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This post contains two 3D printing projects I did/theorized doing. My first 3D print is fairly straight forward, I wanted to test the capabilities of 3D scanning and 3D printing. This project entailed using the DAISY labs 3D scanner, cleaning in Zbrush, and printing with the abs plastics printer.
My second project I did not print (for financial reasons) but I was thinking about ‘craft.’ I really love the american archetype of a husband needing to be a provider of craft skills and home improvement. The true source of DIY culture, a home provider having the ability to fix anything that is provided. For this project decided to model and print a bird house as a stepping stone to the 3D printing world. The idea being that in the DIY realm the first project is the bird house carpentry, and later stepping to the dog house carpentry. Therefore by 3D printing a birdhouse I wanted to ‘mis-translate’ the building of the basic birdhouse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRHba4IAdsI
The visuals in the video below are a bit strong so I decided to post the link and not the embedded video so those who want to see it can.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI
I am not sure how to classify this, but I’ll say it is a skin printer. Using living cells, they are cultivated and then applied to places where skin was burnt and new skin gets formed. Here is the wikipedia article on it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_cell_gun
I found this concept boat made by Yacht Island Design firm.
It is not a reality but it is similar to the concept of creating dream projects and the idea that once we create them as dream projects, and actually create a prototype or a sketch or something tangible, they become closer to reality than if they just stay in our minds. I am posting below the link to Yatch Island Design concepts site which has 5 more pretty awesome boat designs.
http://www.yachtislanddesign.com/concepts/
Also, here is the link in Yahoo where I saw this:
http://realestate.yahoo.com/promo/floating-dream-homes.html
I was never able to CNC route this because the times were really full and I didn’t want to take time away from people who were routing for their final project. What I wanted to make was a nest chair structure and I tried to design it so that it wouldn’t need glue to be held together.
Top view
Front view
Perspective shot 1
Perspective shot 2, rendered
For my 2.5 axis cnc project I designed and fabricated two custom projector holders. The following is a picture of the holder made with the laser printer for a laser projector.
The next two images depict the holder I made on the CNC to fit a DVD player and epson projector:
I got through 5/7 of these grasshopper video tutorials from Digital Toolbox and I’ve attached the results. Feel free to pick up where I’ve left off.
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