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Video: Burning Man Team Offers 3D Prints of Burners in the Desert
Global non-profit ReAllocate is putting 3D printing on center stage at this year’s Burning Man.
Their pitch is this:
- Go to their camp and get 3D scanned; they will start 3D printing a statue in your likeness
- Leave their camp with a GPS transponder
- A drone will come find you when your 3D print is ready and deliver it to you
Burning man statue photo by Tanais Fox used under Creative Commons license.
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.
3D Printing On the Go: Portable 3D Printer PopFab Fits in a Suitcase
Every consumer electronic technology starts out large and eventually becomes portable. Computers were once mainframes the size of a large room and now can fit in the palm of your hand. The same trend is being followed for 3D printers.
Two MIT students have designed PopFab: a 3D printer that fits in a suitcase and can be a carry-on piece of luggage.
Described as a multi-tool, perhaps the Swiss Army knife of 3D printers, the video below shows the two students setting up PopFab bit by bit, and is part of a series that will show off the mobile 3D printer’s capabilities.
In just a few moments, the students assembled the printer through attaching the printing head to a fold-out arm. Next, they placed the printing material and connected a computer which is used to relay the design to the machine.
In the video, the printer is used to create a small, three dimensional fish. However, the portable design could potentially be used to perform different functions — change the toolhead, switch the service. For example, the team believe it could also be used to cut vinyl, perform milling or draw programmed designs.
Via SmartPlanet.
Toddler Emma Fitted With 3D Printed Magic Arms
Two-year-old Emma was born with a rare condition called arthrogryposis multiplex congenita. This disorder greatly limited her muscle movement in her arms. 3D printing technology provided a magic solution.
After researching the disease, Emma’s parents attended a medical conference where they learned about the Wilmington Robotic Exoskeleton (WREX). Emma was able to try out a version of the WREX at the hospital, but she was too small for the bulky metal arms.
In order to design a version for Emma that would both fit her and weigh significantly less, the researchers used the Stratays Dimension 3D printer to build pieces of the arms out of the same type of plastic that’s used in LEGOs. The pieces snap together and resistance bands are used to adjust the tension on the two arms.
Watch the video below for Emma’s story.
Via Digital Trends.
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.
