Printing a person: Making a human from 3D printed body parts. The thigh bone’s connected to the hip bone, the hip bone’s connected to the back bone and the back bone’s connected to the 3D printed bone.
That’s how the future of humans could look with advancements from 3D printing helping to change the lives of sick and injured people. The technology, which builds up layers of material to create objects, has been used to create implants and prosthetic limbs and is getting closer to printing internal organs. 3D printing has so far been able to alter and in some cases extend the lives of people. As the technology becomes more widely adopted it is possible that it could be adopted for cosmetic reasons in a similar way to plastic surgery.
Customised 3D printed body parts may also be put together to make us stronger and more resistant to stresses being put on the body. Movie: Eric Klarenbeek's Mycelium 3D-printed fungus could build houses. 3D-printed mushroom roots "could be used to build houses" Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: designer Eric Klarenbeek, who displayed a chair made out of 3D-printed fungus at Dutch Design Week in October, says the technique could be used to create larger, more complex structures.
Klarenbeek's Mycelium chair, which takes its name from the extensive threadlike root structure of fungi, combines organic matter with bioplastics to make a light and strong composite material that can be 3D-printed. "We adapted the 3D-printer and invented a way to print straw injected with mycelium. By infusing this mushroom it acts as a kind of glue so that all these straw parts [combine] together and as soon as you dry it you get a kind of cork material, which is all bound together," says Klarenbeek. The chair's exterior is also 3D-printed, but is made from a bioplastic, against which the mycelium root structure grows.
2014: Xu Zhen - The Armory Show. Xu Zhen (b. 1977, Shanghai) was chosen as the commissioned artist for The Armory Show 2014.
A “chameleon of concept," he has built an extensive body of work that includes video, installation, performance, and photography. From theatrical merry pranks to quieter works playing on human sensitivity, Xu Zhen has developed a repertoire confronting social-political taboos within the context of contemporary China and beyond. For this edition of The Armory Show, Xu Zhen placed his mark on key aspects of the fair’s look and feel. Paintings from his Under Heaven series, in which a pastry chef’s icing applicator is used to apply pigment to a temptingly delicious impasto, graced Armory Show collateral in the months leading up to the fair and on-site.
These paintings, their title both a literal translation of a Chinese word meaning “the whole world" and a joking reference to Jeff Koons’s infamous Made In Heaven series, give the sense of an ambition to "have one’s cake and eat it too. " Fine Restaurant Explores 3D Printed Cuisine. Big and Small 3D Printers Take Over NYC. 3D Bioprinting Influenced by Woodblock Printing. 3D Printing with Silk? The Spies in Your 3D Printer.
Snacks of the Future: 10 Foods You Can 3D Print. It’s no secret that we’re big fans of 3D printing here at Brit HQ.
We’ve explored printing iPhone cases, clothing, photos from a photo booth, and even a mini figurine of you. But our stomachs have gotten the better of us. Thankfully, science is keeping up. Air Hogs 3D Files are Released for 3D Printing. Print-In-Place Fidget Cube by mathgrrl. A print-in-place folding fidget cube, with customization options for size, shape, and clearances.
As you fold the cube it turns inside out to form another cube! Makes a nice gift or 3D-printing demo, and is fun to fidget with while on the bus, standing in line, etc. This model prints in ONE PIECE (!) , fully assembled, without raft and without supports, and then you snap it open in a couple of places until it moves freely; see the instructions. Files for the five models shown in the picture are included, and all printed well on a Replicator 2 with MakerWare set to .2mm/standard. New laser-printed material is lighter than water, as strong as steel. Materials shape human progress—think Stone Age or Bronze Age.
The 21st century has been referred to as the molecular age, a time when scientists are beginning to manipulate materials at the atomic level to create new substances with astounding properties. Taking a step in that direction, Jens Bauer, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and his colleagues have developed a bone-like material that is less dense than water but as strong as some forms of steel. "This is the first experimental proof that such materials can exist," Bauer said. Since the Industrial Revolution, our demand for new materials has outstripped supply.
We want these materials to do many different things, from improving the speed of computers to withstanding the heat when entering Mars' atmosphere. All known materials can be represented quite neatly in one chart (where each line means the strength or density of the material goes up 10 times): What Might the US DoD Want with 3D Printing? Is It a 3D Printer? Is It a PCB Mill? Is It Crowd Sourcing? Is it the Future? Can Organs Be 3D Bioprinted? A Stem Cell Trachea Will Tell. Wanhao’s Bargain Bin replicators.
Electroloom Promises 3D Printed Clothing by Year’s End. West African Inventor Makes a $100 3D Printer From E-Waste. Kodjo Afate Gnikou, a resourceful inventor from Togo in West Africa, has made a $100 3D printer which he constructed from parts he scrounged from broken scanners, computers, printers and other e-waste.
The fully functional DIY printer cost a fraction of those currently on the market, and saves environmentally damaging waste from reaching landfill sites. Discarded electronic equipment is one of the world’s fastest-growing sources of waste, as consumers frequently replace “old” models that become more obsolete each year. However instead of letting e-waste sit them on the scrap pile or head to the landfill, Kodjo Afate Gnikou decided to utilize spare parts in order to create a cheap, DIY 3D printer.
Gnikou is part of WoeLab, a hackerspace in the city of Lomé, and has big plans for his recycling project. According to his crowd funding page, he is working with FacLab-France in the WAFATE to Mars project, which aims to make machines from recycled e-waste to prepare for missions on Mars. A DIY 3D Printed Wearable from adafruit. A DIY 3D Printed Wearable from adafruit. Epson Wants Ability to 3D Print “Anything” Within 5 Years. 3D Printing to Scan Your EEGs. Nike’s Series of 3D Printed Shoes Continue Doing It. Latest Version of Photoshop CC from Adobe Includes 3D Printing Capabilities.
3D Book Cover. DIY Earbuds that Stick in Your Ears. DIY Earbuds that Stick in Your Ears. Geoweaver Roaming 3D Printer Walks the Walk and Caulks the Caulk. Could Secured3D be the missing link in 3D printing evolution? 3D Printed Circuit Boards, for Solder-free Printable Electronics. The World’s First Home-Printable Fashion Doll, Quin, Looks Pretty Spacey. This is Quin.
She’s a fully posable (and Barbie-compatible) doll that can be made on a 3D printer and snapped together. Her creators, the folks at 3DKitBash built her to prove that you can build usable, playable toys on a 3D printer. They also built her because she looks amazing. The 3D files will cost $55 once the project funds in January and you can order her pre-printed in ABS plastic for $245. You can also order clothes and other perks from their Kickstarter page. The pair who created Quin are Natalie Mathis and Quincy Robinson. “I’ve also been known to rehabilitate orphaned possums,” he said. Fluid In.Flux_3D Wax Printing In Water. Apple Files Patent for Printing Conductive Inks onto 3D Objects. Singapore International Fashion 3D Printing Competition 2013. Singapore International Fashion 3D Printing Competition 2013. THIS is why the Liberator is NOT Safe.
By Rachel Park On · 3D Printers , 3D Printing , Australia , Industry Insights 3 Comments Ok, so if you are a person that is still not convinced that printing AND FIRING the Liberator 3d printed gun is a bad idea, the New South Wales police force in Australia have issued a stark visual warning.
At a press conference today, New South Wales Police Commissioner, Andrew Scipione, gave a verbal explanation of the dangers and illegalities involved, backed up by a video that illustrates the dangers: Hat tip to Joris – who is leading the charge in shouting this thing down . The Good & Evil Sides of 3D Printing. Davide Sher’s 5 Favourite 3D Printing Apps of 2013. 3D Printed Loudspeaker Part 1 - Cornell Research. B3dgeable. What is Shapeways Up To? Living, 3D-printed cyborg ear: Promising, but eww. I remember the days when "cyborg" was a science fiction term and was unlikely to turn up in a serious science paper.
Happily, the old folk who attempt to stand between the seas of scientific and popular discussion are failing, and I am proud to present the cyborg ear. That's right—researchers from Princeton and Johns Hopkins have come together to grow an ear. The hearing, however, is done with electronics, making this the ultimate in human-machine chimera. On the whole, though, it looks kinda gross. Biocompatible 3D Printing Firm Wins Contract from Northrop Grumman. Attack On Pirate3D & Open Source. Introducing 123D Design. EmailShare 67EmailShare If you want to print in 3D, there are three ways to obtain a 3D design: create it yourself, download from Thingiverse, or scan and then print. For most of us without much design experience, creating an original 3D design can be a challenge.
But now, thanks to our friends at Autodesk, you don’t need to know how to constrain, dimension, or extrude sketches in a traditional CAD drawing software – instead, you can create your own original designs with 123D Design, a new release from Autodesk that offers an easy-to-use 3D drawing program you can operate right in your browser. 123D Design is surprisingly powerful, and we wanted to draw your attention to a couple of features that work really well with 3D printing: 1. Use fillets and chamfers to design edges. First 3D Printing Experiences: Cube vs. Makerbot. Making Waves - 3D Printed Speakers. 3D Systems Partners with Innovation Factory to Make Chicago the Design Capital of the World.
3D Systems Partners with Innovation Factory to Make Chicago the Design Capital of the World. New 3D Manufacturing Process — Materialising Micro Lattice Structures. New 3D Manufacturing Process — Materialising Micro Lattice Structures. 3D Printing and its Potential Impact on Industrial Real Estate. 3D printing for dummies: How do 3D printers work? - Features - Gadgets & Tech. What is a 3D printer? 3D printers are a new generation of machines that can make everyday things. They’re remarkable because they can produce different kinds of objects, in different materials, all from the same machine. A 3D printer can make pretty much anything from ceramic cups to plastic toys, metal machine parts, stoneware vases, fancy chocolate cakes or even (one day soon) human body parts.
They replace traditional factory production lines with a single machine, just like home inkjet printers replaced bottles of ink, a printing press, hot metal type and a drying rack. 3D Printing for Dummies – 3DP 1on1 in the Independent. Missing Puppy Data Found. EmailShare 79EmailShare The Digitizer team at MakerBot is hard at work trying to make the scanning experience as easy and intuitive as possible for our users. We want the Digitizer to help take the guess work and effort out of creating good models for 3D printing and 3D modeling projects. For example, other 3D scanning options often deliver files with missing data, like this puppy on the left. 3D Printing for Common People.
Should 3D Printing Be Regulated? BL 3Dimension Launches 3D EduLab, the All-in-One Education Package. Printerest: 3D Printables Repository Potential? Imagineers Founders: China's 3D Printing Present and Future. As reality catches up to the hype of 3D printing, the DIY consumer market dwindles. But the co-founders of China-based Imagineers, Gu Wei and Eddie Chen, say there isn’t too much hype; it’s just misplaced. The DIY segment, according to them, is dwarfed by the demand for enterprise and industrial 3D printing solutions, which is where they plan to make bank. The pair created a company that caters to the needs of those customers. Imagineers makes its own 3D-printer, which retails for $1,000 and is similar to the Makerbot‘s popular Replicator model line.
Meet the Shoe that Represents the Future of Fashion and 3D Printing. Amazon’s New 3D Printing Store. 3D Systems Does Metal — Finally. 3D Printing & China – Umbrellas, Ninja Scooters & Illicit VPNs. New MakerBot Factory Opens in Brooklyn! Conventional wisdom says that manufacturing isn't viable in America, least of all in New York City. But MakerBot is bucking that trend in a couple of ways: Firstly they manufacture objects that manufacture other objects. Secondly, they just increased their physical footprint by a factor of ten.
On Friday, MakerBot cut the ribbon on their new 55,000-square-foot facility in Brooklyn's Sunset Park, trading up from their comparatively puny 5,000-square-foot startup space. The expansion comes as no surprise given that MakerBot has recently hired scores of new employees. Recent funding talks have thrown around figures of $25-$50 million, with murmurs of a $300 million valuation. While those numbers are yet to be set in stone, more clear are the new facility's staff: One hundred employees, out of the 267 total on MakerBot's employment roster. How 3D printing will rebuild reality. A 3D model of a complex anaplastology case, created in collaboration with the anaplastologist Jan De Cubber, is seen at the Belgian company Materialise. 3D printing has already changed the game for manufacturing specialized products such as medical devices. Laser 3D Printing Breakthrough in China.
The secret behind James Bond's priceless Aston Martin DB 5 stunts: 3D printed models were used for Skyfall's most dangerous scenes. 3D printing was used to create models a third of the size of the real thingThe replica mini-cars were used throughout the film, and blown up in a key scene By Mark Prigg Published: 11:29 GMT, 13 November 2012 | Updated: 13:51 GMT, 13 November 2012 James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 was put through a series of huge explosions and stunts during the filming of Skyfall, including one scene which saw the priceless vehicle explode in flames. However, producers have revealed the secret behind the stunts - if they lost a car, they could simply print another. 3D-Printed Music. 4D Printing - Skylar Tibbits' Full TED Talk. How 3D printing could take over the manufacturing industry. He laptop I typed this article on is the culmination of a vast, sprawling, and elaborate process over many continents, using many resources, many people, and many machines.
My laptop's construction incorporates plastics built out of crude oil, metals mined in Africa and forged into memory in Korea and semiconductors in Germany, and an aluminium case made from bauxite mined in Brazil. Gallons and gallons of refined oil were used to ship all the resources and components around the world, until they were finally assembled in China, and shipped out once again to the consumer. That manufacturing process stands upon the shoulders of centuries of scientific research, and years of product development, testing, and marketing. The manufacturing industry today is a huge mesh of complex processes. Being a Printer Master: Managing Mass Printing in a Makerspace. Successful 3D Print and Vapour Treatment of Thermocromatic Material. Kickstarting Man’s Ascent — A Sculptural Evolution From Analog to Digital. A Head-Turning Introduction — The New ProDesk3D — A Full Colour, Prosumer 3D Printer. 3D-Printed Music. Kickstarter: 3DAGOGO – A Repository of Tested 3D Models.
Professional 3D Portfolio Website. Simple pricing, great value Basic Up to 50MB per model Basic viewer customization 48h e-mail support Free! Pro. Four New 3D Printers on the Scene in the last Week. Chiplets — 3D Printed Electronic Micro Materials. 3D Hubs — Localised 3D Printing for a Global Community. Layer by Layer – A 3D Printed Exhibition that is ALL about Fashion.
3D Printed Headphones — Simple and Elegant. Reuseum: 3D Printers for Education. 3dprintingindustry.com/2013/04/05/the-3d-printed-gun-individual-freedom-collective-violence/?utm_source=3D+Printing+Industry+Update&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=e5993621ed-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN. Winners of 2013 Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge. Bioprinting — 3D Printing Liquids That Stay Liquid. 3D Printed Augmented Reality Jigsaw Puzzle. 3D Printing Used for Testing Complex Structures’ Qualities in the Real World. 3D Printed Speaker Enclosures (With Lights!) This project was a demonstration of the potential of 3D printers to create high-fidelity, finished products. We wanted to create something that could only be created by means of additive manufacturing. The ultimate goal was to create a functional, consumer-ready piece that took advantage of the strengths of 3D printing. This project was also an exploration in the role of digital design tools in the 3D printing world, and how we could combine digital tools in new ways to create unique objects.
Here is a quick video that captures our motivations for doing this project: The project was recently featured by Wired.com Check out the full article: Design Team:Maurice Conti - Concept and DesignEvan Atherton - Design and EngineeringArthur Harsuvanakit - Technical Consultant. The Edge - iPad Mini Case Latest in FreshFiber Line. 3D Printing Furniture at Home. EFF Fight for Open 3D Printing. 3D Printing Industry - Latest news, insight articles and videos. Organovo – The Company Behind The First Commercial Bioprinter. The Science of Digital Fabrication. Maker Pro Newsletter. Just because you've got a hammer, doesn't mean you're a carpenter.
Know someone who would be interested in this newsletter? Rapid Prototyping. 3D-printed gun maker now has federal firearms license to manufacture, deal guns. 3D printing iPhone dock adapters.