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I cannot wrap my mind around this concept!
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Ms. Sarah said:
Forget the printer, Ms Sarah.
I've got something 3-D you can wrap your mind around.
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Art Mann said:
I will wrap more than my mind around your '3-D'. :biggrin2:
(lol there's a new pet name for your penis)
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Art Mann said:
Wonder what that can be Funky & Music
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I need to print me a woman that always says yes.
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Another application for 3D printing.
3D chocolate printer creates edible masterpieces
A British company, Choc Edge, is offering to make a chocolate sculpture of your face. Customers who submit a photo of themselves through the company's website, along with the requisite $90 to $140 fee, will receive a 3D replica of their face in either milk, dark or white chocolate.
Hao founded Choc Edge to develop what is believed to be the world's first 3D chocolate printer. To create the chocolate designs and facial sculptures, the printer first melts the chocolate, then tempers it -- a tricky heat technique that ensures the hardened chocolate is shiny and offers a favourable snap. It is then dispensed to form the desired shape or design in gradual layers of 0.05 mm each.
Along with life-like faces, the printers can create perfectly formed chocolate letters, words and shapes -- including snowmen and intricate snowflakes.
3D chocolate printer creates edible masterpieces
A British company, Choc Edge, is offering to make a chocolate sculpture of your face. Customers who submit a photo of themselves through the company's website, along with the requisite $90 to $140 fee, will receive a 3D replica of their face in either milk, dark or white chocolate.
Hao founded Choc Edge to develop what is believed to be the world's first 3D chocolate printer. To create the chocolate designs and facial sculptures, the printer first melts the chocolate, then tempers it -- a tricky heat technique that ensures the hardened chocolate is shiny and offers a favourable snap. It is then dispensed to form the desired shape or design in gradual layers of 0.05 mm each.
Along with life-like faces, the printers can create perfectly formed chocolate letters, words and shapes -- including snowmen and intricate snowflakes.
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Vince_ii said:
That looks like fun!
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Pioneering 3D printing reshapes patient's face in Wales
A survivor of a serious motorbike accident has had pioneering surgery to reconstruct his face using a series of 3D printed parts. Stephen Power, from Cardiff, is thought to be one of the first trauma patients in the world to have 3D printing used at every stage of the procedure.
Doctors at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, had to break his cheekbones again before rebuilding his face.
The UK has become one of the world's pioneers in using 3D technology in surgery, with advances also being made by teams in London and Newcastle.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-26534408
A survivor of a serious motorbike accident has had pioneering surgery to reconstruct his face using a series of 3D printed parts. Stephen Power, from Cardiff, is thought to be one of the first trauma patients in the world to have 3D printing used at every stage of the procedure.
Doctors at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, had to break his cheekbones again before rebuilding his face.
The UK has become one of the world's pioneers in using 3D technology in surgery, with advances also being made by teams in London and Newcastle.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-26534408
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Ms. Sarah said:
:YMAPPLAUSE:
[h=1]How a 3-D printed arm gave hope to boy maimed in bomb blast[/h]
https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/opinion/3d-print-arm-daniel/index.html?iref=allsearch
https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/19/opinion/3d-print-arm-daniel/index.html?iref=allsearch
Computerworld - A group of Stanford University graduate students have created an 3D printer attachment that lays down functioning circuitry right alongside the thermoplastic extruder head of an existing machine, enabling it to make functioning electronic prototypes.
"Our project enables 3D printers to deposit conductive material along with traditional plastic. The conductive material can be embedded within the 3D model and printed in the same 3D printing process," said Alex Jais, one of three students that created the print head.
The Rabbit Proto (short for prototype) 3D print head is designed to fit onto several different versions of a RepRap printer. RepRap printers are a style of machine designed to print most of their own components. For the most part, a RepRap printer can reproduce itself by extruding acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) or Polylactic acid (PLA), or other forms of thermopolymers.
"There are so many RepRap machines out there. This is a great way to bring this capability to other machines," Jais said.
The Rabbit Proto attachment enables designers and makers to speed up their prototyping and ideation process, going from computer design to interactive prototype with a click of a mouse.
A past prototype of the Rabbit Proto created parts of conductive circuits embedded within puzzle pieces. As the puzzle pieces were connected, a functioning circuit was created.
Rabbit Proto is an open source project. The printer head attachment is a syringe with a 1.37 millimeter nozzle that dispenses conductive ink -- up to 10cc's at a time. So far, the machine has used silver-filled silicone, but the engineers are now working with Bare Conductive, a company that makes conductive inks out of graphite paste.
Because it's an open source project, its creators are counting on outside developers to add functionality as the technology matures.
Jais created the Rabbit Proto project, along with fellow mechanical engineering student Rohan Maheshwari and Manal Dia, a juris doctorate student with a background in electrical engineering.
The Rabbit Proto is not alone in the market of creating 3D printed circuitry. The Australia-based Cartesian Co. created the Argentum printer, a machine that sprays out conductive inks (made of silver nano particles) onto paper, fabrics, acrylic, plastics, MDF and other fiberglass substrates, creating hard and flexible circuit boards that can even be woven into clothing.
The Kickstarter effort for the Argentum printer exceeded it's $30,000 goal by $137,000. The device will be available in September for $1,599.
The Rabbit Proto project's creators were originally going to seek funding and other help from Stanford's StartX, non-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate the development of the school's top entrepreneurs.
But then the student engineers created a working prototype whose final designs were "98% complete", and decided instead to create a start-up company once they graduate this summer.
The students are already allowing users to pre-order the print heads, which are expected to begin shipping at the beginning of the summer. The technology ranges in price from $350 for a syringe that rests beside an existing 3D printer head; $450 for a print head that replaces the one on your 3D printer to extrude both thermopolymer and conductive paste, and $2,499 for a fully assembled 3D printer that includes the Super Rabbit Extruder head.
"Our project enables 3D printers to deposit conductive material along with traditional plastic. The conductive material can be embedded within the 3D model and printed in the same 3D printing process," said Alex Jais, one of three students that created the print head.
The Rabbit Proto (short for prototype) 3D print head is designed to fit onto several different versions of a RepRap printer. RepRap printers are a style of machine designed to print most of their own components. For the most part, a RepRap printer can reproduce itself by extruding acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) or Polylactic acid (PLA), or other forms of thermopolymers.
"There are so many RepRap machines out there. This is a great way to bring this capability to other machines," Jais said.
The Rabbit Proto attachment enables designers and makers to speed up their prototyping and ideation process, going from computer design to interactive prototype with a click of a mouse.
A past prototype of the Rabbit Proto created parts of conductive circuits embedded within puzzle pieces. As the puzzle pieces were connected, a functioning circuit was created.
Rabbit Proto is an open source project. The printer head attachment is a syringe with a 1.37 millimeter nozzle that dispenses conductive ink -- up to 10cc's at a time. So far, the machine has used silver-filled silicone, but the engineers are now working with Bare Conductive, a company that makes conductive inks out of graphite paste.
Because it's an open source project, its creators are counting on outside developers to add functionality as the technology matures.
Jais created the Rabbit Proto project, along with fellow mechanical engineering student Rohan Maheshwari and Manal Dia, a juris doctorate student with a background in electrical engineering.
The Rabbit Proto is not alone in the market of creating 3D printed circuitry. The Australia-based Cartesian Co. created the Argentum printer, a machine that sprays out conductive inks (made of silver nano particles) onto paper, fabrics, acrylic, plastics, MDF and other fiberglass substrates, creating hard and flexible circuit boards that can even be woven into clothing.
The Kickstarter effort for the Argentum printer exceeded it's $30,000 goal by $137,000. The device will be available in September for $1,599.
The Rabbit Proto project's creators were originally going to seek funding and other help from Stanford's StartX, non-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate the development of the school's top entrepreneurs.
But then the student engineers created a working prototype whose final designs were "98% complete", and decided instead to create a start-up company once they graduate this summer.
The students are already allowing users to pre-order the print heads, which are expected to begin shipping at the beginning of the summer. The technology ranges in price from $350 for a syringe that rests beside an existing 3D printer head; $450 for a print head that replaces the one on your 3D printer to extrude both thermopolymer and conductive paste, and $2,499 for a fully assembled 3D printer that includes the Super Rabbit Extruder head.
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LIX: The World’s Smallest 3D Printing Pen Lets You Draw in the Air
LIX: The World’s Smallest 3D Printing Pen Lets You Draw in the Air
Imagine the possibilities?.
LIX is the latest contender in the handheld 3D-printing field. Launched just a few hours ago on Kickstarter, the developers say the super compact design is smaller than any other pen on the market and it can even be powered by the electricity from a USB port. After turning it on the LIX takes less than a minute to heat up and you’re ready to start creating vertical illustrations. Via LIX:
LIX 3D printing pen has the similar function as 3D printers. It melts and cools coloured plastic, letting you create rigid and freestanding structures. Lix has a hot-end nozzle that is power supplied from USB 3.0 port.
The plastic filament ABS/PLA is introduced in the upper extremity of Lix Pen. The filament goes through a patented mechanism while moving through the pen to finally reach the hot-end nozzle which melts and cools it down. An interesting fact about this light-weight, engineered pen is that these structures can be formed in any imaginable shape.
The LIX pen has a much sleeker form and a finer tip than similar devices we’ve seen like the 3Doodler, though it’s a bit more expensive. See more on their website. (via Mashable)
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014...est-3d-printing-pen-lets-you-draw-in-the-air/
LIX: The World’s Smallest 3D Printing Pen Lets You Draw in the Air
Imagine the possibilities?.
LIX is the latest contender in the handheld 3D-printing field. Launched just a few hours ago on Kickstarter, the developers say the super compact design is smaller than any other pen on the market and it can even be powered by the electricity from a USB port. After turning it on the LIX takes less than a minute to heat up and you’re ready to start creating vertical illustrations. Via LIX:
LIX 3D printing pen has the similar function as 3D printers. It melts and cools coloured plastic, letting you create rigid and freestanding structures. Lix has a hot-end nozzle that is power supplied from USB 3.0 port.
The plastic filament ABS/PLA is introduced in the upper extremity of Lix Pen. The filament goes through a patented mechanism while moving through the pen to finally reach the hot-end nozzle which melts and cools it down. An interesting fact about this light-weight, engineered pen is that these structures can be formed in any imaginable shape.
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014...est-3d-printing-pen-lets-you-draw-in-the-air/
