3D Printing Ceramics - Olivier van Herpt. iGNANT.
Build your own Ceramic delta 3D printer. Sep.15, 2013 Belgian Design Studio Unfold started extruding ceramic materials with a RapMan 3D printer back in 2012. Their modified ceramics 3D printer offers possibilities to produce fine layers and new forms that traditional pottery techniques hardly can make. Inspired by Unfold's work, but also annoyed and frustrated by 3D Systems buying out Bits From Bytes and then stopping the production of the RapMan 3D printer, Jonathan Keep decided to develop his own replacement 3D printer.
This is a delta style of 3D printer built specifically for printing with clay. My aim was to keep it simple so other artists, designers and potters could build similar machines. Jonathan's printer design is based on bootstrap delta style printer which is good for layering up the clay. Images credit: Jonathan Keep For full BOM (bill of materials), suppliers and build documentation have a look at Jonathan's website where he documentates his design. Watch the video below for the full build and operation. Join Jarkko Moilanen’s big 3D printing survey. Sci-fi 'gothic' architecture brought to life. Swiss architect has built fantastical form using "subdivision algorithm"Column is composed of 16 million faces generated by computerComputational architecture increasingly key to architectural practice London, England (CNN) -- It looks like an architectural fantasy from a world far in the future, but Michael Hansmeyer's complex column design is so real you can touch it.
His work is composed of sixteen million faces and made from 2,700 layers of cardboard. It is the result of a cutting-edge computational process and people's responses to it are just as improbable. "Some people say it looks like a reptile, some people think it looks like an underwater creature and other people bring up the Gothic," said Hansmeyer, an architect and computer scientist based at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. To make the design reality, laser cutters sliced the design out of 2,700 individual layers of 1mm-thick cardboard sheets. He is busy creating a forest of similar Gothic-style columns. Shots Heard 'Round the World: The 3D-Printed Gun Revolution Begins. If 24-year-old University of Texas law student and part-time revolutionary Cody Wilson has his way, every human being in the United States, whether old or young, licensed or unlicensed, will soon be able to make a fully functioning, perfectly lethal gun in the comfort of their very own living rooms, for less than the cost of a few drinks.
Through his organization Defense Distributed, Wilson has been raising money to design the “Wikiweapon,” a gun that could be created completely from 3D-printed parts. 3D printers like the Reprap and Makerbot, which use computer-controlled nozzles to perfectly replicate digital models in materials like metal and plastic, have recently become more affordable and accessible to mainstream consumers at less than the cost of a new Apple computer. The machines make it possible for individuals to print out custom-designed objects without any of the mess, fuss, or regulation of a factory line — whether that’s a one-of-a-kind necklace or something deadlier.
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