3D printing 'bigger than internet' - ft business. Doodle3D aims to make 3D printing easy enough for anyone, is totally rad. You'll forgive us for frontloading this informational post about Doodle3D -- a simple sketching software tool, complete with hardware dongle, that's being Kickstarted -- with superlatives like "totally rad," but it's difficult to feel otherwise. The software is very accessible, enabling 2D drawings done on a computer, tablet, or smartphone to be wirelessly sent to a hardware dongle attached to a variety of 3D printers.
Just like that, drawings are magically turned from crude 2D images into physical 3D objects; this principle is demonstrated in the group's Kickstarter video (below the break), which features a variety of non-techie folks using the application to thrilling results. More importantly? Not a single companion cube! If you'd like to contribute, several tiered options are available.
The early bird special affords 100 lucky folks a Doodle3D WiFi box for just $88, but that's quickly running out. Comments. NASA experimenting with 3D printing for space exploration. Supermodel Coco Rocha experienced 3D printing at Shapeways | News. April 18, 2013 Supermodel Coco Rocha started modeling almost 10 years ago. Now she has become a regular fixture on the fashion scene, appearing on the runways for a lot of big brands like Versace, Prada, Louis Vuitton, Dolce & Gabbana, Chanel and Balenciaga.
Positioning herself as one of the most digitally-savvy models of her generation, Coco has built a fan base by showcasing a behind-the-scenes look through social media platforms she runs herself. She has more than 7 million fans followers on 13 different media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Tumblr, Weido (Chinese Twitter) etc. One of her favourite designer is Iris van Herpen who is known for being todays leading fashion designer in the use of 3d printing. "Iris van Herpen has been pioneering the use of 3-D printing in fashion for a few years now and with really amazing results.
Images & Source: Shapeways. New Zealand Panics Over 3D Printing. A report from New Zealand's 3 News shows big concerns about 3D printing are brewing in that Pacific nation. Minister of Customs Maurice Williamson has evidently learned about 3D printing technology and believes that: Household printers are likely to be able to manufacture drugs, weapons and other contraband in just a few years, which will make New Zealand’s borders extremely vulnerable. Indeed, this could happen. So what is New Zealand to do? Apparently, this: He has asked his department to begin thinking of ideas on how to prevent these items from entering the country through file-sharing over the internet.
We kinda think that might be a rather tricky process. Meanwhile, who's to say that 3D designers in New Zealand won't make their own contraband 3D models? Things are just starting to get interesting. Dimension 1200es 3D Modeling Printers| Stratasys. Bring Performance Prototyping In-House The Dimension 1200es features the largest build envelope of any Stratasys Design Series performance 3D printer. Running on Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) Technology, it prints in nine colors of real ABSplus thermoplastic. This 3D printer lets you choose fine resolution or faster printing, with layer thicknesses of 0.254 mm (0.010 in.) or 0.33 mm (0.013 in.).
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More Design Series Performance 3D Printers Dimension 1200es Printer Specs Model material: ABSplus in nine colors Support material: Soluble (SST 1200es); breakaway (BST 1200es) Build size: 254 x 254 x 305 mm (10 x 10 x 12 in.) BST 1200es. 3D printing. An ORDbot Quantum 3D printer. 3D printing or additive manufacturing[1] is a process of making a three-dimensional solid object of virtually any shape from a digital model. 3D printing is achieved using an additive process, where successive layers of material are laid down in different shapes.[2] 3D printing is also considered distinct from traditional machining techniques, which mostly rely on the removal of material by methods such as cutting or drilling (subtractive processes). A 3D printer is a limited type of industrial robot that is capable of carrying out an additive process under computer control.
The 3D printing technology is used for both prototyping and distributed manufacturing with applications in architecture, construction (AEC), industrial design, automotive, aerospace, military, engineering, dental and medical industries, biotech (human tissue replacement), fashion, footwear, jewelry, eyewear, education, geographic information systems, food, and many other fields.
EFF To Challenge Six Innovation-Stifling 3D-Printing Patents. As 3D printers become more ubiquitous, small manufacturers have two choices – build and hope for the best or cede to patent trolls who own a number of basic patents around extrusion and additive manufacturing. Sadly, more of those patents are being filed daily and many have plenty of prior art available that would make them unwelcome at the Patent Office. Formlabs, for example, is facing this issue with their unique additive printer. Luckily, the EFF is currently challenging six of those early patents including one that deals with the creation of confections using extruders full of chocolate. Julie Samuels at the EFF writes: If there’s something that drives us crazy, it’s when patents get in the way of innovation. Documents the EFF is filing are essentially examples of prior art that would invalidate these patents. 3D-printed canal home takes shape in Amsterdam. 15 April 2013Last updated at 19:06 ET By Colin Grant Click, BBC World Service The architects intend to use the house as an education centre to help promote 3D printing It sounds like the ultimate do-it-yourself project: the print-your-own-home.
In place of bricks and mortar and the need for a construction crew, a customisable building plan which transforms itself from computer screen graphics into a real-world abode thanks to the latest in 3D printing technology. That dream is still beyond our reach, but several teams of architects across the globe are engaged in efforts to take a major step towards it by creating the world's first 3D-printed homes. Amsterdam-based Dus Architects is one of the firms involved - it plans to print a canal house in the Dutch capital. It's worth taking a moment to reflect on that premise; the machine will not modestly 3D-print the usual cup, curtain ring or piece of jewellery, but an actual building. The young architects were visibly excited. Printing 3D Buildings: Five tenets of a new kind of architecture. Editor’s Note: Neri Oxman is a designer, architect, artist and founder of the Mediated Matter group at MIT’s Media Lab.
See Oxman's full 30-minute profile this Sunday 2 P.M. E.T. only on CNN. By Neri Oxman, Special to CNN In the future we will print 3D bone tissue, grow living breathing chairs and construct buildings by hatching swarms of tiny robots. The future is closer than we think; in fact, versions of it are already present in our midst. At the core of these visions lies the desire to potentiate our bodies and the things around us with an intelligence that will deepen the relationship between the objects we use and which we inhabit, and our environment: a Material Ecology.
A new model of the world has emerged over the past few decades: the World-as- Organism. For instance, today’s buildings are made up of modular parts and components that are mass-produced and interchangeable. This model actually works in the same way that a machine does, where transposable parts make a whole. 1. 2. Printing 3D drugs decades away – expert - Story - Technology.
By 3 News online staff A 3D printing expert has dismissed an MP’s claim that people could be printing dangerous items like drugs and weapons “in just a few years”. Minister of Customs Maurice Williamson believes New Zealand is at the edge of a 3D printing "revolution" and has told officials to be "afraid" of what this would do to border security. “In the near future we will need to protect a digital border instead of just locating physical objects as we do now,” he says. “If it’s made of atoms, you’ll be able to print it… [it] will change the very existence of mankind beyond anyone’s wildest imaginations". However Massey University lecturer Olaf Diegel, who is the world's only commercial retailer of 3D printed guitars, says while 3D designs may be shared over the internet, you still need the raw materials to create something. Mr Williamson however is more concerned. He doesn’t know how big this “revolution” will be, but believes it is important to keep up to speed. 3 News.