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3D Scanning
I just took the 3D Scanning class, featuring the NextEngine i2020 3D Laser Scanner. Wow. This is really cool. While it’s not as easy as it appears in the Jay Leno’s Garage video on youtube (see here), it is pretty easy and extremely cool. There is some work with the software that one must do to join scans; the technology is really invaluable for anything with complex curves such as organic items. For our class, a reproduction of a Tiger’s claw was used. You can imagine how difficult that would be to model in 3 dimensions without this tool.
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New 3D Printer from Holland
There is a new 3D printer from Holland that has been introduced. It’s called the Ultimaker. Read about it here.
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University of Southampton (UK) Flies the First Printed Aircraft!
The first printed aircraft has been realized using laser sintering printing.
This allows great flexibility of design and modification to design. This has permitted the designers to use an elliptical wing shape similar to that of the RAF Spitfire of WWII, which is very efficient but costly to manufacture with traditional methods.
Read more about it here.
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RepRap World Tour
We will be hosting Hive76’s RepRap World Tour August 26th through August 28th! You will be able to build your very own 3D Printer.
Sign up here.
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Hive76 held an awesome bot building event at NextFab Studio, August 26th-28th. Hive76 members entertained and educated, as they assisted attendees in building a RepRap Prusa Mendela (a consumer grade 3d printer) from first bolt, to motor, to the software needed to print 3D objects. Not even Hurricane Irene could stop the attendees, who pushed through the bad weather with little to no breaks (their choice) from finishing their projects. The build was a fun way to extend the NFS community to new people that are interested in this new wave of technology. Check out more images on our Flickr page!
Hive76 plans to hold another build in the spring. If you have any interest please contact us at info@nextfabstudio.com -
Weekly Staff Picks, September 18th
Here are our Staff Picks for the Week of September 18th, we hope you enjoy them. We run from artistic to career advancing this week. Arduino Arts is an good Arduino beginner’s site I found while researching other Arduino projects. There are links to tutorials and more. It’s a relatively new site and has been expanding quickly. -Gregg
Writing on the wall with der Kritzler (Kritzler is German for Scribbler) is about a cool machine that draws on windows. -Alex
Bronze Tangle Process - An artist describes his process for casting “tangles” out of bronze. The process involves 3D printing an investment casting which is then burned away to make the cavity for the bronze. -Alex
FREE Course: How to Succeed as a Creative Professional. It’s a 25-week program designed to equip you with the creative and professional skills you need to succeed in your chosen career path – whether you’re an employee, freelancer or creative entrepreneur. -Yulia
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Weekly Staff Picks, October 2, 2011
Hot off the presses is our next installment of weekly links. We’re heavy into 3D printing this week, though we have some other things to interest you as well. It’s a good time to start making! We hope you have as much fun with them as we did finding them.
Toyota Ku:Rin I’ve been reading about compressed air vehicles for quite a while including warehouse carts, but this story is about a SPEED record. - Gregg
Origo is a 3D printer for kids, which is about $800 and should be available in 18 months. “There are other 3D printers. But none will be as easy to use as I will. None will be as reliable or work as hard for you. I’m not a kit or an industrial machine. I’m not complicated. I’m an appliance, like a toaster or a microwave. Only I’m purple and make your stuff. You don’t have to be ten to use me, but it helps. Sure adults are older and can do lots of different things such as drive a car and use a drill. But, adults aren’t really good at imagining things. They’re afraid. Afraid of failing, afraid of not making the perfect thing.” - Alex
De Zeen Screen ”If you didn’t know already, here at NextFab we’re pretty big on 3D printing. I thought this was a very creative application of it and as always, I love to see projects that implement less wasteful processes.” - Seth
British Electronics Club This is from an electronics club in the UK. It has basic stuff and more. It also has projects, links and tutorials. This is a great site for those who wish to learn more about electronics. - Gregg
Solidoodle 3D Printer is a new 3D printer organization I bumped into at Maker Faire, NY. They have a better price($699.00) and a good appearance for the machine. - WanTing -
Weekly Staff Picks, October 22, 2011
Our Staff Picks for this week include woodworking, CNC, PhotoShop instruction and fashion. We hope you enjoy them.
When to use Opacity versus Fill in PhotoShop For all you photoshop geeks I must share this one, because for many years, I just couldn’t tell the difference. Why would they even put it there? Now I know!!! - Yulia
Scintillating CNC Zonahedral Structures: The Zome from Robert Bell “The Zome is a creation of Rob Bell…and is one of the most ingenious structures of modern geometric times. The complex, fluid shapes are designed in SketchUp, cut out flat [on a ShopBot], and put together with nothing but time, sweat, sandwich breaks and large mallets.” - Alex
Expanding Round Table This is a video of a round table that expands. This is extremely creative woodworking. - Brandon
Master hat designer Elvis Pompilio goes 3D printing 3D printed high fashion hat. This is something that could not have been made with traditional methods. Yes, it is THAT awesome. - Alex
Carbon Fiber Porsche 911 This maker takes a modern car and improves upon it by replacing the steel body with a carbon fiber one. - Gregg
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Weekly Staff Picks, November 13, 2011
Here are this week’s Staff Picks. We hope you enjoy them.
Rapid Manufacturing Not everyone has access to a Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) machine (a type of 3D printer that uses a laser to melt plastic or metal powder to create a solid 3D object), but if you do, here is a guide published by 3D Systems (inventors and pioneers of SLS and Stereolithography [SLA]) on “Design for SLS” - basically how to design to take advantage of the capabilities of SLS relative to traditional processes (machining or molding). Offers great Design for Manufacturability (DFM) guidance that is applicable (with a grain of salt) to other additive processes. - Evan
Plastic Bottle House What really surprised me and made me want to share this is the fact that “Compacted sand inside a bottle is nearly 20 times stronger than bricks.” Maybe we should start saving our bottles at NextFab instead of recycling them… - MattDan Pink on the surprising science of motivation Interesting talk in the theme of TED about motivation and incentives. Science knows one thing and businesses do another and that’s not good. - Ross
MIT Leg Lab is still some of the most awesome robotics work I’ve ever seen - check out the “Planar Biped” doing a running forward flip! - Evan
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