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Please enjoy this edition of 3D Print Weekly at your leisure! Dutch Design Week happened in the last week of October, so a few articles in this edition are related. Wish I could have been there, don't you?
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Feature
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"Digital fabrication also takes the expensive parts of traditional manufacturing and makes them cheap. In mass production, the more complicated a product is and the more changes you make, the more it costs. But with digital fabrication, it’s the reverse: The traits that are expensive in traditional manufacturing become free."
Read more on Wired
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DIY
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"Printing furniture, lamps, picture frames, art, etc. could elevate the usefulness of 3d printing. A combination of available designs, shrink free printing and downward printer costs could combine to make "in house manufacturing" more desirable."
Read the Instructable (and download the files free!)
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Innovation
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"Dutch Design Week: architect Brian Peters has adapted a desktop 3D printer to produce ceramic bricks for building architectural structures"
Read more on dezeen magazine
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Conservation
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“We currently use one of the most natural looking concrete and mould systems available to build our reefs, but these 3D printed units are amazing in comparison. You can’t tell the difference from real rock and the advantage is that we can engineer them to have very specific features that suit target marine species.”
Read more on Ponoko
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Kickstarter Printers
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Another one hits Kickstarter!
"We wanted a printer that not only prints well, but also looks great. A printer that would be a conversation piece that looked good on an office desk, in your home or at school. We went through many design iterations until we found a design we felt was clean and simple. A design that was inspired by speedboats and sexy cars."
Read more on Kickstarter
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