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Well, another year came and went, and it is Pi Day again. We have been celebrating 3/14 for a long time now, as you can see by past blog posts. Our standard formula is several different pies and a m...

Every year I go to the big design and manufacturing show, MD&M West, in Anaheim, California, I realize they have changed the name again, and I really don't remember how many times I've been to th...

A special thank you to the optical engineers in our user base who challenged me all year round. This year has been the busiest for optics at PADT by far. I have learned so much by researching the que...

The horizon-to-horizon blue skies of Phoenix were making it hard to get into the holiday spirit, so our in-house 3D Printing expert and Artificial Intelligence (AI) trailblazer, Andrew Smith, decided...

Now that Nerdtoberfest 2025 is behind us, we want to go back and share two uses of cool technology at this year's annual open house. We used our scanning tools and 3D printers to make 3D Printed Bav...

We were worried we could never top the success of our 30th Anniversary and Nerdtoberfest 2024. We were wrong. We had 801 people registered, and on top of that, a bunch of people (you know who...

Please meet Rupert and join us in following his journey from 2D to 3D: For our annual open house, Nerdtoberfest, we always pick a theme and then weave it into the event. This year, we w...

Microfinancing the World With Kiva: 182 Microloans Across 75 Countries Over 18 Years Cows and chickens, makeup and jeans, fuel and internet connections. These are just a small portion of what entr...

March just sort of snuck up on us and before you know it, we are celebrating another Pi Day here at PADT. For a while now we have been celebrating with fresh pies and a math quiz, and this year was n...

PADT is involved in three space technology related events in the first half of 2025, and one fun event, that are significant enough to dig a bit deeper into - one is a seminar on simulation, another ...