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From Ceramics Monthly comes a recipe for 3D printing ceramics clay and description of development of process.In the Solheim Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory (located in the Mechanical Engineering Building at the University of Washington in Seattle), our research focuses on new and improved methods to describe complex shapes in a way that a computer can “understand” and to fabricate those shapes in

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From Desktopfactory website: Until now, 3D printers have been large, expensive machines confined to the shops and design departments of major corporations and elite design firms. With the introduction of the Desktop Factory 3D printer, priced disruptively lower than the nearest competitive offering, Desktop Factory becomes the leader in high performance low-cost 3D printing

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Beaming Up 3-D Objects on a Budget - New York Times

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You may have never heard of Ping Fu. But chances are her work has touched you in some way. Fu has spent decades envisioning new uses for computers. Now she thinks she's really on to something: a technology that can scan three-dimensional objects, recreating them first virtually, and then in the real world.Fu came to American in 1982 and co-founded her company, Geomagic, in 1996. It is

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PASADENA, Calif.--In a new development in nanotechnology, a researcher at the California Institute of Technology has devised a way of weaving DNA strands into any desired two-dimensional shape or figure, which he calls "DNA origami.""The construction of custom DNA origami is so simple that the method should make it much easier for scientists from diverse fields to create and study the complex

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Minneapolis, Jan 24 - (Nasdaq: SSYS) Stratasys announced it has reached an agreement with Arcam AB, Gothenburg, Sweden, for Stratasys to be the exclusive North American distributor of Arcam® rapid manufacturing and prototyping systems.In Arcam’s patented electron-beam melting (EBM) process, called CAD to Metal®, titanium powder is transformed into solid metal parts for either functional

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It is the world’s first electron microscope for simultaneously and automatically investigating in three-dimensions the phase content, crystallographic texture, and crystal interfaces of materials.This allows scientists to see the inner structure of nanomaterials, biological matter, and high-performance steels, in ways that other microscopic procedures cannot - and in full 3D.The 3D gradient of

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The Eyebeam OpenLab has been experimenting with making solid models from figures created in the Second Life online world.They evidently import the virtual objects into Maya then print it on a 3D printer.They don't give many details but promise that they will tell all in an upcoming book.MAKE: Blog: What a 3D Printer can't do...

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Charles ChoiThree-dimensional tubes of living tissue have been printed using modified desktop printers filled with suspensions of cells instead of ink. The work is a first step towards printing complex tissues or even entire organs."This could have the same kind of impact that Gutenberg's press did," claims tissue engineer Vladimir Mironov of the Medical University of South Carolina.Many labs can

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Researchers, at the Lawrence Berkeley (Calif.) National Laboratory, have used a new approach to create an exceptionally rugged substance that may serve as a scaffold for new bone growth. The method also works well with nonbiological materials, report Sylvain Deville and his colleagues in the Jan. 27 Science. Using it, the team has fabricated novel metal-ceramic composites that benefit from a

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Savvy builders that resort to using vague and misleading artist renderings of projects in order to receive necessary approvals are finding themselves battling local residents and business owners that are now demanding full scale models of proposed projects prior to their being approved."Large scale models, topo tables and accurate virtual architecture are the best ways for construction companies,

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Trying to make it easier to create 3D objects with a drawing board. This drawing table moves up and down and changes the users view of the object they are drawing.From The 3D Tractus: A Three-Dimensional Drawing Board (pdf)We present the 3D Tractus: a simple and inexpensive system for interaction and exploration of three-dimensional (3D) data. The device is based on a traditional drawing

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The American Crystallographic Association newsletter holds contests to showccase the crystallographic art of the associations members. The entries show the crystallography and explain the process for creating the work.The winner of the latest competition is "Blood 2,000,000X," a watercolor that reveals Y-shaped antibodies, cholesterol molecules, and other well-known compounds in the vicinity of a

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Disney site lets customers design productsDisney's online shopping site on Wednesday launched its first "You design it" feature in a move aimed at riding the fast-growing trend toward giving choosy Internet shoppers exactly what they want.Disney partnered with online customization site Zazzle.com, which licenses thousands of images from Warner Bros., Marvel Comics, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox,

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It is not surprising that a manager at Autodesk, a leading source for design and manufacturing software, would say that 3D models are becoming the universal language. I am sure they would hope so, since 3D modeling software is their product. Regardless, Robert Kross, vice president, Autodesk's Manufacturing Solutions division, makes some goods points in this article from Industry

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No one's even sure what to call it. "Claytronics," "synthetic reality" and "programmable matter" have been proposed. "Dynamic physical rendering" is the label Intel uses."I'm still working on my 'elevator pitch,' " said Randy Bryant, dean of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, noting he struggles to find a quick way to describe it to potential sponsors. The National Science Foundation

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Robot hammers on sheet metalRapid prototyping makes it possible to quickly produce or modify tools and structural components, as one-off jobs or in small batches. A unique process allows 3D portraits and other patterns to be hammered into car bonnets or other sheet metal.“Incremental” means hammering or pressing a part into shape in gradual stages. In the metal-hammering process developed at the

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Roland Advanced Solutions Division (ASD) introduced the LPX-600 desktop 3D laser scanner. With the touch of a button, the LPX-600 samples an object, scans it, and automatically generates a detailed model with a watertight surface.The LPX-600 comes complete with LPX EZ Studio reverse engineering software. This integrated hardware/software system is an ideal 3D capture solution for all popular CAD/

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From wmmna:The design products department at the Royal College of Art in London and 3D Systems teamed up to create products that could only be made by 3D printing. Check out more pictures on flikr.According to wmmna this gun worked right off the machine.we make money not art: Rapid Products

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Nanotech discovery could have radical implicationsSalvatore Torquato, a Princeton University scientist, is proposing turning a central concept of nanotechnology on its head. If the theory bears out it could have radical implications not just for industries like telecommunications and computers but also for our understanding of the nature of life.Torquato and colleagues have published a paper in

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By Lois M. Collins Deseret Morning News An emerging branch of medicine called "organ printing" takes a patient's own healthy cells and uses a printer, cell-based "bio-ink" and "bio-paper" to create tissue to repair a damaged organ. Now a hydrogel or "bio-paper" developed by a University of Utah College of Pharmacy professor is a key component of a $5 million National Science

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Chains of 1 million magnetic nanoparticles have been assembled and disassembled in a solution of suspended particles in a controlled way, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report. Such particles and structures, once their properties are more fully understood and can be manipulated reliably, may be useful in applications such as medical imaging and information

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Design works by Lionel Theodore Dean. tuber9"Using rapid prototyping techniques, it costs the same to produce similar parts as identical ones, so why produce two products the same?Envisage a future with 'living' consumer products, forms that grow, change, and mutate on screen.At any given moment a product may be frozen creating a unique design, digitally manufactured and delivered to the door."

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Military hardware is aging fast. In some cases, it's older than the soldiers who use it. Spare parts are required to keep this equipment running, but many of the companies that supplied them have long left the business, and drawings and documentation may no longer exist. Reverse-engineering firms have stepped in to re-create the parts using the latest computerized numerical control machinery,

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NYC design firm Firstborn has invented an computerized foot analyzer to automate sizing your feet for perfect shoes.The machine was designed for Fila Adatto line of customized shoes.The automated sales person measures your foot and creates a 3D map.The machine analyzes the results of the measurements and designs a perfect shoe for your foot. A stock of shoe parts are kept at the store so a human

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Pioneer has demonstrated a 3D computer interface. You move your finger in the air to make and modify a seemingly floating object.A sensor monitors the postion of the finger in space. A projector of 15 LCD elements generates the floating inage. No special glasses or lenses are needed to see the image.Page Translation

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Sorry about the lack of posts. I am in refuge at a friends house for a few days due to hurricane Rita.You can follow the progress here.

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Contour Crafting is a layered fabrication technology developed by Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California. Contour Crafting technology has great potential for automating the construction of whole structures as well as sub-components. Using this process, a single house or a colony of houses, each with possibly a different design, may be automatically constructed in a single

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Tactile PhotographyIn collaboration with Venezuelan artist Mariliana Arvelo James Patten created this series of tactile photographic prints as part of a project about the deafblind community in Boston, called "Senses". The works are produced through a CNC laser etching process that removes the top portion of the wood. The darker the image is a any particular point, the more wood is removed by the

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The trail of trust and treachery reveals the dynamic history of Kami-Robo wrestling. At the same time, the character of each wrestler becomes more apparent with each fight. Some are macho, some timid, some shrewd, some stubborn. Both in and out of the ring, the fighters have lives and stories to tell.Kami-robo are cardboard robots are a creation of Shukan Taishu. There are over 200 different

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An art installation of urban landscape made from the combination of artifactured 'geography' with live action projected onto it.The model brings a tangible presence to the place and the live webcam feed brings it to life.Highlights the seperation between permanent and transient. Webcams give us the possibility to have a look at distant places/times in realtime. Roermond-Ecke-Schönhauser, by

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Most people try to extract the important information out of the flood of daily emails. Why not extract the noise? And express the noise as an artifact while you're at it. Art!E-mail Erosion is an installation that automatically creates sculptures, using spam and e-mail as data to trigger the sculpting process.The installation, viewable via four webcams, consists of a powder-coat painted, steel

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"Though seemingly obvious, the property of “straightness” turns out to be a subtle and surprisingly fecund concept. Understanding this quality ultimately led mathematicians to discover a radical new kind of space that had hitherto seemed abhorrent and impossible."Daina Taimina, a visiting professor at Cornell University, has come up with a way to translate the geometrical concept of hyperbolic

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John von Neumann first formalized the idea of a self-replicating machine in the 1940’s. The idea is still radical because the very definition of life includes the ability to reproduce. People fear the idea of a “sorcerer’s apprentice” scenario of a self-replicating machine running madly out of control. With nanotechnology or molecular manufacturing, this open-loop condition leads to ‘gray goo’

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Research has been continuing for ten years or more into Tangible User Interfaces. This is an exploration of better, ways to interface the physical world with the internal workings of computers. The narrow and intellectually dense interface channels limit the productivity of computers.There was a huge leap in simplicity from text, DOS, based computers to the Graphical User Interface, GUI. The

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Okay, this may be a bit abstract, but it is an important part of artifacturing.Personal creation of everyday objects used for everyday tasks or for everyday enlightenment and appreciation was obsoleted by the Industrial Revolution. The factory replaced the need for personal works of tools, dishes, furniture...It replaced the need to produce the artifacts, but did it replace the human need for

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A new low cost system that illustrates immediately a 3D model of a room has been developed by an Israeli company, EZ2CAD. The system facilitates the performing of highly accurate computerized measurements inside buildings. It allows a single operator to measure a room and create a CAD (Computer-aided design) model in real time which can then be used to plan the further development of the interior

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Here is another simple scanner made from a laserpointer, turntable and video camera.Results are not so good but the process is pretty simple.3-D Scanner

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This exposition is on canvas and paper but it could have been presented as touchable artifacts. Sized Matter-Perception of the Extreme UnseenJan-Henrik Andersen"While sciences propose and explain our world with measurable means, visual art and design offers intellectual and emotional appreciation of that which cannot be explained by any other means, measurable or not. This freedom from the

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So how do you get objects from the real world into a digital computer?Here is one example of a cheap scanner made from spare parts and excellent software design. Project Splinescan is an open source project by Andrew Lewis aimed at low cost scanning.Although the results are not exactly engineering models, this project blazes the trail for low cost scanning.Project Splinescan

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Dreams are ephemeral experiences in which we all spend a third of our lives. Creating tangible objects that are physical manifestations of dreams can have personal, social and psychological benefits. For example, tangible dreams can be worn as unique accessories or collected for personal remembrance. The tangible dreams can also be shared between friends and family to deepen relationships. Skin

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Millwalkee School of Engineering runs the Center for Bio Molecular Modeling.From the website:The Center for BioMolecular Modeling (CBM) uses rapid prototyping technology to produce accurate, three-dimensional physical models of proteins and other biomolecules useful in both the research laboratory and in secondary and post-secondary science classrooms.In structure/function research laboratories,

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The 'blobject' comes of ageBy Gregory M. Lamb | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor SAN JOSE, CALIF. – In the 20th century, physics was king of the sciences, as Albert Einstein and his successors began unlocking our understanding of the physical world. In the 21st century, biology - the ability to understand and alter the workings of genes and living cells - is having a profound effect

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An artifact may be defined as an object that has been intentionally made or produced for a certain purpose. (A1) If an object is an artifact, it has an author. (A2) An object is an artifact if and only if it has an author.

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