Kinematics Kinematics is a system for 4D printing that creates complex, foldable forms composed of articulated modules. The system provides a way to turn any three-dimensional shape into a flexible structure using 3D printing. Kinematics combines computational geometry techniques with rigid body physics and customization. Practically, Kinematics allows us to take large objects and compress them down for 3D printing through simulation. It also enables the production of intricately patterned wearables that conform flexibly to the body. Today we are releasing a jewelry collection and an accompanying customization app built upon our Kinematics concept. Kinematics is a branch of mechanics that describes the motion of objects, often described as the “geometry of motion.” Kinematics produces designs composed of 10’s to 1000’s of unique components that interlock to construct dynamic, mechanical structures. a tale of two apps The Kinematics app allows for the creation of necklaces, bracelets and earrings.
Complain about overpriced plastic dingus and a stranger will model a free 3D printable version Back in April, a redditor complained that a simple plastic cable-comb (used to bundle cables) was too expensive at $45. Later that day, WillySF modelled a printable cable comb and linked to the shape files (1, 2). It's a bit of a futuristic moment, no? Saw the cable comb on Amazon with prime shipping (Thanks, Jonathan!) New laser-printed material is lighter than water, as strong as steel Materials shape human progress—think Stone Age or Bronze Age. The 21st century has been referred to as the molecular age, a time when scientists are beginning to manipulate materials at the atomic level to create new substances with astounding properties. Taking a step in that direction, Jens Bauer, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and his colleagues have developed a bone-like material that is less dense than water but as strong as some forms of steel. "This is the first experimental proof that such materials can exist," Bauer said. Since the Industrial Revolution, our demand for new materials has outstripped supply. We want these materials to do many different things, from improving the speed of computers to withstanding the heat when entering Mars' atmosphere. All known materials can be represented quite neatly in one chart (where each line means the strength or density of the material goes up 10 times): There are limitations.
3D printing loosens CGI’s iron grip on movie special effects 3D printing is a technology that seems to have gotten a little ahead of itself—we have more 3D printers than we know what to do with, yet they often serve little purpose beyond making sad versions of model dinosaurs and pizza wedges. But the tactile art seems to have found an unlikely home in movie special effects, even amid all of the CGI. In a piece at LiveScience, Andrew Clement of Creative Character Engineering describes how 3D printers have filled in when creating models by hand would have been too time-consuming. Clement told LiveScience that using 3D printers is “an extremely fast way of sculpting and doing concepts.” These concepts for special effects are normally created out of a clay material and then shown to a film’s decision-makers. Clement said that when his studio had to create a smaller model of a spider for a Harry Potter film, the larger model was scanned and 3D-printed.
3D: Printing the Future Exhibition Journalist and presenter Evan Davies poses with a 3D printed model of himself in the exhibition “3D: printing the future” in the Science Museum in London, on Oktober 8, 2013. Davies’ model features his arm in a sling due to him being scanned in August 2013 whilst recovering from a broken wrist. The exhibition features over 600 3D printed objects ranging from replacement organs to artworks, aircraft parts and a handgun. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images) A 3D-printed artwork. (Oli Scarff/Getty Images) A 3D-printed artwork, Inversive Embodiment by Tobias Klein. A closeup of some of the 3D-printed objects. A variety of 3D-printed objects. More 3D-printed objects. A technician checks a 3D printer as it constructs a figurine. A close-up of the printer in action. Some 3D-printed human figures, scanned from real people. A 3D-printed prosthetic arm. A 3D-printed handgun which was created and fired by Finnish journalist Ville Vaarne. 3D printed maxillo facial implants, by Renishaw are shown on the left.
Printing ideas into 3D reality: Miles O'Brien reports on what's next in 3D printing for PBS NewsHour PBS NewsHour has a double-header from science correspondent Miles O'Brien on what's new and interesting in 3D printing. Part one [transcript here] above explores how, with the push of a button, the emerging technology of 3D printing can produce food, plastic phone accessories, even human tissue. Miles explores how businesses and schools are creating everything from speakers to ballet shoes, as well as serious challenges and risks presented by ever-widening printing possibilities. Among the organizations and people in this story: Shapeways, Hod Lipson at Cornell, that ATF gun, and Micah Scott, one of the happy mutants at Ardent West who modded a MakerBot with amazing results. Part two [Transcript here]: A.J. Pasta and desserts I can see, but beyond that? Anyway, A.J.' [Special thanks to SF Slim and Nadya Lev.
Espresso Book Machine The Espresso Book Machine (EBM) is a print on demand (POD) machine that prints, collates, covers, and binds a single book in a few minutes. The EBM is small enough to fit in a retail book store or small library room, and as such it is targeted at retail and library markets.[1] The EBM can potentially allow readers to obtain any book title, even books that are out of print. The machine takes as input a PDF file and prints, binds, and trims the reader’s selection as a paperback book.[2][3] History[edit] Jason Epstein gave a series of lectures in 1999 about his experiences in publishing. The first Espresso Book Machine was installed and demonstrated June 21, 2007 at the New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library. Distribution[edit] The direct-to-consumer model supported by Espresso Book Machine eliminates the need for shipping, warehousing, returns and pulping of unsold books; it allows simultaneous global availability[3] of millions of new and backlist titles. UK[edit]
LumiFold, the foldable photo-activated resin based 3D Printer The smallest Foldable 3d printer!Low Cost 3D printer, costs half of many 3d printers on the market, and it’s portable!Based on standard/cheap 20x20mm aluminum extrusionEasy to use: just unfold, place under a projector, and print!Low energy consumption (approx. 5W) Interchangeable resin bed and platform, including a smaller one for experimenting and printing small partsMax Print volume 90 x 90 x ~90 mmZ resolution up to 0,01mm!The first 3D printer with a 3D Holographic visualization of the printing progress! Special features: integrated UV sensor You can use almost every projector with this light curing 3D printer. With LumiFold, an integrated UV sensor measures the exact UV light level of your projector and automatically adjusts the layer time. Special features: flexibility and low-cost design oriented What you will get in the box... At the same time, the following kits /parts will be available: 3D Laser scanning kitTravel kit with lithium battery and iPad / iPhone control kit The HoloDock
Future Spacecraft Will Be 3-D Printed--In Space, By Robots Space exploration has always been restricted by the fact that all technology is to-go. Everything we put into the great beyond must first be fabricated on Earth and then packed into a rocket shroud and delivered--at great expense. The heavier the cargo, the larger and more costly the rocket, and thus, the launch. But what if we could shift production off terra nostra and actually do the building on site, aka in space? SpiderFab, a new system, says we can. “SpiderFab is certainly an unconventional approach to creating space systems, and it will enable significant improvements for a wide range of missions,” TUI CEO Dr. There are two major innovations built into SpiderFab, in transportation and in manufacture. The unorthodox project envisions a solution that had eluded Hoyt for the two decades, when he first began working with NASA. However, this was a time before the advent of 3-D printing. At present, TUI is working on building out iterations for SpiderFab architecture.
3D Printing of Preclinical X-ray Computed Tomographic Data Sets Using modern plastic extrusion and printing technologies, it is now possible to quickly and inexpensively produce physical models of X-ray CT data taken in a laboratory. The three -dimensional printing of tomographic data is a powerful visualization, research, and educational tool that may now be accessed by the preclinical imaging community. Date Published: 3/22/2013, Issue 73; doi: 10.3791/50250 Keywords: Medicine, Issue 73, Anatomy, Physiology, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Bioengineering, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Materials Science, Engineering, Manufactured Materials, Technology, Animal Structures, Life Sciences (General), 3D printing, X-ray Computed Tomography, CT, CT scans, data extrusion, additive printing, in vivo imaging, clinical techniques, imaging Cite this Article Doney, E., Krumdick, L. Three-dimensional printing allows for the production of highly detailed objects through a process known as additive manufacturing. 1. 2. 3. 4.
How 3-D Printing Might Revolutionize Amazon's Same-Day Delivery 3-D printing could someday help Amazon achieve same-day delivery without requiring that huge inventories sit in regional warehouses across the country. But plenty of experts say 3-D printers still have a long way to go before they can make a serious dent in the supply chain that connects businesses to demanding customers. The Washington Post has been thinking about how Jeff Bezos does business for reasons beyond Bezos' recent purchase of the venerable newspaper. Brian Fung, a technology reporter at the paper, recently speculated on how 3-D printing's ability to create objects on demand could affect the ongoing race between companies such as Amazon, eBay, and Wal-Mart to attract customers based on the ability to deliver purchases within the same day they're ordered. 3-D printing companies such as Shapeways have already begun offering 3-D printing services in addition to selling home 3D printers to DIY enthusiasts and early adopters. Photo: Ross D.
How 3D Printing Will Impact the Web Is 3D printing really the next big thing? And will it impact you as a web designer? It might be too early to really know. But this new technology is pretty cool to look at. And who knows, the world of 3D printing could really start to explode soon. Here we’re going to take a look at what exactly 3D printing is and how it could impact your life as a web designer. What is 3D Printing? When you think of printer, it is likely that ink on paper comes to mind. The 3D printing process actually takes what you see on a screen and prints it as a real-life item. Rather than being physically printed, 3D printing is actually a type of manufacturing process. But is it a real object? Yes. One of the most well known and publicly usable 3D printers is located at Virginia Tech, a research university in Blacksburg, Va. Why 3D Printing is Important The technology behind 3D printing can have a variety of implications and advantages for manufacturing and business. Patents Expiring Soon February 2014. CAD Integration
3D animated and printable structures built from cellular automata #3DThursday #3DPrinting August 29, 2013 AT 4:00 am Here are some “4D animated” and 3D printable structures built from a range of cellular automata strategies including “Game of Life” from Wetware Ontologies: I have a soft spot for the immaterial & imperceptible rendered visible via rapid prototyping (see 3D printed molecular machines) and thanks to the ability of contemporary digital art suites and programming languages like Processing, Rhino, Python and Blenders ability to (for the most part) communicate with one another that reality is accessible to anybody with the time and inclination (and MakerBot lying around).When cellular automata (CA) are brought beyond 2D cells you don’t just get a 3D object but in effect a 4D visualisation – how a colony of cells moves in time as well as space…. Learn more about these artists and how they create their work here. Related No comments yet. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Home 3D printers take us on a maddening journey into another dimension This started off as a review of the Printrbot Simple, a low-cost 3D printer by the people at Printrbot in California. Printrbot originally came about through a Kickstarter campaign by a guy named Brook Drumm. The intent was to build an affordable 3D printer that normal households could purchase and use—as opposed to the $2,000+ that most other home 3D printers go for. Ars Senior Business Editor Cyrus Farivar recently spent some time out at the Printrbot workshop in Lincoln, and while he was out there, Brook Drumm and the other Printrbot folks offered to send a review unit to Ars. What I found as I dug in was a pit without a bottom—an absolute yawning Stygian abyss of options and tweaking and modifications and endless re-printing. And so, in order to see how a higher-end home 3D printer works, I found myself in possession of a much more expensive, much more impressive-looking Makerbot Replicator 2. The Makerbot wasn't turning out to be an expensive but reliable Lexus.