Myth buster: printing a Nokia Lumia 820 cover is a piece of cake. It looks like 3D printing is getting even more mainstream with the just launched rear shell for your Nokia Lumia 820. Easy to download, but what about printability? The Nokia Lumia 820 has a clip-on interchangeable back which can be downloaded on the developer site. It can then be 3D printed on your printer or by a service such as ours. We’re happy that such a major player in the world in mobility embraces 3D printing and customization. They’re the first manufacturer to do so. But the problem is: it looks very simple and cool to 3D print, but knowing that it takes a lot of research and test prints to have a functional phone cover or shell (like we did to make sure the KEES covers fit), we’re taking this one to the test on several printers!
What do we need? One: The shell consists of two materials: hard plastic for the shell and a rubber-like material for the buttons. Two: Wireless charging isn’t possible any longer since the wireless charging component is embedded in the shell. 1. 450 Fab Labs in US and 100 innovation houses in Shanghai. Mar.23, 2013 Last week US Congressman Bill Foster introduced the National Fab Lab Network Act of 2013 to promote advanced manufacturing in the U.S. and invest in the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators. According to its press release, "the goal of the network will be to establish at least one Fab Lab for every 700,000 people, giving students throughout the country access to the tools and skills needed to bring their ideas to life. The legislation does not provide funding to the network, but seeks to provide the project with the recognition needed to grow and establish new centers throughout the country.
" Surprisingly the number is just "one Fab Lab for every 700,000 people". There are more than 315 million people in U.S., so that would be around 450 Fablabs in the whole country. "We have a great tradition of innovation in manufacturing in America. With a national network of Fab Labs we can empower and inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs and innovators," said Foster. Print Shift by Dezeen. Print Shift is a magazine that explores the fast-changing world of 3D printing and analyses the way it is changing the worlds of architecture and design.
The 60-page, advert-free publication explores advances in 3D printing across a range of topics including fashion, food, design, architecture and even weaponry and archaeology. Written by the Dezeen editorial team, Print Shift is the result of extensive research into a field of technology that is developing at exhilarating speed. We have spoken to architects, designers, scientists and researchers around the world, travelled across Europe and visited some of the leading studios and factories at the cutting edge of a technological revolution.
About the Author Dezeen Dezeen Dezeen is the world's most influential online architecture and design magazine. Our mission is simple: to bring you a carefully edited selection of the best architecture, design and interiors projects from around the world. RepRap Magazine. The 100,000th Thing on Thingiverse! EmailShare 20EmailShare We just marked a major milestone at MakerBot with the 100,000th thing being published to Thingiverse! We’ve seen quite an explosion of uploaded and published 3D designs to Thingiverse since we launched the Customizer App in January of this year. Just take a look at how the numbers of available 3D designs on Thingiverse have been rising steadily – from 35,000 items on Thingiverse in January 2013 – before the Customizer was launched – to 60,000 two months ago, and 80,000 a month ago.
And now, 100,000+ things!! And, downloads are more than 21.1 million!! That’s a lot of designing and printing of 3D items. The Next Industrial Revolution has begun. The honor of becoming Thingiverse’s 100,000th published thing goes to Thingiverse user jg952 for the “My Customized Message Keychain.” 8 ways in which 3D printing industry is different from printing. Spellcheck & PostScript | VoxelFab. I think that there are a number of similarities between paper printing and 3D printing but would council against directly comparing the paper printing industry, market, cost reductions and growth with that of 3D printing. There are a number of fundamental differences at the moment and here I pick out 8 ways in which the current state of the 3D printing industry is different from the state of the DTP/PC/printer industry before its mainstreaming: 1. Ecosystem: With paper printing entire industries & ecosystems coalesce around technologies such as inkjet, laser printing & toner.
This is not the case with 3D printing where there are many different technologies that have very little to do with each other and there is no ecosystem around them with many being developed by one company. 2. Shaving Cut: With paper printing the ink is very expensive but paper is cheap. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
Image, Creative Commons Attribution Jake Sutton. Tesis de master. Sistemas de Bajo coste : Fab Lab Valencia. Miguel Fernández, el coodinador de Fab Lab VLC, defendió el 30 de Julio su tesis del máster “Diseño y Fabricación asistidos por Computador”. A continuación una introducción y el documento disponible para su lectura y descarga. Over 75 Entries for 3D printing at Maker Faire New York 2012. Sep.27, 2012 This weekend, on Saturday, Sept. 29, and Sunday, Sept. 30, attendees at World Maker Faire, at the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in Queens, N.Y. will get a chance to feel the 3D printing enthusiasm at two venues: the 3D Printer Village and the 3D Pavilion.
(Click to enlarge) 3D Printing is the hottest area at World Maker Faire this year. As more 3D printer startups enter the market and compete on price -- with new offerings under $1,000 -- the interest is going mainstream. In fact, attendees at World Maker Faire will be treated to a 3D extravaganza -- from three times the number of personal 3D printers to a diverse display of 3D printed objects including a 3D printed humanoid robot and 3D printed food. In the last two weeks, two new printers have hit the market: the Replicator 2 from Brooklyn-based MakerBot and Form 1 from Formlabs. These new 3D printers will be featured in 3D pavilion. You can find some of your favorite makers as following locations: Source: Marketwatch. Aiming (much) higher than Hackspaces and FabLabs… « Funding Startups (& other impossibilities) Printed Circuit Design & Fab Magazine Online. A 30-year-old idea is coming in vogue, with stunning implications for design engineering. “3D printing is going to play an increasing role in the future of electronics,” says David ten Have.
“I’m not predicting an immediate revolution, but printed electronics will start to fill various niche applications, and that’s going to lead to some ground-breaking technologies.” Ten Have is CEO and cofounder of Ponoko, the company behind Personal Factory, a web-based platform for the creation of custom goods. Ponoko users can make their own products using a variety of digital manufacturing methods, including laser-cutting, CNC routing, and 3D printing. More than 100,000 consumer-designed products have been made, and demand for 3D printing is on the rise. 3D printing is an additive manufacturing technique that translates digital models into physical objects by building up layers of material. 3D printing circuit boards. Hobbyist-led advancements. The rise of DIY electronics. References1. Richard D. 5 Mind-Blowing 3D Printing Innovations for the Future.
Additive manufacturing is a fastly moving technology. Each week brings new amazing projects on stage… 3D printings that no one thought possible a few years or months ago. We selected some of these amazing 3D printing projects that just showed up in the news recently. An 83-year-old woman got a successful transplant of the first 3D printed jaw. The surgery happened last June in the Netherlands and went publicised this February. Built by LayerWise and following researches carried out at the Biomedical Research Institute at Hasselt University in Belgium, the 3D printed organ is made of titanium powder and a bioceramic coating. 3D printing is the only technology able to produce such a complex and unique part, “involving articulated joints, cavities to promote muscle attachment and grooves to direct the regrowth of nerves and veins.”
Dr. Kenneth Lacovara and Dr. Credit photo: CNET The Smithsonian is creating 3D printed models of some its 137 million items collection. Everything You Wanted to Know About 3D Printing But Were Too Afraid to Ask. The Tech Innovators Series is supported by Lenovo. Lenovo does not just manufacture technology. They make Do machines — super-powered creation engines designed to help the people who do, do more, do better, do in brand new ways. 3D printing is a mind-blowing process, but you might be surprised to learn that it's not a new technology.
It was developed in the late '80s and has been used extensively for prototyping. In 2007, some higher-ups at Philips Electronics had a hunch that people would be interested in being more involved in the products they buy. Weijmarshausen created a business plan for the first round of seed funding, built a prototype that was ready by February 2008, and launched Shapeways.com in July 2008. Mashable spoke with Peter Weijmarshausen, Shapeways' CEO, about how 3D printing works, the strides its made, the benefits and the future of the manufacturing process. How It Works You might be confused about the term "printing. " What Can Be Printed? To Print or Not To Print? El fabricante soy yo: La copia de objetos ya está aquí. El trípode de la cámara de Josianito Llorente está adaptado a cualquier móvil.
Le sirve para retransmitir con el teléfono sesiones de los talleres de fabricación que imparte por Internet. “Existen accesorios, pero son caros y solo funcionan en un modelo determinado de aparato. Por eso lo fabricamos, ahora sirve con todos”. El adaptador salió de una impresora 3D, que convierte los diseños creados por ordenador en objetos físicos. En un futuro más cercano que lejano, todos seremos capaces de fabricar nuestros propios objetos. Del tornillo a la pieza de la lámpara que se ha roto hasta la dentadura de la abuela. En casa o en la copistería 3D. Si la revolución empezó por la transformación en bits del contenido, como canciones, películas y libros; el próximo paso de la digitalización es el continente. The Pirate Bay, el portal sueco de intercambio de ficheros, colgó días después de la clausura de Megaupload archivos de diseños 3D para fabricar objetos. Imagine esta situación. Adafruit. November 15, 2011 AT 12:00 am Build a Laser 3D Printer – Stereolithography at Home.
RobHopeless writes - Here is how to make a Stereolithography 3D Printer. It is still a bit of a work in progress but so far it is working pretty well. This is mainly an experiment which started as a Delta Robot Stereolithography Printer but ended as a more traditional Cartesian Stereolithography Printer. Related No comments yet. Sorry, the comment form is closed at this time.
Scribd. Leroy-Merlin se paye les labos citoyens. Leroy-Merlin se passionne pour le phénomène des fab labs, ces lieux citoyens dédiés au partage d'outils de fabrication et de production. Par pur amour du client et de son développement (financier) durable. Imaginons : il s’appelle Jean, il pousse les portes de son Leroy-Merlin avec en tête un plan de bibliothèque spéciale bandes dessinées. Direction le fab lab (pour fabrication laboratory, c’est-à-dire un lieu citoyen ou universitaire, non lucratif, dédié aux fabrications d’objets). Dans cette mini-usine, une équipe dédiée l’accueille et met à sa disposition des machines-outils assistées par ordinateur. Le comité de direction emmené en visite Le manager a découvert ce concept à l’occasion d’une discussion avec Jean-Michel Cornu, directeur scientifique de la Fing (Fondation Internet Nouvelle génération) : « cela m’avait intéressé, je m’étais fait une petite recherche à titre personnel, j’avais compris ce qu’il y avait derrière.
Le second intérêt est interne. Image CC Flickr Letsevo et. Les fab labs capitalisent. Des grands groupes industriels s'intéressent aux "fab labs", ces mini-usines collaboratives, citoyennes, ouvertes à tous et permettant de créer ou de fabriquer des objets à la demande. Avec quelques arrières-pensées.
Robots du hackerspace de Toulouse (cc) Ophelia Noor Les industriels des télécoms, de l’énergie et de la grande distribution lorgnent du côté des fab lab (fabrication laboratory), c’est-à-dire un lieu citoyen ou universitaire, non lucratif, dédié aux fabrications d’objets à la demande. Cet été, Orange a montré les premiers résultats de Thinging, un fab lab expérimental autour de l’internet des objets. EDP, l’équivalent portugais d’EDF, a fait de même l’année dernière, le groupe Adeo, propriétaire de Leroy-Merlin, s’y intéresse de près.
Autant de projets dont l’inscription dans la philosophie des fab labs, définie par une charte, semble assez naturelle : ouverture, partage, éducation, et donc logiciels open source, publication sous licence Creative Commons, etc. Pour Owni. Outils numériques artisanalement modifiés. Des designers conçoivent leurs propres outils de production et systèmes de pilotage, modifiant leur rapport aux circuits industriels classiques et à leur métier. Un phénomène notoire est en train de se développer avec le numérique : la fabrication de la part des designers de leurs propres outils et protocoles de production. Tandis que le designer est dans une large mesure associé à un concepteur, celui qui imagine et fait projet, voilà qu’il se met à élaborer des machines « maison » et à bidouiller les programmes qui vont les piloter. En effet, depuis quelques années, plusieurs designers se tournent vers la création artisanale de machines à commandes numériques.
À travers elles, ils se plongent au cœur des logiques de production et s’immiscent dans le paramétrage des machines. Dès lors, comment interpréter ce phénomène ? Les fab labs : un idéal démocratique qui se concrétise ? Des technologies de pointe à disposition du particulier Paramétrages et programmations « maison » Imprimer le réel à portée de main. 3D Printer. 3D printed Twitter visualizations. FabFi does fabulous things in Afghanistan and Kenya. Wiredshelf.com. Northeast Ohio's 'fab labs': Whatever happened to ...? Fabrication Additive Et Open-Design - Article Complet_web.
The Digital Fabrication Weekly. The FabLab Times. Les Fab Labs, ou le néo-artisanat. Bre Pettis | I Make Things - Bre Pettis Blog - Open Design is Getting More Traction. Bre Pettis | I Make Things - Home. 863. 961. MIT Fab Labs Bring "Personal Fabrication" to People Around the World. Digital-Fabrication-May-2009. Desktop-Manufacturing-Nov-2009.