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Like last year I'm nominated again for the SchallWelle awards. Together with Remy Stroomer this time with our collaboration album ...

 I have a lot of digital out board gear that needs to synchronize. For this I use Word Clock. So far I used an Apogee Big Ben to generate...

You all know by now I guess I have a thing for Clavia synthesizers. I still remember the first time I saw Jean Michel Jarre play the Nord...

Virtiso BV is now officially VMWare VSSP Partner. This means we can use all the software there is from VMWare and you pay for it on a montl...

From today RenderFarm.NL also supports NewTek's LightWave version 1.6. So If you use this 3D application and you need affordable rend...

Today I finished my first usefull 3D print. The machine you see on the left is our coffee machine. Once in a while it needs cleaning and ...

After a very long time of buying completely nothing, suddenly I saw a synthesizer that has been on my wish list for the collection from d...

Last week suddenly I heard a noise and I saw the extruder of the 3D printer I build hanging on only one screw. I tried to fasten everythi...

Last week I upgraded all the VrayForC4D installations on the render farm to version 1.8.1. This version is quite a major upgrade and is n...

I showed you the Biz2Be 3D logo and 3D under construction page before, but now the website is finished. The customer selected the 3 pictu...

Last time I promised to show you the first thing I outputted on the Velleman K8200 3D Printer. Well here it is. It is actually kind of a ...

I'm happy to announce that now also Autodesk 3D Studio Max is installed on the Render Farm. We installed versions 2014, 2013 and 2012...

I know it has been a while since I wrote on here and that some of you are waiting on the final part of this series about the Velleman K82...

We just said a last goodbye to our good friend and ex-colleague Henry Verbeek who was taken away at only 41 years of age. Leaving his wif...

For a friend who is starting a new company I'm currently doing some 3D work. First of all another design company made a new logo for ...

Even though I'm a very happy Cinema 4D user, the first thing I bumped into when I tried to find customers for the Render Farm is that...

Recently the German Electronic Music club Schallwende released another sampler CD. It is already the 15th edition of the SchallPlatte se...

Yesterday I got a nice package in the mail. The new version of Maxon Cinema 4D R15. As you all know I have been busy with 3D animations f...

Another very critical and not so easy part of building the K8200 3D printer is assembling the hot end. This is where is plastic eventuall...

Next part to build was the extruder. This is the mechanical part that feeds the filament (plastic material) in to the extruder. It holds ...