Filabot Reclaimer Turns Recyclable Plastic into 3D Printing Material Introducing Filabot, a new device that lets you recycle plastic to use as filament in a 3D printer. Originally conceived as a Kickstarter project by Tyler McNaney, a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student at Vermont Technical College, the startup raised over $32,000 to develop its first product. Many 3D printers use commercial grade plastic filament to make objects. Well, Filabot has the answer to make 3D printing a bit more eco-friendly. Here is an overview from the Filabot shop. The Filabot is the revolutionary system that can turn recyclable plastic into usable filament for 3D printing. And below is a video of the Filabot system. Photo by Filabot/Whitney Trudo.
TVPDesign Teams TVPDesign Teams are for Scientific & Technical Professionals who wish to get involved in design-related TVP projects to aid the implementation of The Venus Project as directed by Jacque Fresco. Those working within these teams do so as volunteers for The Venus Project. All designs by Jacque Fresco are protected by copyright, therefore volunteers are required to sign a non disclosure agreement (NDA). If you would like to find out more about our TVPSupport Teams which are international groups aimed at promoting the The Venus Project in their local communities and creating supportive media [ Click here ] If you would like to find out more about our TVPCore Teams which are focused groups aimed at assisting the implementation of the The Venus Projects aims and proposals [ Click here ] (Coming Soon) To develop plans, sections and elevations of the various designs of The Venus Project as well as further develop city plans etc. Please send your CV / Resume (Coming Soon) RBE Simulations (Coming Soon)
3D-printed rockets for Nasa's Space Launch System Parts for the rocket engines of Nasa's Space Launch System will be created using a method of 3D-printing known as selective laser melting. The space agency is taking advantage of new technology to help improve safety and save money as it builds the SLS -- a heavy-lift launch vehicle intended to facilitate long-duration deep space exploration including trips to near-Earth asteroids and, ultimately, to Mars. "It's the latest in direct metal 3D printing -- we call it additive manufacturing now," says Ken Cooper, leader of the Advanced Manufacturing Team at the Marshall Centre. "It takes fine layers of metal powder and welds those together with a laser beam to fuse a three dimensional object from a computer file." Although not all of the rocket parts can be generated using the current SLM process, it can be used to improve the overall safety of the system by creating the geometrically complex pieces which would normally require a lot of welding.
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Cloud computing Cloud computing metaphor: For a user, the network elements representing the provider-rendered services are invisible, as if obscured by a cloud. Cloud computing is a computing term or metaphor that evolved in the late 1990s, based on utility and consumption of computer resources. Cloud computing involves application systems which are executed within the cloud and operated through internet enabled devices. Overview[edit] Cloud computing[3] relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale, similar to a utility (like the electricity grid) over a network.[2] At the foundation of cloud computing is the broader concept of converged infrastructure and shared services. Cloud computing, or in simpler shorthand just "the cloud", also focuses on maximizing the effectiveness of the shared resources. Cloud vendors are experiencing growth rates of 50% per annum.[11] History of cloud computing[edit] Origin of the term[edit] The origin of the term cloud computing is unclear.
UW students' 3-D printer to turn trash into better lives in Third World When he was working for the Peace Corps in Ghana and Panama, Matthew Rogge started to dream of turning waste plastic, abundant and freely available, into useful objects that would solve vexing Third World engineering problems. Sound far-fetched? He and a team of University of Washington students have done it. Last week, Rogge — who went back to school to become a mechanical engineer precisely to learn how to do this — and two fellow student engineers won an international competition for their proposal to turn plastic garbage into composting toilets. They've developed an inexpensive 3-D printer that can turn shredded, melted plastic waste into just about anything. 3-D printers have been around for at least 25 years, although they have become more widely available, better-known and cheaper in recent years. But until now, nobody had figured out how to cheaply build a large-scale printer that used recycled plastic as its raw material, said UW mechanical-engineering professor Mark Ganter.
3D-printed robotic hand cuts cost of prosthetics (Credit: Coming Up Short Handed) Specifications for a 3D-printed prosthetic hand for a young boy born without a set of fingers is available as a free download on Thingiverse. Liam, thanks to a case of amniotic band syndrome, was born without any fingers on his right hand. Enter two men: Richard Van As, a carpenter in South Africa who lost the fingers on his right hand in a work accident, and Ivan Owen, a prop-maker in Washington who came to Van As' attention via a YouTube video he posted showing a claw prop he created as an experiment. The two collaborated on creating a prosthetic finger for Van As, collaborating over distance, shipping parts back and forth. It wasn't until November last year that the two met — Owens travelling to Johannesburg to work on some finishing touches. But in the interval, Van As had been contacted by the mother of a five-year-old boy, Liam. Using Makerware, it could be scaled to fit a wide range of individuals.
Printable Houses and the Massive Wave of Opportunity it will bring to Our Future All the way back in March of 2004, working in his laboratory at the University of Southern California in San Diego, Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis, was working with a new process he had invented called Contour Crafting to construct the world’s first 3D printed wall. His goal was to use the technology for rapid home construction as a way to rebuild after natural disasters, like the devastating earthquakes that had recently occurred in his home country of Iran. While we have still not seen our first “printed home” just yet, they will be coming very soon. For an industry firmly entrenched in working with nails and screws, the prospects of replacing saws and hammers with giant printing machines seems frightening. Here’s why I think this will happen. Contour Crafting Contour Crafting is a form of 3D printing that uses robotic arms and nozzles to squeeze out layers of concrete or other materials, moving back and forth over a set path in order to fabricate a large component. Breaking Through the Barriers
Project Will Use 3D Printer, Waste Plastic to Make Composting Toilets, Rainwater Harvesting Systems siftnz/CC BY 3.0One man's trash is another man's treasure, they say, and while it may be difficult to find something good to say about the vast amount of plastic waste we're creating, it may be that some of that waste plastic will get turned into new and useful products, thanks to the magic of 3D printing. A team of students at the University of Washington just won $100,000 in funding for their project, which will transform plastic waste into pieces for rainwater harvesting systems and composting toilets in the developing world. © Mary Levin, UW PhotographyThe team, Washington Open Object Fabricators (WOOF), took top honors in the 3D4D Challenge, an international contest to leverage 3D printing technologies to deliver real social benefits in the developing world.