Oh hai! Please enjoy this week's edition of 3D Print Weekly.
Above is an example from REALITAT's latest project: 'Microsonic Landscapes' - an algorithmic exploration of the music we love. The above landscape is the result of the song 'Another World', by Antony & the Johnsons.
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Innovation
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"Space boffins over at NASA are testing their new Electron Beam Freeform Fabrication, or “EBF3” (a method of 3D printing that involves melting metal and using a rotating vacuum platform to shape it), as a means of printing in space."
Read more on 3D Printing is Cool
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"While there are a number of affordable 3D printers on the market, they’re mainly all plastic printers. The Imagine printer from Essential Dynamics can print using anything you can mash up fine enough, meaning 3D printed food is a reality at a consumer level."
Read more on I Heart Chaos
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Politics
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"The National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute will provide the innovation infrastructure needed to support new additive manufacturing technology and products in order to become a global center of excellence for additive manufacturing.
The Department of Energy anticipates that additive processes would be able to save more than 50% energy use compared to today’s ‘subtractive’ manufacturing processes."
Read more on Whitehouse
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Design
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"In this insightful interview, Neri Oxman,architect, designer and professor of Media Arts and Sciences and Director of the Mediated Matter group at the MIT Media Lab, explains the differences between 'additive' and 'subtractive' manufacturing.
Inspired by things that 'grow' in nature, Oxman uses the world's most advanced 3D printing technology - the Objet Connex500 multi-material 3D printer to produce some incredible models which will be on display at the Pompidou Center until August 6th 2012 at the 'Multiversites Creatives' exhibit.
Neri also explains 3D printing within the wider paradigm shift in technology and manufacturing - comparing it to the Gutenberg 2D print revolution of the 1440's."
Watch this video on You Tube
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Tools
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"Enthusiastic about OpenSCAD but somewhat frustrated by the limitations of its language, here is an alternative using Javascript. It's free, completely open source, still seriously under construction, based on Evan Wallace's CSG.js library and can be used from within a WebGL supporting browser."
Check out OpenJsCad on github
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"One glance to see what changed about the design over time. See what changes you made and what your collaborators contributed."
(Uses git ! Still in demo stages only, but I'm looking forward to its release - ed)
See an early demo on Cube Hero
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