Most exciting stories on 3D-Printing august 2013
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Most exciting stories on 3D Printing August 2013
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Discover inspiring designs and amazing projects which make smart use of the 3D-Printing technology. Here are our favorite stories from August!
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Most exciting stories on 3D PrintingAugust 2013
# 1 - Get your Minecraft skin 3D printed
It’s now possible to 3D print your own Minecraft skin !
Visite this blog post to now how !
# 2 - The 3D printed robot that moves on power lines
Nich Morozovsky, a mechanical engineering graduate student at University of California San Diego, designed a robot that can moves on power lines to look for damages in the wire.
His robot, the SkySweeper, only use off-the-shelf electronics and 3D printed plastic parts. It is produced with only one motor and is reasonably priced.
“Current line inspection robots are large, complex, and expensive. Utility companies may also use manned or unmanned helicopters equipped with infrared imaging to inspect lines. This is much simpler.”
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# 3 – 10 000 white rabbit figurines
placed all over the worldJi Lee took and his team decided to 3D print 10 000 tiny sweet white bunny figurines and place them in random spots all over the world.
“We hope they (Mysterabbits) will stop people from their daily routine and for a brief moment, make them wonder about their mysterious, newly found gift, and a small piece of the beautiful world that surrounds them.”
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# 4 – Figurine of bloggers in a Pacific Rim’s pilot suit
To promote the new Guillermo del Toro movie Pacific Rim produced by Warner Bros, the french communication agency MNSTR offered ten very influential bloggers a figurine of themselves in a pacific rim’s pilot suit.
Each blogger received a very cool “buzz Box” thought by MNSTR. The box contained a full survival kit and the figurine in an awesome packaging.
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# 5 – NASA shows 3D printing in Zero-Gravity
We already published a post about NASA’s big plans to integrate 3D printing in the International Space Station. Made in Space is the startup behind the project, and together with the NASA, they published a video about 3D printing in zero-gravity conditions.
The goal behind this is to install manufacturing units on ISS, and to be ready to print small spare parts without having to lunch them from earth.
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# 6 – Make it Stand
To avoid that a 3D printed model don’t stand up, researchers from INRIA Nancy and the Interactive Geometry Lab, of the scientific and technical university ETF Zurich, came up with a digital solution. They’ve developed an intelligent application to help designers work around gravitational issues.
Make it Stand is a program that allows users to modify the centre of mass so that the model does not tip. The application creates holes inside the model to distributes weight according to the points of balance chosen by the user.
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# 7 – b hold
The company defines itself as a design house and aims to be a design hub for 3D printed objects. The goal is to create innovative and user-centric designs, that are directly thought for 3D printing and not for traditional manufacturing. In house designers are working around the latest materials available in 3D printing, with the aim to let anyone use it in its every day life.
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# 8 – Leopoly
since the end of June, the 3D software company Leonar3Do introduced a new way to easily create designs in your browser with their website Leopoly.
And in deed Leopoly is probably the gateway to let anyone access professional creation tools without having any knowledge. It works as a WebGL browser based 3D modeling tool and lets you create and edit 3D objects in the browser. It’s incredibly easy to use, and you only needs a few tries to understand how it works.
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# 9 – The first 3D printed SLR camera
Léo Marius, a young french designer, created this first open source 3D printed camera.
OpenReflex can be made at home for about $30. It combines 3D printed parts that can be made on a home filament 3D printer, pieces using a Laser-cutter, a few screws, magnets, plastic sheet, Sugru paste. It’s functional, and it looks really awesome! OpenReflex has been shared massively since it’s been published.
Go there to know more about his project, and understand what are his plans for the future.
