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Uzarski Designs guy had a problem. His nail clipping procedure was sub-optimal. He solved this, very challenging, problem with a help of 3d printing.
You Sir is what makes this wonderful technology grow! Hat tip!




Solve your nail clipping issues with easy download from Thingiverse:

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:238206

faBrickation a new approach to rapid prototyping of functional objects, such as the body of a head-mounted display. The key idea is to save 3D printing time by automatically substituting sub-volumes with standard building blocks — in our case Lego bricks.

When making the body for a head-mounted display, for example, getting the optical path right is paramount. Users thus mark the lens mounts as “high-resolution” to indicate that these should later be 3D printed. faBrickator then 3D prints these parts. It also generates instructions that show users how to create everything else from Lego bricks.
If users iterate on the design later, faBrickator offers even greater benefit as it allows re-printing only the elements that changed. We validated our system at the example of three 3D models of functional objects. On average, our system fabricates objects 2.44 times faster than traditional 3D printing while requiring only 14 minutes of manual assembly.

More Information: http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/baudisc...
faBrickation is a research project by
Stefanie Mueller, http://www.stefaniemueller.org 

Tobias Mohr,
Kerstin Guenther,
Johannes Frohnhofen,
Patrick Baudisch, http://www.patrickbaudisch.com

Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany

There is no detailed information HOW he did it, but Daniel Widrig managed to 3d print a chair by using a mixture of plaster and sugar with sake. It was commissioned as part of an art exhibition.


























Daniel Widrig project homepage with some other cool designs:

http://www.danielwidrig.com/index.php?page=Work&id=chair

Source:

http://www.designboom.com/design/daniel-widrig-3d-prints-chair-using-plaster-sugar-sake-01-14-2014/

If you are using OpenSCAD and you are limited by its simple code editor, you can use it with advanced text editors like Sublime Text or Textmate to code in. They offer many advanced options like syntax coloring, automation of many manual operations etc.

You can use OpenSCAD with almost any external text editor, here is the short explanation:

OpenScad is able to check for changes of files and automatically recompile if a file change occurs. To use this feature enable "Design->Automatic Reload and Compile"

Once the feature is activated, just load the scad file within OpenSCAD as usual ("File->Open..").

After that, open the scad file in your favorite editor too. Edit and work on the scad file within the external editor. Whenever the file is saved to disk (from within the external editor), OpenSCAD will recognize the file change and automatically recompiles accordingly.

The internal editor can be hidden by minimizing the frame with the mouse or by selecting "View->Hide editor".

Open SCAD is programmatic CAD that is used most often, but there are many others. Some of them have syntax coloring, and probably some more could be used with external text editors.  

Textmate (Mac OS only) OpenSCAD add-on:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:15292

Textmate webpage: http://macromates.com/

Notepad++ language file:
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:15363

Notepad++ text editor download: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

Sublime Text 2 OpenSCAD add-on:http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:235558

Sublime Text multiplatfrom text editor: http://www.sublimetext.com/






Here are some information how to use OpenSCAD with

emacs: https://github.com/openscad/openscad/blob/master/contrib/scad-mode.el

and Kate: here is the Kate syntax file http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:29505

Source:

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/Using_an_external_Editor_with_OpenSCAD

I REALLY love this designs by MadLab. It is like something from a SF movie. Kudos to the designers!






























Here is the video about design process and technology:

Reverberating Across the Divide reconnects digital and physical contexts through a custom chronomorphologic modeling environment. The modeling interface uses a three phase workflow (3D scanning, 3D modeling, and 3D printing) to enable a designer to craft intricate digital geometries around pre-existing physical contexts.

Chronomorphology –– like its nineteenth-century counterpart chronophotography –– is a composite recording of an object’s movement. Instead of a photograph, however, the recording medium here is a full three-dimensional model of the object — a virtual creature simulated within a digital environment. This virtual creature exists as a 3D printable module; it is constructed as a closed mesh, with a spring skeleton that prevents self-intersections. The composite, chronomorphologic model (of the virtual creature over time) retains these printable properties at each time-step. Therefore, no matter how intricate or complex, the digital geometry will always be exported as a valid, 3D printable mesh.

The chronomorphologic modeling environment facilitates the rapid generation of baroque and expressive spatial forms that both respond and expand on existing physical contexts. By mediating 3D scanning and 3D printing through the modeling environment, the designer has a streamlined workflow for oscillating between virtual and analog environments. This ease between digital design and physical production provides a framework for rapidly exploring how subtle changes in the virtual environment, physical environment, or designer’s gestures can create dynamic variation in the formal, material, and spatial qualities of a generated design.

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This project was supported in part by funding from the Carnegie Mellon University Frank-Ratchye Fund For Art @ the Frontier (http://studioforcreativeinquiry.org)
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Music: "Portofino" by Teengirl Fantasy (http://teengirlfantasy.angelfire.com)

here is the MadLab.cc homepage with more photos:

http://www.madlab.cc/work/#/reverberating-across-the-divide/

For other cool looking 3d printed fashion pieces look here:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/search/label/fashion

There are many options and variables when choosing the 3d design software that suits your needs when you get into 3d printing.
Here is a useful decision tree chart that will simplify the decision based on price, platform and your personal preferences:

Click on the chart for bigger size version:


























Here is the page dedicated to 3d printing related software and links to it:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/p/3d-design-and-printing-software.html

Source:

http://realizebxl.be/

This is amazing DIY project where you can download files and instructions for devices with incredible design to create them at your home. They provide all information free under Creative Commons licence. There are some 3d printed parts in them.

You can build:

• Open Mirror - DIY gesture controlled mirror with smartphone connection and speakers
• P.A.C.O. - DIY gesture controlled Bluetooth speaker made in concrete with strong bass sounds
• OSOUND - DIY Bluetooth streaming speaker with gesture interface

You can download all the files needed and building instructions at:

http://www.digitalhabits.it/

Some 3d printed structure art.











From project description:

Project Egg is about 3D printing, the power of Sharing and Co Creating, about new ways to create and collaborate.
Project Egg is a spacious building, consisting of 4760 stones. All stones are unique. They have to be 3D-printed one by one.
Once collected, all of these stones, placed in the exact order, give birth to this building.
The outcome of Project Egg, one of the first 3D printed buildings is first to be shown in Milan during the Furniture Fair in April 2014. After that it will hopefully travel around the world.
Everyone with a desktop 3D is invited to print one stone. This way, the printing community can be seen as a kind of a new and widely spread factory.
All people that sympathize with the project can be of importance too.
You can adopt a stone. When you adopt a stone, it is your stone but you will lend us the stone in order to establish project Egg.
We are looking for new horizons.
We want to connect the whole of the 3D print community.
We want to change the way we produce.
We shift boundaries.

http://projectegg.org/project-egg/

http://blokify.com/




























Update:

Here is Blokify demonstration on CES 2014:

There are many 3d printing projects in the field of archery. This 3d printed arrow fletcher has very organic and futuristic design.


























From project page:

Where is the future of 3D printed product design headed and why? Niche and pricy markets like arrow fletchers may see the soonest market disruption. A good arrow fletcher holds feathers accurately and securely in place while glue dries. This fletcher was printed and delivered at the market price of current ones. 

3D printer that deposits silicone layers based on Illustrator drawings to produce printed shapes. It has cylindrical rotating surface as build platform which allows it to print shapes impossible to print on flat surface. It is hard to find further technical information on this machine, so if anybody knows more, let me know.

Close up of 3d object printed in silicone

There is more to come in this post series, I'll update it as I find interesting materials from history of 3d printing development ...

Update:

Here is part 2:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2013/10/from-diy-3d-printing-history-2-humble.html

Video by: http://www.youtube.com/user/makemagazine?feature=watch


3d printing props and weapons for movies is cool way to spend your day.


http://www.moddler.com/



Moddler from VentureBeat on Vimeo.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/user/3DPrintShow?feature=watch


More information on Geomagic Touch X (or Phantom Desktop) haptic controller arm and software is on company page:

http://www.geomagic.com/en/products-landing-pages/haptic

Lionhead is 3d printer and 3d scanner hybrid machine with Radiant Li software.








Radiant Li 3D Scanning from Radiant Fabrication on Vimeo.





Radiant Li 3D Modeling from Radiant Fabrication on Vimeo.





Radiant Lionhead Electronics Assembly @ Parallax from Radiant Fabrication on Vimeo.


http://radiantfabrication.com/

http://radiantfabrication.com/pages/li


Limited information is available ...

Wow ...

Via: http://www.youtube.com/user/spacexchannel?feature=watch

It is more an art piece then a everyday skateboard ...





From video description:

Please note that this skateboard is an art piece and not really for actually using. It is rideable, but as I'm sure you can see workout, it's not anywhere near the strength and pop of a good old 9 ply Canadian maple deck. This is not a comercial product and we're not saying that we're becoming the first company to manufacture 3D printed skateboards. That would be silly.**
www.3dprint-uk.co.uk - Sam Abbot is one skilled fella - he won our competition that we co-hosted with CGTrader last month. Sam won best the best portfolio catagory due to his plethora of awesome designs. We then had a few weeks of fun making his skateboard..... it wasn't quite as strait forward as just a print as the board is longer than our build tray, meaning that we had to cut it into 3 sections, joining it together with some connector pins to ensure accuracy and to give it some strength over a simple butt joint. The final result..... the worlds first 3d printed twin tip skateboard.

.... is it ride-able? Yes... but I wouldn't drop down many sets of stairs on it just yet!

Design By:
Sam Abbott

Video by:

http://www.youtube.com/user/3dprintuk?feature=watch

Update:

Here is new, more advanced and usable skateboard made in partnership with Solid Concepts

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2013/12/video-of-new-3d-printed-skateboard.html