tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85567972695200935902012-01-23T18:06:55.689ZAn exploration of the exciting field of 3D Printing and 3D Printers in the fab shop, at work, at home and in school.Howard Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15568310245826725480noreply@blogger.comBlogger981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8556797269520093590.post-29612849559761389672012-01-23T18:01:00.001Z2012-01-23T18:06:55.697Z

Aardman Animation studios have employed 3D Printing to produce 8,000 mouths of a Pirate Character for a new movie. You read that right, 8,000! Traditional molding clay was still used to bring the characters in Sony's new movie "The Pirates! Band of Misfits"  to life, but the animators happily embraced the new technology to make those figures speak. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/01/21/

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3D Systems was at CES 2012 talking about the capabilities of 3D Printing. Cathy Lewis, VP, Global Marketing, explained how "Complexity comes for free". How true!  Watch the VentureBeat video below to the end and see for yourself. Cubify from Venturebeat on Vimeo.

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Klaus Stadlmann has "3D Printed" an object at 20um. See image. These objects are approximately the size of a dust particle. The technique is called Two Photon Polmerization (2PP). Stereolithography, which is a rapid 3D prototyping process, and the 2PP technology are based on a similar mechanism - light triggers a chemical reaction, leading to polymerization of a photosensitive material. 

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MatterPort is creating a revolutionary new point-and-shoot 3D scanning system.  The software, combined with inexpensive 3D capture hardware, such as a Microsoft Kinect motion controller, will allow anyone to create 3D models of physical objects and interior spaces quickly and easily. "Before the invention of the camera, capturing an image from the real world was an expensive and difficult

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16503443 Highlights: In the space of 20 minutes, the MakerBot Replicator replicates a plastic bottle opener Typical hobby grade plastic extrusion process is 40mm per second 3D printing is nothing new, but consumer 3D printing is A spool of plastic for $50 is enough to build a toy castle costing 3x the price in store Intellectual property rights issues 3D

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Bruce Beasley is a prominent American sculptor working today. He has exhibited internationally and is represented in museum collections throughout the United States and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Using Autodesk software he and fellow artists created digital 3D sculptors which are then scaled up and fabricated, physically, in Asia.  Beasley was one of several artists

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It's all too easy for forget that innovation takes time. Twelve years ago the then state of the art Objet Quadra Tempo (a bit of a mouthful) delivered 20 micron print layers, 1536 jet nozzles in 4 print heads, and the machine printed only one material, known as M510. Today, 12 years later, the Objet 260 Connex delivers double the print quality, from half the number of nozzles, at a

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Thingiverse is a 3D model exchange, a directory for .STL files, which is a format for 3D digital models compatible with most 3D printers. Many of the objects created and posted to Thingiverse have no commercial value, even if they do appeal to other members of the Thingiverse community. Download them, print them and create your own curiosity. But what happens when someone does create something

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You know how everyone loves to watch YouTube clips of excited owners of brand new gadgets, opening the box and unwrapping the wonders within, such as iPads, iPhones and other exotic technology, well: here is an example of one proud owner's experience opening the box of a brand new Solidoodle 3D hobby printer. "A nice box showed up at my door earlier this week — a long expected Solidoodle" --

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3D hobby printer start-up PrintrBot have used KickStarter to crowd source seed funding for their venture. Their modest goal was to raise $25,000, a sum which would hardly be noticed in the portfolio of most venture capitalists (VC). Yet that figure is actually quite large for crowd sourced funding if one looks at the typical projects that the funding platform, KickStarter, was set up to support.

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PCMag has posted a comprehensive behind the scenes look at yet another 3D Printer start-up Buildatron. Like me, PCMag see parallels with the early hobbyist computer industry of the late 70s and early 80s. However, PCMag is going to have to be careful to scale back hype and claims that 3D printers can print themselves. Some simple parts perhaps, but certainly not all and certainly not the

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This tiny 3D printed car was printed on the Objet Eden 3D printer and scaled down from 4cm in length to a tiny 1cm in length. Even in the tiniest car, the wheels remain fully functional and there is no deformation of walls or loss of fine details.

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Fishman Acoustic Amplification works with the world's top instrument builders, artists and retailers. Using its Objet desktop 3D printer, Fishman can print mechanically accurate guitar amplification device prototypes that customers can't tell apart from real production parts. In-house 3D printing allows Fishman to go through multiple design iterations in a single day, enabling the company to

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Books about 3D printing are starting to appear on Amazon. Expect a lot more over the next few months and years. How many? A LOT more! Sample of 3D printing books on Amazon.com  

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Points mentioned in the article: 300 exhibitors working in 3D print/additive manufacturing 3D printers the size of cars, many desktop units Building up products layer by layer or drop by drop in plastic, powered metal Exhaust manifold, artificial leg, aircraft door hinge, shoes, fashion 3D products have flowing lines, more like art with an organic look Some 3D printed objects copying nature,

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In July 2011, a customer at a Chase Bank branch in West Hills, Calif. noticed something odd about the ATM he was using and reported it to police. Authorities who responded to the incident discovered a sophisticated, professional-grade ATM skimmer that they believe was made with the help of a 3D printer. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/12/09/sophisticated-

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The Economist has run a piece on maker culture, automation electronics and 3D printing. As in this blog The Economist has also noted that "The parallel with the hobbyist computer movement of the 1970s is striking".  http://www.economist.com/node/21540392 "It is easy to laugh at the idea that hobbyists with 3D printers will change the world. But the original industrial revolution grew out of

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Video interview here: http://watch.bnn.ca/headline/november-2011-/headline-november-9-2011/#clip565060 Wohlers: "Boeing has 20,000 parts on fighter jets without a single failure." BNN: "How many of those parts were made with 3D Printing?" Wohlers: "All 20,000 parts were made with 3D Printing" Get the latest Wohlers report here

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All over the world, a tiny group of very special people are hard at work at something hardly anyone understands. No, they are not just printing 3D objects on 3D printers that they can buy, rent or access over the web via a 3D printing service. No, they are 3D printing (and fabricating in other ways) the parts they need to bring their own designs for a 3D printer to life. The Rook 3D printer is

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The students in an engineering class have acquired the power to transform the designs in their heads into objects they can hold in the palms of their hands. Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School’s new 3D printer is state of the art technology that gives B-R engineering students a big advantage in applying to college and excelling once they get there. Read more: http://www.tauntongazette.com/

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Three-dimensional printing technology company Z Corp. of Burlington is being bought by 3D Systems Inc., in a deal in which Z Corp’s parent, Contex, is selling it and another subsidiary for $137 million combined. What to make of it? http://www.zcorp.com/en/Press-Room/Z-Corporation-to-be-Acquired-by-3D-Systems/news.aspx 3D Systems has been acquiring and consolidating capabilities over the last

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A few years ago, when the first objects emerged from 3D printers, the most striking attribute was the ability to print an object with moving parts, in one go, with no need to 'assemble' the object.Today, several years on, that continues to amaze. Here, UK industrial fabrication company IPL shows off a 3D printed chain, hot off the press of their Objet EDEN 350v. http://ipfl.co.uk/3d-printing/

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PrintRBot is an Open Hardware project in Lincoln, CA by Brook Drumm. Brook claims that the kit is designed to be the simplest 3D printer yet. He says "There are some great kits out there - the Makerbot, the Ultimaker, the Prusa Mendel, and others - but none as small and simple as the Printrbot." http://printrbot.com "This all-in-one 3D printer kit can be assembled and printing in a couple of

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The Fayetteville Free Library of Fayetteville, NY recently has assumed a new mission in efforts to serve its constituencies with 3D printing facilities. The “FFL Fab Lab” is a space set aside with 3D printing technology, which seeks to encourage innovation and learning of the concept. At the foundation of the FFL’s Fab Lab will be a MakerBot Thing-o-Matic 3D printer, donated to the library. http

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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/13/disruptions-the-3-d-printing-free-for-all/ "Downloading — quite often stealing, in the eyes of the law — music, movies, books and photos is easier than bobbing for apples in a bucket without water. It has kept legions of lawyers employed fighting copyright violations without a whole lot to show for their efforts in the past decade.You think that was bad?

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http://www.zcorp.com/en/Press-Room/Clarks-Strides-into-New-Era-of-Innovation-with-ZPrinting/news.aspx "Clarks, a world leader in footwear for men, women and children, has transformed its development process to release better, more stylish shoes earlier in the fashion life cycle. Headquartered in the UK, the global company has removed weeks – and in some cases, months – from the design process

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http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/20/origo-a-3d-printer-for-kids/ "Origo is a concept product right now but it should be available soon. Clad in purple plastic, the system is a standard extruder-type 3D printer that can make various small objects out of a thin stream of plastic. The founders, Joris Peels and Artur Tchoukanov, are two experienced 3D printing experts. Peels was the community manager

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Is this the template for the killer app of 3D Printing? "It's the future, and it’s here ... starting with robots, like we knew it would. Your creativity is endless – make it real." ---Kodama Studios (the people who brought you Artify for the iPhone) 3D creation for everyone - Kodama’s coolest plaything yet, My Robot Nation, launches at SIGGRAPH 2011! MyRobotNation.com’s (a joint venture with

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Robert “Buzz” Kross, Senior Vice President of the Manufacturing Industry Group at Autodesk, thinks so.  http://www.forbes.com/sites/ciocentral/2011/08/17/how-3d-printing-will-change-absolutely-everything-it-touches/ Nike ID Service "3D printing has been refined to the point where digital models can be duplicated into physical prototypes or production parts that closely resemble

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The Objet260 Connex is a multi-material 3D printer. The printer can, in a single print job, combine up to 14 material types, textures and shades, drawn from a palette of over 60 materials, including rubber, transparent!, to engineering plastics ... I love the way 3D printers are advertised. Many of the ads focus on the ability of the printer to perform seemingly impossible feats and diverse

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It is occasionally fun to profile a specific 3D Printed object, just to get a sense of the 'art of the possible'. This crab caught my attention. Printed by ZCorp in full color. From the ZCorp Flickr photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/32406038@N02/5832418820/in/photostream

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Would you like a 3D Printed Doll of yourself, at a special time in your life? Perhaps your wedding, during pregnancy ... the possibilities are endless. The Clone Factory, a commercial operation in Japan will take on the challenge. http://clonefactory.co.jp/about.html (My thanks to Danny Choo for introducing me to Japanese cultural trends and how they are beginning to intersect with the world of

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"An economist visiting China sees a large number of men digging with shovels to build a dam. His host points to how many men are employed. The economist points out that fewer men with the right equipment could build more efficiently. “But then we wouldn’t be employing the other men,” the host replies. “Well, in that case, why not give them all spoons?”" Mark P. Mills, writing for Forbes is

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http://blogs.forbes.com/richkarlgaard/2011/06/23/3d-printing-will-revive-american-manufacturing/ According to Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes and writer on innovation, "The transformative technology of the 2015-2025 period could be 3D printing." He writes in Forbes that "This has the potential to remake the economics of manufacturing from a large-scale industry back to an artisan model

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The N12 bikini is the world's first ready-to-wear, completely 3D-printed article of clothing. All of the pieces, closures included, are made directly by 3D printing and snap together without any sewing. Created by Continuum Fashion, they claim the "N12 represents the beginning of what is possible for the near future." Watch the video here: http://www.continuumfashion.com/N12.html "N12 is

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Lisa Harouni, Managing Director at startup Digital Forming, says that “This technology [3D Printing] has been around for 20 years, but it’s about to hit the public in a big way,” she later explains. “It’s going to affect every facet of life — letting you manufacture bespoke products on demand that can be customized for an individual, and giving designers the freedom to make complex parts with

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Printers which can produce three-dimensional objects have been available for years. However, at the Vienna University of Technology, a printing device has now been developed, which is much smaller, lighter and cheaper than ordinary 3D-printers. They claim that with this kind of printer, everyone could produce small, taylor-made 3D-objects at home, using building plans from the internet – and

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Scott Summit, industrial designer and co-founder of Bespoke Innovations talks about the heady cocktail of 3D Scanning, Parametrics and Digital Fabrication: 3D Scanning: Getting a physical thing into digital form so that ... Parametrics: We can tweak it and manipulate it and reference it ... Digital Fabrication: And then make that new, resulting thing physical so that we can do something with it

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3D printing gurus Stratasys took engineering company Kor Ecologic out to a couple fancy dinners, one thing led to another, and now we have the Urbee, the world’s first 3D-printed car. The Urbee claims to be a fully-functioning automobile, the parts of which are entirely 3D printed, windows and everything.

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I first came across the work of Theo Jansen in the early 90s. I was utterly seduced by his art, engineering and vision. Now, his world has crossed over, is becoming more known, and has intersected with another of my interests, 3D Printing. It appears that printing a small StrandBeest is possible. Shapeways, the consumer 3D printing service, offers these as on-demand 3D prints. So, if you don't

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An ornithopter with a mass of 3.89g has been constructed using the 3D printing technique and has demonstrated an 85-second passively stable untethered hovering flight. This flight exhibits the functional utility of printed materials for flapping wing experimentation and ornithopter construction and for understanding the mechanical principles underlying insect flight and control. http://

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The range of technologies, techniques and approaches that are being described as 3D Printing continues to expand. Here, a "3D printer" uses living cells to produce a human kidney. http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/archives/2011/03/3d-printer.html "Researchers at the institute have developed a technique and equipment for printing transplantable organs. The seven-hour process begins with collecting 3

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The European Areospace and Defence group (EADS) has shown off the first bike made from nylon – which they’re saying could replace traditional steel and aluminium bikes due to the affordable method it’s created. Drip by drop, each part of the bike is made from powder using the Additive Layer Manufacturing process of 3D printing, with the machine connected to a computer loaded with the CAD bike

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http://www.crunchgear.com/2011/02/28/video-the-kinect-has-become-a-camera-for-3d-printers/ "Here's one of the more unique uses of Microsoft's Kinect. A project called Fabricate Yourself turns the Kinect into a 3D printer of sorts. Well, a 3D modeler for a 3D printer. You'd best follow along with the video. The gist is that the Kinect takes 3D photos of whatever (in the video, it’s of

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3D Printing hits the home page of The Economist www.economist.com The violin illustrated was made using an EOS laser-sintering 3D printer (and apparently it plays beautifully). The Economist article claims that 3D printing from digital designs will transform manufacturing and allow more people to start making things. Read both articles here: http://www.economist.com/node/18114327 http://

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Is this a breakthrough? A flute, printed in 3D. Is 3D Printing a niche technology? Just one of several fabrication techniques. Or is it a significant breakthrough that will transform manufacturing supply chains and economies with impacts on the scale of the first industrial revolution, or, the invention of Gutenberg's book printing press. Some examples of newly 3D-printed objects hint at what's

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Imagine a desktop fabricator capable of making perfectly repeatable, arbitrary, multi material 3D objects with microscale precision. The objects would be composed of millions or even billions of small physical building blocks (voxels). Some building blocks could be hard, some could be soft. Some could be red, others green or blue. Some could be conductive and others could perform computation or

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Is Shapeways a shop, or a fab shop? It's both of these today, but is that the right model? Offering the service of printing a design is very different from offering a shop from which to buy things. I can get jewelry, art, home decor etc, from 1000s of outlets. Some of it may even have been 3D printed. Is it realistic for Shapeways to specialize as an outlet for 3D printed objects? Wouldn't it be

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390,000 colors, 600x540 dpi, feature size 0.1mm, vertical build speed 28mm/hour, layer thickness 0.089mm to 0.102mm, number of jets 1520 .... Watch the video: http://www.zcorp.com/documents/259_650Video.wvx

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87th Avenue, Brooklyn. It's like the early 70s all over again! I remember visiting the first hobby computer board shops in London. I remember buying my first single board computer. It was called a NASCOM. It was a UK design. It was based on the Zilog Z80 processor. Yes, I had to solder a few hundred components. It took a year to get working. I spent the next 2 years writing a compiler for it in

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Why do you want a 3D part? Why are you interested in 3D Printing? To make a product or spare part? How about to make a tool for making another part? Watch how a 3D object (printed by ObJetGeometries) can be used to make a mold which is then used to make the target part .... in this case a flexible keypad. http://www.youtube.com/user/ObjetGeometries#p/u/0/H-LNSrvan-M

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Shapeways - the Amazon of 3D Printing - surprises us again. They have brought a service to market that is capable of printing objects the size of a chair: http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/624-Supersize-Your-3D-Prints.html

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Shapeways recently raised $5 million from Union Square Ventures in New York and Index Ventures in London. This means that Shapeways is now an independent company with Philips, Union Square and Index Ventures as shareholders. The investment enables the company to grow the team, add more features even swifter and open new Headquarters in New York. http://www.shapeways.com/blog/archives/595-

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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/technology/14print.html "A 3-D printer, which has nothing to do with paper printers, creates an object by stacking one layer of material — typically plastic or metal — on top of another, much the same way a pastry chef makes baklava with sheets of phyllo dough. ... These days it is giving rise to a string of never-before-possible businesses that are selling

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http://futurismic.com/2009/08/26/3d-printing-a-world-of-design/ "It’s 2017. I go in to the hairdresser to get dolled up for a night out. I bring a sample of the pale blue color of the dress I’m going to print for tonight and one of the taupe shoes I’ve already made this morning. The hairdresser uses a hand-held machine to scan my samples and my scalp, and then she sends a patented design for a

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Demo of ProMetal 3D Printing from Ex One

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3D printing can create functional metal parts printed directly from CAD. [snip] The ProMetal three dimensional printing process is an accurate, flexible, and reliable tool that can create extremely intricate metal tools, workpieces and molds. In many cases, ProMetal is capable of producing components that would be impossible to produce by any other means. ExOne holds patents on 3D Printing in

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Amazing 3D 'printed' objects from ObJet ... but Objet are really going to have to work on improved communications in the first part of this video. I failed to count how many times the presenter explained what was going on while managing to explain nothing at all!

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Utter genius. Stick with it. Can 3D Printing save us?

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[snip] ... the "objects are print-outs" line stuck with me. It encapsulates not just an attitude towards material possessions, but--in one pithy phrase--one possible shape of the next economy. Take a design for a simple product--an engine part, for example, or a piece of silverware, and feed it into a computer. Press "print." Out pops (for a sufficiently wide definition of "pops") a physical

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[snip] the future will see file-sharing networks trade designs for (possibly copyrighted) products. Make a bedside lamp, flyswatter, pair of sandals, plastic wine glass or a coat hook, rather than buying one. The makers say that the next version will even be able to make its own electronic circuitry. Pirate Bay founder labels 3D printers "the future of sharing"

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Now you can buy relatively cheap 'kits' for 3D printing. The printing process is simpler than the high end printers from ZCorp or Objet, results won't be as professional, but the fact this is possible, at this price point, is testament to the inherent simplicity of the 3D printing process and the rapid comoditization of the parts required to build a 3D printer. Watch this video, think about your

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There will soon be models of everything, everywhere. [snip] It's a defining moment in a parent's life: Seeing their unborn child's image on an ultrasound for the first time. Now pregnant women could have the chance to hold a life-size model of their unborn baby. Stunning new technology allows parents to hold a life-size model of their unborn child

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Want to make a TinTin rocket?

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Jessie Saaser explains the process of creating a 3D sculpture: PictureBandit.com

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Shapeways does it again .... 3D printed light sculptures (3D photographs). Watch and love. I need one. I do. I really do.

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Must visit these guys. One of the best videos I have seen showing the range of possibilities for 3D printing:

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How fast will 3D printing need to be? How fast can it be?

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Which 3D printing technology will 'win' in the market, or are different approaches going to find specific uses. Here's one way: fused deposition modeling. Durable, accurate, parts ... from your desktop. Slice the STL files and generate 3D support structure and extrusion paths. Solid material (thermoplastic) in filament form is heated to a less viscous state for extrusion. The model is built layer

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Squirting solid stuff (photopolymer cured instantly) is inkjet science stuff. The part is fully ready to be used at end of 3D print. Explains the background to this technology, and describes some of the materials used. 16micron layer allows very small surface on bio-compatible materials. How to produce moving parts .... squirt those air pixels.

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As this field develops, new terminology will emerge. It's important the concept is 'understood', is an instant. I was struck by the terms used in this excellent video: From a 3D computer file emailed from Australia, to a model in your hand!

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My guess is, there will be considerable innovation in materials for 3D printing over the next decade. Here is a snip from ZCorp: [snip] Z Corporation today released zp(R)150, a premium composite build material for its ZPrinter(R) 450 and ZPrinter(R) 650 3D printers. zp150 improves the strength and color of 3D printed models for 3D CAD while producing whiter whites for applications such as

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Jay Leno - US TV Host - has a lot of old cars with a lot of obsolete parts. When he needs to replace these parts, he skips the error-prone machinist and goes to his rapid prototyping 3D printer. Simply scan, print and repeat. Read the article, and watch the video. As he says 'Pretty amazing" Jay Leno’s 3D Printer Replaces Rusty Old Parts

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3D Printing is going to be big. Why? Take a look at this: Printing a 3D Model Helicopter And it flies!

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Dimension 3D Printers:

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Schools and Colleges are already starting to teach Rapid Prototyping, but the technology is too costly to be accessible to everyone.. until now! For well under £1,000, you can create 3D shapes in a number of different materials. The RapMan not only enables the teaching of RP and RM, but also is supplied in kit form, so building the RapMan contributes towards the teaching and learning of

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Now things are getting a bit crazy. The CandyFab project is using 3D printing techniques, to print with Sugar. Yes .. the edible crystalline substance, mainly sucrose, lactose, and fructose. It's testament to the simplicity of 3D printing that this is possible. CandyFab Project [snip] The goals of The CandyFab Project are to reduce the costs associated with three-dimensional solid freeform

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A company is bringing full-color, glasses-free holograms to life, and R2D2’s got nothing to do with it. Instead, Zebra Imaging creates true 3D objects through software and a fast, powerful printing machine. [snip] ZI’s software places a virtual camera inside every point of a digital model’s holographic vertical plane, in order to record its surface volume. Zebra then prints the data (

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Sometimes it's the little things that lead one to realize that 3D Printing is going to be wildly popular. Jordan Berger, New Paltz High School, New York, is a finalist in Dimension Printing's Extreme Redesign Contest competition. [snip] This new redesigned alphabet block would also be more educational then the traditional block. Usually with blocks, the only language is English, children

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ProTocuBe uses the potential of 3D technology to make ideas real and to visualize projects. In particular, ProTocuBe uses various Rapid Prototyping technologies to make physical models, real-scale prototypes and scale models, for architecture, design and many different fields of application. Rapid Prototyping is a series of systems able to create an object automatically, starting from a digital

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It used to be impressive when an artist created complex geometric shapes and made them into real objects. Even if you didn't like the shape, you had to admit it was a feat. But these days, with a software program and 3D printing, it is possible to produce the seemingly impossible 3D 'art' in a snap. Does this mean 3D Printing lessons ART? In some cases, yes. It will be much harder to spot the '

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If you ever wondered "Should I - should I go ahead of try out one of those 3D Print services, but were worried it might get complex, take a look at this compelling video from Shapeways. It shows the simplicity of the end-to-end online process of designing, ordering, printing and .... Ta Da ... delivery in 3D. Some call it Make On Demand. Shapeways

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[snip] Moddler is the premier 3d printing company for today's digital entertainment creators, including digital film studios, visual effects companies, video game companies, and individual artists. We specialize in turning your digital models into incredibly detailed physical models to be used as maquettes for design validation, high-end swag for clients or team members, or physical props.

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A neat video of a 3D Printer in an office location printing in color.

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What will 3D Printing mean for a Make On-Demand service like Ponoko? [snip] We wanted to create a place where you could shop for and make things that are completely original, and do this in the greenest way possible. So we made Ponoko ... the first online shop for individualized goods – things designed and made just for you. Ponoko

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3D Printing is in some ways a rather simple technology. Components of a 3D Printer will rapidly become a commodity. And this is why 3D Printing might be big! Witness the RepRap community, Fab@Home and MakerBot Industries. MakerBot create open source robot kits that transform your digital designs into physical objects automatically. The kits are modular, modifiable, and built to be hacked. [

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Surprising what can be '3D Printed'. Here, a ball is trapped in a spiral cage. Printed in one go.

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[snip] Parts that are difficult or impossible to make by conventional subtractive methods can be produced by additive fabrication but there are still a few limitations to what can be printed and these include wall thickness, overall physical size and the ability of the software to process your digital designs.

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[snip] Just last week I wrote about advances in medical technology that were making print-out flesh and organs possible. Now they're printing out bones. The tests at Insel hospital, Switzerland, were so successful that an exact printout replica of a human thumb bone has been created for the first time ever. 3D Printers to Make Replacement Bones

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Replicator and Fabbaloo exchange views. Why 3D Printers won't go mainstream or Five Reasons Why [they will] What's your opinion?

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[snip] For everyone who works with STL files, Magics is the ideal and complete software solution. Magics sets the standard for ease of use and efficiency when working with faceted data. It offers advanced and highly automated tools for STL manipulation. You can correct an STL file in a matter of minutes with the help of unmatched tools to interact directly on defective triangles. Magics gives

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[snip] Using a technology called 3D printing, 3D Creation Lab can turn your designs into reality. Just send us your design for a quotation and when you are ready to order we will print it out and ship it to you - simple. This service is available to anybody, we don't just supply to businesses we will supply to anybody that can benefit from the 3D printing process.

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[snip] The premier feature of the Z510, however, is its ability to print objects in full color—a feature that is unique among other RP technologies. Parts can be printed with textual labels, colored surfaces, or even with photobased textures. Also of note is the ability of the Z510 to build models with moving parts. Because parts are separated by loose powder, they can be built up against other

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