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The #3dprinting Daily. 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. 3D Printing: It’s Real, And Real Work » Danny Thorpe. Kudos to ZCorp for their recent new video reaching a lot of people (3.9 million views on YouTube as of this writing) who clearly had never heard of 3d printing before.
However, all these 3D noobs blathering on about “wow! 3D printing is brand new!” And “star trek replicators are real!” Is really becoming irritating. The fact that hoax authority Snopes.com even felt a need to publish a “Not a hoax” article on 3D printing is kinda sad. MIT developed powder bed 3D printing at least 20 years ago. Yes, 3D printing is real, and has been implemented in a variety of different ways by a variety of vendors. The price of the machines has been coming down in recent years (hmm. Any time you have a service or product demand that requires expensive hardware or expertise, service bureaus will pop up to harvest that demand. The maker community has made great progress on figuring out and documenting how industrious individuals can build their own 3D printing aparatii for a less than a home mortgage.
» 3D Printing Sucks or the State of Things Open Buddha. Alice...my makerbot Look around and you'll see more and more articles in the mainstream press about 3D printing and printers. Makerbot Industries has built a business (and gotten investment) on kits for 3D printing over the last few years and there are actually a number of competitors now for them in the hobbyist market.
Reprap hobbyist printers have existed for years before that as a DIY open source movement (with all that entails) as well. The dirty little secret of 3D printing is that it kind of sucks. Quality of PrintsQuality of Printers In the case of quality of prints, the output of most 3D printers leaves a lot to be desired. Clonedel printing This feeds into the second reason, the quality of printers. My Cupcake, for example, is a pretty dumb device. Some of this is the fault of the patent industry. I was thinking about this a lot yesterday as I was working on parts for a Prusa Mendel, one of the simpler open source 3D printers from the reprap community. My Cupcake? The world's first printed plane - tech - 27 July 2011. Read full article Continue reading page |1|2 Video: First flight of 3D printed plane Read more: "3D printing: Second industrial revolution is under way" The promise of 3D printing has finally taken off with the development of a drone that takes just a week to create Under darkening skies on a grass airstrip in the UK's Wiltshire Downs, north of Stonehenge, I am watching half a dozen aeronautical engineers rushing to assemble an uncrewed aircraft before the weather takes a turn for the worse.
They are hoping to show how 3D printing will revolutionise the economics of aircraft design – by flying the world's first fully "printed" plane. Led by Andy Keane and Jim Scanlan of the University of Southampton, the team believes that 3D printing will soon allow uncrewed aircraft known as drones or UAVs to go from the drawing board to flight in a matter of days. 3D printing has come on in leaps and bounds since its origins as an expensive prototyping tool over two decades ago. Soon it's flight time. The world's first printed plane - tech - 27 July 2011. Read full article Continue reading page |1|2 Video: First flight of 3D printed plane Read more: "3D printing: Second industrial revolution is under way" The promise of 3D printing has finally taken off with the development of a drone that takes just a week to create Under darkening skies on a grass airstrip in the UK's Wiltshire Downs, north of Stonehenge, I am watching half a dozen aeronautical engineers rushing to assemble an uncrewed aircraft before the weather takes a turn for the worse.
Led by Andy Keane and Jim Scanlan of the University of Southampton, the team believes that 3D printing will soon allow uncrewed aircraft known as drones or UAVs to go from the drawing board to flight in a matter of days. 3D printing has come on in leaps and bounds since its origins as an expensive prototyping tool over two decades ago. To do this, the 3D printer first slices up an object's computerised design into hundreds of easily printable layers. This is a huge deal for aircraft designers. (YouTube) » 3D Printing Sucks or the State of Things Open Buddha. Eleven 3D Printing Predictions For the Year 2011. 3D Printing: It’s Real, And Real Work » Danny Thorpe.
Manufacturing, 3D Printing and What China Knows About the Emerging American Century - Mark P. Mills - Energy Intelligence. 3D printing and human skill. Posted by Jon Udell under Uncategorized[22] Comments This National Geographic video about 3D printing exemplifies the worst kind of gee-whiz reporting. Just scan a crescent wrench, print it, and bingo, you’ve copied a real tool with moving parts! Not. A commenter notes differences between the copy and the original and concludes: If the real wrench was simply scanned, this would not have happened.
The input method is, of course, 3D CAD. Z Corp.’s 3D printing technology leverages 3D source data, which often takes the form of computer-aided design (CAD) models. Gee-whiz reporting insults our intelligence and trivializes its subject matter. Once I wrote a review of a dozen 3D CAD programs for BYTE Magazine. My job was to construct that model in each of the dozen CAD programs. A friend of mine, Gary Spykman, describes himself as a designer, furniture maker, and artisan. Like the commenter on YouTube I have to ask: why lie about this? Like this: Like Loading... How 3D Printing Will Make U.S. Self-Sufficient.
Design And The New Industrial Revolution If you hadn’t heard, there’s a new industrial revolution sweeping the world. This revolution, say the champions of this new kind of making, is the result of three factors that together change the nature and economics of manufacturing. The first is free software for designing complex 3D objects; the best known example being Google Sketchup. The second is 3D printing in which computerised machines turn virtual designs into physical models that you can prod, fondle and squeeze. Finally, there is the precipitous drop in the cost of 3D printers and other rapid prototyping techniques. This suddenly makes it practical and profitable to make-on-demand instead of mass producing products. That’s led to a huge increase in the number of websites where you can buy things that are made-on-demand, things like bespoke Lego-like bricks for example.
At least, that’s how this revolution is being promoted. These processes fall into two categories: additive and subtractive. Long live the revolution! How 3D printing is saving this jewelry design business. It may sound like something from a sci-fi movie—a machine that prints out actual models of designs, rather than two-dimensional renderings on paper—but three-dimensional printing is not only real, it has established a beachhead with businesses of all kinds in recent years. As prices on the machines fall, small business owners, particularly those such as industrial or architectural designers using computer aided design, or CAD, for product development, are accessing the technology. Some are buying their own machines; others outsource their designs to another business that provides this service.
The technology works hand in hand with 3D CAD models by building up microscopic layers of plastic resin and hardening them with ultraviolet light similar to what dentists use for porcelain fillings. The print beds are typically about 20 inches square and can print up to 10 inches high; they can also print out multiple designs at once. Crain's: How long have you been using 3D printing and why? 'Solar Sinter' by Markus Kayser is a solar powered 3D printer that uses sand as source material #3dprinting #environment #energy #rca. Amongst the wonderful collection of work currently on show at the Royal College of Art, in the corner on the first floor sits an installation/object by Markus Kayser called Solar Sinter. An MA Design Products student project, Solar Sinter is probably one of the most inspiring projects this year, aiming to raise questions about the future of manufacturing and triggers dreams of the full utilisation of the production potential of the world’s most efficient energy resource - the sun.
In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce glass objects using a 3D printing process, that combines natural energy and material with high-tech production technology. The Solar-Sinster uses ReplicatorG software, an open source 3D printing program.
Project Page. What is 3D printing? A beginner’s guide to the desktop factory - Yahoo! News. Deep in a sub-basement of the GM world headquarters, dozens of high-tech machines emit a soft whirring sound. In a sandy liquid, as an arm passes quickly overhead while a model slowly emerges. It’s the side-mirror of a new concept vehicle with a place to insert the mirror and bolt the part into place. This rapid-prototyping room runs all year long, every day, seven days a week. The machines never quit.
Designers make dozens of “first run” models that are fitted with other parts. For example, when Chevy designed the Volt extended-range car, they used rapid prototyping to create many of the parts. (In a pinch, they even used a plastic part intended as a model for the initial road-testing.) While rapid-prototyping is common with large automotive firms, similar techniques are used by hobbyists and professional designers at home. One reason 3D printing is becoming more popular is that the alternatives are still so expensive.
The basics: Software and hardware 3D printing trends. Full Print3d. Printing Objects | DHUB. How 3D Printing Will Make U.S. Self-Sufficient. 3D printing glass in the desert. If you were stuck in the desert & only had one provision to choose from, what would it be? Well if your name is Markus Kayser you’d likely take your solar sintering 3D printer of course! The abundance of sand and sunlight in this environment provides both raw materials and energy. Allowing any failed mutineer or downed pilot to make nearly any provisions they could ever dream of! “By using the sun’s rays instead of a laser and sand instead of resins, I had the basis of an entirely new solar-powered machine and production process for making glass objects that taps into the abundant supplies of sun and sand to be found in the deserts of the world.” – Kayser Video and further images after the jump… This printing method employs no bonding agents nor synthetic support material – only using the raw materials readily available.
Kayser’s machine focuses the Sun’s energy with a fresnel screen onto the thin layer of sand fusing the sand into glass. Kayser concisely sums up his project: Emergent City / Joseph A. Sarafian. “Emergent City” is Joseph A. Sarafian’s 5th year Thesis project at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. “By the turn of the Twenty-Second century, a new epoch in global survival had emerged. The human race was no longer concerned with sustainability as a trend, because it could no longer deny the fact that the world was in fact dying. The environmental catastrophes that surfaced in the Twenty-First century became increasingly frequent. What emerged was a new strategy in the toolset of disaster housing, but more importantly evolution. To commemorate the 9th Annual Skyscraper Competition, eVolo is publishing the Limited Edition Book "eVolo Skyscrapers 2" which is the follow-up to its highly acclaimed book “eVolo Skyscrapers”.
-> EVOLO SKYSCRAPERS 2 - Limited Edition Book. De tipping point voor 3D printing is daar. Binnenkort wordt 3D printing gemeengoed. Daarmee ontstaat een wereld waarin niet alles meer in massa wordt geproduceerd. Iedereen kan zich ontwerper noemen en eigen producten maken in steen, metaal, plastic of glas; het maakt niet uit. Dit zal grote gevolgen hebben voor de e-commercewereld. Webshops zijn bij uitstek in staat om consumenten de mogelijkheid te bieden zelf producten te maken en te verkopen. Een korte geschiedenis in democratisering van alles Het begon allemaal met de democratisering van de journalistiek. Met de opkomst van YouTube en livestreaming kunnen we nu onze eigen (reality) film maken.
De homepage van Shapeways De Nederlandse trots Laat nu net een Nederlandse Philips spin-off voorop lopen in de wereld van 3D printing. Wat je als consument kan doen bij Shapeways Shapeways heeft al meer dan 13.000 files ontvangen en print maandelijks meer dan 17.000 individuele items. The tipping point is near Ponoko.com Sculpteo.com Gevolgen voor de webshop Conclusie. The Pirate's Dilemma. Here you can download an electronic copy of the book. The price is entirely up to you. To download, simply click on the link above or the book cover pictured on the left. You’ll be taken to a checkout page where you can set the price anywhere from $0.00 upwards. You’ll need to enter your email address, but I respect your online privacy and promise never to spam you. Why would an author give away a book for free?
There are millions of books on amazon.com, and on average each will sell around 500 copies a year. By treating the electronic version of a book as information rather than property, and circulating it as widely as possible, many authors such as Paulo Coelho and Cory Doctorow actually end up selling more copies of the physical version. Human Cloning in Japan. Enterprise Resilience Management Blog: 3D Printing and the Supply Chain. The editorial staff at Supply Chain Digest asks an interesting question: "How Soon will 'Printed' Parts Revolutionize Supply Chains - and the World? " [22 February 2011] I first posted a blog that mentioned 3D printers back in November 2006. I discussed the subject at more length the next year in a post entitled Where is My Replicator? At that time, 3D printers were still pretty much an expensive novelty item. Staffers at Supply Chain Digest write, "The world of digitally 'printed' components and finished goods is (somewhat under the radar screen) achieving enormous technical improvements and has moved rapidly from vision to reality, with enormous potential implications for supply chains and business.
" To give you some idea about 3D printing, watch the video as a 3D printer creates ball bearings. Obviously, ball bearings made from a plastic powder have limited use. "Filton, just outside Bristol, is where Britain's fleet of Concorde supersonic airliners was built. THE NEXT TRILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY: 3D Printing. 3-D Printing Is Spurring a Manufacturing Revolution. Fab lab-3D printing. The Homebrew Industrial Revolution. 3D Printing. 3D printing: The printed world. No Endorsement. Makers (9780765312792): Cory Doctorow. 3D printing and human skill. REPLICATOR — Putting the "Custom" Back In Customer. The Future of 3D Printing. Get_file (application/pdf Object) It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing... 3D printing provides a vision of manufacturing's future (w/ video)