Category Archives: Video
Video: Beauty and the Beak; a Bald Eagle’s 3D Printing Story
Here’s a great story. Beauty the Bald Eagle gets a second chance with help from 3D printing technology.
A bald eagle was shot and lost her upper beak. A “bionic beak” was fabricated using software designed for the aerospace industry, then 3D printed and affixed to the bald eagle in an elaborate procedure.
Shot and edited by Keith Bubach for Evening Magazine (KING-TV). 2008 Emmy winner.
Bald eagle photo by andrewprice001 used under Creative Commons license.
Video: MIT’s Neri Oxman and Biologically-Inspired 3D Printed Systems
MIT Media Lab researchers Neri Oxman and Steven Keating are creating biologically-inspired 3D printing systems.
Oxman explains the mission of their lab, “Our goal here is to explore processes for digital fabrication like 3D printing that are inspired by nature with the belief that we are going to emerge on the other side generating and making things that are more efficient and more effective.”
An MIT news piece covering their work describes how nature can inspire better industrial design:
To illustrate this, Keating uses the example of a palm tree compared to a typical structural column. In a concrete column, the properties of the material are constant, resulting in a very heavy structure. But a palm tree’s trunk varies: denser at the outside and lighter toward the center. As part of his thesis research, he has already made sections of concrete with the same kind of variations of density.
The video below includes interviews with both Oxman and Keating.
Neri Oxman photo by poptech used under Creative Commons license.
Video: Maker Faire Bay Area Interviews About 3D Printing
Steve Tung brought his camera to the Maker Faire Bay Area this year and has produced a video focused on 3D printing.
Interviews include:
- Lis Sampson, founder of 3D-Bots
- Carine Carmy, Director of Marketing at Shapeways
- Ronald Rael, Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley
A variety of materials were discussed, from plastic to ceramics to cement to wood to salt.
And Steve shows RepRap printers that can even print their own parts.
Watch the full video below.
Video: 3D Printing in Glazed Ceramics, Best Practices and Cost
Earlier we posted about a 3D printed coffee cup that went viral. This innovative design was 3D printed in glazed ceramics.
Want to learn more about 3D printing in ceramics? Watch the video below from Shapeways’ tutorial.
Glazed Ceramics are food safe, recyclable and heat resistant. The glaze is heatable up to 600 degrees celsius, at which point the glaze will start to damage. The pricing for Glazed Ceramics is calculated by surface area, not volume of material used. Minimum wall thickness is 3mm, interlocking parts (ie chains) are not possible currently.
We offer glazed ceramics in a few different glazes.
- Gloss White Glaze is $0.18/cm2
- Gloss Black Glaze, Satin Black is $0.19/cm2
- Eggshell Blue, Avocado Green, and Pastel Yellow is $0.20/cm2
Always Wanted Your Own Action Figure? 3D Print Your Face [Video]
Have you always wanted your own action figure that you — er, your kids — could play with?
ThatsMyFace.com lets you upload two photos and then uses 3D printing to create an action figure head with your face on it. These heads are designed to fit 12″ action figure bodies with HotToys neck types but can be adapted to fit other figurine bodies as well. Custom head sizes can be requested.
Watch the video below for a demo of various realistic faces.
