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That's right, it's one D better! Actually, 4D printing is about using a 3D printer to produce self-reconfiguring, programmable material that intelligently arranges itself into basically any ...object -- with no computers or electricity required! Skylar Tibbits, an MIT researcher, has already developed prototypes from his self-assembly lab. And this is just the beginning - from skyscrapers to space stations, the promises of 4D printing are amazing.
How would you use 4D Printing? Let us know in the comments below!
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Some assembly required may soon be replaced with "Just Add Water."
3D printers. I never get tired of thinking about all the possible applications, like building a brand new coffee table, or building a brand new 3D printer, or finally getting that Strickland action figure everyone's been asking for. But all of these great products have one thing in common - rigidity. That means they're going to keep that shape once I print them, unless I take a flamethrower to them, or maybe a hacksaw. But the advent of something called 4D printing could turn all of that on its head! That's right, it's one "D" better!
Actually, it's not just a catch phrase, 4D printing is really about using a 3D printer to print out self-reconfiguring, programmable material. Now imagine this. You have a non-living object that can change its shape and behavior over time. It's kind of like a robot, but there are no microprocessors, no circuit boards no motors - in fact to you it looks like a string of plastic. But you toss it into a kiddie pool, and upon contact with water you now have a secret message spelled out in plastic cursive!
Skylar Tibbits, the man who really came up with this idea of 4D printing, has gone even further. He's created programmable sheet material. It's a sheet of plastic that, when submerged in water, can clench up into the shape of a cube. And a cube is just the beginning! More complex designs will mean millions of more shapes - like self-folding origami!
In the near future, imagine a smart grid of plumbing, with pipes that can actually expand and contract in response to water demand. Or maybe even heal if there is a frozen segment that breaks open. Or imagine self assembling furniture. Print out a flat board and just add water, next thing you know it curls up into a rocking chair. Now, wrap your mind around how useful this would be in a really hostile environment, like low Earth orbit, where building stuff comes at a high cost and a high risk.
Now the prototypes we have seen so far have been pretty simple, but the promises are amazing! Think about it on the really big scale. What about skyscrapers and bridges. If we could make them out of smart materials like smart beams and smart bricks, they could heal themselves after weather damage or prepare for something massive like an earthquake.
Or we flip it. We go on to the very small scale and now we have micro particles moving around in our bodies, maintaining our health. You might be wondering, how much complexity can build up our of stuff that changes its shape without computers or electromechanical motors. Lets think about proteins for a second. Proteins are pretty much what make any basic animal function possible on a cellular level. And a protein is really self-reconfiguring material. It's a polypeptide. It's a long chain of amino acids. So once again we're playing Copy Cat to mother nature.
Now lets not get ahead of ourselves, I'm not actually suggesting that we're going to be printing out some sort of plastic replicant that can gain self-awareness and yearn for more life But maybe we will. In fact, it's hard for us to predict right now. We're just seeing the very beginning of this technology, and the complexity could become truly amazing.
So, how would you use 4D printing? Let us know! Leave a comment below, we promise we're going to read every single one of them and while your there why don't you "like" the vide if you enjoyed it, and subscribe, we got some great stuff coming up soon!
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4D Printing is the Future of Design
Share on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1xxfZWj That's right, it's one D [...]
That's right, it's one D better! Actually, 4D printing is about using a 3D printer to produce self-reconfiguring, programmable material that intelligently arranges itself into basically any ...object -- with no computers or electricity required! Skylar Tibbits, an MIT researcher, has already developed prototypes from his self-assembly lab. And this is just the beginning - from skyscrapers to space stations, the promises of 4D printing are amazing.
How would you use 4D Printing? Let us know in the comments below!
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Some assembly required may soon be replaced with "Just Add Water."
3D printers. I never get tired of thinking about all the possible applications, like building a brand new coffee table, or building a brand new 3D printer, or finally getting that Strickland action figure everyone's been asking for. But all of these great products have one thing in common - rigidity. That means they're going to keep that shape once I print them, unless I take a flamethrower to them, or maybe a hacksaw. But the advent of something called 4D printing could turn all of that on its head! That's right, it's one "D" better!
Actually, it's not just a catch phrase, 4D printing is really about using a 3D printer to print out self-reconfiguring, programmable material. Now imagine this. You have a non-living object that can change its shape and behavior over time. It's kind of like a robot, but there are no microprocessors, no circuit boards no motors - in fact to you it looks like a string of plastic. But you toss it into a kiddie pool, and upon contact with water you now have a secret message spelled out in plastic cursive!
Skylar Tibbits, the man who really came up with this idea of 4D printing, has gone even further. He's created programmable sheet material. It's a sheet of plastic that, when submerged in water, can clench up into the shape of a cube. And a cube is just the beginning! More complex designs will mean millions of more shapes - like self-folding origami!
In the near future, imagine a smart grid of plumbing, with pipes that can actually expand and contract in response to water demand. Or maybe even heal if there is a frozen segment that breaks open. Or imagine self assembling furniture. Print out a flat board and just add water, next thing you know it curls up into a rocking chair. Now, wrap your mind around how useful this would be in a really hostile environment, like low Earth orbit, where building stuff comes at a high cost and a high risk.
Now the prototypes we have seen so far have been pretty simple, but the promises are amazing! Think about it on the really big scale. What about skyscrapers and bridges. If we could make them out of smart materials like smart beams and smart bricks, they could heal themselves after weather damage or prepare for something massive like an earthquake.
Or we flip it. We go on to the very small scale and now we have micro particles moving around in our bodies, maintaining our health. You might be wondering, how much complexity can build up our of stuff that changes its shape without computers or electromechanical motors. Lets think about proteins for a second. Proteins are pretty much what make any basic animal function possible on a cellular level. And a protein is really self-reconfiguring material. It's a polypeptide. It's a long chain of amino acids. So once again we're playing Copy Cat to mother nature.
Now lets not get ahead of ourselves, I'm not actually suggesting that we're going to be printing out some sort of plastic replicant that can gain self-awareness and yearn for more life But maybe we will. In fact, it's hard for us to predict right now. We're just seeing the very beginning of this technology, and the complexity could become truly amazing.
So, how would you use 4D printing? Let us know! Leave a comment below, we promise we're going to read every single one of them and while your there why don't you "like" the vide if you enjoyed it, and subscribe, we got some great stuff coming up soon!
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GIANT 3D Printers Make Ten Houses in Only a Day!
Share on Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1tNWcwW When it comes to 3D [...]
When it comes to 3D printers, size isn't an issue. A Chinese company called Winsun has used giant 3D printers to build ten houses in only a ...day! This technology is saving money, labor, and time, and has big implications for housing development. Are you ready to print your dream home of the future?
What do you think about 3D printing? Will it democratize manufacturing, or is it spelling the doom of the consumer market? Let us know in the comments below!
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What if you could fax someone a real, three-dimensional object? The solution might come in the form of programmable matter - a material that takes on predetermined ...shapes and can change its configuration on demand. We’re already seeing early prototypes coming from Carnegie Mellon and Intel in the form of “claytronics.” So what’s in store for this technology, and why should we be excited about it?
If you had a vat of claytronic atoms in front of you, what’s the first thing you’d build with it? Let us know in the comments below!
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We’ve talked about innovations in architecture and design in the past, [...]
We’ve talked about innovations in architecture and design in the past, and in this episode, we look at construction materials themselves and innovative technologies like growing bricks from bacteria or ...fungus! Technologies like this could have fantastic applications here on earth, primarily in reducing the energy consumption and carbon emissions for heavy construction, but think about the applications in places like Mars, where, let’s be honest, a good brick is hard to find.
How do you think we could harness biogenic materials to make human life better? Let us know in the comments below.
What if you could own a big robot made up of thousands of smaller robots, and it was able to change its shape in order to complete ...various tasks? Sounds crazy, right? Well you’d be surprised to learn that this is actually a real thing – Self-Reconfigurable Modular Robotics! From the m-blocks at MIT, to the kilobots at Harvard, there are already examples of these robots in the real world, and these little guys stand to make a BIG impact!
What three chores are you ready to shove off to a robot? Let us know in the comments below!
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Modern manufacturing is currently built around large assembly lines and lots of inventory, but in the future could all goods be created on-demand? From custom clothing to ...medicine, advancements in production technology have incredible potential.
What are your thoughts on the future potential of on-demand manufacturing? Will it be truly transformative? Let us know in the comments below!
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Our earth has had millions of years to perfect its research and [...]
Our earth has had millions of years to perfect its research and development. We're one of the finely tuned organisms created out of this terrestrial lab. So, can we harness ...the same power to put bacteria cells and other microbes to work for us?
From microwaves to molecular gastronomy, the way we cook our food has come a long way. So where do we go from here? In the future, will ...your oven know more about your food than you do? Or instead of an oven will you use a...3D printer?
What future innovation are you dying to see in the kitchen of the future? Let us know in the comments below!
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It's Not Magic: Watch How Smart Parts Self-Assemble
June 3 (Bloomberg) --- What if if a table or a bridge could build [...]
June 3 (Bloomberg) --- What if if a table or a bridge could build itself? If researchers at the self-assembly lab at MIT have their way, parts will someday put ...themselves together. Skylar Tibbits shows Bloomberg what a self-assembling future could look like. (Source: Bloomberg)
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Hydrographic printing is a well-known technique in industry for transferring color inks on a thin film ...to the surface of a manufactured 3D object. It enables high-quality coloring of object surfaces and works with a wide range of materials, but suffers from the inability to accurately register color texture to complex surface geometries. Thus, it is hardly usable by ordinary users with customized shapes and textures.
We present computational hydrographic printing, a new method that inherits the versatility of traditional hydrographic printing, while also enabling precise alignment of surface textures to possibly complex 3D surfaces. In particular, we propose the first computational model for simulating hydrographic printing pro- cess. This simulation enables us to compute a color image to feed into our hydrographic system for precise texture registration. We then build a physical hydrographic system upon off-the-shelf hardware, integrating virtual simulation, object calibration and controlled immersion. To overcome the difficulty of handling complex surfaces, we further extend our method to enable multiple immersions, each with a different object orientation, so the combined colors of individual immersions form a desired texture on the object surface. We validate the accuracy of our computational model through physical experiments, and demonstrate the efficacy and robustness of our system using a variety of objects with complex surface textures.
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3Doodler 2.0 Launch Video - The World's First 3D Printing Pen, Reinvented (Official)
The World's First 3D Printing Pen Just Got Even Better! Introducing [...]
The World's First 3D Printing Pen Just Got Even Better!
Completely redesigned from top to bottom, and housed in a sleek aluminum casing, the new 3Doodler is ...also enhanced with dual-drive technology, all aimed at giving you the best 3Doodling experience possible.
The new 3Doodler is also packed with loads of enhancements, making it smoother, sleeker, and easier to use than ever before.
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We’ve come so far since the 2015 launch of the first 3Doodler, not only improving our product but moving the entire 3D Printing Pen industry forward.
When we first launched the 3Doodler we asked the world to imagine a pen that could literally draw in the air.
Two years since the first launch, we’ve made the world’s first 3D printing pen even better, with a new and improved version that’s slimmer, lighter, quieter, and even easier to use.
The 3Doodler heats, then rapidly cool plastic, allowing instant 3D creation; and with no software or computers, the possibilities are limited only by your imagination.
To date, we’ve shipped sold over 1,000,000 3Doodler pens; and our community has used them to create amazing things: from jewelry to RC planes, fully 3Doodled dresses, architectural models, and even writing braille!
To help kickstart creativity in the classroom we’ve created a special educational bundle - complete with pens, plastic, accessories, and curricular materials - which you can send to any school, library or maker space of your choosing.
If you can draw, write or wave a finger in the air you can create with the 3Doodler.
Our Community website has hundreds of projects and stencils that you can download for free, and it’s filled with how-to videos and images of inspiring creations from around the world.
We can’t thank you enough for joining us on this amazing journey.
Forget 3D, 4D is the future! The kinks are still being worked out, but this new technology could transform life here on Earth, and even outer space. Anthony tells us ...how.
"There are 3D printers that build things up, adding one sliver of plastic at a time, and 3D mills that tear things down, grinding away one small chunk at a time. But Skylar Tibbits offer a very provocative alternative: technology for 3D printing where the chunks start separated and intelligently arrange themselves into basically any object."
"Skylar Tibbits: Can we make things that make themselves?"
"MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits works on self-assembly -- the idea that instead of building something (a chair, a skyscraper), we can create materials that build themselves, much the way a strand of DNA zips itself together."
Forget 3D, 4D is the future! The kinks are still being worked out, but [...]
Forget 3D, 4D is the future! The kinks are still being worked out, but this new technology could transform life here on Earth, and even outer space. Anthony tells us ...how.
"There are 3D printers that build things up, adding one sliver of plastic at a time, and 3D mills that tear things down, grinding away one small chunk at a time. But Skylar Tibbits offer a very provocative alternative: technology for 3D printing where the chunks start separated and intelligently arrange themselves into basically any object."
"Skylar Tibbits: Can we make things that make themselves?"
"MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits works on self-assembly -- the idea that instead of building something (a chair, a skyscraper), we can create materials that build themselves, much the way a strand of DNA zips itself together."
That's right, it's one D better! Actually, 4D printing is about using a 3D printer to produce self-reconfiguring, programmable material that intelligently arranges itself into basically any ...object -- with no computers or electricity required! Skylar Tibbits, an MIT researcher, has already developed prototypes from his self-assembly lab. And this is just the beginning - from skyscrapers to space stations, the promises of 4D printing are amazing.
How would you use 4D Printing? Let us know in the comments below!
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Some assembly required may soon be replaced with "Just Add Water."
3D printers. I never get tired of thinking about all the possible applications, like building a brand new coffee table, or building a brand new 3D printer, or finally getting that Strickland action figure everyone's been asking for. But all of these great products have one thing in common - rigidity. That means they're going to keep that shape once I print them, unless I take a flamethrower to them, or maybe a hacksaw. But the advent of something called 4D printing could turn all of that on its head! That's right, it's one "D" better!
Actually, it's not just a catch phrase, 4D printing is really about using a 3D printer to print out self-reconfiguring, programmable material. Now imagine this. You have a non-living object that can change its shape and behavior over time. It's kind of like a robot, but there are no microprocessors, no circuit boards no motors - in fact to you it looks like a string of plastic. But you toss it into a kiddie pool, and upon contact with water you now have a secret message spelled out in plastic cursive!
Skylar Tibbits, the man who really came up with this idea of 4D printing, has gone even further. He's created programmable sheet material. It's a sheet of plastic that, when submerged in water, can clench up into the shape of a cube. And a cube is just the beginning! More complex designs will mean millions of more shapes - like self-folding origami!
In the near future, imagine a smart grid of plumbing, with pipes that can actually expand and contract in response to water demand. Or maybe even heal if there is a frozen segment that breaks open. Or imagine self assembling furniture. Print out a flat board and just add water, next thing you know it curls up into a rocking chair. Now, wrap your mind around how useful this would be in a really hostile environment, like low Earth orbit, where building stuff comes at a high cost and a high risk.
Now the prototypes we have seen so far have been pretty simple, but the promises are amazing! Think about it on the really big scale. What about skyscrapers and bridges. If we could make them out of smart materials like smart beams and smart bricks, they could heal themselves after weather damage or prepare for something massive like an earthquake.
Or we flip it. We go on to the very small scale and now we have micro particles moving around in our bodies, maintaining our health. You might be wondering, how much complexity can build up our of stuff that changes its shape without computers or electromechanical motors. Lets think about proteins for a second. Proteins are pretty much what make any basic animal function possible on a cellular level. And a protein is really self-reconfiguring material. It's a polypeptide. It's a long chain of amino acids. So once again we're playing Copy Cat to mother nature.
Now lets not get ahead of ourselves, I'm not actually suggesting that we're going to be printing out some sort of plastic replicant that can gain self-awareness and yearn for more life But maybe we will. In fact, it's hard for us to predict right now. We're just seeing the very beginning of this technology, and the complexity could become truly amazing.
So, how would you use 4D printing? Let us know! Leave a comment below, we promise we're going to read every single one of them and while your there why don't you "like" the vide if you enjoyed it, and subscribe, we got some great stuff coming up soon!
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The Future of 3D Printing Will Blow Your Mind!
3D printing companies like Makerbot have already come a long way in [...]
3D printing companies like Makerbot have already come a long way in advancing the technology of 3D printing; allowing the manufacture of everything from home furnishings to transplantable human organs. ...In this video from Fw:Thinking, Jonathan Strickland talks about the present and future of 3D printers.
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Soon you may be able to create a kidney with a copy machine.
How would you like to download a coffee table? Or at least a digital model of a coffee table that you could customize any way you like so it fit perfectly in your living room and then you just print it out. I'm not talking about a picture of a coffee table. I'm talking about an actual, physical three-dimensional object that lives in your living room. Well it's all possible. It's the world of 3D printing and it's going to change everything. It'll redefine the way we think about innovation, design, manufacturing, distribution. Everything about buying and selling tangible goods from here to Mars.
Simply put, 3D printing is the process of making three-dimensional, solid objects out of 1's and 0's from a digital file. 3D printers bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds. It uses very thin layers of plastic, measuring just a few microns, as thin as a sheet of copy paper, to build an object from the bottom up.
This is additive manufacturing. It creates a new item by adding only what is needed. Unlike other forms of manufacturing where the excess is carved, cut or melted away, leaving a ton of waste. And 3D printing isn't limited to plastics. Already, you can print stuff to glass, metal, food, organs - I'm not talking about the musical instrument, I'm talking about human tissue. I kid you not! A couple of years ago there was a guy who demonstrated he could print human kidneys using living cells as ink. We're talking about the ability to create transplant organs with a 3D printer. And this isn't the future we're talking about - we're talking about right now!
I mean we've come a long way from the 1980s when a bunch of do-it-yourself nuts decided to kickstart 3D printing. Today, you and I, you know, people who have real jobs, we can actually go out and buy one of these things for like, a thousand bucks. Forbes estimates that it'll be a five billion dollar industry by the year 2020. And as these printers become more popular, the price comes down, which means consumers like me and you can afford to buy one ourselves.
Or have a friend print one out for us.
Once we get to the point where we can print circuitry directly, you print one printer that prints another printer, and it's game over. We're talking limitless customization.
You could even scan your entire body and print out your own action figure. Or in my case, an inaction figure.
NASA's using 3D printers to make repairs on space equipment. They use a process called selective laser melting, or SLM, that they use to create a nickel alloy to repair everything like the J2 rocket engine.
I mean, this is the promise of 3D printing! We can make our lives as customized as we want, print any object you can imagine, and have it in your hand in just a matter of hours. And in the immediate future, it could mean that astronauts are able to print our repair parts for space craft or space stations, which are pretty important when you're months away from a rescue mission. I mean, imagine what it would've been like if Apollo 13 had a 3D printer on board.
But then we wouldn't have had Tom Hanks in space...
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The New World of 3D Printing
Links are below! The pace 3D printing technology has accelerated [...]
Links are below!
The pace 3D printing technology has accelerated rapidly over the past 5 years. It is no longer limited to developing rapid prototypes but has instead grown to a ...wide range of interesting applications. Watch the video to find out more!
A private company in Shanghai used 3D printers to print 10 full-sized [...]
A private company in Shanghai used 3D printers to print 10 full-sized houses in just one day.
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Future of Construction Process: 3D Concrete Printing
Concrete Printing Process developed at Loughborough University in the [...]
Concrete Printing Process developed at Loughborough University in the UK is capable of producing building components with a degree of customisation that has not yet been seen. It could create ...a new era of architecture that is adapted to the environment and fully integrated with engineering function.
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Stampa impasto di argilla e sabbia con una stampante 3D di 4m mostrando un nuovo concept per la costruzione di abitazioni in terra cruda. leggi di ...più http://www.wasproject.it/w/bigdelta-6-metri/
First 3D Printed Supercar - A New Way To Build Cars
Conventional cars are wasteful in the way they're built and the way [...]
Conventional cars are wasteful in the way they're built and the way they're operated. A startup called Divergent Microfactories has developed a radical new way to build cars in distributed ...factories with ultra-lightweight construction. Divergent Microfactories founder Kevin Czinger and his team speak with Solid program chair Jon Bruner about the technology they've developed and the promise it holds for a cleaner, more efficient world.
Apis Cor: first residential house has been printed!
Apis Cor company has successfully finished the residential house [...]
Apis Cor company has successfully finished the residential house printing project, which was announced in December 2016.The developer of the unique equipment, Apis Cor company approached the issue of building ...this house from all sides and invited five world renowned companies, which are known for their innovative approach, as partners: PIK Companies Group, Samsung Electronics, TechnoNICOL corporation, Bitex Reibeputz company and «Fabrika Okon» company.
You can find a detailed report on the house construction at http://apis-cor.com/en/about/news/first-house
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From Bacteria to Buildings: Additive Manufacturing Outside of the Box - S. Keating - MIT PhD Defense
Mechanical Engineering PhD defense presentation by Steven Keating at [...]
To view the Q&A session ...following this thesis presentation, a video link is here: https://youtu.be/XSZX6vH7r7Q
The presented research was conducted within the Mediated Matter group at the MIT Media Lab. Thank you to my thesis advisors:
Dr. Neri Oxman
Dr. David Wallace
Dr. Woodie Flowers
And thank you for watching!
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3D-Printed Home Can Be Constructed For Under $4,000
A home like this can be built in less than 24 hours at a cost of only [...]
A home like this can be built in less than 24 hours at a cost of only $4,000. The secret? 3D printing. And they could help families living in poverty and unsafe conditions. New ...Story, a housing charity organization, and ICON, a construction tech company, have partnered together. Their goal is to end global homelessness.
Alexandria Lafci: So having strong, sturdy walls, having a door that we can close at night — it's something that we take for granted. Being able to lock our door and be safe. For many of these families, for years, sometimes even a lifetime, they don't have that opportunity to have a safe shelter. So when they move into a New Story community, when they move into a safe home, families lives are transformed.
An entire community of these 3D printed homes will be constructed in El Salvador. The ultimate goal is to get costs down to $4,000 per house with a build time of fewer than 24 hours.
This prototype house was built in Austin, TX. The home measures 650 square feet. Mortar was printed layer by layer. Human workers installed windows, doors, plumbing, and electrical systems. Here's what's inside: A living room. Small office space. One bedroom. One bathroom. ICON staff will use the home as an office to test the durability.
Evan Loomis: Our first product is a 3D printer that can print a house in 24 hours for half the cost. Phase one for News Story and for ICON is a proof of concept house and the good news is we've done it. We printed the first home in the United States that's going to be permitted and for us, this is just the beginning. The real kind of home run for us is to be able to do what we've done here in Austin, Texas in the developing world and we're doing that in what we call phase two which is in El Salvador. We are going to be printing an entire village for people that don't have homes.
Open Bionics Is Creating Affordable And Stylish 3D Printed Protheses
This company is changing the way we see prostheses. Open Bionics is a [...]
This company is changing the way we see prostheses. Open Bionics is a UK-based start-up tech company. Its mission is to create affordable 3D printed prostheses. They are about 30 ...times cheaper than other prostheses on the market.
They operate using sensors attached to the skin to detect muscle movements. The muscle movements control the hand and open and close fingers.
New Story + ICON : 3D Printed Homes for the Developing World
3Dhome.org - The first permitted, 3D-printed home created specifically [...]
3Dhome.org - The first permitted, 3D-printed home created specifically for the developing world was unveiled today in Austin, Texas by New Story, the non-profit working to create a world where ...no human being lives in survival mode, and ICON, the newly launched construction technologies company leading the way into the future of homebuilding by using 3D printing to make major advancements in affordability, building performance, sustainability and customizability.
Learn more at newstorycharity.org/3d-home
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Why This 3D-Printed House Will Change The World
The impact of this 3D-printing breakthrough for construction and for [...]
The impact of this 3D-printing breakthrough for construction and for the buildings we all use could be huge. See more of PERI's 3D-printing process - http://bit.ly/3gRCsus
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It's time to cut through the 3D Printed Concrete BS! This trending [...]
It's time to cut through the 3D Printed Concrete BS! This trending construction technique is littered with fake news and hyperbole and a lack of critique. In this video, we’re ...going to analyze the claims made not from a pessimistic point of view, but a realistic one.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:50 Costs less than $4000
2:38 Printed in 24 hours
4:22 Eliminate all jobs
5:56 Solve homelessness
7:59 3d printing is sustainable
8:55 Tackling misconceptions
Thanks @Jarett Gross for the footage!
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Claim #1: 3D printed homes can be built for less than $4000.
This is a flat out lie that started circulating in 2018. Journalists misled people for the sake of clicks by claiming that ICON 3D, based in Austin, Texas had a $10,000 tiny home prototype that could cost around $3,500 or $4,000 when printed in large quantities. The cost of 3d printed homes is a hotly debated topic because it is a new field with many unknown variables. 3D printing can have lower labor costs, but there are other expenses to consider: the cost of electricity to run the machine which is exorbitant in some countries, the cost of renting or buying the printer, the cost of hiring specialists to calibrate and run the machine, etc.
Claim #2: Homes can be printed in 24 hours
3D printers create walls, not homes. There are dozens of other components that go into building a house: windows, doors, roofs, electrical wiring, plumbing, insulation, HVAC systems, interior walls and finishes, millwork, etc.
Claim #3: 3d printing will make jobs unnecessary
There’s a common thread behind all these misleading claims. The productivity of the construction industry is lagging far behind others. Outsiders from the tech field want to fix it by disrupting and automating the entire industry without having any knowledge of its intricacies. There are millions of variables at play: soil conditions, weather, local materials, culture, economy, design codes, and of course, form and function.
Claim #4: 3D printed homes can solve homelessness
The arrogance of designers and architects really shines when they talk about homeless shelters. Making a shipping container or 3D printed concrete shelter will not solve homelessness. I spoke to Nicholas Patel, the founder of Fullbore Africa. He pointed out lack of consistent power, the need for several backup generators, the carbon emissions shipping the machine to Africa, the poor infrastructure, the legal issues clearing the printers at ports, 24 hour security, cost of foreign-trained specialists, and the difficulty in getting high quality, consistent windows and doors to fit into the precise openings created by 3D printers.
Claim #5: 3D printing is sustainable
The building construction industry accounts for 40% of all energy-related carbon dioxide emissions, of which cement accounts for 8%. As much as I love the material and the solidity of concrete structures, it is one of the most destructive materials on Earth. Also, walls are a tiny portion of the entire structure. We need a holistic approach to construction to make it truly sustainable.
Check out this video to find out the magic behind 3D printed concrete. [...]
Check out this video to find out the magic behind 3D printed concrete. I discuss the compositional differences between this type of concrete and traditional concrete and I also talk ...about how this technology is pushing innovation in structural designs and forms. I also discuss successful examples of 3D printed concrete around the world.
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Why 3D printing is vital to success of US manufacturing | FT Film
The FT's global business columnist Rana Foroohar explores how new [...]
The FT's global business columnist Rana Foroohar explores how new additive manufacturing technology can boost innovation and jobs in a de-globalising world, as the pandemic, war in Ukraine, and climate ...change underline the dangers of relying on fragile global supply chains
00:00 The future of manufacturing
00:15 "This is not your grandfather's factory"
02:09 Xometry and the "long tail of the internet"
04:48 Desktop 3D printers
06:19 So what's the catch?
07:35 MIT: "every object has an incredible story"
10:24 VulcanForms: high-value precision metal components
13:13 3D-printed shoes
14:46 SQ4D: from hip replacements to homes
19:42 The Factory NYC: 3D-printed sculptures
20:44 "I don't think Michelangelo could fathom a 3D printer"
23:02 Manufacturing is about jobs and wages
26:45 Not everything will be 3D printed
27:12 The world is changing
3D printed rockets save on up front tooling, enable rapid iteration, [...]
3D printed rockets save on up front tooling, enable rapid iteration, decrease part count, and facilitate radically new designs. For your chance to win 2 seats on one of the ...first Virgin Galactic flights to Space and support a great cause, go to https://www.omaze.com/veritasium
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Can a 3-D Printed Rocket Compete With SpaceX? | WSJ
Startup Relativity Space is developing the world's first 3-D printed [...]
Startup Relativity Space is developing the world's first 3-D printed rocket, which it says is cheaper and quicker to manufacture than conventional rockets.
Ahead of the company’s first orbital launch ...attempt, WSJ visited its California facility to meet founder Tim Ellis.
0:00 Startup Relativity Space is creating new ways to manufacture rockets
0:51 Background on the global commercial space industry
2:47 How Relativity uses 3-D printers to produce rockets faster
3:30 Relativity’s 3-D printers use proprietary metal alloys
3:50 To refine its rocket designs, Relativity uses algorithms and machine learning
4:20 Following Terran-1, Terran-R is the second rocket from Relativity
6:30 Relativity is planning to be first for a commercial mission to Mars, before Space-X
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3D printing homes on Earth, someday the moon | 60 Minutes
A Texas company — driven by a mission to create faster, better and [...]
A Texas company — driven by a mission to create faster, better and more affordable housing — is 3D printing homes. It’s also working with NASA to 3D print on ...the Moon. Lesley Stahl reports.
#news #3dprinting #construction
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Can 3D-printed homes withstand a changing climate?
3D printing startup co-founder Jason Ballard explains how he thinks [...]
3D printing startup co-founder Jason Ballard explains how he thinks 3D-printed houses will transform construction jobs and resist the effects of climate change.
#news #3dprinting #house
"60 Minutes" is the most ...successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10.
3D Printed Homes Entering Mass Production - 2023 Update
Matt stops by ICON's latest project; an entire neighborhood made with [...]
Matt stops by ICON's latest project; an entire neighborhood made with 3D printers. He talks with ICON's CEO and team about the ins and outs of this scale of a ...project and how it is serving as a great litmus test for how every home may be built in the near future.
Huge thanks to our Show sponsors Builders FirstSource, Polywall, Huber, Rockwool & Viewrail for helping to make these videos possible! These are all trusted companies that Matt has worked with for years and trusts their products in the homes he builds. We would highly encourage you to check out their websites for more info.
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__Description__
In this video, we explore the hurdles of 3D printed houses and the strange, sometimes impractical results. Companies worldwide are striving to make this technology scalable, affordable, sustainable, and appealing to those who prefer traditional homes. If successful, it could revolutionize how we design and build structures. But will it?
__About the Channel__
Architecture with Stewart is a YouTube journey exploring architecture’s deep and enduring stories in all their bewildering glory. Weekly videos and occasional live events breakdown a wide range of topics related to the built environment in order to increase their general understanding and advocate their importance in shaping the world we inhabit.
__About Me__
Stewart Hicks is an architectural design educator that leads studios and lecture courses as an Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He also serves as an Associate Dean in the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and is the co-founder of the practice Design With Company. His work has earned awards such as the Architecture Record Design Vanguard Award or the Young Architect’s Forum Award and has been featured in exhibitions such as the Chicago Architecture Biennial and Design Miami, as well as at the V&A Museum and Tate Modern in London. His writings can be found in the co-authored book Misguided Tactics for Propriety Calibration, published with the Graham Foundation, as well as essays in MONU magazine, the AIA Journal Manifest, Log, bracket, and the guest-edited issue of MAS Context on the topic of character architecture.
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University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture: https://arch.uic.edu/
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