3D chocolate printer available for taking orders Jan.22, 2012 Maybe you heard about it, 3D printers is becoming consumer 3D printers. But how close they are to our daily life? Fortunately for us, 3D printing is finally starting to offer the combination of affordability and usability. Essential Dynamics, the company behind the Imagine 3D food printer, showcased the Imagine 3D printer at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2012 and announced that they were now accepting orders for the Imagine 3D printers. Why does Essential Dynamics believe that their system is unique? This Imagine 3D food printer comes fully assembled and priced at $2,995 plus $299 S/H. There is not much technical information available on Essential Dynamics' website, except that Essential Dynamics created a brand new 3D community Mongasso for sharing 3D designs for imagine 3D food printer. Below is a short video that from PSFK Rough Cut CES 2012: 3D Printer Can Print Chocolate Cupcakes In Minutes: someone in Essential Dynamics is explaining the technology.
Les défis industriels de l’impression 3D Techniquement, les possibilités de la 3D semblent infinies. Depuis quelques années, il est possible, grâce à une machine dont le coût unitaire diminue rapidement – pour mille dollars, on trouve des imprimantes personnelles performantes – d’ « imprimer » à domicile des objets comme des jouets, des pièces détachées, des armes, des outils, des bijoux, des éléments de mobilier mais aussi de la nourriture. Chaussures, montures de lunettes et d’innombrables objets du quotidien peuvent être fabriqués à domicile avec un plastique biodégradable à base de maïs. La machine, qui peut aussi être alimentée en résine, en diverses poudres ou en pâte alimentaire, obéit aux instructions d’un logiciel et empile des couches de matière, une couche après l’autre. L’impression 3D peut donner lieu à des économies considérables. Les applications médicales – les organes imprimés – sont toutes proches. Une rupture systémique L’impression 3D n’est pas nouvelle. KamerMaker: l’imprimante au travail
How 3D Printing Will Change Our World (Part II) Today, 3D Printing technology lives in the realm of small plastic tchotchkes. But economists, theorists, and consumers alike predict that 3D printers will democratize the act of creation and, in so doing, revolutionize our world. Which poses an interesting quandary: what will happen when we can print houses? Last week, I discussed the incredible capabilities of 3D Printing in the not-so distant future: to quickly create homes for victims of disaster/poverty; to allow the architect the freedom to create curvy, organic structures once only dreamed of. But, if we look a little further afield, the possibilities are even more staggering. In the next few paragraphs, I’ll introduce you to Neri Oxman, an architect and MIT professor using 3D Printing technology to create almost-living structures that may just be the future of sustainable design. The Anti-Modernist Neri Oxman has an arch-enemy, or, in her words, an “antithesis.” Why? Take, for example, a palm tree. Living-Synthetic Design As Ms.
uld the house of the future look like a spider's web? Out-there architects issue plan for 3D-printed home Concept put together by London-based architecture collective Softkill DesignThey are the latest entrants to the race to put together the first 3D-printable homeComponents would be manufactured off-site then stuck together like velcro By Damien Gayle Published: 18:43 GMT, 14 February 2013 | Updated: 21:56 GMT, 16 February 2013 The house of the future could be built from plastic and look like a spider's web, if one group of conceptual architects have their way. London-based architecture collective Softkill Design have created this concept for the first 3D printed house, and say the first prototype could be built by this summer. They are the latest entrants to a race to construct the first 3D printed home, which could revolutionise house building and even potentially solve the UK's housing crisis. Scroll down for video The house of the future? 'It would take up to three weeks to have all the pieces fabricated,' said Gilles Retsin, a member of the collective, to Dezeen.com.
3D Printer Prizefight: MakerBot Replicator 2 vs Formlabs Form 1 The demand for affordable personal 3D printers has skyrocketed in recent years, with new models and designs popping up all the time. Budget-conscious enthusiasts, designers, engineers, and small-business owners can still choose from plenty of inexpensive and kit options, but the higher-performance, better-equipped designs seem to have gained the most traction. Two of the best and most talked about 3D printers, the MakerBot Replicator 2 and Formlabs Form 1, were on the scene at the Maker Faire in New York City earlier this fall, giving us a good opportunity to compare both printers' features and sample prints. MakerBot Replicator 2 MakerBot first started making a name for itself in 2009 with the introduction of the Cupcake extrusion printer kit. The Thing-O-Matic came out the following year. The Replicator 2, announced in mid-September, is MakerBot's latest attempt to push into the commercial 3D printer market. Formlabs Form 1 Print Resolution Winner: Form 1 Maximum Print Volume Winner: Tie
Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects Printing 3D Buildings: Five tenets of a new kind of architecture / Neri Oxman As a designer, architect, artist and founder of the Mediated Matter group at MIT’s Media Lab, Neri Oxman has dedicated her career to exploring how digital design and fabrication technologies can mediate between matter and environment to radically transform the way we design and construct our built world. In this article, which was first published by CNN, Oxman discusses the future of 3D printing buildings with five tenets of a new kind of architecture. In the future we will print 3D bone tissue, grow living breathing chairs and construct buildings by hatching swarms of tiny robots. The future is closer than we think; in fact, versions of it are already present in our midst. At the core of these visions lies the desire to potentiate our bodies and the things around us with an intelligence that will deepen the relationship between the objects we use and which we inhabit, and our environment: a Material Ecology. Neri Oxman’s five tenets after the break… 1. Or consider the tree. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Will 3D-printed houses stand up as architecture? | Art and design 'Enter a new architecture' ... 3D-printed house by Janjaap Ruijssenaars. Photograph: Universe Architecture 3D-printing may have been used for a long time in the world of architecture, allowing visionaries to conjure ever more elaborate and unbuildable forms from the ether. This could all be set to change, now that Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars has unveiled designs for the world's first 3D-printed house. Working with mathematician and artist Rinus Roelofs, Ruijssenaars plans to create the building in sections of up to 6x9m, printed using the D-Shape printer. "By simply pressing the 'enter' key on the keypad we intend to give the architect the possibility to make buildings directly," says Dini, "without intermediaries who can add interpretation and make mistakes in the realisation." His vision is to cut out the expensive, cumbersome manual processes of conventional construction and give the designer absolute freedom.
A list of DIY high resolution DLP 3D printers Sep.11, 2012 Unlike the Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) technology we usually see on Makerbots and repraps, new generation of hobbyist printer uses light-curing resin and a DLP projector to build 3D objects. These printers use Digital Light Projection technology which produces objects with incredibly fine detail. How does it work? A DLP 3D printer utilize powerful DLP projector to shine onto a thin section of photo-initiated polymer resin. DLP is a much faster printing process that is capable of printing very high resolution models - each 0.1 mm thick needs about 8 seconds to cure. Here are some DIY DLP 3D printers being developed by enthusiasts for early adopters. B9Creator Price: Starting at US$2,375(Kit), US$3,375 fully assembled Michael Joyce, the designer of the B9Creator launched his Kickstarter campaign to help raise enough funds for first production run. MiiCraft Price: Starting at US$2,119 Sedgwick Price: US$495 (DLP projector not included) Lunavast XG2 3D Home Made from Junior Veloso
Printing Material Distributions Most digital design involves surface modeling. Even so called “solid” modeling software is based on representations where a “solid” is that which is enclosed by a set of boundaries (known as boundary representations or ‘Brep’ for short). While digital representations of solid objects are often treated as homogeneous and discrete entities, the reality is somewhat different. In the real world, material distributions are continuous and varied. Topology optimization is a form finding technique which seeks to optimize a certain material distribution with given boundary conditions (ie. types of supports and loads). Example 1: A chair The chair example uses topology optimization to gradually remove material from a solid volume on which the actions of a person seating are applied (ie. vertical and horizontal loads for the seating position). 3d printing allows us the ability to materialize the intricate structures that emerge especially around moment connections.
Check Out This Tiny 3-D Printed Spaceship | Wired Science The tiny spaceship in the video above was built using a microscale 3-D printer. At 125 micrometers long, the craft is about the length of a dust mite, and it took less than 50 seconds to produce. The super-fast, high-resolution printer that made the spaceship was introduced this week at the Photonics West fair by Nanoscribe GmbH , a company based in Germany that specializes in nanophotonics and 3-D laser lithography. The printer crafted the spaceship using two-photon polymerization, in which ultra-short laser pulses activate photosensitive building materials. Afterward, the ship — based on a Hellcat fighter from the Wing Commander Saga — was inspected using an electron microscope. Next step? Video: Nanoscribe/ YouTube