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Wired Magazine

This mont’s Wired Magazine comes with a nice cover story about 3D Printing,
And three of the coffee cups are displayed as an example of design for 3D Printing, in ceramics.

You might think of 3-D printing as bleeding-edge technology, relevant only to geeks or high-end design workshops. But you may have encountered a 3-D printer already, in circumstances so prosaic you didn’t even notice.

Let’s start at the dentist’s office. Many custom dental fittings are now 3-D printed—like the series of mouth guards, each slightly different from the last, that are used to change tooth alignment over months. After a dental technician scans the current position of the teeth, all positions intermediate to the desired end point are modeled by software and then printed out in plastic. Also, if you’re lucky enough to have a dentist who can replace a crown in a single sitting, it’s because models are 3-D printed and then the replacement teeth are milled right there in the office.

And that’s just the tooth business. Practically every consumer item or electronic gadget you own has been prototyped on a 3-D printer; ditto for the newer buildings around you. Today you can get a custom 3-D-printed action figure of your World of Warcraft character or your Xbox Live avatar. And if you go to Tokyo, you can have your head scanned for a photo-realistic action figure of yourself. (Try not to get too creeped out.)

Commercial 3-D printing works with only a few dozen types of materials, mostly metals and plastics, but more are in the works. Researchers are experimenting with exotic “inks” that range from wood pulp to sugar. Some devices can extrude liquid foods, like cupcake icing and melted chocolate. Soon we’ll be able to print electric circuits, potentially making complex electronics from scratch.”

The cups displayed are: The CupCake Cup, the Studded Belt Cup & the Double Espresso

The article, “The New MakerBot Replicator Might Just Change Your World” is written by Chris Anderson, Wired’s editor-in-chief, and an advocate of maker culture and openness:

Chris Anderson on “Desktop Manufacturing’s ‘Macintosh Moment’”

With the advent of affordable, advanced desktop 3-D printers like the Makerbot Replicator and Cubify’sCube, we’re standing at the starting line of a manufacturing revolution. These tools, once reserved for top-level firms, give curious minds everywhere rapid prototyping capabilities for almost any type of project. Online 3-D object storehouses like Shapeways and Thingiverse offer immediate access to an ever-growing collection of printable and manipulatable objects, removing supply chain limitations. And new, straightforward software like Autodesk’s 123D series and TinkerCAD are allowing people to invent 3-D printable creations formerly relegated to creude sketches on scratch paper.
One of the biggest questions about this revolution, though, is what ways we’ll see it develop and spread. Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired, DIY robotics enthusiast, and author of recently released Makers: The New Industrial Revolution, discusses that notion in this month’s cover story.

“Atoms are the New Bits”

In an age of open source, custom-fabricated, DIY product design, all you need to conquer the world – and to profit – is a brilliant idea. Welcome to the next Industrial Revolution.

DigitalForming | beta testing

Cunicode was invited to a co-Design workshop at iMaterialize headquarters, to test and play with DigitalForming‘s software.

Lisa Harouni, DigitalForming’s CEO, introduced the software tools & services.

[video] 3D Printing and the Culture of Creativity

Shapeways produceced a nice video featuring the 3D Printing technology and people behind their service.

Stephan Malik, the film director, and Carine  Carmy, shapeway’s Marketing Director came all the way to Barcelona to shoot some footage and have a chat on 3D-Printing and what it means for designers.

3D Print & Design Workshop | Barcelona

3D-Printer assembly & creative experimentation

Workshop | Barcelona | September 2012

by Elisava + Fundacio CIM 

You’ll build your own 3DPrinter and develop a design project to be made with your machine. 

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3D Print Workshop

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INFORMATIVE NOTE:

This course is conducted jointly by the Fundació CIM (UPC) (Llorens Artigues 12, Barcelona) and ELISAVA School of Design and Engineering of Barcelona (La Rambla 30-32, Barcelona)

DURATION:

from 12 to 21 September 2012. 60h

PRICE:

2.400 € (Includes RepRap machine, the student makes it and brings it home)

LANGUAGE:

Spanish / Catalan / English

SCHEDULE:

from 10am to 2pm and from 3pm to 7pm

AIMED AT:

Students with Degree qualifications in engineering or degree in design. Graduates in the fields of design, engineering, technology or production. Professionals with experience in the field of engineering or design. People self-taught in new production technologies

DIRECTION:

Bernat Cuní (ELISAVA – Cunicode), Albert Fuster (Head of studies Degree in Design ELISAVA), Felip Fenollosa (Technical director Fundació CIM), Xavier Riudor (Head of Science and Technology Area ELISAVA), Arnau Díaz (academic management Fundació CIM), Albert Camps (Fundació CIM), Xavier Martínez (Fundació CIM). Lectures: Josef Prusa, Adrian Bowyer (RepRap Core Developer), Roger Uceda (Fundació CIM).

Beautiful Failures | the book

The Beautiful Failures book just arrived from the printshop, and it looks great.

52 pages, soft cover, printed by Blurb, a great service for independent publishing.

inspiration | natural history museum

An afternoon visit to the Natural History museum in Barcelona [MuseuBlau] fueled some ideas for an upcoming collection of 3DPrinted items.

interview with FESPA | Thoughts on 3DPrint

Bernat shared some thoughts on 3D-Printing in a video-interview with FESPA (The Federation of Screen and Digital Printers Associations) for the FespaDigital-2012 event.

Black Ceramics | OctoCup

Shapeways introduced Black glazing for 3D-Printing in Ceramics,
we are so flattred they used the One Coffe Cup a Day project as models,
the printed cups look sleek, fetish & beautiful.

Get the OctoCup in Black Ceramics here.

3DScanning + 3DPrinting Workshop / Madrid

Cunicode will be giving a 1 day workshop at the Utopic_School to explore DIY 3DScanning & 3DPrinting.

Experimentos con escaneo e impresión 3D
/ Bricolaje atómico-digital

En el taller los participantes podrán:
- Explorar las posibilidades de la impresión en tres dimensiones con herramientas DIY al alcance de todos.
- Experimentar con el hecho de poder fabricarnos nuestros propios productos y soluciones materiales.
Y por último podrán:
- Generar un objeto digital a partir de la manipulación física de otro objeto.

cunicode @ Elisava / Masters