Scott Summit’s Beautiful Artificial Limbs Scott Summit is an industrial designer with 20 years of experience in making design for humans. He gave an amazing talk at TEDxCambridge last november that is now online. Scott Summit is designing prosthetics legs using 3D printing. He is harnessing the power of 3D modelization and 3D printing technologies to create prosthetics legs that are totally personal. Credit photos: Bespoke With 3D printing, he can design prosthetics that are a moving and personal body parts that help people take personal control of these intimate objects, with style. An amazing example that shows the power of 3D printing for creating complex and personal objects that combine beauty and usability.
Une pizza imprimée en 3D La NASA croit en la nourriture de synthèse et a octroyé une subvention de 125.000$ à Anjan Contractor, directeur de Systems & Materials Research Corporation. Son projet, créer une imprimante 3D qui servirait à… imprimer à manger. Son premier objectif, non des moindres, est de réussir à imprimer une pizza. Pour réussir sa mission, Contractor compte s’appuyer sur la technologie RepRap, l’imprimante open source qui est censée pouvoir imprimer ses propres pièces. L’utilité première d’une telle initiative pourrait être de nourrir les astronautes en mission spatiale. Reste à savoir quel goût aura cette chère pizza synthétique. (source)
Studio Under develops a large & fast ceramic 3D printer April 3, 2014 Studio Under, a design and research studio based in Israel, claimed that they have built the largest ceramic 3D printer ever made. Founded in 2012 by Eran Gal-Or, Liat Akerman and Omer Merzel, Holon Institute of Technology grads, Studio Under focus on designing and printing ceramic products and selling them world-wide. "We love 'playing' with new technology and invent machines, with them we make ceramic products, in our small '3d factory'." Since then, Studio Under has been refining the design of ceramic 3D printer and printing technology. It features a large build volume of 800 x 800 x 850mm, with a print speed of 450mm /hour (Z axis). The images below show a large ceramic vase printed on Studio Under's ceramic printer.
Mataerial 3D Food Impression Foodini est une imprimante alimentaire 3D qui permet de réaliser de la nourriture ressemblant à n’importe quelle cuisine. Un appareil conçu pour être utilisé tous les jours, pour une cuisine sucrée ou salée combinant la technologie de la nourriture, l’art et la conception. Le tout est à découvrir en photos et vidéo. Foodini 3D. Pomme de terre violette. Viande hamburger. Impression viande. Hamburger ouvert. Impression fromage. Fish and chips. Impression pâte à pizza. Impression sauce pizza. Pizza avant cuisson. Pizza. Quiches épinards en dinosaures. Spaghetti. Impression pâte à hamburger. Cookies de Saint Valentin. Arbre de Noel en chocolat. Impression chocolat. Chocolat. Arbre de Noel en cookies. Cookies. Chocolat 2014.
Impression 3D : 24 heures pour fabriquer 10 maisons à 4300 € pièce 24 heures. C'est le temps qu'il aura fallu à une immense imprimante 3D pour construire 10 maisons dans la ville de Shanghai. L'impression 3D est décidément sur tous les fronts. Après l'alimentaire, le vestimentaire, le médical, c'est un projet dans le bâtiment qui a vu le jour à l'initiative de la société Shanghai WinSun Decoration Engineering Co. En effet, la société chinoise a imprimé des pièces d'une dizaine de maisons de 200 m² chacune en seulement 24 heures. Pour réaliser ces pièces de maison à assembler, Shanghai WinSun Decoration Engineering Co a fait appel à une imprimante 3D de 32 m de long, 10 m de large et 6,6 m de haut. "Nous avons acheté les composants de l’imprimante à l’étranger, et l’avons assemblée dans une usine de Suzhou" explique Ma Yihe, CEO de Shanghai WinSun Decoration Engineering Co. Shanghai WinSun Decoration Engineering Co n'est pas la seule société à se positionner sur le terrain de la construction immobilière en impression 3D.
Imprimantes 3D à La Poste: 4 heures d'attente pour avoir sa coque iPhone TECHNOLOGIE - L'impression 3D s'installe là où on ne l'aurait jamais attendue. À partir de ce mercredi 27 novembre, trois bureaux de poste de la région parisienne proposent une sélection d'une centaine de petits objets à imprimer. Coques iPhone, tasses, figurines ou bijoux de 7 à 40 euros : La Poste fait le pari de se lancer en terre inconnue avec une innovation qui a suscité jusqu'ici bien des curiosités. Deux services distincts sont proposés : le premier, réservé aux particuliers, leur permet de disposer d'un catalogue d'objets personnalisables, tant au niveau de la couleur que de la forme. "L'objectif est de démocratiser une activité complexe, pour faire de l'impression 3D une technologie de proximité, explique Fabien Monsallier, directeur de la stratégie du groupe. "Une coque iPhone, ça prend 4 heures" Le HuffPost s'est rendu sur place à 15 heures 30 pour faire un test : manque de chance, la seule machine disponible du bureau de poste de Boulogne est arrêtée.
New photos of 10 'green' 3D-printed houses in Shanghai, built in 24 hours April 14, 2014 In a first, a Chinese company has advanced the science of 3D printing by printing 10 houses entirely out of recycled materials, in just under a day. Earlier this month after we posted "10 completely 3D printed houses appear in Shanghai, built under a day", some commentors are complaining that the 3D printed house looks strange and that isn't real 3D printing. We don't see what their problem is. The parts, such as frame, wall were printed separately. The parts dry quickly and can then be used to assemble to a complete house. This week the company behind the 3D-printed houses, Shanghai WinSun Decoration Design Engineering Co revealed more photos showing off the concept. 3D printed wall 3D printed frame An enormous 3D printer, measuring 32-meters long, 10-meters wide, and 6.6-meters high, was used to print each of the structural components of the houses. WinSun said the team finished the design of the special printer several years ago.
Australian police using 3D scanner to map crime scenes in minutes Feb.17, 2014 Police in the Australian state of Queensland has started using a handheld laser scanner to capture data and create a 3D map of a crime scene, including in areas where there is no GPS reception. The police use the Australian developed Zebedee laser scanner, a LiDAR scanner that has been in use across the world since 2010, primarily for environmental and architectural purposes, such as creating the first 3D map of the interior of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Police will use the handheld Zebedee laser scanner to quickly generate 3D imagery of areas. Because the device doesn't rely on GPS, it can be used to map crime scenes in indoor locations and rough, natural terrain. In a paper published in 2012 Michael Bosse, Robert Zlot, and Paul Flick from the CSIRO outlines the design of the Zebedee: the Zebedee comprises "a 2D time-of-flight laser range scanner rigidly coupled to an inertial measurement unit and mounted on a spring."
Open High Resolution Stereolithography, For Everyone by Justin Hawkins Stereolithography has been around for years. The art of taking uncured liquid resin and pulling out solid objects, while amazing, is not itself a new technology. In fact, its origin dates back to the seventies. Why then has such an amazing technology that has immense potential been so inaccessible to the general public? For the past year, the team of Pryntech has been working on an open hardware design for a high resolution stereolithographic printer. When the inventors were designing the printer, they put a lot of thought into where the hardware of this printer should come from. The printer runs off existing open source software used by existing FDM (Fused Deposition Modeling) printers. By keeping the design of the printer open, Pryntech is encouraging others to push the technology even further.