Dec 27
One-Year-Old Baby Learns to Beatbox with Her Uncle
Posted in: Uncategorized"My niece is almost 1 year old and she can finally beatbox!"..(Read…)
Dec 27
Malaysian Orchid Mantis
Posted in: UncategorizedThis Malaysian Orchid Mantis looks like a pretty pink flower…(Read…)
Dec 27
Core77 2013 Year in Review: Digital Fabrication, Part 4 – Research & Education
Posted in: Digital Fabrication
Core77 2013 Year in Review: Top Ten Posts · Furniture, Pt. 1 · Furniture, Pt. 2
Digital Fabrication, Pt. 1 · Digital Fabrication, Pt. 2 · Digital Fabrication, Pt. 3 · Digital Fabrication, Pt. 4
Insights from the Core77 Questionnaire · Maker Culture: The Good, the Bad and the Future · Food & Drink
Materials, Pt. 1: Wood
When it comes to boundary-pushing research, MIT Media Lab is no slouch. This year their Mediated Matter Group stunned with their Silk Pavilion, which harnessed architecture, design and biomimicry with digital fabrication in an unusual way: The two-part structure was begun using CNC-deposited silk fibers laid out by an algorithm, then actual silkworms themselves were used to fill in the gaps with their own material, behaving as “biological printers.”
Across MIT’s campus, meanwhile, Skylar Tibbits and his Self-Assembly Lab are themselves adding a new dimension to 3D printing: Time. Tibbits and his team’s research into how 3D-printed objects can be induced into changing their form over time has yielded what they’re calling 4D printing. One of their goals, as the organization’s name suggests, will be to create self-assembling objects and structures.
Jake Evill isn’t from MIT, but rather Victoria University of Wellington, and the freshly-minted ID grad has been experimenting with 3D-Printed Exoskeletal Casts. Protective, lightweight, breathable, and fully customizable to the user, Evill’s concept makes itchy plaster casts look as primitive as leeching people for blood.
Dec 27
Le photographe Massimo Margagnoni explore la nature à travers sa photographie tout en noir et blanc. De superbes images réalisées grâce à une technique de longue exposition en Norvège et en Islande permettant de donner un superbe rendu pour les différentes cascades immortalisées. A découvrir en images dans la suite.
Dec 27
Core77 2013 Year in Review: Digital Fabrication, Part 3 – What Designers Did
Posted in: Digital Fabrication
Core77 2013 Year in Review: Top Ten Posts · Furniture, Pt. 1 · Furniture, Pt. 2
Digital Fabrication, Pt. 1 · Digital Fabrication, Pt. 2 · Digital Fabrication, Pt. 3 · Digital Fabrication, Pt. 4
Insights from the Core77 Questionnaire · Maker Culture: The Good, the Bad and the Future · Food & Drink
Materials, Pt. 1: Wood
There was plenty of eye candy and food for design thought in this year’s crop of digitally fabricated projects. The monster draw was, hands-down, this straight-up piece of bike porn: industrial designer Ralf Holleis’ VRZ 2 Track Bike. This trickily-made fixie boasts lugs that one might think are laser sintered; instead, they’re laserCUSED, which is the name of a proprietary process so complicated to explain it will get its own entry in future.
A very different type of bicycle also drew many mouseclicks: the “Draisienne” by Samuel Bernier and Andreas Bhend. But like Holleis’ creation, you won’t be able to buy this one in stores; it was hacked together from an IKEA Frosta stool and bespoke parts produced in a Makerbot Replicator 2, in a collaboration between Bernier and Bhend that (exhaling on fingernails) we believe we inspired.
We all know vinyl doesn’t grow on trees, but maple sure does. Instructables editor Amanda Ghassaei blew our minds by turning the stuff into records, after coaxing an Epilog laser cutter into etching the strains of Radiohead and The Velvet Underground into the material’s surface.
Dec 27
No More Woof!
Posted in: bark collar, barking, woofEver wondered what your dog is thinking? Well, the No More Woof project might be the first step in answering that question. The concept uses the same EEG technology that’s previously only been used to analyze human neural patterns, to decipher the animal’s unique electro-brainwaves. Simple patterns are identified on a loudspeaker, including: “I’m tired,” “I’m hungry,” and even “Who are you?” when seeing a new face!
Designer: The Nordic Society for Discovery & Invention
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Dec 27
Smarty Pants Packaging
Posted in: Accessories & Fashion, tshirtThe Transforma t-shirt package will be adored by retailers and fashionistas alike! The clever design has a window that allows customers to both see the color of the t-shirt and feel the texture of the material. Once the user brings the package home, it can be recombined to double as a hanger! Composed of moulded paper pulp, it’s both recyclable and affordable. Watch the transformation —>
Designer: Asli Ozcivelek
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Dec 27
Core77 2013 Year in Review: Digital Fabrication, Part 2 – Materials, Processes and Business Developments
Posted in: Digital Fabrication
Core77 2013 Year in Review: Top Ten Posts · Furniture, Pt. 1 · Furniture, Pt. 2
Digital Fabrication, Pt. 1 · Digital Fabrication, Pt. 2 · Digital Fabrication, Pt. 3 · Digital Fabrication, Pt. 4
Insights from the Core77 Questionnaire · Maker Culture: The Good, the Bad and the Future · Food & Drink
Materials, Pt. 1: Wood
For the story of digital fabrication in 2013, it hasn’t just been the rise of the machines; we’ve also seen developments in materials, processes and business.
Materialise’s TPU-92A-1
For starters, Belgian digital fabrication company Materialise released TPU 92A-1, a new material for laser sintering. Durable yet elastic, the new stuff is a counterintuitive blend of flexible, durable, abrasion- and tear-resistant, and when sintered into a matrix-like form, has impressive shape memory. A certain fashion designer has taken to the material with a vengeance, but we’ll get around to actual applications in the next entry.
Shapeways’ Brass and Gold
On a more conventional front, Materialise competitor Shapeways brings two classic elements into their materials stable: gold and brass, now available through a combination of 3D printing, casting and old-fashioned hand polishing (and electroplating, in the case of gold). And unlike TPU 92A-1, which seems to be available only to industrial customers, anyone using Shapeways’ services can order the stuff.
LAYWOO-D3 Wooden 3D Printing Filament
From Germany came LAYWOO-D3, a 3D-printing filament made from 40% recycled wood bound together by polymer. Advertised as “cherry,” the stuff reportedly looks like wood, smells like wood, and can be sanded, worked and painted like wood once it’s out of the printer.
Modern Meadow 3D Printed Meat
A material for 3D printing that none of you may be clamoring for is… meat. Andras Forgacs and his Modern Meadow company are seeking to produce meat-based protein for human consumption by bioengineering the stuff and having it spit out of a printer; for the sake of—I dunno, authenticity?—they’ll reportedly keep the meat animal-specific, “Pig stays pig. Cow stays cow. Etc.” to “ensure purity.” Mmmmmmm. [retch]
Dec 27
Blom table lamp
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Dutch designer Sander Bakker is releasing his second design for boutique California based makers SplinterSeed. The design is inspired by natural growt..
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