EXTRUD3D 3D NEWS

A blog showcasing the booming world of 3D printing

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Wrecords by Monkey Asks for Help in the Wake of Fraud

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For all you smokers out there, it's another cold one today. Keep your gloves on and say bye to frostbite ❄️🚬

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Thanksgiving Snapouts! #3DBK #3DBrooklyn #3Dprint #3Dprinter #3Dprinted #3Dprinting #Cubify #Cube #3Dsystems #Invent #Shapeways #Makerbot #Thingiverse #Thanksgiving #Turkey #Festive #Feast

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Since its first public appearance in 2012, Google Glass, the companies augmented reality headset, has creates quite a buzz.  Made of a stamp sized transparent plastic, a thin wire frame and a one sided ear wire, Google glass will allow users to experience Google’s search, maps, and other features in real-time.

Now that the project has reached an advanced prototyping phase Google has started to use 3D printers to custom fit each Glass prototype to the wearer.  It isn’t clear what type of sizing Glass will have when it eventually reaches the market, but with the amount of money Google has, maybe they’ll custom print each order.

According to Google, Glass will begin rolling out to developers for testing in the coming months.

Images Courtesy of Google & TEDed

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3D printed mathematics

“University of Melbourne mathematician Dr Henry Segerman says all language is about communication, Maths is just the same. Dr Segerman has found a special way to express mathematics in 3D printed sculpture art.

Henry Segerman earned his master of Mathematics degree at University of Oxford in 2001 and then a Ph.D. in Mathematics at Stanford. Using 3D modeling software Rhinoceros and 3D printing company Shapeways’ service, Segerman has made more than 100 sculptures.

3D printing gives Segerman huge amount of freedom in the geometry. See the photo below, he used 3D printing to create these representations of regular four-dimensional polytopes, the analogues of the 3-dimensional regular polyhedra.

The 120-cell and 600-cell are shown, which have 120 dodecahedral facets and 600 tetrahedral facets respectively. The left and right objects are dual to each other, which means that the vertices of one correspond to the 3-dimensional facets of the other, and vice versa. This is illustrated in the center object, which is simply copies of the two other objects occupying the same space, interlinking with each other.” ~ 3ders.org

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re:3D large format printer. pledge on kickstarter!

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http://gizmodo.com/5990352/new-balance-adopts-3d-printing-to-create-hyper+customized-track-shoes

New Balance to make custom 3D printed shoes for athletes

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IKRAUSIM by Nick Ervinck

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love this look

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A great way to evenly smooth prints using acetone. It involves heating the acetone to a vapor, a cheap and simple process

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Saw some awesome pieces by Shane Hope of Brooklyn yesterday at the Armory Art Show in Manhattan. Very organic patterns made through precise computing, exciting to see such artistic use of 3D printing. I could stare into these for hours. He will be having a show at the Winkleman Gallery in Chelsea starting March 29, I know I'll be there.

More info:

http://shanehope.info/

http://www.winkleman.com/exhibition/view/2424

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NASA wants to 3D print lunar base too, with giant spider robots

“Last month, the European Space Agency (ESA) was teaming up with its industrial partner renowned architects Foster + Partners to test the feasibility of 3D printing using lunar soil and to build a lunar base.

It seems that NASA has also got a similar idea: using existing resources on the moon to build those structures. Space architects Tomas Rousek, Katarina Eriksson and Dr. Ondrej Doule have unveiled their vision for a lunar module which shows the potential of 3D printing technology from NASA.” ~ 3ders.org

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All of my favorite things

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3D Printed Prehistoric Tools

Sometimes it’s nice to be reminded how far we have progressed as species, and what better way to do that than combine the next hot-tipped technical revolution with the earliest gadgets known to mankind?

Two Iraeli designers have done exactly that; Ami Drach and Dov Ganchrow showcased their modern-age flint instruments at the 2012 Budapest Design Week. The encasing handles were made by 3D scanning the stone and then 3D printed to fit.

Of course, Drach and Ganchrow are not saying that flint-knapping is the future, but built the tools to raise questions and discussion: “We are fascinated by the prospect of integrating thousand-year-old cutting implements manufactured by knapping with the most contemporary cutting-edge design and manufacturing technologies.

“Here we look again as these basic tools with our current perspective and knowledge of tool making to ask the following: what happens when these two polarities meet? How will their meeting affect the ‘natural’ existence of each entity? What new forms are generated? How does the digital age influence the making of such tools? And how does ‘craft’ get updated in the process?”

Ami Drake sadly passed away last month at the age of 49.

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Great use of using 3D scans in conjunction with printing for an ultra modern take on stone age technology 

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Everything in it’s Right Place on 3d-printed record.

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1. Thingiverse - the most popular and the biggest database of free files designed for 3d printing

2. Willit 3D Print? - “website using javascript and webgl, where you can analyse your 3D design (STL or AMF files) before you 3D print it”

3. RepRap Calculator v2 - “useful set of...

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A very handy set of links

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Here’s a little night-light I made out of a house I actually built on the Nerdcrafteria Minecraft server. 

I wrote a proper blog post about the construction process too HERE

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An innovative project that stands out from other 3D prints

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Nokia makes it easy to replace your Lumia hull—if you have a 3D printer, that is

Pretty awesome the way Nokia is teaming up with MakerBot to let you print new outer shells to its Lumia phones.

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I think the customizable aspect of 3D printing is one of the most important, especially when it comes to catching the eyes of consumers. Awesome to see two companies teaming up together for a project like this. And the best part is that it isn't a case!

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Such a nice design, where the packaging really makes the project stand out. The artist left no detail out, making for a beautiful concept.