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3DIY is an exploration into the range of functions that a consumer 3D printer can perform. It takes shape as an Ikea furniture hacking kit. A DIY system in a sense, the Ikea build‑it‑yourself environment is the perfect opportunity to introduce a...

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3DIY Version 0.02

I’m thrilled to be restarting this project after 2 years of research and learning. Hopefully this blog document of my struggles helps someone out there trying to do something similar.

This is my map of my 10 week bootcamp for creating a small collection of design products that incorporate available advanced manufacturing techniques. In this project I hope to emerge with an idea of the necessities needed to develop my own set of designed goods that I am proud of, that the things I’m selling are lasting in quality, that they serve a unique or useful purpose and most importantly, that they teach me something I can share with others about the ever-evolving process of product design. also, PINK. Forever.

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Thingiverse Featured Thing!

The MARIUS hack was a featured thing recently.

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D+T Symposium Presentation

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The MFA DT program at Parsons examines and extends the intersection of design and technology for practical, playful, theoretical, and artistic impact. Students deepen their practice and theory of design as they critique, leverage, or develop emerging technologies for creative change.

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Come see my work!

The MFA Design+Technology Thesis Exhibition gallery is open to the public Monday-Friday 10am - 10pm and Saturday 10am - 4pm at 6 E16th Street, 6th floor. Show goes until May 24th.

See 3DIY in person as well as some amazing art work, play some designer games and experience technology like never before.

more info @ mfadt.parsons.edu/2013

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Final Print!

thesis show opens May 8th! more info on the exhibition website HERE

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hooks n hooks n a bracket

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3DIY collection on Thingiverse!

We're growing and sharing!

DOWNLOAD YOUR HACKS TODAY!

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MARIUS Hack – risers

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Gallery Space

claimed and at the ready!

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Full-on production stage

The MFA D+T exhibition opens in a week and I'm just printing out stuff constantly and hoping I won't have to make many more changes. Here are some hooks I rendered today to make into bungees so that the brackets cooperate and stay put.

The hooks are prototypes for the prototypes, haha.

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ONWARD!

No ribs, playing with thickness to mimic topology optimization instead. Until volumetric design principles are baked in to design software it's going to be a lot of manual mimicing of software that mimics nature. Weird.

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Topology Optimization OR Ribbon Candy Doodles

So. This bracket is an encouraging step in the right direction. However I am learning that you can't fudge rigid plastics like you can fabric. they won't "stretch into shape"

This design prints well on an additive machine, is lightweight and strong and has potential to function in a wonderfully weird and modular way. It's gestural and and yet references an aspect of digital fabrication that I have only just learned about, namely, Topology Optimization.  Based on the 19th century research called Wolff's Law on bone growth, topology optimization constrains automated and parametric designs to the criteria of load bearing and material realities, not unlike how a bone will grow to adapt based one where load is placed. Biomimicry! It's all the rage these days!

Until recently this specialized design process was largely relegated to aeronautic and automotive design, and for good reason: it makes a stronger, lighter functional piece out of less material. But it also, until recently, required a great deal of expertise and expensive engineering software. And forget machine tooling and traditional manufacturing to produce something designed this way. As software companies and opensource coders spar to make the "killer app" for 3D printing, topology optimization should factor heavily into any successful design software package if companies like Shapeways want to literally scale their production beyond jewelry and iPhone cases. 

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fresh out' the box

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Moving on...

to a production process that embraces the limitations of the machine, that being the need for a flat side for build up. moving from this, which, as you can see needed a little, ahem* help connecting properly:

to something more like this:

to be continued tomorrow...

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3DIY.cc cards

DIY indeed