Archive for the ‘printing in 3d’ Category
In short – the idea of desktop 3d printing is fascinating. Imagine a world where everyone is able to produce anything at any time. Well, we are not quite there yet, but a review of products which are actually produced, not prototyped using additive digital manufacturing techniques might be useful to establish how far are [...]
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Tags: rapid prototyping
a debate on 3d printing future
I wanted to write this post for quite some time now. A very interesting debate has been taking place on the question if 3d printers will become mainstream – meaning if they will become as ubiquitous as 2d printers are now. It has all started from a post on Replicator blog. Later SolidSmack and Fabbaloo [...]
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Tags: 3d printing debate, Enrico Dini, Michal Piasecki, Sean Hanna
There are two interesting news from Shapeways today. Both of them are bringing this online 3d printing community closer to the fulfillment of the promise which underpins all their activities. The promise is “to make next-gen products available to everyone and allowing anyone to experience how unique personalized production is”. First is that the price [...]
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Tags: Michal Piasecki
PhotoShaper is a new tool available at shapeways.com. Users can upload JPG, PNG or GIF images. They are then turned into 3d-printed objects based on their contrast. A clear advantage of this approach is that users without any knowledge of 3d CAD packages and without nearly none interaction with online parameters can create personalized pieces.
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This post follows the previous one on plugging Excel to Processing. As part of the Msc AAC I was presented with a task of visualizing data from scanning for blue-tooth devices in the city of Bath. I was working on this with Zeta Kachri, Ankon Mitra and Kensuke Hotta. I’m skeptical about usefulness of the [...]
Filed under: 05 programming, scripting, parametric modeling, digital fabrication, generative design, Msc AAC, printing in 3d, processing, Rhinoscripting | 1 Comment
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As part of the Msc AAC at the Bartlett I’m currently working on plugging Processing to Excel in order to generate 3d dimensional data representations. It’s a group work with Zeta Kachri, Ankon Mitra and Kensuke Hotta. You can see a trial 3d print underneath – final 3d prints should be ready by the end [...]
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To continue the mass customization nomenclature debate – I have encountered the term “meta-design” in Lars Spuybroek’s text in Materialize MGX catalogue. The description accompanies the design of “Mylight” (above). The title: “We should breed objects like we breed rabbits” suggests usage of some kind of GA in the design process. Here is the whole [...]
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I have just learned that Shapeways will be launching Beta Shops in 2009. The shops will enable designers to sell 3d printed objects directly to the customers. Designers’ responsibility will only be to upload a 3d model, while Shapeways will take care of all the rest (printing, shipping and customer service). Is it one of [...]
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Jujups.com is a customization website which offers a range of products (their personalized Christmas decorations maybe particularly relevant, since it is 22nd of Dec). It was created by Genometri, a Singaporean company specializing in online design solutions. To me, one feature of the website is very interesting. There is a possibility of sharing a personalized [...]
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