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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
I needed a small press for a special operation, and an arbor press seemed like overkill for what I needed. I drew up these mating tools and uploaded STEP files to ShapeWays.com... designed to fit in a watch-case press. The parts, 3D printed in steel, arrived in a couple of weeks. I had left pretty tight clearances in the area where the tools guide themselves together for alignment, so I had to do a little hand filing in that area to make them fit - maybe ten minutes there. The two tools cost about $150 each, so it's not super cheap - but getting something like this machined would be more expensive and slower. The blue press itself is maybe $20 at Harbor Freight.
ThermApp thermal camera alongwith ThermAppPlus app is used to acquire this video. The lens used in 13 mm F/1.0.
The noise is surely reduced from my previous video. Thanks to Giles Read for his suggestions. I need to be careful and lock the span to an appropriate value from next time. You will see that the color of the video changes as it progresses. Also, the cursor in the middle is really not serving any purpose.
Also, Filmora video editing software is used to denoise and enhance the video.
Thanks,
Nishul
So, my dad picked up a 3D Printer and while I don't think Consumer Grade Printers meet all my expectations/cost ratio yet I'm not exactly gonna turn down what is free access to a 3D printer you know?
Still getting the hang of things, the one on the Left is the first attempt at a low resolution with lots of issues and the second one is slightly smaller but at a medium resolution. I have some settings and such picked out for a third attempt. Hopefully net time I'll remember about Flickr right away instead of 3 days later! xD
Tangible Engine is a new visualizer, configurator, and software development kit that allows developers to easily connect real-world objects to applications running on Ideum multitouch tables. Tangible Engine also comes with a starter kit of object markers and instructions for 3D printing them. Tangible Engine works with Ideum multitouch tables that use 3M touch technology, including the 55" and 65" Platform and Pro.
To learn more please visit the website.
Somehow, between Blender and Ponoko, my 3D print designs devolved into perfect spheres which arrived 3 weeks later. Sad. I think I will stick with Shapeways as they appear to have a much more robust model preview and a much quicker turn-around time. Not sure what happened to my .stl files. I just double checked and they appear fine. Good thing I did relatively cheap test prints.
Andy works on 3D printing clips to allow different sized wine glasses to fit into conductive bases. This is just one piece of Ideum's work in surface tangibles, in which physical objects placed on one of our multitouch tables can trigger content specific to that object.
To learn more about Ideum's Creative Services projects, visit our website.
4x6 diazo microfiche (expired 2005) shot on 3D-printed 4x5 camera obscura.
30 minute exposure at f/4 (EV(100) 15). Full sun and full blue sky. Slightly underexposed.
Developed in 1% household ammonia hydroxide @ 35-40C for 1 minute
Scanned as positive transparency @3200dpi on V600. Scanned 2 halves and stitched in Microsoft Image Composite Editor.
Printed on an Ultimaker, using standard parts and Netfabb for Ultimaker. It took 14.5 hours to print, including a dense fill. Slicing time was over a minute. Print temperature was 185 centigrade. The profile includes a number of different print speeds and there is plenty of room for improvement at this point.
This profile is still under development but the standard profiles include "Ultra Quality" with a 0.04mm (40 micron) perimeter layer height.
Filament storage at Brandeis Maker Lab, courtesy Brandeis 3D Printing Club.
Filament comes in many different types: chalky, woody, plastic, solid color, transclucent, and even food!
need special sized (or even color) stand-offs or washers or spacers?
not a problem if you have a 3d printer ;)
its a shame to waste nice gold PLA on washers, but its what I had loaded from a previous print job and didn't want to unload it just for this.
I'm running a new print hot-end head. an e3d v6 clone for $15. the open-source gear logo fan shield was printed by me, and yes, I'm missing a 4th plastic black screw for it ;)
the red plastic part at the top of the photo is the e3d style mount for my cr7 printer. a 'thingiverse' object that was already designed for this print head and this printer. I just had to print it with the old setup and then mount the new e3d clone. works fine using existing controller and firmware. nice to now have a choice in nozzle sizes and such. it made me nervous having to rely on the vendor for spare parts; there are none listed by the vendor and they don't use all standard parts. this e3d clone head was one step toward making this creality cr7 printer more parts-standard.
With additive manufacturing (AM) on the rise, PES now offer a turn key service including: scanning of an existing artefact, reverse engineering and 3D printing of the final design. For more details, visit - www.pesmetrology.com/
all the red parts that are on the printer, as well as some new ones on the table, were printed on the machine for itself (part upgrades by hobbiests who posted to thingiverse). the blue end stop is going to be replaced by the red one, just to keep everything red ;) the red is printing well and it seems to be a good brand, as well.
the thing being printed is a replacement top handle, with a hole for a power button (there is no on/off switch on this 3d printer. unbelievable, they want you to just pull the plug out to turn it off!). this print is about mid-way and its been going for at least an hour, now. you can see the 'rim' thin layer on the outside (technique used to hold edges down and keep the object stable as its being printed).
the purple lcd cover was also printed by this machine.
leveling the bed on this is not easy and not fun. the tape helps absorb some leveling error and its a buffer/cushion between the metal print nozzle and the glass, below it.