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How to Select the Right Battery for Wearables and Consumer Electronics

These days, it’s rare to encounter a consumer electronics (CE) device that isn’t “smart.” Intelligent features — heart rate monitoring or GPS tracking, for instance — mean that CE devices require more power than ever in order to provide consumers with the applications they care about, all within smaller, portable devices. As a result, battery […]

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Democratizing Manufacturing Through Education: Introducing the Fictiv Hardware Guide

In today’s rapidly changing manufacturing environment, engineers are constantly trying to find their way through a very complex ecosystem to gain a competitive advantage and leverage the right tools to build their next product. Just last month, we hosted an event where a Abby Soong, a Mechanical Design Engineer at Momentum Machines, said that her […]

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XBox Controller Teardown

Ever wish you could jump into a video game and see what that world is like? Well, we’ll do something even better—we’ll get into a video game controller and see what’s inside! We’re tearing down the original Xbox controller and the newer Xbox One controller, to see how the device has evolved. The Original Xbox […]

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GoPro Evolution: A Teardown Through the Ages – Part 2

We’ve embarked on a journey to teardown three generations of GoPro products to see how the product has changed over time: GoPro Hero original GoPro Hero 3 ‍ The newest GoPro Session camera. To see teardowns of the GoPro Hero original and GoPro Hero 3, check out part 1 of this series. If you’re looking for the […]

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GoPro Evolution: A Teardown Through the Ages – Part 1

Our latest teardown focuses on the popular action camera GoPro. This teardown is actually not a singular adventure, but an odyssey of epic proportions, split into 2 parts. We’ll look at the product’s evolution across three generations and see how the engineering and manufacturing techniques have changed in the last half decade. To begin this ancestral analysis, […]

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Designing for the User [VIDEO]

Andrei Gonzales said it best:  “Design isn’t about eye-candy. It’s about problem-solving. If your ‘design’ isn’t solving quantifiable issues, than it isn’t design, it’s decoration.” Here at Fictiv, we believe design drives innovation; it establishes how users learn about the value of a product and how they actually consume it in an experience. In a […]

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How to Choose the Best 3D Printing Material

If you’re not sure which 3D printing material is the best one for your project, here’s a decision tree to help you choose. Need more info? Check out our Capabilities Guide.

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From SketchUp to 3D Printer: 3 Common Surface Modeling Issues & How to Fix Them

You’ve created a seamless design—structurally sound, sufficiently thick, and mindful of overhangs. However, you get your part back to find out that it’s not printable! Many of the errors we see stem from how the digital model was created and often the main problems come down to whether the design was modeled using solid bodies […]

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Teardown Showdown: Apple Watch vs. Fake Apple Watch

Welcome to another round of teardown showdown! This week we present A Tale of Two Watches. No, we’re not pitting a 42mm Apple Watch against a 38mm Apple Watch; what’s the point of that? Instead, this showdown is between a real apple watch and a fake one. Look at the picture again: Only one of these watches […]

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Ricoh Theta S 360° Camera Teardown

We love selfies at Fictiv. We even have human selfie sticks, also known as founders, but really we keep them around for their 6-foot-plus wingspan. However, as of late, our team has grown so much that we can’t all fit into a standard phone selfie. This is the worst kind of growing pain! Our culture is […]

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