Most exciting stories on 3D-Printing july 2013
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Most exciting stories on 3D Printing July 2013
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Sculpteo 3D-Printing service features the best stories in the 3D-Printing world. Here are the most exciting things happened in July!
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Most exciting stories on 3D PrintingJuly 2013
# 1 – CGTrader contestCGTrader launched a massive contest with some partners. The goal was to create ready to print 3D models.
The Winner of The Best 3D Printable Model: Traveler: Head by CHEE This surreal bust of Traveler made by a skilled 3D designer CHEE has completely rocked this competition. The artist has uploaded the whole series of Traveler 3D printable models, giving them different codenames. It is pure sci-fi, resembling all the Hollywood movies about the aliens and space colonization.
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# 2 – A new book about 3D printing
Eyrolles published a new book about 3D printing. The book has been written in french by Mathilde Berchon (who used to work at Sculpteo) and Berthier Luyt (founder of Le Fabshop) and prefaced by Joel de Rosnay.
Mathilde left Sculpteo to work full time on her project MakingSociety. MakingSociety is a website sharing resources for open source hardware entrepreneurs. Its goal is to help makers who want to live from their passion. She’s writing about the process of prototyping, launching a product, distributing and selling it.
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# 3 – The 3D printed spider robotRobugtix is the name of the company behind the T8. It produces a robotized octopod that can imitate a real spider with an incredible precision. The movements are handled by the Bigfoot™ Inverse Kinematics Engine, which uses complex calculations to control multi-legged walking robots.
The user only has to send short and simple commands to the robot (for example, instructing it to walk forward at a desired speed) and the engine will automatically take care of all the details, including inverse kinematics, leg trajectory planning, leg gait coordination, motor control, etc. This makes it quite easy even for absolute beginners to play with advanced robotics.
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# 4 – eBay ExactThis week, eBay entered the world of 3D printing. The company has partnered with Sculpteo, Makerbot and HotPop Factory to launch a new 3D printing app, eBay Exact.
The app works as an online store for well-known 3D printing companies and features customizable “printed” merchandise.
Since fashion and accessories are certainly a hot trend in the 3D printing world, we’ve brought together some beautiful jewelry designs. Most of the items are rings or pendants, which are all available in sterling silver, but you can also order the “seal ring” in colored plastic.
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# 5 – 3D printed goodies by Projet Vincible
Sarah Ledesma launched a Kickstarter campaign for her new web series, Project Vincible. This is about the life and death of the world’s first superhero, Mr. Invincible.
Peter DiCicco came up with the original idea of the web serie. He said, “Our goal with this project is to make superheroes seem as real as possible, as though they really exist in our world and they’ve had historical lasting impact in the context of our lives.”
For her fundraising campaign, Sarah decided to offer you lots of different rewards including stickers, t-shirts and also 3D printed keychain with Mr. Invincible logo on it.
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# 6 – British secondary schools to teach 3D printing and robotics
The british government made the announcement, that it will publish a new national curriculum. The new educational program will emphasise the use of 3D printers, laser cutters and robotics, also giving some place to lessons in programming micro-processor chips.
“Pupils will learn computer-aided design and electronics. 3-D printers will become standard in our schools – a technology that is transforming manufacturing and the economy.” said a senior Whitehall source.
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# 7 – 3D printing and cycling
Designer Annabelle Nichols created a wooden handlebar for bikes, which integrates a pair of rear view mirrors. Annabelle decided to pick printing to produce this item, so that anyone can adapt the product to his own needs.
Also, the handlebar includes signal turns actioned by switches and signalized by LEDs.
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# 8 – Buttercup, the duck with a 3D printed foot!
Buttercup was born last year at a Arlington high school in Texas with his left foot turned backwards. Mike Garey, who adopted the duck, knew that under these circumstances, the animal would never survive in a natural environment. The only option left was amputation and Buttercup went into surgery.
After the procedure, Garey reached out to NovaPrint — a 3D printing service company — to recreate a prothese. NovaPrint scanned the left foot of Buttercup’s sister Minnie, created a 3D model, and printed it in silicon.
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# 9 – The first 3D printed castfor fractured bones
The idea is to replace the usual bulky, itchy and smelly plaster a 3D-printed cast for fractured bones.
“After many centuries of splints and cumbersome plaster casts that have been the itchy and smelly bane of millions of children, adults and the aged alike, the world over, we at last bring fracture support into the twenty-first century.” writes designer Jake Evill.
The prototype Cortex cast is lightweight, ventilated, washable and thin enough to fit under a shirt sleeve.
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# 10 – Picture on your iPhone case
You can now order cases for the iPhone 4 / 4s / 5 with a picture of your choice.
The process is called dye sublimation. It lets you apply a picture directly on the surface of a case. At the end of the process, you’ll have a nice case with a mat finish.
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# 11 – How to 3D print your brain ?
Intirb has posted on imgur.com a complete tutorial to 3D print your brain using a MRI scan.
When you have the scans, Intirb suggests to use a software called FreeSurfer to transform the brain scans into an STL file.
Then you can 3D print it !
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