The Machine. Musician uses Makerbot Replicator to replace parts for a 1970 Robert Goble harpsichord. Home. 3D: printing the future. Museum 3D-Printing Camp: Let's Make Some Dinos. At the American Museum of Natural History’s two-week camp Capturing Dinosaurs: Reconstructing Extinct Species Through Digital Fabrication, a group of teens learned the processes and tools used by palaeontologists for studying dinosaur bones and digitally reconstructing them. And we got to tag along for some of it. It all begins in the deep underbelly of the museum, where campers are given access to an entire library collection of dinosaur bones to analyse. Before attendees start scanning their fossils, the museum shows them how actual palaeontologists clean bones and scan them with million-dollar machines. The most remarkable part of the camp is that the kids scan, model, and rebuild these dinosaurs with no previous experience in the 3D printing field.
In a controlled and safe environment campers get hands on with about 50 different bones that have never been scanned before, which they study and scan into the computer. The end result? Pictures: AMNH/R. 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. The Free Universal Construction Kit. 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. HapticCity | A collective embroidered soundscape of Athens. “Think It. Make It. Share It.” RiAus SALA Exhibition. | Fab Lab Adelaide. Hyperform Design Reseach. Hyperform is a collaboration between Marcelo Coelho, Skylar Tibbits, Natan Linder and Yoav Reches with the support of Ars Electronica and Formlabs.
While 3D printers are becoming increasingly accessible and capable of rivaling the quality of professional equipment, they are still inherently limited by a small print volume, placing severe constraints on the type and scale of objects we can create. Hyperform is a design and research project that attempts to address this problem by identifying computational and material folding strategies that will allow large scale objects to be compressed into a minimal volume to maximize the printing capability of desktop 3D printers.
Folding as a computational design and assembly strategy can be found across natural systems, such as in the structures of proteins and DNA, and in industrial applications, which seek to increase efficiency while supporting high degrees of structural complexity, interoperability and reuse. Interactive Art and Computational Design, Spring 2012 » Billy Keyes – Final Project – SketchSynth. SketchSynth: A Drawable OSC Control Surface SketchSynth lets anyone create their own control panels with just a marker and a piece of paper. Once drawn, the controller sends Open Sound Control (OSC) messages to anything that can receive them; in this case, a simple synthesizer running in Pure Data.
It’s a fun toy that also demonstrates the possibilities of adding digital interaction to sketched or otherwise non-digital interfaces. Background Ever since I was little, I’ve been fascinated by control panels. In elementary school, my neighbor and I would spend our bus rides pretending to operate incredible imaginary machines with cardboard controllers we drew, cut, and taped the night before. Even now, I pause when I see desks covered in gauges, switches, knobs, and buttons, wondering what they all do. The advantage my eight-year-old self still has is variety. While the program is designed to recognize these symbols, it doesn’t reject all other marks.
Technical Details Images. Replicating a 19th Century Statue with 21st Century Tech #3dthursday. April 18, 2013 AT 1:00 pm Check out David Huerta’s write-up “Replicating a 19th Century Statue with 21st Century Tech” over at the Brooklyn Museum blog, and follow through to the full article for details of the challenges he has faced experimenting with photogrammetry tools for creating digital models of real-world sculptural pieces: My first exposure to the world of 3D printing took place in 2009 approximately 500 feet under the Earth’s surface in a former missile silo in the Washington state desert.
There, three founders of a new Brooklyn-based 3D printer company hosted a workshop on building a 3D printer kit as part of Toorcamp, a nerdy version of Burning Man. At the end of the kit’s 4-hour assembly we printed out some tiny jewelry boxes. At the time 3D printing seemed to me like a novel technology for hackers with lots of potential, but not one I had any specific use for. Read more. Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! Related No comments yet. Alive. Vincent & Emily - Two robots in a relationship struggle and emotional conflict.
Created by Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler and Carolin Liebl, Vincent & Emily are two self-willed robots who are in a bizarre conflict between each other and their surroundings. The robots are designed to explore solitude of a partner relationship and their impulses. Mimicking humans, using sounds and gestures, the robots have speakers motions controlled by their motors. In addition, the creatures capture sounds and movements via sensors and react on those signals with own expressions. Just like in each human relationship it comes to misunderstandings: If Vincent sends positive signals by up and down movements, it is possible that Emily interprets even those signals as negative. Disagreement is preprogrammed. The unpredictable interaction and interplay between Vincent and Emily, caused by their tense relationship, trigger the viewer’s individual projections. Vincent & Emily were built using Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Accelerometer, Stepper, Servo, Camera, Microphone, IR-LED.
Project Page. THROUGH A SCANNER, SKULPTURHALLE by Cosmo Wenman. Risks and challenges It will likely not be feasible to scan all of the pieces I’ve listed as targets. I will prioritize them according to a mix of public interest and practical, on-site considerations as they may arise. Of the 30 or so targets I’ve listed, I will attempt to scan at least 20, and I am shooting for getting at least 12 solid, viable (3D printable) scans. I won’t be able to guarantee that any particular scan will turn out well. There will definitely be some failures, but I’m hoping for a handful of gems too. Please take a look at some of the scans I’ve already published to get a sense for the quality of output I am attempting: My preference is to scan the pieces in full, but in some cases I may need to focus on capturing only a figure’s head. The project will focus on using consumer and "prosumer" equipment and software for all stages of photography, scan processing, and printing.
Resinance - Interaction, smart materials and swarm behaviour. Realised by the students of MA of Advanced Studies class at the Chair for CAAD and supervised by Manuel Kretzer, Resinance is part of an ongoing series of projects exploring the potential use of smart materials in an architectural context. Influenced by the behaviour of simple organic life forms, in its assembly the project represented an ecology of functional units that could both work autonomously but also in coordination with their neighbouring units. It consists of 40 active elements that are gradually changing their surface color in response to human touch. To make these slow transformation visible, each device is equipped with a second actuator, providing direct response through shivers and vibrations. Every four elements were connected through a control unit that formally resembled the rest of the objects but without the ability to change color.
Resinance is produced from a polyester resin that is enhanced with thermochromic pigments, which are activated at different colours. My Atoms Are Your Atoms | MASTA. 3 Excellent Uses of 3D Printing from Eyebeam's 'F.A.T. Gold' Exhibition. 1. Golan Levin's Free Universal Construction Kit (2012). This series of adaptors allows interoperability among different kinds of children's toys, such as Legos®, Tinkertoys® and Lincoln Logs®.
The project is decades too late to have helped me with my own childhood battles with proprietary toy formats, but on behalf of future generations, Mr. Levin, I thank you. 2. 3. F.A.T. Art Institute Chicago Collaborates With Museum Lovers For Ongoing Digital Curation Effort #3dthursday. April 25, 2013 AT 5:00 am Liz Neely, the Director of Digital Information and Access at the Art Institute of Chicago, has been doing a great job encouraging visitors to participate in capturing digital models of their collection, including the Saint John the Baptist sculpture above, captured by Christian Oiticica and posted just a few hours before I put together this post. While several museums, including the Met Museum and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco have held special events for the purpose of exploring the possibilities of scanning and sharing replicas of work, Neely boldly pushes this curatorial practice into an ongoing collaboration between museum and those who love the museum.
Here is the message Neely shared on Thingiverse about this project: Art Institutue of ChicagoThe Art Institute of Chicago is a world-renowned art museum housing one of the largest permanent collections in the United States. Read more. Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! Related. Teaching with a 3D Simulacrum. When Shelley and David brought up the idea of 3D printing, my not-so-inner tech geek and my really-blatantly-outer education geek got pretty excited. As Shelley mentioned in her previous post, 3D printing is a hot topic in the museum world right now, with some exciting experimentation happening around the world. Just this week I was at a meeting at the American Museum of Natural History, hearing about some of the exciting 3D printing projects they’re working on with some of their teen programs.
In our use it made sense to start with the Sensory Tour, our monthly tour for visitors with visual impairments as well as anyone who wants to experience art using more than just their sense of sight. We continually had great success using raised line drawings (they’re just what they sound like; the lines are literally raised from the surface of the paper) to help people feel contours of two-dimensional art.
Why not try the same thing with one more dimension in the mix? Grâce à l'impression 3D, l'art passe à l'échelle nano. Scriptable-Scalable-Species-Tool-Beings: Sentient-Soppin’ See-Source-Serum 2012 3D-printed PLA molecular models on acrylic substrate 24″x24″ Photography by Heath Hurwitz Après les designers, les ingénieurs et les prothésistes, c'est au tour des artistes d'explorer le potentiel de l'impression 3D. A New-York, la galerie Winkleman présente actuellement le travail de Shane Hope, un plasticien qui incorpore à ses tableaux des micro-éléménts conçus par ordinateur.
Pour comprendre le principe, ne vous fiez pas à l'atmosphère de joyeux fouillis qui se dégage des toiles. Cette nouvelle façon de faire de l'art, baptisée « nanofacture » par son créateur, est en effet d'une précision bluffante. Grâce à PyMol, un logiciel de modélisation 3D, Shane Hope dessine la structure moléculaire, puis la forme, de milliers de petits élements. Ces derniers deviennent ensuite réalité grâce à des imprimantes RepRap capables de créer des objets à partir de fichiers numériques et de poudre de résine. My Atoms Are Your Atoms | MASTA. 3D Printing Is The Future Of Manufacturing And Neri Oxman Shows How Beautiful It Can Be.
Neri Oxman's piece Monocoque 2 uses a 3D printing technique that allows parts to be made from multiple materials in a single build. To be on forefront of a cutting edge field like 3D printing, the skill set required is pretty stacked. You need to be a designer, engineer, researcher, innovator, and technologist. You should be a good public speaker to present new discoveries to others.
And it doesn’t hurt to be a professor at MIT. Neri Oxman fits the bill, and her creations are demonstrating the powerful combination of 3D printing and new design algorithms inspired from nature. Trained as an architect, Oxman is currently an assistant professor of media arts and science at the MIT Media lab. At this early stage in its development, 3D printing is being used mostly to generate replicas of natural and man-made structures.
Below is a gallery of Oxman’s work over the last seven years. Léviathan 1 (2012) Kafka (2012) Pneuma 1 (2012) Making The Future (2012) Armour (2012) Carpal Skin (2009-2010) Mining Habitat for Miami Projects Art Fair. Marius Watz “Space Filler” At Flux Factory “Not So Silent Auction” #3dthursday. Even Music Isn’t Beyond the Power of 3D Printing. Cosmo Wenman. Mohamed Bourouissa | LUtopie dAugust Sander | Gennevilliers. Galerie Edouard Manet. Communiqué de presseMohamed BourouissaL'Utopie d'August Sander Remarqué pour ses compositions photographiques de jeunes des cités, pour son film Temps mort qui traite du quotidien d'un détenu via des échanges vidéo par téléphones mobiles interposés, Mohamed Bourouissa investit avec ce projet un autre territoire, celui des demandeurs d'emploi.
Autre contexte, autre tentative. A près d'un siècle de distance de son illustre prédécesseur le photographe August Sander, lancé dans l'ambitieuse tentative de dresser «un portrait contemporain de l'homme allemand», Mohamed Bourouissa, quant à lui, se propose de faire le portrait de personnes à la croisée de l'intégration et de l'exclusion sociale. II a ainsi mis en place un protocole artistique qui favorise l'échange et la rencontre entre des mondes, des réalités qu'a priori tout sépare, pour travailler ensemble et faire œuvre commune. Lionel BalouinVernissage Mercredi 12 septembre à 18h. Met MakerBot Hackathon Art Now On Thingiverse! MakerBot. EmailShare 185EmailShare The transfer of physical objects into the Thingiverse has begun. You know when Flynn gets digitized into the game grid.
Yeah, like that, but in the Met! Get ready to start DERIVING/HACKING/MAKING! The works of art that the team of artists from the Met MakerBot Hackathon are starting to be processed in 123D Catch and uploaded to Thingiverse. The first one is right here! A whole new chapter of universal access to art! This means that the design files for the 3D models of these pieces, as well as the pieces that this team of artists are creating, will be available to everyone around the world to download for free.
Here’s what you need to know: Thingiverse is designed so that one person can upload a design file and another person can download it. That’s it! If you forget to do this and you upload your Thing on its own, don’t worry. This is important stuff on Thingiverse. Why are you still reading this?! Met MakerBot Hackathon: Art To The People! MakerBot. Mathieu Briand, SCULPTURES INHUMAINES. Inspiring 3D Printed Industrial Landscapes.
Sophie Kahn. Improbable Objects 03/29/12 – 04/28/12 | What It Is. Generator.X blog » Blog Archive » Generator.x 3.0: Documentation and aftermath. Works - Robert Geshlider. - 3D mesh hill-climbing algorithm, using Processing,... The Smithsonian is using 3D printing and scanning to increase access to its collection. Making harmonics into visual works using 3D printing. Plummer-Fernandez. Alphabet Topography. NOW. 3D printing in art: Pots of inspiration | 3D Print Plan | All about 3D Printing. Artwork by Micah Ganske Arrives on Thingiverse! Ten Alluring Works of Art from 2011. 3D portraits in print. Impressions from 3D printed .MGX designs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. I.materialise brings 3D printing to museum of contemporary art.
3D printed concert flute rapidly prototypes sound (video) A Hybrid Machine Joins 3-D Printing And Human Handicraft [Video] | Co. Design. DE REDES Y CADENAS. MakerBotted, deconstructed poetry. Double-pendulum spray gives this graffiti bot some style. Up, not North - Automatypewriter. Eclecticc | by Nirav Patel. Emmett’s First Art Exhibit! Plummer-Fernandez. Galerie de watz. Modeling sound in 3D with Voice Extruder. Laurie Anderson Collaborates with MakerBot!