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August 10, 2016

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Weâ€™ve probably all seen those dreaded words: "Batteries not included.â€ Before Christmas morning or your childâ€™s birthday arrives, itâ€™s best to carefully search each box for those words. The last thing in the world we want is a holiday or birthday crying jag. No, I meant the child, but you make a valid point. I hope your car battery isnâ€™t dead because you will need it for that quick dash to the store.
Many of the things we use these days require batteries in order to work. Even the laptop computer I am writing on at this moment has a battery. Fortunately, it also has an electrical cord so when the battery is about to give up the ghost I can simply plug it up. The awesome part is that that plug includes a charger so after a few hours of "rejuicingâ€ I can go cordless again.

We have a special drawer at our house where we keep extra batteries, but thereâ€™s something about that which I may never understand. It does not seem to matter how many batteries I place in that drawer, I never can find the ones I need when I need them. I usually buy extra AA batteries because I know remote controls use this size. There are few things worse than a dead remote control, unless of course, it is a lost remote control. I think someone slips in while we sleep and hides our remotes, keys, glasses and cell phones. Oh, and extra batteries too. I remember when we didnâ€™t need remotes because televisions had knobs. We could actually change the channels on the front of the set. Of course we only had three channels and one antenna back then. Now we have three remotes for each television â€” all battery powered. When I go to the battery drawer, I usually find that I either have the wrong size or one each of five different sizes. Some nut sold me a remote that uses AAAâ€™s or should I say some nut bought one?

One year, we bought Drew a big ridable police car. You may have seen his pictures on Facebook chasing criminals around our front yard. He often arrests a couple of law breakers who look much like our two dogs. He canâ€™t get our 60-pound lab in his car, but bless our little mini dachshund, she has taken many rides, and like most criminals, against her will. Drewâ€™s squad car came with a battery, but we still had a problem. It required an initial charging for 24 hours, and we did not realize this until the morning he received it. Few things are worse than a new toy that you canâ€™t play with until tomorrow. Do you know that we come with rechargeable batteries included? Iâ€™m not sure what size they are, or exactly where they are located, but they must be there. Much the same as our all-important cell phones runs down at the end of each day and must be recharged, so do we. Letâ€™s not even bring up the subject of a lost phone charger. That fit you pitched the other night when you couldnâ€™t find yours is simply too embarrassing to talk about. I digress. One great thing about the human body is that it comes with a built-in charger. We donâ€™t plug ourselves into the wall, but simply sleep for a few hours and wake up recharged and ready to roll. Eight hours are recommended for most models. Who was the genius that created such advanced beings? I believe His name is God! Portable 3D printers are nothing new and there are a number on the open market, but taking the power supply away could make a huge difference. If a printer can operate without mains power, then that means it can work in the most remote environments in the world. Itâ€™s not a huge technical breakthrough, but we do like their thinking.

A printer like this could literally change the lives of people in some of the furthest flung corners of the globe. Remote parts of Africa and China simply donâ€™t have access to simple things that could make their lives easier.They can range from a prosthetic hand to a hinge, but the sheer distance involved, the poor quality infrastructure of the road networks and the grinding poverty of these areas means they simply do without.At the moment supplying these communities with a printer that can supply them with all manner of essentials might seem like a dream. But if it proves itself in the field and makes a significant difference, then it could change the lives of millions of people around the world.Creating electricity might be a better optionOf course thereâ€™s another way to do this and creating electricity might have far wider reaching benefits. It is also just as feasible in the modern age with solar power and the likes of Teslaâ€™s PowerWall.

We still want to see scientists posing questions and overcoming them, though, because this printer could still have an invaluable use. Research teams are often stuck in remote locations, so this could help them as well.There are always issues with new technology and this time it is the battery life. Budget limitations meant the team opted for a simple Lithium Ion battery with a cheap charge controller. So it requires a substantial charge for a relatively short print time.A more expensive charge controller on the finished production version would give better results right now. Battery technology, though, is coming on in leaps and bounds.Nanomaterials, ironically with the help of 3D printing, could improve the capacity of current batteries beyond recognition. Solar charging is already here, too, so itâ€™s simply a case of connecting the dots and making the technology we now have work together.So the potential of this printer is obvious and the team of students has already demonstrated its talents by printing a set of teeth and a screw bearing. They even printed the mechanism that closes the luggage case that they use to transport it.

The team has also printed a set of cutlery and while it has limited itself to PLA so far, thereâ€™s no reason why the printer cannot handle ABS, Nylon, PET and other plastics.Obviously the printer has no WiFi connection, so it is not hooked up to a network. So to eliminate the need for a laptop, then, the team settled on using G-code. Of course to download the files the students are talking about then youâ€™ll need a laptop and an internet connection, but this is a work in progress."Luckily it is possible to produce the instructions in G-code format from an STL file by using Slic3r,â€ student Jay Vinda told Student Engineer magazine. "STL files can be downloaded directly from Thingiverse or 3D models can be saved as a .stl file on Solidworks.

"Slic3r will convert the 3D model into a set of instructions on a layer-by-layer basis and save this as a G-code file, which can then be saved onto an SD card. The SD card can be read by the 3D printer using the LCD screen that comes with the printer.â€Dr Alan Stocker, Leicester Universityâ€™s Department of Engineering, added: "The design process was holistic and required lateral thinking throughout. The group was aided by computer-based modelling and stress simulations to ensure that the design choices that were made were suitable."The students were given a specific focus on sustainability to meet current industry regulations. With this in mind they included a load-sensor, which allowed the user to precisely compare the amount of material required for a printing operation with the amount of material leftover. This addition meant that the user wasted fewer filaments which saves money and increases the emphasis on sustainability for the project.â€

Itâ€™s an ingenious concept and if it turns into a total gamechanger or not then weâ€™d still like to take a moment to applaud the students at Leicester University. We look forward to seeing what they come up with next.At Computex 2016, Intel confirmed in its keynote that the 7th generation Core processors will launch later in the year. Following on from Skylake, the new chips will be codenamed Kaby Lake. Here's the Intel Kaby lake release date, price and specs.
These will be based on the same 14nm process as Skylake and its predecessor, Broadwell. Intel wonâ€™t make the move down to 10nm until the 8th-gen Cannonlake CPUs which are due to launch in 2017. The original plan was to switch to 10nm back in 2015 but, because of manufacturing problems, it will stick with 14nm for Kaby Lake.

This disrupts Intelâ€™s Tick-Tock roadmap, since Kaby Lake should be a Tick â€“ a new manufacturing process â€“ but will instead be an â€˜optimisedâ€™ version of Skylake (which is already an improved version of Broadwell).
Thatâ€™s Intelâ€™s plan for the future: no more Tick-Tock, itâ€™s now Process-Architecture-Optimisation. So when we finally get Canonlake, there will be two more generations based on 10mm before the next process switch.
Update 22 July: On its second quarter earnings call, Intel confirmed that it is now shipping Kaby Lake processors. CEO Brian Krzanich stated to investors and we should hear more about Kaby Lake at IDF (Intel Developer Forum) 2016 in August. After all, shipping in this context means to device manufacturer partners. No firm launch date has been announced, only that the benefits of the new chips will "come to premium devices in the second half of 2016â€.
While on one hand Intel is keen to point out that itâ€™s no longer a PC-focused company, on the other it says that the PC business is "foundational to the companyâ€™s strategyâ€. To this end, weâ€™ll see new processors launched on an annual basis.

We expect a similar lineup of Kaby Lake processors to Skylake, so youâ€™ll have a choice of an entry-level Core i3, right up to a 10-core Extreme Edition Core i7. Prices are unlikely to vary much from the Skylake range, so there will be something to suit every budget.There will of course be laptop and mobile versions of the Kaby Lake desktop chips. As of June 2016, no pricing or model details were made official. The 7th-gen Core CPUs were only really teased in the keynote, and Intel said only that they will support Thunderbolt 3 and the special cameras used for Windows Hello â€“ the face scanner that can be used instead of a password in Windows 10.
Other rumours point to expanded capabilities for 4K video playback, HDMI 2.0 and HDCP 2.2 support as well as the ability to decode 10-bit HEVC videos.