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The Printer That Can Print A 2,500 Square Foot House In 20 Hours.

The Printer That Can Print A 2,500 Square Foot House In 20 Hours.
We have seen huge advancements in 3D printing. We’ve even seen oversized wrenches printed that measure 1.2 meters in length. Now, we can print an entire 2,500 sqft house in 20 hours. In the TED Talk video below, Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), demonstrates automated construction, using 3D printers to build an entire house in 20 hours. In manufacturing we use a process called CAD/CAM (computer-aided design / computer-aided manufacturing). 3D models are designed on a computer and then manufactured using CNC Machines or 3D printers. In this video, we see a prototype of a machine called ‘Contour Crafting’ Michael Cooney Michael Cooney, the founder of EngNet, worked as a project engineer for many years sourcing equipment. Related:  imprimantes 3D

Scientists build a low-cost, open-source 3-D metal printer OK, so maybe you aren't interested in making your own toys, cellphone cases, or glow-in-the-dark Christmas decorations. How about a brake drum? Until now, 3D printing has been a polymer affair, with most people in the maker community using the machines to make all manner of plastic consumer goods, from tent stakes to chess sets. A new low-cost 3D printer developed by Michigan Technological University's Joshua Pearce and his team could add hammers to that list. Pearce is the first to admit that his new printer is a work in progress. Using under $1,500 worth of materials, including a small commercial MIG welder and an open-source microcontroller, Pearce's team built a 3D metal printer than can lay down thin layers of steel to form complex geometric objects. His make-it-yourself metal printer is less expensive than off-the-shelf commercial plastic 3D printers and is affordable enough for home use, he said. Explore further: 3-D printing: Making your own saves energy, scientist says

My Region - 3-D printer by Sask. man gets record crowdsourced cash A Saskatchewan man who has developed an affordable 3D printer has attracted worldwide attention and more than $700,000 in crowdsourced funding. Rylan Grayston, 28, from Yorkton, said curiosity fuelled his quest to create a 3D copier that sells for just $100. Other high-tech 3D printers sell for several thousand dollars or more. "I didn't have enough money for a 3D printer that I wanted, so I just started thinking about how can I do this myself?" "All I want to do is invent," Grayston said about the possible riches associated with an affordable 3D printer. How exactly does 3D printing work? Although Grayston has no formal training in engineering or computer science, he has been a tinkerer all his life. Rylan Grayston has developed an affordable 3-D printing machine. Grayston's software converts an object into file data using a sound card on his laptop. Unlike other more expensive devices, Grayston's Peachy Printer has no motors or microprocessors. With files from CBC's Bonnie Allen

Nanoscribe Will Sell a Micro 3-D Printer That Creates Tiny Structures in Seconds Nanoscribe, a spin-off from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, has developed a tabletop 3-D microprinter that can create complicated microstructures 100 times faster than is possible today. “If something took one hour to make, it now takes less than one minute,” says Michael Thiel, chief scientific officer at Nanoscribe. While 3-D printing of toys, iPhone covers, and jewelry continues to grab headlines (see “The Difference Between Makers and Manufacturers”), much of 3-D printing’s impact could be at a much smaller scale. Micrometer-scale printing has shown promise for making medical and electronic devices. Thiel says it should be possible to speed up his company’s microprinting technique even more in the future. Printing microstructures with features a few hundred nanometers in size could be useful for making heart stents, microneedles for painless shots, gecko adhesives, parts for microfluidics chips, and scaffolds for growing cells and tissue.

ICC: Support Justice, Reject Immunity Member countries of the International Criminal Court (ICC) should reject efforts to provide immunity from prosecution to sitting government leaders, Human Rights Watch said today. The court’s 122 member countries are expected to take part in the annual session of the Assembly of States Parties, which begins on November 20, 2013, in The Hague. At the request of the African Union (AU), a special segment of the meeting will discuss the indictment of heads of state in office and its impact on peace and stability. In October the AU called for immunity from prosecution for sitting national leaders, and for the suspension of the ICC’s cases against President Uhuru Kenyatta and Deputy President William Ruto of Kenya. On November 14, an AU-endorsed request to suspend the cases against Kenyatta and Ruto failed to obtain enough votes in the United Nations Security Council for passage. The court’s jurisdiction over alleged international crimes may be triggered in one of three ways.

Multi-camera real-time three-dimensional tracking of multiple flying animals Abstract Automated tracking of animal movement allows analyses that would not otherwise be possible by providing great quantities of data. The additional capability of tracking in real time—with minimal latency—opens up the experimental possibility of manipulating sensory feedback, thus allowing detailed explorations of the neural basis for control of behaviour. Here, we describe a system capable of tracking the three-dimensional position and body orientation of animals such as flies and birds. The system operates with less than 40 ms latency and can track multiple animals simultaneously. To achieve these results, a multi-target tracking algorithm was developed based on the extended Kalman filter and the nearest neighbour standard filter data association algorithm. 1. Our primary innovation is the use of arbitrary numbers of inexpensive cameras for markerless, real-time tracking of multiple targets. Flydra is largely composed of standard algorithms, hardware and software. 1.1. |𝒵1:t).

world's first 3D printed metal gun successfully fires 50 bullets nov 08, 2013 world's first 3D printed metal gun successfully fires 50 bullets world’s first 3D printed metal gun successfully fires 50 rounds of bulletsall images courtesy solid concepts 3D printing service leader solid concepts has manufactured the world’s first 3D printed metal gun using a laser sintering process and powdered metals. the semi-automatic pistol is based off the design of a classic 1911 and has already successfully fired over 50 rounds of bullets without breaking. the fire-weapon is constructed with 33 17-4 stainless steel and inconel 625 components, and features a carbon-fiber filled nylon hand grip. ‘the whole concept of using a selective laser sintering process to 3D print a metal gun revolves around proving the reliability, accuracy and usability of metal 3D printing as functional prototypes and end use products,‘ says kent firestone, vice president of additive manufacturing at solid concepts. detail of the 3D printed .45 caliber pistol rodrigo caula I designboom

Vader Systems invente l'imprimante 3D métal à destination du grand public Du fait d’une température de fusion bien supérieure au plastique (de 600°C pour l’aluminium jusqu’à 1000°C pour l’or), la possibilité d’offrir aux particuliers une imprimante 3D à base de métal restait en suspens. La société Vader Systems, créée par le père Scott et le fils Zach Vader, pourrait bien mettre un terme aux doutes qui subsistaient. La technologie utilisée par Vader Systems, dénommée « Liquid Metal Jet Printing » (impression par jet de métal liquide), est une version détournée de l’impression par jet d’encre, bien connue des imprimantes 2D. Des minuscules gouttes de métal sont déposées sur une plateforme, suivant un tracé préalablement spécifié. Comme pour chaque technologie d’impression, l’objet 3D est alors construit par une succession de couche de matière, et dans ce cas précis, de métal. En changeant la taille de l’orifice des buses d’impression, la machine peut alors distribuer des gouttelettes de métal fusionné de l’ordre de 100 à 1000 microns.

Flo N' Go - Home - Scepter's patented "Flo n' go" gas pump handle allows you to stop and restart the flow of gas and is designed to eliminate gas spills and overfills. Conservatives erase Internet history - Public Sector IT The Conservative Party has attempted to erase a 10-year backlog of speeches from the internet, including pledges for a new kind of transparent politics the prime minister and chancellor made when they were campaigning for election. Prime minister David Cameron and chancellor George Osborne campaigned on a promise to democratise information held by those in power, so people could hold them to account. They wanted to use the internet transform politics. But the Conservative Party has removed the archive from its public facing website, erasing records of speeches and press releases going back to the year 2000 and up until it was elected in May 2010. It also struck the record of their past speeches off internet engines including Google, which had been a role model for Cameron and Osborne's "open source politics". Sometime after 5 October, when Computer Weekly last took a snapshot of a Conservative speech from the Internet Archive, the Tory speech and news archive was eradicated.

Smartphones IR - Eigen Imaging The imaging sensor can see from visible-to-near-infrared (VIS-NIR) spectrum. Sensor detects Visible-to-Near-IR wavelengths. Click on image to enlarge details. Green represents visible before modification. Red represents visible to nir after modification. Nexus 5 IR Enabled for Visible-to-Near-IR imaging. Click on image to enlarge details. In certain circumstances, it is better to disable Optical Image Stabilization in Nexus 5. This option is available per your request. iPhone 5s camera tear down to be modified for Visible-to-Near-Infrared imaging. Detect near Infrared (NIR) fluorescent security / anti-counterfeit barcodes. All capabilities of the smartphone cameras stay the same. IR enabled unlocked smartphones: Samsung S4, iPhone 5s, Nexus 5, Galaxy Nexus (phasing out). Focus distance stays the same. Adjusting lens setting or adding focus compensating filter to recalibrate nominal focus. Click on image to enlarge details. Two filters configuration for quick and easy changing of filter selection.

Hypr3D Voici l'imprimante 3D qu'utilisera la NASA à bord de l'ISS L’agence spatiale américaine vient ainsi de présenter l’imprimante 3D capable d’imprimer en état d’apesanteur qui devrait prendre le chemin de l’ISS en juin 2014. C’est à bord du cinquième ravitaillement de l’ISS par la société Space X, et donc à bord de la capsule Dragon que sera envoyée l’imprimante accompagnée d’un stock de consommables et de fret scientifique et alimentaire. Pour présenter son projet, la NASA vient de publier une vidéo mettant en avant à la fois l’imprimante et comment les astronautes à bord de la station spatiale internationale l’utiliseront. La capacité à fabriquer son propre équipement ou des pièces de rechange directement dans la station permettra à la NASA d’économiser à la fois du temps et de l’argent : " Comme vous pouvez l’imaginer dans la station spatiale, les astronautes doivent faire avec ce qu’ils ont." " Malheureusement, comme sur Terre, certaines pièces cassent ou se perdent."

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