Droog at Salone 3D printed by i.materialise
Droog unveiled its Design for Download platform at Salone this year. The concept of Design for Download is that designers can offer customizable designs online. Some could be free, others paid. A person can then select a design, download it and 3D print or lasercut out the design. A timely, rather future proof idea from the folks at Droog. We think the platform has a great future and we”re proud to have been chosen to do the 3D printing for Droog”s Salone show. One item (an electrivity outlet) was 3D printed at a FabLab and the rest of the 3D printed items were done by us.
This flatpack lasercut furniture by  Minale-Maeda has 3D printed connectors and adornments all over it. You can see a thoughtful interview with Mario Minale here.
And here are some Vanity Charms by Minale Maeda.
These are some lovely polyamide flowers for Minale Maeda”s Virtual Florist.
Watch the video here. There is more information on the Droog site here.
Interview with Viridis3D President Will Shambley
Will Shambley is a true 3D printing pioneer. He spent eight years directing the 3D printing materials Research and Development effort at Zcorp, the full color 3D printing company. He is now at Viridis3D, a company that sells 3D printers and 3D printing materials used for casting metal and ceramics. He is Viridis3D’s CEO & President. We interviewed Will in order to find out more about Viridis3D and his significant expertise in the 3D printing industry.
Joris Peels: What is Viridis3D?
Will Shambley: Viridis3D, at it’s heart, is a materials development company that focuses on commercializing new solutions for the additive manufacturing community. Our current primary focus is on making molds for metal casting, however we are dabbling in a range of refractory / ceramic applications. We are developing products that we believe have unmet market demand, and we actively solicit projects from universities or individuals who have something unique to bring to market.
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The new 3D print lab
The 3D model workspace is where you can upload your 3D model. Unlike the former 3D print lab, we now ask you if you created your model in mm or inches. This enables us to process your model in the correct dimensional units and prevents potential mix-ups. Material selection
Instead of providing you with a dropdown list full of material names, we made a visual overview of the available materials. By doing so, you get an instant impress
Affordable Stainless Steel 3D prints, new pricing scheme
You can now check you Stainless Steel upload prices directly on our site. Stainless Steel was launched in January with the relatively simple pricing scheme based on volume of the model. Today you don’t need to get your calculator out anymore, just upload your design and you get your price automatically.
The pricing
Up to 5 cm3 model volume : 35$
For every extra cm3 above 5 cm3 till 40 cm3 : 8 $
For every extra cm3 above 40cm3 : 7.5$
Our pricing scheme is meant to encourage models of 5cm3 and larger because we want to encourage you to make bigger things. There is now also extra discount for compact models. The more material you have within the imaginary box around your model, the bigger your discount becomes for the same model volume. So the pricing scheme is the maximum price you will pay. To know the real (discounted) price, upload your design.
Here are 2 examples :
The dice of 20x20x20 mm, has a 7.1 cm3 model volume would cost 26.6 euro/ 37 dollar.
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Kinetic 3D Printed Art: Theo Jansen’s Strandbeest
This might be one of the creaziest 3D prints and best kinetic art objects ever: Dutch Artist Theo Jansen 3D printed a miniature of his ‘Strandbeest’ model.
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Hugo Arcier”s Mutation 1, 3D printed Ikea hack sculpture
We”re thrilled that we 3D printed Hugo Arcier”s Mutation 1. This is a limited edition sculpture consisting of 15 pieces. The work is meant to fit in an Ikea Expedit bookcase.
Hugo is a French artist who originally got started in doing special effect for feature films working for such directors as Roman Polanski and Francois Ozon. He began working in 3D animation and graphics and expanded into 3D printing. His work skirts both science and art and he is most interested in exploring new technologies to create new art. We asked Hugo some questions about his work.
Joris Peels: Was Mutation 1 meant to be an Ikea hack?
Hugo Arcier: Yes it was part of the idea from the beginning. I thought it was funny to have a luxury, and limited edition objet made for Ikea which is known for low prices and very big production. And I love the hacking culture. Nevertheless the object also works well alone as a sculpture.
Joris Peels: Why did you design this?
Hugo Arcier: My work is
3Dtin & Tinkercad, the answer to 3D printing”s prayers?
At i.materialise we”re working hard to lower the barriers to design. We want 3D printing and by extension manufacturing to be available to as many people as possible. We”d like to let you make whatever you want to make. This is why we”ve partnered with GrabCAD to turn your drawings into 3D prints with Sketch to 3D.
3D printers can already make many things, and even though the technology does need to be improved as well as become cheaper the one thing that is holding 3D printing back is the inability of the vast majority of people to design. The greatest benefit to 3D printing will occur when easy to use creation tools let anyone create. This will shift the demand curve for the entire industry upward and add millions of new potential users for the technology.
Luckily there are people working on solutions to turn your thoughts into products. A very easy to use 3D modeling tool is Jayesh Salvi”s free 3Dtin. 3Dtin is very simple and lets you save and share the designs you m
i.materialise launches Sketch to 3D, A 3D modeling service for 3D printing
Today we are launching Sketch to 3D. Sketch to 3D is a 3D modeling service that can turn your drawings into 3D models. Now you can draw anything you want and get it 3D printed. 3D printing is an amazing technology that potentially can let you make whatever you want. But because few can 3D model it has been impossible for most people to make exactly what they want to make, until now. The democratization of manufacuring has now reached you. Now you have no excuse, you can now 3D print whatever you want to.
We’ve partnered with GrabCAD and together we can turn your thoughts, ideas and drawings into 3D prints. Now you can improve the world around you by making things exactly as you think they should be. Want a better lamp? Make your own using 3D printing. Want a one of a kind gift, sketch it and we’ll make it for you. Need something that doesn’t exist, make it.
The sketch service costs 57 Euro (around $80), the costs of the 3D print will depend on the material you chose and t
3D printing in wood flour
On April Fools, our friends at FOC pulled a well executed prank on everyone by telling the world that they can 3D print in wood using sawdust. Well…it turns out you can 3D print in wood, using wood flour. Wood flour is a fine sawdust like powder made from pulverized wood. A year ago Open3D student Meghan Trainor started doing tests on 3D printing in wood. Later on students  Juliana Meira do Valle and Kate Lien took over the experiments and worked to improve the results. The team now 3D print in black walnut shell flour, pecan shell flour, wood bark flour & wood flour. The team uses a powder based 3D printer which is basically a hacked version of a commercial system. In this case the team has used UF glue as a binder. The recipe for 3D printing in wood is to use 4 to 5 parts wood or nut flour and 1 part UF glue. The initial results are intriguing  and prove once again that the Open3DP team is really pushing the envelope on hacking and improving 3D printers and 3D printi
Be Your Own Souvenir with 3D printing
Be Your own Souvenir was a project that ran in Barcelona in the beginning of this year. Using open source software the project let people pose in front of a Kinect set up and the resulting shape was 3D printed by a RapMan 3D printer. The project aimed to turn consumers into producers and give people the experience of creating their own souvenirs. The installation was on the Rambla and the “project mimics the informal artistic context of this popular street, human sculptures and craftsmen, bringing diverse realities and enabling greater empathy between the agents that cohabit in the public space.” The installation was the work of BlaBlabLAB.
Be Your Own Souvenir! from blablabLAB on Vimeo.
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