3-D Printed Car Is as Strong as Steel, Half the Weight, and Nearing Production | Autopia Engineer Jim Kor and his design for the Urbee 2. Photo: Sara Payne Picture an assembly line not that isn’t made up of robotic arms spewing sparks to weld heavy steel, but a warehouse of plastic-spraying printers producing light, cheap and highly efficient automobiles. If Jim Kor’s dream is realized, that’s exactly how the next generation of urban runabouts will be produced. His creation is called the Urbee 2 and it could revolutionize parts manufacturing while creating a cottage industry of small-batch automakers intent on challenging the status quo. Urbee’s approach to maximum miles per gallon starts with lightweight construction – something that 3-D printing is particularly well suited for. Jim Kor is the engineering brains behind the Urbee. “We thought long and hard about doing a second one,” he says of the Urbee. Kor and his team built the three-wheel, two-passenger vehicle at RedEye, an on-demand 3-D printing facility. Photo: Sara Payne “We’re calling it race car safety,” Kor says.
3D Printers: Make Whatever You Want On most weekends, 14-year-old Riley Lewis and a few of his eighth grade friends gather at his house in Santa Clara, Calif. The group of about five, depending on who’s around, grab some chips and bean dip and repair to the garage, where Riley and his dad have created something of a state-of-the-art manufacturing hub. The boys can pretty much fabricate anything they can dream up on a machine called the RapMan. As the hours tick by, they cover tables with their creations: rockets and guitar picks and cutlery. They hold forth on plastic extrusion rates and thermodynamics and how such forces affect the precision of the objects they can produce. The kids obsess over what versions of the Linux operating system they run on their laptops and engage in awkward banter. Author Ashlee Vance as rendered by MakerBot Riley and his friends have accepted as a mundane fact that computer designs can be passed among friends, altered at will, and then brought to life by microwave oven-size machines.
Plastic film is future of 3-D on-the-go Ditch the 3D glasses. Thanks to a simple plastic filter, mobile device users can now view unprecedented, distortion-free, brilliant 3D content with the naked eye. This latest innovation from Temasek Polytechnic and A*STAR's Institute of Materials Research and Engineering is the first ever glasses-free 3D accessory that can display content in both portrait and landscape mode, and measures less than 0.1 mm in thickness. "The filter is essentially a piece of plastic film with about half a million perfectly shaped lenses engineered onto its surface using IMRE's proprietary nanoimprinting technology," said Dr Jaslyn Law, the IMRE scientist who worked with TP on the nanoimprinting R&D since 2010 to enhance the film's smoothness, clarity and transparency compared to other films in the market. "Our breakthrough is a game-changing piece of plastic that simply fits onto current smartphones or tablets to give users breathtaking 3D graphics on their smart devices.
Young Explorers Workshops (Grades 1-4) | DigiPen ProjectFUN DigiPen offers the following one-week workshops during the summer: Participants must be entering grades one through four to register for the Young Explorer workshops. New to the Summer Workshops? Attend a free Summer Workshops Preview Day Event in April to learn more and get a hands-on experience! RSVP online. Schedule for 2014 Young Explorers Workshops are offered during the following one-week periods. Tuition & Discounts The total cost for each workshop is $650 (including a $50 non-refundable registration fee and $145 non-refundable deposit). ProjectFUN offers the following discounts for one-week Summer Workshops at our Redmond, WA, campus: Early Bird Discount*: Register and pay the non-refundable $195 deposit for a summer 2014 workshop before March 5, 2014, and receive a $75 discount.Preview Day Discount*: Attend one of our Preview Day events in March or April and receive $35 off your tuition. * Please note: Combination of discounts may not exceed $75 for a single workshop.
Dita Von Teese předvedla první šaty z 3D tiskárny - iDNES.cz 9. března 2013 16:23 Americká burleskní umělkyně Dita Von Teese jako první oblékla šaty z látky potištěné nejmodernější 3D tiskárnou a posetou krystaly. Předvedla je v New Yorku. Dita Von Teese v šatech z 3D tiskárny | foto: Albert Sanchez Černou róbu vyrobila tiskárna Shapeways na nejvyspělejší 3D tiskárně, která vytváří prostorové objekty nanášením několika vrstev. Róbu sešitou ze 17 potištěných kusů a posetou 13 tisíci krystaly od značky Swarovski navrhl Michael Schmidt. "Samotné šaty jsem navrhoval na iPadu, dolaďovali jsme je přes Skype, poslal jsem je elektronicky Francisovi a ten je poslal do tiskárny," citoval Schmidta server Foxnews.com.
The World’s First 3D Printing Pen that Lets you Draw Sculptures Forget those pesky 3D printers that require software and the knowledge of 3D modeling and behold the 3Doodler, the world’s first pen that draws in three dimensions in real time. Imagine holding a pen and waving it through the air, only the line your pen creates stays frozen, suspended and permanent in 3D space. Sound like magic? Well it certainly looks like it, watch the video above to see the thing in action. The 3Doodler was designed by Boston-based company WobbleWorks who recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to sell the miraculous little devices that utilizes a special plastic which is heated and instantly cooled to form solid structures as you draw. I don’t know about you but for me this might have just won the most impulsive Kickstarter purchase in history.
Rebuttal to 3D Printing Revolution: the Complex Reality by Adam B. Levine | Mar.6, 2013 I respect MAKE and the niche they've carved out for themselves, but after the hopes-and-dreams crusher I just read, well.... The existing hobbyist-friendly additive prototyping methods tend to produce parts from a very narrow choice of materials, all of which exhibit fairly poor mechanical characteristics; there are no signs that this will change in the coming years.... ...In popular view, 3D printers are a tool that will enable us to directly make almost anything; this way of thinking is exemplified by the commercial arms race to deliver FDM machines that print in color. It's so funny to see a forward looking publication thinking in such an antiquated way. Early machines were barely even computers by modern standards, available at high costs to enthusiasts only. The Future of Design What word processor do you use? "....What? To the actual points, frankly I don't dispute them I'm happy to report that is changing really really fast. You are Here.
“Download this gun”: 3D-printed semi-automatic fires over 600 rounds Cody Wilson, like many Texan gunsmiths, is fast-talkin’ and fast-shootin’—but unlike his predecessors in the Lone Star State, he’s got 3D printing technology to help him with his craft. Wilson’s nonprofit organization, Defense Distributed, released a video this week showing a gun firing off over 600 rounds—illustrating what is likely to be the first wave of semi-automatic and automatic weapons produced by the additive manufacturing process. Last year, his group famously demonstrated that it could use a 3D-printed “lower” for an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle—but the gun failed after six rounds. The lower, or "lower receiver" part of a firearm, is the crucial part that contains all of the gun's operating parts, including the trigger group and the magazine port. “This is the first publicly printed AR lower demonstrated to withstand a large volume of .223 without structural degradation or failure,” Wilson wrote on Wednesday. “I just made an AK-47 magazine—I’ve got it printing as we speak”
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