Imagine being able to create real-life, three-dimensional objects just as easily as we print documents from Microsoft Word. Need a new case for your phone? Don’t buy one, just print it. Do you want a keychain customized with your comp...
I used to have an old Motorola cell phone, actually it wasn't even a phone, back then it was called a DPC - "Digital Personal Communicator", which in my mind sounds much more scientific than a modern "cell phone". This is used...
You may or may not be surprised to learn that beer and bacon rank highly on the favorite things list of many a DMC employee. So when we heard that Paddy Long's, a Lakeview neighborhood pub, hosts a regular Beer and Bacon Tasting, ...
Since joining the DMC team, I’ve had the opportunity to contribute to a wide variety of awesome projects and learn several new technologies. During a recent embedded design project, I was tasked with converting our circuit schematic to a printe...
"A chicken in every pot and a display on every wall." -Herbert Hoover President Hoover was a prescient and oft-misquoted man. Fortunately for us, DMC has realized his vision of liquid crystal abundance. DMC's new office is full ...
Those who visit DMC may notice our ever-changing "Quote Board." This is where we document the most infamous utterances of the moment.
We didn’t receive a lot of reader-feedback to last month's Geek Challenge. Some questioned the assumptions involved, and some guesses were taken. Here is my analysis of the problem: The Deer Dilemma asks about the probability of collisio...
After the success of DMC's first FedEx Day earlier this year, we were excited to hold our second edition a few weeks ago. A FedEx Day is reserved for everyone to devote an entire day working on a company improvement project that personally inspir...
Most of our blogs are about things we've already done or projects we've already completed. A fairly recent Freakonomics podcast talked about "The Folly of Prediction," and, being a pretty strong believer in Freakonomics wisdom, I...
DMC's LabVIEW logging framework has been upgraded to LLAMA. Learn more. What is it? Many developers may be familiar with the concept of a logging platform. Essentially, a logging platform is a modular system that is designed to be plugged...