Amazon. Why 3D Printing Is Overhyped (I Should Know, I Do It For a Living) Autodesk : mythes et réalités de l'impression 3D. Carl Bass, président d’Autodesk, a publié une longue tribune sur le site de Wired pour donner son point de vue sur l’impression 3D. Un avis de poids, alors qu’Autodesk se penche de plus en plus sur cette technologie pour revitaliser sa gamme de logiciels de modélisation. (Pour accéder à l'article original en anglais, cliquez ici) L’impression 3D n’a rien d’une nouvelle technologie.
Les premiers brevets correspondants remontent au début des années 80, et les progrès n’ont cessé depuis de perfectionner ce nouvel outil de fabrication s'inscrivant dans une chaîne numérique. Si l’impression 3D bénéficie d’un regain de popularité depuis plusieurs années, c’est avant tout parce qu’elle a été rendue plus accessible et plus abordable financièrement. Mais pour Carl Bass, l'âge d'or serait déjà derrière nous et l’impression 3D pourrait maintenant entrer dans l’âge de raison. Carl Bass, président d'Autodesk, un des principaux éditeurs de logiciels de modélisation 3D. Seven Things You Must Know About 3D Printing.
Many Fabbaloo readers are new to the idea of 3D printing. You may have been attracted to the technology because you've seen it on the web, or perhaps someone told you about it. But not having experienced it directly, there are some things you should know. It's Slow. Do not expect Star Trek Replicator speed with today's 3D printers.
The most expensive commercial units take many hours, or even days, to produce even medium-sized objects. It's Expensive. It's Frustrating. It's Rough. It's Limited. It's Changing. 3D printing's rate of technological change is very rapid. It's Amazing. FabLab. La nouvelle révolution industrielle. Future of Digital Fabrication Blows 3D Printing Out of the Water. Just when I thought I’d heard it all in the latest 3D Printing news, I went to a meeting last week at MIT on Digital Fabrication that just blew 3D Printing out of the water. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy [OSTP] asked Neil Gershenfeld, Director of the Center for Bits and Atoms at MIT, to organize a meeting that allowed the digital fabrication community to voice their needs for policy and programs to the Executive Branch.
Tom Kalil, the OSTP Deputy Director for Technology and Innovation, made clear “the President believes manufacturing is important to the future of the nation. Since R&D and manufacturing are coupled, the White House believes that if manufacturing goes off-shore, then R&D will follow.” And it is innovation in R&D that has been an American strength for decades.
As the creator of the FabLab concept, Dr. Moving into self-assembly, Will Langford, in Dr. There is far too much detail for one blog post, and I’ll be writing up specific topics separately. 8 Hackerspaces Changing the Arab World. Open source hardware meets the p2p economy. We are at this moment in history when we can say with certainty that open source hardware (OSHW) is economically viable. The video below tells the success story of Adafruit Industries. Barely formed, this business model relying on OSHW might already be obsolete. A new model, the open value network, is already threatening to transform the landscape of the open source economy. This article explains why. If you don't believe it, stop wasting your time arguing against it. The business around open innovation cannot be learned in school. The most successful ventures built around OSHW, like Arduino, Adafruit, Sparkfun, etc., can only be understood within their larger ecosystem.
What we see in the case of OSHW is a greater integration between a commercial entity and its market. This integration between the commercial entity and the market in the prevalent OSHW models is made possible by the internet technology. Is this division between the commercial entity and the community necessary? By t! A 3-D Printer For Every Home! (Yeah, Right) There are a few Holy Grails on the Internet--things that thou shalt not touch because the Internet is still pretty much run by geeks. You can’t criticize the hilarity and hive mind intelligence of memes, even when they’re, you know, really stupid. You can’t discuss the potential reasoning behind DRM, even when, to be a little fair, the web is a fantasy land of copyright infringement.
But maybe, more than any of these, thou shalt not question the obvious, inevitable future of 3-D printing. Because as we all know, one day, there will be a 3-D printer in every home, and when you need a new watch, pair of shoes or perfectly mapped sculpture of your inner ear canal, presto! , just print it! Well, I have bad news that will probably make a lot of intelligent people whom I respect very much shake their heads in disgust. 3-D printing is not “bigger than the Internet” or even as big as the Internet. 3-D printing is not the next home revolution.
For One, We Just Don’t Need That Much Crap. Why a DIY Pioneer Dislikes 3D Printing | Maker Movement. NEW YORK — The DIY enthusiasts involved in today's "maker movement" love experimenting with 3D printers to turn digital designs into real-life objects made of plastic, metal, even chocolate. But one of the leading do-it-yourself pioneers has come forth to explain why he really dislikes the 3D printing craze and sees it as just a steppingstone to something greater. Modern 3D printers use lasers or squirt hot materials to build objects layer by layer from a computer design. They represent the latest in a long line of computer-controlled tools dating back to the 1950s — a more refined way of "metal bashing metal, squirt squirt," said Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. "The real revolution in digital fabrication isn't a computer connected to a machine — that's decades old," Gershenfeld said.
Instead, the revolution would be "putting the information into the material itself. " The road to "Star Trek" The second stage, he said, involved machines making machines. 3D printing revolution – a few thoughts | Creating open source soil for joint development. How 3D printers change the rules of manufacturing. Telkom and Korea's KT Corp are edging steadily nearer to a deal. Now they need shareholder support. Telkom is inching closer to a deal with Korea’s KT Corp, the JSE-listed fixed-line operator told shareholders on Wednesday. The operator once again renewed a cautionary notice to shareholders about the talks, which it first revealed in October 2011. According to a new statement from Telkom, the two companies have completed a “diagnostic review and harmonised their respective findings”. “The companies are now in the process of finalising the terms of the potential strategic venture,” Telkom says.
“Once the terms have been agreed, the companies will present the potential strategic venture to their respective boards of directors for approval before engaging with key stakeholders and presenting the terms … to Telkom shareholders for approval.” When it first announced the talks, Telkom said it was negotiating to sell a 20% equity stake in the operator to KT Corp. Redesigning Reality: How 3-D Printing Is Shaping the Future of Art, Engineering, and Everything Else.
Two interesting things happened this year. First, doctors in Belgium performed the country's first face transplant. Second, Asher Levine, a young avant-garde fashion designer for the likes of Lady Gaga, produced a pair of radical sunglasses on-site during his New York Fashion Week show. What do a surgical procedure and a line of shades have in common?
Both were made possible by additive manufacturing, also known as 3-D printing or rapid prototyping, a technique whose quickly expanding accessibility may have as much of a revolutionary influence on how we relate to manufactured objects as Ford’s assembly line. It's a space-age sounding process: The same way a printer produces a document based on a computer file, additive manufacturing devices create made-to-order objects based on a CAD file. There are a few variations to the technique, but they all operate by building an object layer by individual layer in a single process. "We have designers in Brooklyn who make beautiful cufflinks. Fabrication and manufacturing: The future of African hardware innovation. Across Africa there is a vibrant culture of people creating things.
Hardware products. It’s rarely glamorous as our inventors and micro-entrepreneurs innovate on products due to necessity — there simply aren’t enough jobs and they need to feed their families. Regardless of the reasons why they do it, what this has created is a culture of innovation. When you have a problem in Africa, there isn’t another option, you either improvise, adapt and overcome, or you die. This environment has bred a generation of problem solvers: people confront immense challenges and keep at it until a solution is found. Concurrently, we’re a net importer of fabricated products from around the world. A while back I wrote about the need of “hardware hacking garages” in Africa, a place where the innovation and inventions that deal with things you can actually put your hands on happens.
Moving from FabLab to Fab Factory The FabLab is small though. A warehouse Take the factory model, and layer on a warehouse. Why 3-D Printing Isn't Like Virtual Reality I’d like to sneak up on the question of 3-D printing by way of boring old 2-D printing. Typography used to be heavy industry. The companies that make typefaces are still called foundries because there was a time when letters were made of metal. When you got enough of them together to reliably set a whole book or whatever, you had a serious amount of hardware on your hands. Fonts were forged. We went from massive metal fonts and centralized presses to the current desktop regime by degrees. Today, it’s reasonable for most people to have a pile of paper and a printer that cost them next to nothing and for businesses to have stockrooms laden with the raw material of documents. I want you to bear this in mind, when you consider Chris Mims’ argument that the idea that 3-D printing will be a mature technology “on any reasonable time scale” is absurd.
Chris is right that 3-D printing as it stands isn’t a replacement for the contemporary industrial supply chain. Why 3-D Printing Will Go the Way of Virtual Reality. Update: Tim Maly has published an excellent counterpoint to this post over at the Tech Review Guest blog. There is a species of magical thinking practiced by geeks whose experience is computers and electronics—realms of infinite possibility that are purposely constrained from the messiness of the physical world—that is typical of Singularitarianism, mid-90s missives about the promise of virtual reality, and now, 3-D printing.
As 3-D printers come within reach of the hobbyist—$1,100 for MakerBot’s Thing-O-Matic—and The Pirate Bay declares “physibles” the next frontier of piracy, I’m seeing usually level-headed thinkers like Clive Thompson and Tim Maly declare that the end of shipping is here and we should all start boning up on Cory Doctorow’s science fiction fantasies of a world in which any object can be rapidly synthesized with a little bit of energy and raw materials. Let’s start with the mechanism. Most 3-D printers lay down thin layers of extruded plastic.
Disruptions: The 3-D Printing Free-For-All. Big DIY: The Year the Maker Movement Broke | Epicenter Will 3D printing revolutionise manufacturing? 28 July 2011Last updated at 00:09 By Peter Day Presenter, In Business Loughborough University's machines can even print larger structures such as building materials With the creation of many products - including building materials - now possible at the touch of a button, will 3D printing sound the death knell for mass production? In a way there is nothing new about 3D printing. For several decades it has been called "rapid prototyping": a quick way of making one-off items from fused plastic or metal powder, using expensive computer-controlled lasers that are at the heart of the "printers". But now 3D printing is coming into its own, and is being taken seriously as a manufacturing process by very big corporations. For 100 years, the manufacturing industry has been dominated by the idea of mass production.
That was devised by Henry Ford in Detroit in the early 1900s to tackle a severe shortage of skilled labour when he wanted to start making the revolutionary Model T automobiles. 'Cost effective' Makers » Download for Free. There's a dangerous group of anti-copyright activists out there who pose a clear and present danger to the future of authors and publishing. They have no respect for property or laws. What's more, they're powerful and organized, and have the ears of lawmakers and the press. I'm speaking, of course, of the legal departments at ebook publishers. These people don't believe in copyright law. Copyright law says that when you buy a book, you own it. You can give it away, you can lend it, you can pass it on to your descendants or donate it to the local homeless shelter. But ebook publishers don't respect copyright law, and they don't believe in your right to own property.
I say to hell with them. So you own this ebook. What do I want from you in return? "This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Oh yeah. Why am I doing this? "Makers", le roman qui prône la révolution par le bricolage. Extrait du film « Fight Club » (David Fincher, 1999) Il parle d’amour, de technologie et de démocratie : mais le dernier roman de Cory Doctorow, « Makers », parle surtout de marché.
Son livre n’arrive pas de nulle part : une « crise » qui commence à durer, des progrès technologiques qui ne profitent pas vraiment au grand nombre, un recul de l’état de nos démocraties à tous les niveaux... De tous ceux qui peuvent brosser un tableau de ce qui risque de nous arriver demain, Cory Doctorow est pour l’instant l’un des plus crédibles. Doctorow, c’est un des piliers de Boing Boing, le blog le plus lu sur Terre, un mélange de bricolage high-tech, de récits des abus étatiques contre les libertés ou des excès des grandes sociétés, de licornes qui vomissent des arcs-en-ciel, de design, de choses bizarres ou drôles, et de politique.
Un monde où les entreprises ne servent à rien La prochaine révolution : celle du bricolage Une logique du web 2.0, qui fâche les entreprises. .MGX opens world's first store dedicated to 3D printed goods. Design And The New Industrial Revolution If you hadn’t heard, there’s a new industrial revolution sweeping the world. This revolution, say the champions of this new kind of making, is the result of three factors that together change the nature and economics of manufacturing. The first is free software for designing complex 3D objects; the best known example being Google Sketchup. The second is 3D printing in which computerised machines turn virtual designs into physical models that you can prod, fondle and squeeze. Finally, there is the precipitous drop in the cost of 3D printers and other rapid prototyping techniques. This suddenly makes it practical and profitable to make-on-demand instead of mass producing products.
That’s led to a huge increase in the number of websites where you can buy things that are made-on-demand, things like bespoke Lego-like bricks for example. You place your order via a website, the order is sent straight to a 3D printer that makes the brick which is then sent to you in the next post. 3-D printers will be your next home accessory - Jun. 6. Impresoras 3D: la próxima revolución digital. Open source hardware. Fabulous Fab(Labs) The Future of Manufacturing is Local. MakerBot Is a New 3-D Printer. La prochaine r?volution ? Faites-la vous m?me ! ? Article ? OWNI, Digital Journalism.
Mark Suppes, l’homme qui fusionne des atomes dans son garage » Article. L'impression 3D ? port?e de tous ? Technology: Print me a Stradivarius. In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits | Magazine.