3D printing

MakerBot 3DPrinter

This project will explore applications of 3d printing. We have a Makerbot and a DIY replicator. (see Introduction to 3D Printing ) One project might be to develop an app to generate a 3D model from a cellphone photo and print solid objects using the Makerbot 3D printer in the Garage, or other tools in the WID rapid prototyping facility http://www.prototype.wisc.edu/. Another is to grow new kinds of 3D printers using parts and pieces around the Garage and downloadable/printable on the Makerbot.

Warm up

Star Trek Replicator: How to make almost anything http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/bestoftv/2013/07/17/exp-gps-gershenfeld-3d-printing.cnn.html

Wanna make your own maker? http://www.fabathome.org/

How-to videos http://cucfablab.org/book/3d-printers

Replicator: https://store.makerbot.com/replicator2.html

All about consumer grade 3d printing: https://wiki.physics.wisc.edu/garage/BrettUnks?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=MAKE_3dprinting.pdf

Sci-fi and fantasy encouraged http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/06/3-d-printing-goes-sci-fi-fantasy-reality?et_cid=3290371&et_rid=517740405&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rdmag.com%2fnews%2f2013%2f06%2f3-d-printing-goes-sci-fi-fantasy-reality -- overview

WI Rapid prototyping: https://www.storybridge.tv/discoverywisc/Researchers/story/rapidprototyping

Additive manufacturing in space http://www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/projectview.aspx?key=49554

Design software http://cucfablab.org/book/design-software

Federal support for additive manufacturing http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/08/16/we-can-t-wait-obama-administration-announces-new-public-private-partners

3d printing org http://www.3ders.org/

A top 100 websites list http://www.3ders.org/stats/20121209-top-100-websites-2012-in-3d-printing-industry.html

Compare models http://www.3ders.org/pricecompare/3dprinters/

Mergers http://singularityhub.com/2012/12/18/after-merger-3d-printing-industry-has-a-new-leader/

Model creation from photos

http://www.123dapp.com/howto/catch

http://blog.grabcad.com/2013/09/create-3d-models-from-photos/

Models

Mechanical mechanisms http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/

Suggested projects and inspiration

Digital materials

Design and print Reversibly Assembled Cellular Composite Materials , Science 1240889DOI:10.1126/science.1240889, http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2013/how-to-make-big-things-out-of-small-pieces-0815.html

Digital materials/3D voxel printing:

Hiller, J., Lipson, H., (2009) "Design and analysis of digital materials for physical 3D voxel printing", Rapid Prototyping Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 137-149.

Hiller, J., Lipson, H. (2009) "Fully Recyclable Multi-Material Printing" Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium (SFF'09), Aug 3-5 2009, Austin, TX, USA.

Hiller J., Lipson H., (2008) “Tunable Digital Material Properties for 3D Voxel Printers”, Proceedings of the 19th Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, Austin TX, Aug 2008.

Hiller J., Lipson H., (2007) “Methods of Parallel Voxel Manipulation for 3D Digital Printing”, Proceedings of the 18th Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium, Austin TX, Aug 2007, pp. 200-211.

VoxCad Software: http://www.voxcad.com/

See Cornell Creative Machines Lab : http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/, http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/Rapid_Assembler

Linking digital parts using programmable DNA, "Programmable Glue Made of DNA Directs Tiny Gel Bricks to Self-Assemble" http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130909121946.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

2-component superglue?

Nano

Oh, my.. 3d printing just got small:

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/06/printing-tiny-batteries?et_cid=3321315&et_rid=517740405&type=cta

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/02/3d-micrometer-scale-printer-world%E2%80%99s-fastest?et_cid=3081725&et_rid=517740405&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rdmag.com%2fnews%2f2013%2f02%2f3d-micrometer-scale-printer-world%25E2%2580%2599s-fastest

http://www.nanoscribe.de/

http://www.rdmag.com/articles/2012/04/new-life-3d-printing?et_cid=3128649&et_rid=517740405&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rdmag.com%2farticles%2f2012%2f04%2fnew-life-3d-printing

Physics and instrumentation innovation

3D printing to study things like percolation networks, meta-materials,...

http://www.rdmag.com/news/2013/03/3d-printing-turns-models-reality?et_cid=3148747&et_rid=517740405&linkid=http%3a%2f %2fwww.rdmag.com%2fnews%2f2013%2f03%2f3d-printing-turns-models-reality

Open-Source 3D-Printable e.g. Optics Equipment http://www.academia.edu/3129412/Open-Source_3D-Printable_Optics_Equipment

Camera/Design files/Printing integration: http://www.gsmnation.com/blog/2013/02/04/lynx-a-3d-camera/

Use of a 3D printer to develop/print Maple Seed, a biologically-inspired drone http://www.rdmag.com/articles/2012/04/flight-testing-3d-printing?et_cid=3164982&et_rid=517740405&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rdmag.com%2farticles%2f2012%2f04%2fflight-testing-3d-printing

Bioprinting and medical applications

http://www.rdmag.com/articles/2012/04/new-life-3d-printing?et_cid=3153572&et_rid=517740405&linkid=http%3a%2f%2fwww.rdmag.com%2farticles%2f2012%2f04%2fnew-life-3d-printing

First commercial 3-D bio-printer makes human tissue and organs http://www.invetech.com.au/portfolio/life-sciences/3d-bioprinter-world-first-print-human-tissue/

An organized approach to 3-D tissue engineering: Getting closer to viable organ implants http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130820094649.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29

A DIY Bioprinter Is Born http://www.technologyreview.com/view/511436/a-diy-bioprinter-is-born/ , http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-BioPrinter/, http://www.rdmag.com/articles/2013/08/3-d-printing-life-science-applications?et_cid=3412120&et_rid=517740405&type=cta

Food, glorious food!

Chocolate http://blog.we-designs.org/post/7296181317/3d-printing-chocolate

Pizza http://singularityhub.com/2013/06/14/nasa-puts-up-some-cash-to-create-pizza-making-3d-printer/

Meat, leather, pasta, burritos http://3dprintingindustry.com/food/

Cake? Ice cream novelties?

NYT makes a meal of this http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/22/opinion/sunday/dinner-is-printed.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130922

Molecular cuisine?

So that is just reproducing foods we know. But what about making foods we've never made and could not make otherwise? Top of my head, suppose you printed a food with two interlaced near microscopic regular 3d lattices of spices. Could that excite a taste illusion in the brain that a uniform mix could not? New textures of fluffiness? A lattice of egg white and cream and then microwave it?

http://www.molecularrecipes.com/molecular-gastronomy/molecular-gastronomy-harvard/, http://www.molecularrecipes.com/molecular-gastronomy/

Alternatives

If you don't want to print it, laser-fab slices http://blog.we-designs.org/post/3762075456/fastcodesign-cardboard-columns

OK, continuing in the iconoclastic vein, a 3D drawing pen: http://i.imgur.com/kpOxyIt.gif

Laser origami http://www.3ders.org/articles/20130304-rapid-prototyping-3d-objects-with-laserorigami-in-just-a-few-minutes.html, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arjRtCjI9AQ

Sustainability

See 1d, 2d, 3d printing under Sustainability.

3d? why not 4d?

http://www.gizmag.com/4d-printing-composite-material/29536/ Active materials by four-dimension printing, Qi Ge1, H. Jerry Qi1,a) and Martin L. Dunn2,b)

[a) Electronic mail: qih@colorado.edu. b) Electronic mail: martin_dunn@sutd.edu.sg.] Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 131901 (2013); http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/10.1063/1.4819837

http://www.gizmag.com/4d-printing-self-assembly/27734/

Space (or submarine) applications

http://www.gizmag.com/esa-amaze-project-3d-printer-iss/29447/, http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Research/3D_printing_for_space_the_additive_revolution

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