The World’s First 3D Printed Building Will Arrive In 2014 (And It Looks Awesome) Sure, 3D printing is fun and cute. And products like the Makerbot and Form 1 will most certainly disrupt manufacturing, even if it’s only on a small scale. But the possibilities of 3D printing stretch far beyond DIY at-home projects. In fact, it could entirely replace the construction industry.
We’ve already seen folks at MIT’s Research Labs working on ways to 3D print the frame of a home in a day, as opposed to the month it would take a construction crew to do the same. But it isn’t just geeks taking an interest; a Dutch architect is interested in 3D printing a home, with the hopes that it’ll be ready by 2014. The architect’s name is Janjaap Ruijssenaars of Universe Architecture, and his project is a part of the Europan competition, which lets architects in over 15 different countries build projects over the course of two years. Ruijssenaars will work with Italian inventor Enrico Dini, founder of the D-Shape 3D printer. Here’s the project in Ruijssenaars’ words: [via 3ders.org] Five Trends in 3D Printing. In preparation for the Maker Faire each season, the editors of MAKE have been divying up topical beats so we can cover more area. I’ve been covering the 3D printing beat, and thought I’d share some of the trends and technologies I’m seeing going into Maker Faire.
Putting aside the IP, social, and political discussions that will surely be happening this year, below is a quick overview of how I see the “State of the Beat”. If you have suggestions for other trending topics — or especially recommendations for people you’d like to see at Maker Faire — I’d love it if you could post in the comments. 1. The spread of tools and techniques for creating original models. As more people get access to 3D printers, they’ll also have to climb the not-insignificant learning curve of 3D modeling tools and techniques. Some new and interesting tools include: OpenSCAD: an open source tool for constructive solid modeling (CSM). Sean Ragan’s OpenSCAD tutorial on Make Projects. 2. 3. 4. 5. Shawn Wallace website. 3D Printers, FDM Prototyping, 3D Models | Dimension Printers. Bring Performance Prototyping In-House The Dimension 1200es features the largest build envelope of any Stratasys Design Series performance 3D printer. Running on Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) Technology, it prints in nine colors of real ABSplus thermoplastic.
This 3D printer lets you choose fine resolution or faster printing, with layer thicknesses of 0.254 mm (0.010 in.) or 0.33 mm (0.013 in.). Image Gallery Dimension 1200es 3D Print Pack The 3D Print Pack is everything you need to start building 3D models. The SST 1200es 3D Printer The SCA-1200 support removal system A startup supply of materials Materials and Bases Dimension 3D printers use ABSplus thermoplastic to build your models. Modeling bases provide a stable platform where your prototype builds. More Design Series Performance 3D Printers Dimension 1200es Printer Specs Model material: ABSplus in nine colors Support material: Soluble (SST 1200es); breakaway (BST 1200es) Build size: 254 x 254 x 305 mm (10 x 10 x 12 in.) BST 1200es. Recyclables used to make 3D printing affordable for all.
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(Credit: Coming Up Short Handed) Specifications for a 3D-printed prosthetic hand for a young boy born without a set of fingers is available as a free download on Thingiverse. Liam, thanks to a case of amniotic band syndrome, was born without any fingers on his right hand. Enter two men: Richard Van As, a carpenter in South Africa who lost the fingers on his right hand in a work accident, and Ivan Owen, a prop-maker in Washington who came to Van As' attention via a YouTube video he posted showing a claw prop he created as an experiment. The two collaborated on creating a prosthetic finger for Van As, collaborating over distance, shipping parts back and forth. It wasn't until November last year that the two met — Owens travelling to Johannesburg to work on some finishing touches. But in the interval, Van As had been contacted by the mother of a five-year-old boy, Liam. Using Makerware, it could be scaled to fit a wide range of individuals.
Next, 4-D Printers? 4-D objects are printed by 3-D printers, then transform when activated. Now that the promise of 3-D printing has landed on the national agenda, researchers want to increase the stakes — with so-called 4-D printing. No, the printers won’t generate hypercubes. Rather, the scientists claim that their “fourth dimension” refers to time — as in the space-time continuum described by the mathematician Hermann Minkowski early in the 20th century. The 4-D structures are first generated by 3-D printers but then transform when activated. “This is a whole new idea of printing, where you don’t just print static objects; you print things that turn into other things,” explained Skylar Tibbits, an M.I.T. researcher who is working on the printer collaboration with Stratasys, an Israeli 3-D printing company.
Mr. Tibbits’s research has focused on self-assembly technologies, for things ranging from toys to furniture. 4D Printing: MIT Self-Folding Strand from Skylar Tibbits on Vimeo. Mr. Mr. Filabot Reclaimer Turns Recyclable Plastic into 3D Printing Material. Introducing Filabot, a new device that lets you recycle plastic to use as filament in a 3D printer. Originally conceived as a Kickstarter project by Tyler McNaney, a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student at Vermont Technical College, the startup raised over $32,000 to develop its first product. Many 3D printers use commercial grade plastic filament to make objects. The MakerBot Replicator 2X, for example, uses requires thermoplastic ABS. This plastic isn’t cheap, and critics of 3D printing suggest that all of this plastic is not good for the environment. Well, Filabot has the answer to make 3D printing a bit more eco-friendly. With a Filabot Reclaimer, one can deposit recyclable plastic into the machine and end up with 3D printing grade plastic filament.
Here is an overview from the Filabot shop. The Filabot is the revolutionary system that can turn recyclable plastic into usable filament for 3D printing. And below is a video of the Filabot system. Photo by Filabot/Whitney Trudo. No Limit - Futuristic Photo Series About 3D Printing. Photographer and artist Ben Sandler has published a futuristic photo series that imagines 3D printing brought to life. The series is called “No Limit” and was featured in Amusement magazine.
Via Behance.net. Manufacturing The Future: 10 Trends To Come In 3D Printing. Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing. Cartilage-Printing Machine Built By Wake Forest Researchers. Are you an athlete with a crummy joint? Accident victim needing a new nose? In the future, making more cartilage for these body parts may be as simple as hitting "Control-P.
" 3D printing, long the hope of those needing a replacement kidney or liver, has now advanced into the field of cartilage regeneration, thanks to a team of Wake Forest University researchers led by Tao Xu. His group has developed a machine that combines two popular 3D printing techniques, electrospinning and inkjet work, to print viable cartilage, according to a paper published in the journal Biofabrication. A bit of background: Inkjet printing, a technique much like conventional printing that involves depositing fine layers of material to create a 3D structure, has already been used to create skin, blood and bones. Meanwhile, electrospinning, or the use of a charge to draw very fine fibers from a liquid, is another 3D printing technique, used largely to print synthetic materials.
The solution? Related on HuffPost: 3D-printen: de derde industriële revolutie. Het wordt de belangrijkste uitvinding sinds de drukpers genoemd: de 3D-printer. Produceren wordt volledig gedigitaliseerd via slimme software en de maakindustrie kan voor het eerst op grote schaal gepersonaliseerde producten leveren. Nederland doet dapper mee. De nieuwe vloer ligt er al, er moeten nog enkele muren worden verplaatst en elektriciteitsleidingen worden aangelegd, maar dan kan in Long Island City bij New York ’s werelds grootste 3D-printerfabriek officieel in gebruik worden genomen. Er komen dertig tot vijftig printers te staan, goed voor drie tot vijf miljoen geprinte producten per jaar. Burgemeester Michael Bloomberg, die met het doorknippen van een lint met een – wat anders?
– uitgeprinte schaar de Factory of the Future onlangs voor geopend verklaarde, wil dat de Big Apple het Mekka van 3D-printen wordt. Hij spreekt over een opwindende nieuwe industrie ‘die een revolutie betekent voor hoe we producten vervaardigen’. Toegegeven: 3D-printers staan nog in de kinderschoenen. The Rise of 3D Printing. Want to turn your creative thinking about objects into a reality? Of course you do. What if you could just magic up a new button for the one that fell off your favourite shirt? What if you could invent a new way for carrying hot items in the kitchen? What if? 3D printing might not be available in all homes yet, but the latest desk-top 3D printers being us one step closer to the possibility of manufacturing more things for ourselves.
The process is not an easy one still, but some are more optimistic than others when it comes to future possibilities. Anderson’s book, “Makers” also came out recently. It’s smart to get in while the industry is on the uptick, but 3D printing has been around for some time and there’s a long way to go before domestic users will be able to think of something and print it off. Academic origins It probably won’t come as a surprise to read that the term ’3D printing’ was coined at MIT.
Naturally making things is not without its design restrictions. A 3D printer that manufactures new cancer drugs with drag-and-drop DNA. Although, my profs have lamented (many times) that the efficiency of combinatorial chemistry to screen for new drugs is ridiculously low for its cost. De novo synthesis has been responsible for only 1 FDA approved drug (Sorafenib: a tyrosine kinase inhibitor used to treat kidney and liver cancer), although quite a few more are working their way through trials.
Most drug discoveries still depends on regular scientists stumbling onto something by serendipity or by following leads produced by those studying plant/animal/mineral sources. Right now, this kind of high-throughput robotic screening is mostly done to polish an already discovered molecule to adjust it's pharmacologic profiles (which is how we now have so many different types of taxanes). oops, I think I confused rational drug design (what you are talking about) which pure combinatorial chemistry (which the machine in the article facilitates and is a more scattershot "toss everything on the wall and see what sticks" approach).
Next Year's 3-D Printers Promise Big Things — Really Big Things | Wired Design. The future of health care, now in 3D! - Ideas@Innovations. Posted at 07:05 AM ET, 11/27/2012 Nov 27, 2012 12:05 PM EST TheWashingtonPost Business Network (iStockphoto) Described as the third industrial revolution and the driving force behind a manufacturing renaissance in America's industrial heartland, 3D printing might also disrupt an industry that has so far shown to be fairly disruption-proof: the health-care industry. New 3-D bioprinters are already capable of printing out everything from dental fixtures and prosthetic limbs to custom hearing aids. Researchers at Wake Forest have just proven, as the latest proof of concept, that it’s theoretically possible to print out human cartilage for implants, an important next step on the path to printing complex human tissue and even human organs. The future of health care, viewed in 3D, is rather astounding.
The U.S. However, there’s still a long way to go before we’re attempting anything quite so grandiose. So will 3D printers make their way into hospitals anytime soon? Elon Musk, Mars colonizer? Shapeways. Theo Jansen is a Dutch kinetic artist, since 1990 occupied with creating new forms of life. He is father to the "Animari" beach creatures, or "Strandbeests", made of PVC tubing, that walk the beach powered by the wind. As time progresses the Beests evolve, with the ultimate goal of living their lives on their own. Now Theo Jansen's Strandbeests have found a way to multiply by injecting their digital DNA directly into the Shapeways system.
From now on several small strandbeests are available from his shop . Next to being a great abstraction of the inspiring work of Theo Jansen, these strandbeests are also an example of what 3D printing is capable of. Right after birth from the 3D printer these models will work straight away and do NOT require any assembly. Designing the Beests this way proved quite the challenge. 3D printing is very suitable for rapid design changes, and as time goes by the Beests will evolve and new types of DNA will be added to the store, while others are removed.
A Flute Made on a 3D Printer, and the Possibilities to Come. 3D printed concert flute rapidly prototypes sound (video) Technology: Print me a Stradivarius.