by CEO Will Edwards and chief scientist Ron Jones was to give that fuel a structure and 3D print it in a specially engineered matrix. Firehawk CEO Will Edwards (left) and chief scientist Ron Jones hold 3D-printed fuel tubes Image Credits: Firehawk Aerospace.

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San Diego-based startup LifeVoxel raises $5 million seed funding for its AI diagnostic visualization platform

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The platform, dubbed Prescient, is used for diagnostics, workflow management and triage, taking away the stress of managing software and hardware technology from physicians and hospitals — and allowing them to focus on patient care.

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John Carmack Biography

The Crazy Programmer

He is the co-founder of id Software, and the main programmer of popular games Wolfenstein, Commander Keen, 3D, Quake and Doom. He accepted job at Softdisk, a software publishing firm in Louisiana. Being successful with this game, in 1991 they left Softdisk and founded id software.

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How W4 plans to monetize the Godot game engine using Red Hat’s open-source playbook

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A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. “The result is reduced development costs and more freedom to innovate,” Linietsky said. Red Hat Inc.

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Navigating the Landscape of Development Frameworks: A Guide for Aspiring Developers.

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Kotlin : A modern, concise, and expressive programming language that runs on the JVM, is fully interoperable with Java, and is officially recommended by Google for Android app development due to its safety and productivity features. It is beginner-friendly and widely used for 2D and 3D game development. Unreal Engine Online Learning.