Digitization of fabrication is where you don’t just digitize design, but the materials and the process. The computer program doesn’t just describe the thing but becomes the thing.
Digital fabrication is a type of manufacturing process where the machine used is controlled by a computer. The most common forms of digital fabrication are:
CNC Machining It is a computer controlled cutting process that uses a milling cutter to remove material from the surface of a work-piece. The milling cutter is a rotary cutting tool, often with multiple cutting points. As opposed to drilling, where the tool is advanced along its rotation axis, the cutter in milling is usually moved perpendicular to its axis so that cutting occurs on the circumference of the cutter. The milling process removes material by performing many separate, small cuts. This is accomplished by using a cutter with many teeth, spinning the cutter at high speed, or advancing the material through the cutter slowly; most often it is some combination of these three approaches. Shapes are cut out of wooden sheets
3D Printing Some times also called Additive Manufacturing (AM), are processes used to synthesize a three-dimensional object in which successive layers of material are formed under computer control to create the object. These objects can be of almost any shape or geometry and are produced from digital model data 3D model. Commonly used methods to melt or soften material to produce layers are Fused
Deposition Modeling (FDM), Selective Laser Melting (SLM) and Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), Objects are built up out of layers of metal or plastic
Laser Cutting It is a technology that uses a laser to cut materials, it works by directing the output of a high-power laser most commonly through optics. The laser optics and CNC (computer numerical control) are used to direct the material or the laser beam generated. CO2 and Solid State are the two main types of lasercutter used. Materials like metal are burnt or melted by a laser beam
There are a huge range of digital fabrication techniques. The important aspect that unifies them is that the machines can reliably be programmed to make consistent products from digital designs.
14 years ago, most businesses hadn’t even heard of 3D printing, let alone experimented with printing objects in material like plastic or metal. But one research institute was already laying the foundation for building its own 3D printer for an altogether more complex material: human tissue.
Tissue and organs transplants have been used in medicine for decades to help patients whose own tissue has become diseased or damaged — skin grafts for burns victims, for example, or using a piece of patellar tendon to replace a ruptured ligament. Typically they come from donors or are moved from a healthy part of a patient’s body to a damaged part, but scientists from Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) have developed a prototype printer that could one day be used to print tissue sections designed to fit a person’s unique condition.
Have you ever wondered what might be possible with just a little extra design knowledge in your back pocket?
Turns out, to take your social media images from good to great, is a reasonable leap. And it all starts with a good foundation and understanding of some key design terms and principles.
If you’re looking to take your social media images to the next level and become a better marketer, check out this design dictionary for a crash course on how to better understand design.
There were black and white portraits hanging in the vestibule of the Human by Design conference. Within each baroque, gold leaf frame was a model sporting a futuristic, photoshopped prosthetic. They seemed well-suited to an event that was itself a sort of hybrid—part intellectual forum, part sales pitch. Courageous, CNN’s “branded content” shop, had assembled the day of panels, guest speakers, and documentary-lite fare alongside Square Enix, to buoy promotion of the latter’s upcoming game,Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Academics weighed the implications of transhumanism. Futurist artists sketched out the idea of “cyborg” as a self-identifier. Most strikingly, presenters showed off the bleeding-edge prosthetics and body modifications that enable them to grip, walk, see, and hear—in some cases even beyond normal human ranges.
Digital technology is taking over the world, and scientists are hard at work finding better ways to store data — lots of it and for long periods of time. Scientists are exploring new materials for data storage as well as new methods for printing data on their chosen medium. While some companies are storing data on the ocean floor, other imagineers look upward, dreaming of giant storage skyscrapers. With so many different innovations happening in such a short period of time, the race is on to unlock the keys to near-limitless data storage potential.
The prolific industrial designer Richard Sapper had already designed for everyone from Alessi to Knoll to FIAT when he received a call from his friend Paul Rand asking if he wanted to be chief industrial design consultant at IBM. It was 1979. Rand was leading the graphic design department, and Eliot Noyes, the previous industrial design consultant, had died a few years prior. But Sapper wasn’t immediately won over.
“Before joining IBM, I worked for Brionvega for 20 years designing television sets, which are more or less the same, and as ugly, as computers,” Sapper tells designer and author Jonathan Olivares in his new book on the designer. At the time, computers were large, bulky machines, rendered mostly in a “hideous beige” as Sapper puts it. IBM was flooded with money from its mainframe computer business, but had grown too fast for its organizational structure to keep up. Bureaucracy often got in the way of good design—something Sapper would strive to change.
Chair design in the 1960s continued to explore new materials, in particular plastic: Robin Day and Verner Panton were two keen proponents. Work from Danish design heavy hitters remained very much in evidence and Hans J. Wegner introduced two rather uncommon designs: The Oculus and Shell Chair. Pop art made an especial appearance: in Yrjö Kukkapuro’s Karuselli Lounge Chair and Verner Panton’s Classic Panton Chair.
Appropriation” is a concept that has gotten a lot of attention over the past few years. This is when someone takes an idea or cultural practice and uses it for purposes that are contrary to the will of its originators. While the term is usually invoked in cases of “cultural appropriation” — which occurs when the creative labor of a marginalized group is exploited by members of a more powerful group — it can be relevant at other times, as well. For instance, there is surely no better way to describe how anarchist forces made use of modern art during the Spanish Civil War, when they borrowed the ideas of Bauhaus-affiliated artists as well as the Surrealists to design psychological torture chambers.
This shocking story was uncovered in the early 2000s by José Milicua, a Spanish art historian. Milicuawas rifling through records from the Spanish Civil War when he discovered the testimony of Alphonse Laurencic, a French architect turned revolutionary who claimed to have designed very unusual prison cells to house fascist soldiers captured on the battlefield.
America, land of the free. Yeah, right. Tell that to the nearly 7 million people incarcerated in the US prison system. The United States holds the dubious distinction of having the highest per capita incarceration rate of any nation on the planet — 716 inmates for every 100,000 population. We lock up more of our own people than Saudi Arabia, Kazakhstan or Russia. And once you’re in, you stay in. A 2005 study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) followed 400,000 prisoners in 30 states after their release and found that within just three years, more than two-thirds had been rearrested. That figure rose to over 75 percent by 2010.
Change is already happening. Police departments across the country are adopting the mantra “work smarter, not harder” and are leveraging big data to do it. For example, in February of 2014, the city of Chicago launched the Custom Notification Program, staging early interventions with people who were most likely to commit (or be the victim of) violent crime but who were not under investigation for such. The city sent police, community leaders and clergy to the person’s house, imploring them to change their ways and offering social services. According to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, of the 60 people approached far, not one has since been involved in a felony.
The major brands won’t admit it, but it’s pretty hard to innovate in the pizza-making industry. Stuffed crust and sausage-ringed pizza are now well established, so companies like Domino’s and Pizza Hut are turning to clever marketing gimmicks to ensure sales keep ticking over. One such stunt is today’s launch of the “world’s first playable DJ pizza box” from Pizza Hut, which is a standard cardboard container rigged up with touch-sensitive decks, a mixer and other controllable buttons.
Created by printed electronics expert Novalia, the battery-powered box connects to your computer or smartphone via Bluetooth and is compatible with DJ software like Serato DJ. As Rinse FM’s DJ Vectra demonstrates in the video embedded in the link, you can scratch, rewind, control pitch and crossfade.
Audi has announced it is rolling out a feature in some of its new vehicles that allows them to communicate with traffic lights. It’s a neat trick that customers might like: they can watch as a timer counts down until a red light turns green, or the system can warn drivers approaching a green light that it’s going to change, and advise them to start braking.
It’s more than just a gimmick, though. The death of traffic lights has been predicted for some time, and Audi’s move is the first sign that their decline might come quickly.
Traffic lights are an imperfect solution for an imperfect world. We human drivers are forced to sit at red lights while a lane of crossing traffic gets the green, then another gets a left turn arrow, and then, finally, we can be on our way. It’s bad for congestion on the roads, the pollution from all those idling engines adds up, and in the era of the smartphone there’s no guarantee that someone in front of you will actually go when the light turns green.
This lightsaber uses old camera parts as the basis of the build, which isexactly what the prop designers used for the original Star Wars lightsaber in 1977.
In order to get that impressive detail, Tested used a FormLabs Form 2printer, an expensive, pro-level machine that uses special resins and, fittingly, lasers. So you likely can’t recreate this build perfectly with any old 3D printer, but you can sure try.
We all loved growing up with Lego and Lincoln Logs, but it can be easy to see why a child raised on iPad screens might crave more animation and interactivity—all of the magic of pixels, along with the fun of physical constructs. Which is probably why we continue to be amazed by projects like Koski, the final project of RCA graduate Václav Mlynář, recently highlighted at Dezeen.
Koski is a board game consisting of a few Jenga-like blocks and some plastic discs straight out of Tiddlywinks. But these pieces hold two secrets. First, they’re magnetic, so the blocks can be stacked and branched like trees, and the discs can be slapped onto any surface as ornamentation. And second, the discs are tracked by an iPad, which uses augmented reality to add a little blue man and various obstacles, like trees and waterfalls, to the scene.
What Do I Need to Learn in Design School?
The curse of many a designer is that they’re too right-brain, unwilling to let the realities of business interfere with their creativity. Online education platform The Skool is attempting to counter this by teaching business skills to creatives. (Insert joke here about proper spelling.) As part of their mission, The Skool has a YouTube channel where they, well, school creatives on skills they should be practicing in order to further their careers.
A recent episode is “What Do I Need to Learn in Design School?” where award-winning designer Chris Do, the founder of UX and business design consultancy Blind, Inc., imparts several important principles to a group of Art Center students.
So, if 3D printing is the future, what kind of future are we building if we don’t adopt sustainable plastic printing practices?
After spending time in Africa, and realizing the environmental, medical, and social effects of irresponsible waste management across the globe, Jasper Middendorp founded Reflow in an attempt to break the cycle. Reflow converts recyclable plastic into ethical, high-quality 3D printing filament. It’s pretty amazing that the entire operation requires only three pieces of equipment: a plastic shredder, cleaner and extruder— all of which are available through open source license.
After countless Tweets, Facebook posts, and who knows what else to promote the honored projects, the final votes for the 2016 Community Choice Prize have been tallied and all 15 Winners – 1 Grand Prize Winner and 14 Category Winners – have been set.
Darth Vader’s iconic status has made the character a synonym for evil in popular culture. I always wanted to have an action figure of Vader. In the school makerspace we have a 3D printer at our disposal and I thought why not print a figure for myself.
It took 2 hours to print the model at 0.1 mm resolution and in the end the figure came out to be pretty awesome. The kids in the school went crazy when they saw the figure. All of them wanted to print a model for themselves.
After printing the model I thought why not do a photo shoot to make Darth Vader look bad ass. I made the setup in front of an abstract painting which my friend had made. I had two hexbug battle spider with me, which I ended up using in the shoot. I placed the printed figure and spiders on a towel. I used the towel to give a feel of a terrain. I had printed the model without cape, so I had to make one on my own.
The photos show Darth Vader with two spiders on an isolated landscape looking for signs of Luke Skywalker.
3D printing needs no introduction. People are already saying that 3D printing is signalling to the beginning of the 3rd Industrial Revolution. Due to the advancement in CAD modelling software, user interface, computer hardware and open availability of schematics for building your own 3D printer on platforms like Instructables we are heading towards the concept of “If you can imagine it, you can build it”
Companies like Autodesk are focusing a lot on the gamut of 3D printing hardware and it’s allied software. It has come up with 123 Design suit which makes 3D printing and other rapid prototyping sort of kid’s play. They have software ranging from app based 3D scanner to circuit making to online CAD modelling. The learning curve for this suit is not that step and the best part is that kids are able to pick it up super quick. We are setting up a makerspace in Riverside School and I see kids making wonderful stuff with the software.
When it comes to 3D printing hardware then a lot of people already know about Makerbot. I’ve personally used their printers and they are quite good for home or educational purpose. The 3D printer “Creator Bot” which we are using in the school is built by a bunch of awesome people from Bangalore. The resolution and finish of the printer is as good as the mass manufacturer Makerbot but at a fraction of the cost. Head to Creator Bot website to check out the things they have to offer.
We are building our own 3D models as well as downloading some for free from thingiverse. It so much fun to see a 3D CAD model come to life in front of your eyes.
3D printed Lamp made using Creator Bot
Creator Bot printing low poly Vader.
Creator Bot 3D printing Vader head.
Creator Bot printed Raspberry Pi case. 3D model downloaded from thingiverse.
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