3D Food printing on CNN money
You should really read this great story by the people over at Cooking Issues about how they used a FAB@Home 3D printer to 3D print massa for CNN Money. It is nice to contrast Cooking Issues” take versus the CNN Money article. See the video below also to see how 3D printing makes Mexican Food.
Using 3D printing to build a better paperclip, the Infinite Clip
We wanted to make something beautiful and fun for Thingiverse. You know how people have tried to build a better mouse trap? We”re trying to build a better paperclip, using 3D printing. The paperclip is a scion of mass production, patented in 1867. We tried to reimagine this evergreen of manufacturing and would be curious to know what you think. Â
The cool thing about the Infinite Clip is that not only can it clip paper but it can also attach to lots of things in lots of different ways. It can serve as a hook and clip onto things in four different directions. The clip is flexible and can be used to hold small things as well as thick things.
You could adapt the design if you want to. By changing the thickness of the design you can make it stronger depending on the tasks at hand.  Need a clip to hang up some clothes? Change the design to make it close much tighter. Need a bigger clip? Just scale and print another.Â
We”ve test 3D printed
Who is (y)our director?
Hello,
My name is Miranda Bastijns and because I am the oldest of the i.materialise team, already have some grey hair, and don’t know how to design in 3D, the others call me boss.
I am also a dedicated fan of 3D printed objects, which is no wonder after having spent the last 13 years of my career at Europe’s largest 3D printing company.
As general marketing manager for Materialise, I have lived through the evolution from technical and medical applications of additive manufacturing, to the 3D printing of consumer goods. I have seen 3D printed dashboards, surgical drill guides, and washing machine parts pass by and now I get to see the creations of individuals as well.
I have seen many wonderful objects emerging from our 3D printers and it has been a source of frustration not being able to make them myself. Now, with i.materialise there is a super team behind me, able to develop all kind of tools that can help me, and others like me, turn our creativity into tangibl
This week in 3D printing: 15th to the 21st of January 2011
January 17th. Fresh Fiber and Freedom of Creation turn to Kicksarter to try to fund an iPad customization tool.
January 18th. i.materialise launches titanium 3D printing for you, me and everyone else, a world first.
January 18th. Stratasys and HP announce that their cooperation will be extended and that sales of the Designjet 3D HP branded Stratasys 3D printers have “exceeded their original forecasts.”
January 19th. We discover that gold 3D printing is now possible.
January 20th. Amit Zoran”s Flute continues its rise to popularity, hitting the New Scientist website.
As always do remind me if I left something out! Have a nice weekend.
DMLS: 3D Printing in Titanium Possible with i.materialise
Direct Metal Laser Sintering – or DMLS for short – is a game changer when to comes to direct 3D printing of metals. We’re proud to announce that as of today everyone can use our online 3D printing service for printing your design in titanium – yes, 3D printed titanium! Read on to learn more about DMLS printers, the DMLS technology, and our DMLS titanium. (more…)
The generative Mars Lamp, our first ceiling lamp!
Students Pieter-Jan Debuyst and Laurens Dekeyser got a class assignment to use Java to build a generative lamp through parametric design.  The students handled the assignment with aplomb and won the i.materialise contest that we were doing together with their University, the  Catholic University of Leuven.
We”re so taken by the first year Civil Engineering & Architecture student”s design that we”re offering it for sale starting today. This marks the introduction of our first 3D printed ceiling lamp.Â
The Mars Lamp costs 299 Euro ( that is $400 incl. ceiling mounting structure and transformer, excl. VAT and shipping). The lamp measures 15x15x13.8 cm (5.9×5.9×5.4 inch) and is 3D printed in polyamide. Â Please send an email to contact@i.materialise.com if you wish to order this design.
We think its lovely, what do you think of the Mars Lamp?
This week in 3D printing 8th to the 14th of January 2011
January 8th. Makerbot is crowned best of CES by David Ewalt of Forbes.
January 10th. Dr. Adrian Boyer of the RepRap project writes about Hod Lipson”s Factory @ Home report for the White House. You should take the time to read it here.
January 10th. Fabbaloo reports on Andrew Monti”s idea for “Books that print” using QR codes.
January 11th. Fab Camp Liverpool is a go, it is a weekend “aimed at raising awareness of the revolution in digital fabrication.” Visitors will be able to 3D print and learn about it and other manufacturing technologies at the event.
January 11th. MIT student Charles Z. Guan makes a Make-A-Bot, a Fused Filament Fabrication machine based on RepRap and Makerbot.
January 11th. The Times features 3D printing in an article “Lost your car key? Never mind, print another with new 3-D printer.”
January 12th. An open source guitar is 3D printed using Blender and an open innovation company called Zoybar. This is an example of network
Open source guitar 3D printed using Blender
Kevin Holmes of The Creators Project writes about an open source guitar that was made using Blender, Zoybar and 3D printing. The guitar, called the Tor was designed by the Norwegian SD Baard. Zoybar is an “open R&D” project where research is being carried out into musical instruments. There people can download the files and order the parts they need to create their own musical instruments while Zoybar (and anyone who cares to join) does the research into new designs and parts. Then a 3D printing company then manufactures the body for the guitar. Zoybar  is a great model for an innovative business and I would expect to see this emulated in many other fields as time goes by. We”re not sure about the price though, Kevin quotes $175 but the kits we saw on Zoybar were much more expensive than that. A while back someone 3D printed a flute, now a guitar. How long until you can 3D print your entire band?
Via Digg.
3D printing & Individualization: Why I don”t want to be in your shoes.
Personalization is just putting your name on something at Zazzle. Customization is making a few choices to get an approximation of what you want. This is just like what you can do now with a car configurator on any car website. Many things can and will be customized and personalized. But, both these things can (at least partially) be done with regular mass manufacturing technology. With Individualization you need new technology, such as 3D printing or old technology such as artisanship. Individualized products and individualized production go beyond mass manufacturing towards a new kind of paradigm for products and services. With individualization not only will your shoes not fit me but I wouldn”t want to wear them anyhow.
Here is the dictionary definition of Individualized: Â “to make individual in character; to treat or notice individually : particularize ; to adapt to the needs or special circumstances of an individual <individualize teaching according to student abil
This week in 3D printing: 1st to the 7th of January 2010
This week was a rather calm one for 3D printing. Still with hundreds of blog posts and tweets about the technology each week the industry is more in the spotlight than it’s ever been. 2011 is going to be an exciting and crucial year for 3D printing. I hope to catalogue it all here in weekly posts giving an overview of what”s happening in 3D printing this week. Think I”ve missed something? Suggest it below.
January 1st onward. A Designboom article on a “food 3D printer” buzzes around the net. Featuring the Fab@Home 3D printer the story was already well known to people following 3D printing with most of the examples being a few years old, but somehow still made a big splash.
January 1st onward. Another big splash was made by Amit Zoran”s 3D printed flute.
January 1st. It started incredibly well for me personally when my 11 3D printing predictions for 2011 article went live on Techcrunch and was retweeted around 900 times. I don’t like to be a tooter of ones own horn but th
