10. 4D Printing Technology. Revolutionizing Material Form and Control with 4D Printing an Academic Project in Collaboration with Stratasys In a unique research collaboration between Stratasys’ Education, R&D departments and MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab, a new process is being developed, known as 4D Printing. Led by Skylar Tibbits, Self-Assembly Lab Director and trained Architect, Computer Scientist and Artist, this unique research focuses on developing self-assembly technologies for large-scale structures in our physical environment. Tibbits’ 4D Printing project is enabled by Stratasys’ Connex multi-material 3D printing technology - with the added capability of embedded transformation from one shape to another, directly off the 3D printer. How it Works With Stratasys’ Connex technology, a single print, with multi-material features, can transform from any 1D strand into 3D shape, 2D surface into 3D shape or morph from one 3D shape into another.
Future Applications Watch 4D Printing in Action! Additional coverage from TED2013: The future unfolding: Fellows Friday with Skylar Tibbits. Skylar Tibbits makes things that assemble themselves, with potential large-scale applications from self-adjusting water pipes to self-assembling structures in space. At his recently founded Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, he’s pioneering 4D printing — using smart materials to make objects that change shape and evolve. Here, he explains how 4D printing works, and describes his journey from architect to artist to leading inventor of self-assembly technology.
Why is this process called 4D printing? The reason we call it 4D is because the object changes over time. So whereas 3D printing simply creates an object, Skylar Tibbits: The emergence of "4D printing" the 4D-printed object is printed using smart materials that are activated by various sources — like heat, water, current, sound, pressure, and so on. Right now the material we’re using is a polymer-based water-absorbing material that expands 150%. So the expanding material does one thing and the rigid material holds the shape, is that right?
The%20Third%20Industrial%20Revolution. The third industrial revolution. THE first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with the mechanisation of the textile industry. Tasks previously done laboriously by hand in hundreds of weavers' cottages were brought together in a single cotton mill, and the factory was born. The second industrial revolution came in the early 20th century, when Henry Ford mastered the moving assembly line and ushered in the age of mass production. The first two industrial revolutions made people richer and more urban. Now a third revolution is under way. Manufacturing is going digital. As this week's special report argues, this could change not just business, but much else besides. A number of remarkable technologies are converging: clever software, novel materials, more dexterous robots, new processes (notably three-dimensional printing) and a whole range of web-based services.
Towards a third dimension The old way of making things involved taking lots of parts and screwing or welding them together. MIT researchers to 3D print a pavilion by imitating silkworms. Researchers at MIT plan to 3D print a pavilion by imitating the way a silkworm builds its cocoon. The research team, headed by architect and Mediated Matter Group founder Neri Oxman, attached tiny magnets to the heads of silkworms to discover how they “print” their pupal casings around themselves.
“We've managed to motion-track the silkworm’s movement as it is building its cocoon,” said Oxman. “Our aim was to translate the motion-capture data into a 3D printer connected to a robotic arm in order to study the biological structure in larger scales.” The pavilion is part of a research project to explore ways of overcoming the existing limitations of additive manufacturing at architectural scales and follows recent proposals for a house made of 3D printed concrete sections and a dwelling made of prefabricated plastic elements.
Top image: colour scanning electron microscope image of the exterior surface of a silk moth cocoon. Image by Dr. James C. Iris van Herpen Print Shift interview. Fashion designer and 3D printing pioneer Iris van Herpen tells us how printing and scanning technologies could transform the fashion industry in an exclusive interview for our print-on-demand publication Print Shift. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12 (+ transcript). Advances in material and printing technology mean that flexible, washable clothes are now possible, says Dutch designer Van Herpen, whose latest ready-to-wear collection includes printed garments.
"I’m really happy that 3D prints finally act with the movement of the body," she said. "[My] last show was really a big step forward because it was totally flexible and the jacket we created, for example, you could put in the washing machine. " Van Herpen is one of the first fashion designers to investigate the potential of 3D printing to create clothes and accessories. She also ponders how 3D scanners could revolutionise the way we order our clothes in the future. Avi Reichental: What’s next in 3D printing | TED Talk Subtitles and Transcript. Noble, Jessica, 6 Months. 3D Printing, Craft and the Bespoke Designer.pdf.
Thomas Heatherwick: Mr Big Idea | London Life | Lifestyle. Thomas Heatherwick’s studio is inspiring and curious from the minute you step off Gray’s Inn Road and walk through its iron gates. Everywhere there are objects and strange materials, many displayed in wooden cubbyholes hanging from the ceiling, from clusters of metal discs and crumpled steel to a bull’s horn, a huge ball of string and a grey squirrel in a belljar.
These are the sorts of materials that can inspire the 42-year-old architect and designer who in the last year has caught our collective imagination in ways he never dreamed. The moment the petals of the Olympic cauldron he designed rose to their fiery crescendo and took our breath away on the night of July 27 was as memorable as many of the sporting dramas that played out over the following month. “I still get goosebumps on my arms,” he says of watching his cauldron in action that night. Heatherwick conjures and nurtures his ideas with his team of 86 people.
His London buses will soon be the most visible of all his projects. Mass Customization with 3D Printing | 3D Printing Blog | i.materialise. London-based firm Digital Forming enables customers to co-design their own 3D printed products – anything from a mobile phone case to an espresso cup or a silver ring. With easy-to-use, user-friendly design apps, anyone can create a personalized, one-of-its-kind product in minutes.
Creating Personalized Products with 3D Printing Digital Forming’s apps allow users to tweak the shape, size, color, design and material of a pre-defined basic object. The customized product is then manufactured at i.materialise’s 3D printing facility. “Digital Forming’s purpose is to enable the spread of mass customization and personalization – we believe that the consumer should have the final say in how their product looks and feels,” says Victoria May, Community Manager & Product Designer at Digital Forming. “3D Printing allows anyone to create something truly unique in a range of materials – mass customization on demand.
Customizable Products: 3D Printed Jewelry So let’s take a look at some examples. 3D Printing: The Next 25 Years | Additive Manufacturing (AM) This year’s ASME North American Additive Manufacturing + 3D Printing Conference (AM3D), Boston, Massachusetts will be held August 2-5, 2015 and focus on the engineering behind additive technologies. The event is co-located with the ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE). The AM3D conference will showcase many distinguished experts in the field of additive manufacturing including Hod Lipson, professor of engineering at Columbia University and co-author of the bestselling book, Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing. As a keynote speaker at AM3D, Professor Lipson’s will present “3D Printing: The Next 25 Years”, exploring emerging trends and applications in additive manufacturing and 3D printing.
We caught up with Professor Lipson in an AMazing interview. AMazing®: Professor Lipson, thank you for your participation. AMazing®: How would you assess the current mainstream adoption of 3D printing? MAR CLT6965 3D Printing White paper. A Legal and Empirical Study into the Intellectual Property Implications of 3D Printing Exec Summary Web. Manufacturing: The third industrial revolution. Artist Created This 3D Printed Swimsuit. SurveyMonkey - Connexion. Le format de cette adresse email est incorrect.
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The Re-Inventing Shoes project is in town for London Design Festival and London Fashion Week, merging the worlds of fashion and design. 3D printing extraordinaire, 3D Systems, provided the highest quality of the technique with selective laser sintering in a hard nylon and new soft rubber material. Each designer discusses their shoe and the way in which it was created. Ben van Berkel Zaha Hadid. Ross Lovegrove Fernando Romero. A 3D printed future: 10 surprising things we could see printed soon. Bastian Schaefer shares a very bold idea: that in the near future, we may be able to 3D print jumbo jets. Photo: Ryan Lash It is the dawn of the era of 3D printing. From artificial prosthetics to very real human kidneys to filigree skull sculptures — the number and variety of applications for this technology are growing, layer by printed layer.
Combine this with the decreasing cost of owning a printer, as well as the cheaper cost of manufacturing in general, and it appears that 3D printers are here to stay. So, why stop at a kidney? Bastian Schaefer: A 3D-printed jumbo jet? Why use 3D printing technology to create the plane of the future? However, there is still a ways to go. Here, more revolutionary visions of our 3D printed future: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
A view of the proposed 3D printed moon habitat. This pavilion was 3D-printed by 6,500 silkworms. We expect MIT researchers to be innovators in 3D printing. We do not necessarily expect the same of caterpillars. But this spooky pavilion at MIT’s Media Lab was a collaboration between the researchers who designed the structure, the robots who built the framework, and the silkworms who then basically extruded the whole thing out of their salivary glands. The lab’s Mediated Matter team, headed by Neri Oxman, discovered that it was possible to influence the way silkworms spun their thread. Using that research, Oxman designed a base for the pavilion on the computer that would influence the silkworms to produce just the sort of texture and patterns she was after.
A robot strung a complicated series of threads on a metal scaffolding. And then they turned 6,500 silkworms loose on the dome. Wired reports: They swarmed over the structure’s surface and spun silk threads that ultimately created a dome that was equal parts Buckminster Fuller and Charlotte’s Web. 5 Questions with Stratasys CEO David Reis. David Reis, the CEO of Stratasys, speaking at a media event held recently in New York City The global 3D printing market is expected to grow from $3 billion in 2014 to $21 billion by 2020, according to industry research.
As 3D printing continues its exponential growth trajectory, what will be its future impact on industrial manufacturing? ASME.org caught up with David Reis, CEO of Stratasys, one of the key players in the 3D printing market, at a media event held in New York recently. Reis spoke about the rapid growth of 3D printing and how it enables cost and time savings in manufacturing including industries like industrial, aerospace, automotive, medical devices, and consumer products. Approximately 80% of fused deposition modeling (FDM) system owners in the U.S. are using the technology in augmented manufacturing for jigs, fixtures, and end-use parts application, said Reis in his presentation. David Reis, CEO, Stratasys Q2: 3D printing has the potential to disrupt several industries. Untitled. New Skins 2013 Workshop. THE STUDIO — Francis Bitonti Studio. Francis Bitonti Studio continues to establish a unique methodology of blended computer driven techniques and cutting edge manufacturing technologies to realize what the press has dubbed “alien” objects.
Francis Bitonti Studio is continuously committed to the application of digital design and computer controlled manufacturing technologies, aimed at transforming the logic of traditional mass production within the design industry. The Studio was created in 2007, when then architect/industrial designer, Francis Bitonti, became involved with a competition held by the New York City Department of Transportation, Google, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. Bitonti was a finalist in the competition, creating an eco-friendly and cost-effective bike rack that didn’t sacrifice on design, capable of being reconfigured into over 800 different versions of itself. Fashion Digital Studio. Untitled. Behance.