Filabot, le robot ménager qui recycle vos plastiques pour l’impression 3D L’impression 3D, c’est LE truc en vogue depuis plusieurs mois. Révolution des Makers oblige, les garages modernes appelé « Fab Lab » se multiplient un peu partout dans le monde, et les plus geeks travaillent sur les améliorations à apporter à cet outil encore un peu venu du futur que sont les imprimantes 3D. Oui mais voilà, ces imprimantes, pour imprimer, consomment du plastique. Et alors que je me demandais l’autre jour si ces outils ne permettraient pas de créer un univers d’économie circulaire à la maison, je suis tombée nez à nez avec Filabot. Magie ! Le concept est le même que si nous pouvions recycler le papier à la maison pour nos imprimantes traditionnelles. Pour cause, ces imprimantes d’un nouveau genre permettent de réaliser des objets à la demande, de réaliser des prototypes à moindre coût et les industriels commencent à imaginer le potentiel des débouchés ouvert par cette « fabrication additive ».
The Free Universal Construction Kit Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10 popular construction toys. Fig. 1. Overview Video by Riley Harmon for F.A.T. F.A.T. The Free Universal Construction Kit offers adapters between Lego, Duplo, Fischertechnik, Gears! Motivation Our kids are already doing it! Opening doors to new creative worlds is one major reason we created the Free Universal Construction Kit. The Kit offers a “best of all worlds” approach to play and learning that combines the advantages of each toy system. Finally, in producing the Free Universal Construction Kit, we hope to demonstrate a model of reverse engineering as a civic activity: a creative process in which anyone can develop the necessary pieces to bridge the limitations presented by mass-produced commercial artifacts. Download Figure 2. We (F.A.T. Implementation Figure 3. Figure 4. Fig. 9. Keywords
Interactive Fabrication » Fabricate Yourself Fabricate Yourself is a project that documented the Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference. Usually we think of documentation in terms of text, photography and video, but given the tangible theme of the conference we decided to engage the community by capturing and fabricating small 3D models of attendees. This enabled us to build a tangible model of the event and fabricate it piece by piece during the conference. Attendees firstly capture their favorite pose using a Microsoft Kinect. Dovetail joints are automatically added to the side of the models so they can be snapped together. The STL files were printed using a Dimension uPrint 3D printer kindly provided by Stratasys. Below you can see the models packed on to the 3D printing base. As we wanted to be able to fabricate a large number of models, we kept the size of the pieces down to approximately 3x3cm. To print at the 3x3cm size we only needed to use one quarter of the full Kinect resolution. Created by Karl D.D.
Comment bien tester son imprimante 3D ? - Makershop.fr Le marché de l’impression 3D grandissant chaque jour, il est de plus en plus difficile de trouver l’imprimante ou le matériau qui conviendra à nos besoins. D’autant plus que les machines récentes mettent de plus en plus l’accent sur les performances. Heureusement, des modèles de test à imprimer permettent maintenant de mettre en avant les forces ou faiblesses de nos machines ou filaments. Nous allons à travers cet article vous présenter quelques uns des tests les plus répandus et comment décrypter les résultats obtenus. 3DBenchy : le petit dernier des tests d’imprimantes 3D Ce petit bateau est bien plus complexe qu’il en a l’air. [youtube video_id= »_epwuDI9FBI » width= »640″ height= »360″ ] Voici donc la page du projet #3DBenchy où il est possible de retrouver des comparatifs ainsi qu’un descriptif détaillé des différentes mesures à effectuer sur votre embarcation de test : Le test d’imprimante complexe : le « ctrlV » Le test des porte-à-faux Le test à la carte
Learnable Programming Here's a trick question: How do we get people to understand programming? Khan Academy recently launched an online environment for learning to program. It offers a set of tutorials based on the JavaScript and Processing languages, and features a "live coding" environment, where the program's output updates as the programmer types. Because my work was cited as an inspiration for the Khan system, I felt I should respond with two thoughts about learning: Programming is a way of thinking, not a rote skill. Thus, the goals of a programming system should be: to support and encourage powerful ways of thinkingto enable programmers to see and understand the execution of their programs A live-coding Processing environment addresses neither of these goals. Alan Perlis wrote, "To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program." How do we get people to understand programming? We change programming. Contents A programming system has two parts. The language should provide: Wait.
Votre design 3D devient réalité avec l'impression 3D → Imprimante 3D et impression 3D | Primante 3D Danc's Miraculously Flexible Game Prototyping Tiles RPGs love PlanetCute So do platformers... One of the commenters on the SpaceCute posts wondered what would happen if you visited one of those delightful spa-like planetoids that decorate our little galaxy of cuteness. Well, now you know. Here is a new set of graphics I'm dubbing "PlanetCute" These are Lowest Common Denominator graphics. Some of the fault lies with the existing graphics, be they free sets scrounged from the internet or leftovers from a previous project. 3D graphics are notoriously difficult to convert between formats, are optimized for use on a specific platform and often present a confusing technological challenges to student developers. Even 2D graphics are tricky. The PlanetCute set attempts to wiggle past many of those problems. Building blocks, not tilesets: Instead of having complex tilesets, each block stacks nicely with pretty much any other block. This set is also quite amendable to original games. Why does the world need nice graphics for prototyping?
Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects A 3D Printed Sundial Displays Time Like a Digital Clock Using a clever mix of 3D printing and a few well-placed shadows, this sundial designed by Mojoptix projects the actual time as if displayed on a digital clock. The plastic component that casts the shadow—called a gnomon— is printed with extremely tiny holes that create pinpoint dots of light in the form of digits as the sun shines through during the day. The sundial does have its limitations. The time only shows in 20 minute increments and it only works from 10am to 4pm during the day. The completed device is available for purchase here, or you can download the design files and print your own.