The Idea of a Tree by Mischer’Traxler. DMY Berlin 09: Viennese designers Mischer'Traxler have created a solar-powered machine that makes furniture, with the shape and colour of each product determined by the amount of sunlight available during manufacture.
The machine, called The Idea of a Tree, makes benches, containers and lamp shades by drawing thread through a tank of dye followed by a tank of resin, then wrapping it around a mould that's rotated by a solar-powered machine. The project is on show this week at DMY Youngsters exhibition in Berlin. The speed at which the machine spins the mould and draws the thread is dictated by the amount of sunlight falling on it; the portion of a component made during a cloudy period will be darker and thinner than that made in bright sunshine. Each piece takes one whole day to make and the resulting variations in thickness and colour-saturation along its length record the variations in daylight and shadow falling on it throughout the day.
Here's some more information from the designers: L’Artisan Électronique by Unfold and Tim Knapen. Another bonkers machine!
This one is a virtual potters wheel by Belgian designers Unfold and Tim Knapen. Like the onion-scanning contraption in our previous story this machine, called L’Artisan Électronique, is on show at Z33 in Hasselt as part of an exhibition called Design by Performance. The device creates pots from rolls of clay in response to movements of visitors hands through a sensor. The exhibition continues until 30 May. Update 02/06/11: watch the designers explaining the project in our movie on Dezeen Screen Here's some more information from the designers (in Dutch): Unfold & Tim Knapen, L’Artisan Electronique (2010), productieopdracht Z33 Naast de keramiekprinter creëerde Unfold samen met Tim Knapen voor L’Artisan Électro- nique een virtuele draaischijf.
In L’Artisan Électronique wordt het pottenbak- ken, één van de oudste ambachtelijke procé- dés voor het maken van gebruiksvoorwerpen, verweven met nieuwe digitale technieken. See also: Eleven 3D Printing Predictions For the Year 2011. This is a guest post by Joris Peels, the Community Manager of i.materialise, a 3D printing service for designers, inventors and consumers.
They are part of Materialise, a company with over 20 years experience in 3D printing and the market leader in 3D printing services and software. Making predictions is a sure fire path towards getting ridiculed. But, I’ll be brave and go right ahead and make 11 predictions for 3D printing in 2011. Makerbot will sell more than 10,000 3D printers in 2011. To put that in perspective, there are approximately 30,000 3D printers in the world today. Bre Pettis will appear on the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek magazine in 2011.Bre Pettis is the congenial Maker in Chief of Makerbot. A designer will have revenues of over one million US dollars with a single 3D printed product in 2011.
Both Stratasys and Objet will release $5000 desktop 3D printers at Euromold 2011. $5,000 is the new $20,000. Dans les ateliers libres du futur tout objet produit est en bêta.
3Druck.com - alles über 3D-Drucker und Digital Fabricator » Die neusten Informationen über 3D-Drucker und Digital Fabricator. A blog about 3D printing and what comes next. 3D Systems purchase of Geomagic is the latest in a long string of acquisitions the company has made in the 3D printing industry. 3D Systems seems intent on being active in any and every area of the 3D printing industry and having the complete software toolchain as well as a 3D printer or 3D printing service for every segment. The inventors of stereolithography amazed many people when they all of a sudden started aggressively acquiring companies a few years back. The Geomagic purchase is one of 3D System’s largest and also surprised many in the industry.
In retrospect it seems a logical move, purchase a company with mesh repair software, generative tooling as well as 3D authoring tools. But, I’m not sure many anticipated it. I was surprised because I thought that Geomagic would be looking for a bigger exit and would wait to be purchased by Autodesk or perhaps go public. Materialise &/or Pro-Fit The first thing I thought however is, “Well I guess that Charly or Fried aren’t selling.” Arcam. 3D printing: The printed world.