current art and design courses

Desktop Factory 125ci uses powdered plastic sintered together by a halogen lamp.  Looks quite tasty, although the build size is small (5″x5″ maximum).  Still, for about one quarter of the price of a Z-Corp machine, this would be worth checking out.

There is a good instructable here
Also, this fellow (Charles Morgan) uses hydraulics (just click on the link to the “Bottle Jack Press” PDF)

Here’s the Wiley Student Resource page for Meggs, it’s not great and it’s not even completely updated for the fourth edition, but it’s better than nothing…