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Anti-Scheimpflug with freely movable lens (Tube 3D printing with flexible filament TPU90A, mounts PLA).
The focus area runs vertically on the image. One side of the picture is in front of the focus, the other behind.
This is a new bespoke printed case for an Apple AirTag (inside) designed by my husband using yellow-gold filament. Held by a third hand. Aperture f/5.6 with a bit of fiddling or faffing with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic.
For MacroMondays.
Fun video of a mating dance:
www.flickr.com/photos/usfwspacific/54319036131/in/feed-52...
‘Video description: Two all-black seabirds excitedly dance around each other using emphatically coordinated wing, bill and head gestures during courtship, with countless other albatross sitting on nests in the background.’
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© Photography of Ricardo Gomez Angel
All rights reserved. All images on this website are the property of Ricardo Gomez Angel. Images may not be reproduced, copied or used in any way without written permission.
© Fotografía de Ricardo Gomez Angel
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Comments are always welcome and favs most appreciated.
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© Photography of Ricardo Gomez Angel
All rights reserved. All images on this website are the property of Ricardo Gomez Angel. Images may not be reproduced, copied or used in any way without written permission.
© Fotografía de Ricardo Gomez Angel
Todos los derechos reservados. Todas las imágenes contenidas en este sitio web son propiedad de Ricardo Gomez Angel. Las imágenes no se pueden reproducir, copiar o utilizar de ninguna manera sin el permiso escrito
Comments are always welcome and favs most appreciated.
Comentarios y favs son siempre bienvenidos
© Photography of Ricardo Gomez Angel
All rights reserved. All images on this website are the property of Ricardo Gomez Angel. Images may not be reproduced, copied or used in any way without written permission.
© Fotografía de Ricardo Gomez Angel
Todos los derechos reservados. Todas las imágenes contenidas en este sitio web son propiedad de Ricardo Gomez Angel. Las imágenes no se pueden reproducir, copiar o utilizar de ninguna manera sin el permiso escrito
A test segment of a launch interface ring – used to secure a satellite in place during its flight to orbit – produced by 3D printing of aluminum-magnesium-scandium alloy by laser melting deposition. It was made as part of an ESA project to improve this technique.
The Launch Interface Rings by Additive Manufacturing, LIRAM project took place with Belgian companies Sonaca, CRM and SIRRIS, supported through ESA’s General Support Technology Programme, readying promising technology for space and the open market, as part of ESA’s Advanced Manufacturing initiative.
As a follow-up, the production of a complete launch interface ring is planned for 2023.
Credits: ESA
There was quite some speculation about the manufacture of domes
The Star trek era replicator was first used to supply Kirk, Spock & Bones with food but now with my secret modifications it serves a more important purpose.
Capped triple exposure with dodgy el wire.
f11 for the dome, f4 for the enlarger & f2.8 for the dodgy new el wire.
(This was my fathers. I used this to learn to print negatives 30 years ago. It still works & has a Hoya 50mm lens. Any reasonable offer considered)
Presented at ESA’s Advanced Manufacturing workshop, this 1.5 m-long hard polymer bar was produced using a 3D printer that is much smaller than it is.
The printer is capable of printing parts of unlimited dimensions in a single direction. It is a ground demonstrator version of 3D printing technology which is ultimately intended for use aboard the International Space Station.
ESA advanced manufacturing engineer Advenit Makaya explains: “Developing out-of-Earth manufacturing solutions for large parts, in a human exploration context such as here and later on for spacecraft structural parts will be essential in enhancing the sustainability and robustness of future space missions.”
Known as Project IMPERIAL, the aim is to develop out-of-Earth manufacturing methods that overcome the build constraints of current 3D printers, enabling easy onboard building and maintenance to enhance the self-sufficiency of future space missions.
“With this activity we have overcome one of the main limitation of 3D printing – the build volume - while using a compact 3D printer capable to process high performance thermoplastics,” notes ESA materials specialist Ugo Lafont. “This is a great achievement that will extend the application field of this on-demand manufacturing process.”
The project is being undertaken for ESA by a consortium led by OHB in Germany, with Azimut Space in Germany, Athlone Institute of Technology in the Republic of Ireland and BEEVERYCREATIVE in Portugal developing the 3D printer.
“Innovating within a working group, – the consortium and ESA technical officers – that fully cooperates and creates synergies, has been a great pleasure,” says Aurora Baptista, CEO of BEEVERYCREATIVE. “It adds to the honor of contributing to an advance that enlarges the concept of being global.”
The company has shared video from a test printing here.
Credits:
BEEVERYCREATIVE
No Bricklink orders for Toby -- he can print his own parts right here just by calling them up on the attached console.
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What resembles an abstract artwork is in fact a 3D-printed aluminium frame for a satellite electronics board, designed to help combat one of the major enemies of space missions – heat.
In the weightless vacuum of space, the convection currents that carry away a lot of excess temperature down on Earth do not exist; heat is more likely to stay put.
By slotting an electronics component into this frame, it can be prevented from overheating. The frame does this thanks to ‘heat pipes’ threaded within its structure which carry away waste heat.
Heat pipes work like closed-loop versions of human sweat glands: These pipes contain a liquid – in this case ammonia – that evaporates when heated, carrying waste heat to a colder part of the satellite. At this point the liquid condenses so that the process can repeat itself.
The peculiar organic appearance of the frame comes from a computational design approach called ‘topology optimisation’ that places material just where the loads are, akin to the way a tree grows branches, to take advantage of the extreme versatility of 3D printing.
This cooling frame was designed and produced for ESA by a consortium led by EHP in Belgium, through the research project ‘Assessing the use of Advanced Manufacturing to improve and expand space hardware capabilities’ supported by the Agency’s General Support Technology Programme, backing promising new technologies and products for space.
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ESA-SJM Photography
A standard 3D printer cannot produce anything bigger than the size limits of the printer itself. But this new IMPERIAL 3D printer, designed for use in space by a Europe-wide industrial consortium, can print high performance polymer parts of unlimited size along one dimension.
What is also known as ‘Additive manufacturing’ is an essential enabling technology for deep space crewed missions. Built to operate in weightlessness – meaning it can work upside down on Earth – this printer has been specially designed with ‘out-of-Earth’ manufacturing in mind, enabling future space explorers to produce structures, tools and spare parts as needed.
The project was undertaken for ESA by a consortium led by OHB in Germany, with Azimut Space in Germany, Athlone Institute of Technology in the Republic of Ireland and BEEVERYCREATIVE in Portugal developing the 3D printer. Now this ground-based prototype is complete, the next step would be to test it in orbit aboard the International Space Station.
Watch a video showing the 3D printer here.
Credits: BEEVERYCREATIVE
A new ESA-led project is investigating the ways that 3D printing could be used to create and run a habitat on the Moon. Everything from building materials to solar panels, equipment and tools to clothes, even nutrients and food ingredients can potentially be 3D printed. But if you were headed to the Moon, what would you want to 3D print, to turn a lunar base into a place that feels like home? Tell us your idea, to win a chance of actually getting it printed.
Our latest project looks at everything needed to undertake the construction, operations and maintenance of a lunar base; how could the various types of 3D printing meet those needs? Materials such as metals, plastic, concrete and organic substances are under study.
But to fully take account of the human factor, the project would also like to hear from you. What would be the one item you would like to have 3D printed to keep with you in a lunar home from home? Email your ideas to Lunar3Dprinting@esa.int, including a sketch and a short explanation.
Credits: ESA, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Judith de Santiago, winner of the under 18 category of ESA’s lunar 3D printing competition, with the printed version of her design: a dodecahedron (or 12-sided) plant pot.
While studying lunar base concepts ESA ran a competition, asking: what would you 3D print on the Moon, to make it feel like home?
Judith, a student from Madrid, Spain, proposed a pot for plants that would be cherished on a Moon base, incorporating symbols of Earth: “The blue curves of the bottom represent the waves of the sea, and the badge with a small plant located at the centre, inspired by Disney’s movie WALL·E, represents the Earth in general.”
Judith ensured her design was realistic by designing it in a 3D printing format.
“I first got interested in 3D printing two years ago when my high school got a new 3D printer,” Judith explains. “We were talking about future printers and what they have in mind to do with them such us using them for medical situations or maybe to build houses or even more!
“I remember my first 3D prototype: that day I was learning how to draw in a new app and I told my father to choose a random item. That's how I did a coke can, then I sent it to my tech teacher to print it for me and the result was amazing.
“Since then I've been learning how to use the different apps to create from basic figures to replace some broken pieces. Finally, I got a small 3D printer for my birthday so I could keep practicing.”
As a prize, Judith received this prototype version of her design BeeVeryCreative in Portugal, part of the URBAN consortium of companies overseeing ESA’s ‘Conceiving a Lunar Base Using 3D Printing Technologies’ project: “It is exactly as I imagined it to be – I was very excited to see it.”
The competition received more than a hundred entries from adults and children across the world with other ideas including a mobile lampshade to generate Earth-like colours, an hourglass filled with lunar dust, a glass model of Earth including realistic night lighting, proposals for statues and game boards – not to mention a few suggestions to print a 3D printer.
The adult category was won by visual artist Helen Schell from the UK, proposing a ‘magic Moon garden’, printed from recycled coloured plastics.
Credits: J. Santiago
My brand spanking new Ultimaker 3D, printing a 3x scale posed US WW2 Soldier.
It is printing PLA at 300mm/s and 0.02mm layer resolution. It will be done in 21 hours. I'll post photos of the results tomorrow.
Yes, I'm still cutting molds, and injecting ABS in the shop, but I wanted something that could make parts at a larger size than my 2.5" x 2.5" injection molds can deliver.
At the library: 3D printing arrives!
And look at all the fun things you can print!
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3D printing offers engineers various ways to construct hardware that simply could not be built in any other manner – such as this single-piece casing to house an optical instrument for Earth observations.
In this case, the desired shape was initially 3D printed in wax. The wax model was then dipped into a ceramic slurry to create a hard shell.
The wax was then melted away and molten aluminium poured in the hollow ceramic mould to produce the final part.
This prototype casing demonstrates another potential advantage of using 3D printing to create very complex space parts in a single piece.
Extremely complicated shapes can be manufactured without the need for joins or welds, using less raw material and energy than traditional manufacturing, and with a reduced number of steps.
ESA’s Product Assurance & Safety Department is looking at how 3D printing can be applied to space missions, including the development of common industrial standards for manufacturing and testing of products.
Credit: ESA–Anneke Le Floc'h
The strong and icy wind agglomerates small frost particles on the plants stems or the shrubs branches and makes such so particular reliefs. It's a very old additive 3D printing process!
Twin robotic arms work together as part of a project to construct what will be the largest, most complex object ever 3D printed in titanium: a test version of the 3-m diameter ‘optic bench’ at the heart of ESA’s Athena X-ray observatory.
The first multi-axis robotic arm builds up each new layer of metal using a laser to melt titanium powder. The second robotic arm then immediately cuts away any imperfections using a cryogenically cooled milling tool. The bench itself is placed on a slowly moving 3.4-m diameter turntable.
“ESA has teamed up with Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology for this exploratory activity,” explains ESA materials and processes engineer Johannes Gumpinger. “The final design of Athena’s optic bench is still to be decided, but if it will be built in titanium then its size and complexity is such that it could not be built in any other way.”
Due to launch in 2031, ESA’s Athena mission will probe 10 to 100 times deeper into the cosmos than previous X-ray missions, to observe the very hottest, high-energy celestial objects.
The mission requires entirely new X-ray optics technology, with stacks of ‘mirror modules’ arranged carefully to capture and focus high-energy X-rays.
The optic bench aligns and secures around 750 mirror modules in a complex structure with many deep pockets that tapers out to a maximum height of 30 cm. Its overall shape needs to be precise down to a scale of a few tens of micrometres – or thousandths of a centimetre.
“The optic bench’s complexity requires each addition to be milled immediately after printing,” comments André Seidel, overseeing the project at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology. “Any subsequent modification could risk introducing contamination, weakening the space-quality titanium.
“Similarly, the entire process has been designed to minimise any risk of contamination. The titanium powder is swept into the laser using the noble gas argon that also prevents any contamination with air. And the milling tool is kept cool using liquid carbon dioxide that evaporates as it warms up, preventing any harmful deposition on the freshly-laid metal surface.”
Precision sensors immediately detect any out of tolerance elements for milling or more extensive repair – including milling away for reprinting.
Smaller segments have been manufactured so far, with a 1.5-m diameter demonstrator optic bench set to follow. The full scale 3-m bench is expected to take about a year to produce.
“It will be a huge task, taking a lot of time and energy,” adds Johannes. “But if we manage it, it will be the largest titanium object ever 3D printed – and the process will be available to manufacture other large parts, potentially in other metals.”
The project is being supported through ESA’s Technology Development Element as part of the Agency’s Advanced Manufacturing initiative, harnessing novel materials and processes for the space sector.
Last month more than 150 experts from all across Europe met at ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands to share the latest results from ESA Advanced Manufacturing projects covering topics including 3D printing and the latest composite materials as well as friction stir-welding.
How we make a space mission
ESA is Europe’s space agency, enabling its 22 Member States to achieve results that no individual nation can match. ESA combines space mission development with supporting labs, test and operational facilities plus in-house experts covering every aspect of space, supported through the Agency’s Basic Activities.
Credit: Fraunhofer IWS
So, I made this in Tinkercad which is a website where you design stuff for 3D printing. I made this for those who want to make portal guns and don't want to damage existing lego parts to make it. If you want to download this file for 3D printing, go here:
www.thingiverse.com/thing:2539672
If you don't have access to a 3D printer, you can use 3rd party websites to print it for you. A good 3D printing service is Shapeways. Though it can be a bit overpriced since it is 3D printing and the shipping can be a bit pricey. I checked and the price of the portal gun is $1.62, so it's not that bad of a price. Anyways, is they're any accessories you want me to make? Like baterangs, guns, etc. Let me know!
Forgot to include this but if you are 3D printing this yourself, make sure you add supports and rafts and also set the resolution to 0.1 MM for the best results.
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Commander Barry Wilmore worked to install a 3D printer to get the space station and future crews ready for self-sufficiency. His fellow crew members, Flight Engineers Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova, worked on maintenance, science and cargo transfers.
View behind the scenes information on my 3D Printing Blog at www.tgaw.com
These items will be available on my Etsy site at:
View behind the scenes information on my 3D Printing Blog at www.tgaw.com
These items will be available on my Etsy site at:
3D printing has broken free of its novelty nature and is becoming the tool of choice to replace many traditionally complex and labour intensive tasks, thanks in no small part to the capabilities of the various materials now being commonly used.
Koenigsegg are currently using 3D printing technology to produce a variable speed turbo charger in stainless steel and currently use these in their production super-cars. These turbos proved difficult to cast using traditional methods, but by utilising an additive manufacturing process, these units are now printed with the internal parts completed within the unit at time of print.
NASA have successfully test fired a new 3D printed rocket-engine fuel injector. The injector replaced an earlier unit comprised of 115 different parts. The replacement 3D printed unit has 2 parts and is had only two parts and represents a simplified design which was not available using traditional manufacturing techniques.
Anecdotally these examples show how leaders in their respective fields are benefiting from the adoption of additive manufacturing techniques. Laser based 3D printing systems are now capable of working with various metals at commercial levels, including titanium, nickel, stainless steel, and aluminium to name but a few. Many of these metals suffer little in the way of tensile or yield strengths in comparison to the annealed counterparts.
When added to the high accuracy nylon available from laser based systems, and the plethora or materials available for use in FDM printing, some customers can find themselves facing a wider choice of materials than they may have expected. Highlights of FDM materials include compositions using carbon-fibre, titanium, cobalt, bronze and wood, as well as more traditional materials such as flexible rubber, low cost PLA and even some fully recycled filaments.
form 3d services ltd was formed in June 2014. we are specialists in additive manufacturing and 3d print solutions.
our goal is to provide high-end, high value outcomes to suit the project requirements of our customers
based in north east scotland, form 3d have nearly 40 years combined experience in the engineering and oil and gas
sectors. combined with our extensive experience in additive manufacturing, we believe this puts us in a strong
position to partner with all industries and educational establishments
through collaboration with our clients we aim to enhance the customer experience and subsequent deliveries by
understanding their business and products, and offering advice on how projects can be best served by the additive
manufacturing industry
options to further augment certain products may include lighting and simulation effects, local web servers via
embedded wi-fi hotspots, or intelligent assessment to allow models to react to changes in their environment
all products are offered a range of plastics and metals and in a variety of finish qualities. parts are protected by
suitable lacquer products where applicable. colours are customer defined and may be chosen to suit model context
or custom mixed to match company branding, as required
3D Printing has become a cliché with much of the internet covering it religiously for past couple of years. Since the technology is rather new, every now and then we come across a cool idea that garners a lot of attention. Here’s we are again with a similar attention-grabbing idea put forth by an...
ASDA in Trafford Park is offering 3d printing of your family members. They have a studio that takes 3d images and then they print them out and they look like this. The are ceramic and they are really quite freaky - but a great idea. I'd have them done of my girls if they were priced right.
The speaker before me at NASA today did a little strip show, taking off his 3D printed iPhone case, TSA-friendly articulated belt (printed nylon), and fabric-printed Nike shoes to pass around the audience.
I had relatively little to offer, just the cool cufflinks that my kids made for my birthday (below).
In 2013 Mike Garey of animal rescue centre Feathered Angels deployed local 3D printing organisation Novacopy, in Nashville Tennessee to come to the aid of ‘Buttercup’ a duck born with a leg defect which had resulted in amputation of her foot. Buttercup’s sister provided a template for a 3D CAD model of a replacement which was quickly produced, fitted and wholeheartedly adopted by Buttercup herself. She now bets around with a confident, if slightly comical waddle. You can read more about Buttercup HERE
With the aid of social networking and charitable 3D printing enthusiasts, US based charity ‘Enabling the Future’ provides 3D printed, working prosthetic hands which are changing the lives of people across the globe. Standardised measurements are used to replicate existing hands where possible, and the simple mechanical design keeps the cost down to an astonishing £35 per prosthesis. In the UK, a young Star Wars enthusiast sent his Darth Vader design to his charity contact and now controls the opening and closing of his new hand by simply twisting his wrist. He awaits a response to his request for a working Millennium Falcon. We wish him luck.
Perhaps you prefer the rocket injectors made by NASA, or the dual flow turbocharger by super-car giant Koenigsegg? Either way, the best is clearly yet to come; the hardware is ready, the software awaits, and the list of materials grows almost monthly. What we do with it next year, is anyone’s guess.
form 3d services ltd was formed in June 2014. we are specialists in additive manufacturing and 3d print solutions.
our goal is to provide high-end, high value outcomes to suit the project requirements of our customers
based in aberdeen, north east scotland, form 3d have nearly 40 years combined experience in the engineering and oil and gas
sectors. combined with our extensive experience in additive manufacturing, we believe this puts us in a strong
position to partner with all industries and educational establishments
through collaboration with our clients we aim to enhance the customer experience and subsequent deliveries by
understanding their business and products, and offering advice on how projects can be best served by the additive
manufacturing industry
options to further augment certain products may include lighting and simulation effects, local web servers via
embedded wi-fi hotspots, or intelligent assessment to allow models to react to changes in their environment
all products are offered a range of plastics and metals and in a variety of finish qualities. parts are protected by
suitable lacquer products where applicable. colours are customer defined and may be chosen to suit model context
or custom mixed to match company branding, as required