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From Ceramics Monthly comes a recipe for 3D printing ceramics clay and description of development of process.In the Solheim Rapid Manufacturing Laboratory (located in the Mechanical Engineering Building at the University of Washington in Seattle), our research focuses on new and improved methods to describe complex shapes in a way that a computer can “understand” and to fabricate those shapes in

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From Desktopfactory website: Until now, 3D printers have been large, expensive machines confined to the shops and design departments of major corporations and elite design firms. With the introduction of the Desktop Factory 3D printer, priced disruptively lower than the nearest competitive offering, Desktop Factory becomes the leader in high performance low-cost 3D printing

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Beaming Up 3-D Objects on a Budget - New York Times

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You may have never heard of Ping Fu. But chances are her work has touched you in some way. Fu has spent decades envisioning new uses for computers. Now she thinks she's really on to something: a technology that can scan three-dimensional objects, recreating them first virtually, and then in the real world.Fu came to American in 1982 and co-founded her company, Geomagic, in 1996. It is

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PASADENA, Calif.--In a new development in nanotechnology, a researcher at the California Institute of Technology has devised a way of weaving DNA strands into any desired two-dimensional shape or figure, which he calls "DNA origami.""The construction of custom DNA origami is so simple that the method should make it much easier for scientists from diverse fields to create and study the complex

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Minneapolis, Jan 24 - (Nasdaq: SSYS) Stratasys announced it has reached an agreement with Arcam AB, Gothenburg, Sweden, for Stratasys to be the exclusive North American distributor of Arcam® rapid manufacturing and prototyping systems.In Arcam’s patented electron-beam melting (EBM) process, called CAD to Metal®, titanium powder is transformed into solid metal parts for either functional

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It is the world’s first electron microscope for simultaneously and automatically investigating in three-dimensions the phase content, crystallographic texture, and crystal interfaces of materials.This allows scientists to see the inner structure of nanomaterials, biological matter, and high-performance steels, in ways that other microscopic procedures cannot - and in full 3D.The 3D gradient of

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The Eyebeam OpenLab has been experimenting with making solid models from figures created in the Second Life online world.They evidently import the virtual objects into Maya then print it on a 3D printer.They don't give many details but promise that they will tell all in an upcoming book.MAKE: Blog: What a 3D Printer can't do...

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Charles ChoiThree-dimensional tubes of living tissue have been printed using modified desktop printers filled with suspensions of cells instead of ink. The work is a first step towards printing complex tissues or even entire organs."This could have the same kind of impact that Gutenberg's press did," claims tissue engineer Vladimir Mironov of the Medical University of South Carolina.Many labs can

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Researchers, at the Lawrence Berkeley (Calif.) National Laboratory, have used a new approach to create an exceptionally rugged substance that may serve as a scaffold for new bone growth. The method also works well with nonbiological materials, report Sylvain Deville and his colleagues in the Jan. 27 Science. Using it, the team has fabricated novel metal-ceramic composites that benefit from a

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Savvy builders that resort to using vague and misleading artist renderings of projects in order to receive necessary approvals are finding themselves battling local residents and business owners that are now demanding full scale models of proposed projects prior to their being approved."Large scale models, topo tables and accurate virtual architecture are the best ways for construction companies,

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Trying to make it easier to create 3D objects with a drawing board. This drawing table moves up and down and changes the users view of the object they are drawing.From The 3D Tractus: A Three-Dimensional Drawing Board (pdf)We present the 3D Tractus: a simple and inexpensive system for interaction and exploration of three-dimensional (3D) data. The device is based on a traditional drawing

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The American Crystallographic Association newsletter holds contests to showccase the crystallographic art of the associations members. The entries show the crystallography and explain the process for creating the work.The winner of the latest competition is "Blood 2,000,000X," a watercolor that reveals Y-shaped antibodies, cholesterol molecules, and other well-known compounds in the vicinity of a

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Disney site lets customers design productsDisney's online shopping site on Wednesday launched its first "You design it" feature in a move aimed at riding the fast-growing trend toward giving choosy Internet shoppers exactly what they want.Disney partnered with online customization site Zazzle.com, which licenses thousands of images from Warner Bros., Marvel Comics, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox,

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It is not surprising that a manager at Autodesk, a leading source for design and manufacturing software, would say that 3D models are becoming the universal language. I am sure they would hope so, since 3D modeling software is their product. Regardless, Robert Kross, vice president, Autodesk's Manufacturing Solutions division, makes some goods points in this article from Industry

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No one's even sure what to call it. "Claytronics," "synthetic reality" and "programmable matter" have been proposed. "Dynamic physical rendering" is the label Intel uses."I'm still working on my 'elevator pitch,' " said Randy Bryant, dean of the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science, noting he struggles to find a quick way to describe it to potential sponsors. The National Science Foundation

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Robot hammers on sheet metalRapid prototyping makes it possible to quickly produce or modify tools and structural components, as one-off jobs or in small batches. A unique process allows 3D portraits and other patterns to be hammered into car bonnets or other sheet metal.“Incremental” means hammering or pressing a part into shape in gradual stages. In the metal-hammering process developed at the

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Roland Advanced Solutions Division (ASD) introduced the LPX-600 desktop 3D laser scanner. With the touch of a button, the LPX-600 samples an object, scans it, and automatically generates a detailed model with a watertight surface.The LPX-600 comes complete with LPX EZ Studio reverse engineering software. This integrated hardware/software system is an ideal 3D capture solution for all popular CAD/

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From wmmna:The design products department at the Royal College of Art in London and 3D Systems teamed up to create products that could only be made by 3D printing. Check out more pictures on flikr.According to wmmna this gun worked right off the machine.we make money not art: Rapid Products

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Nanotech discovery could have radical implicationsSalvatore Torquato, a Princeton University scientist, is proposing turning a central concept of nanotechnology on its head. If the theory bears out it could have radical implications not just for industries like telecommunications and computers but also for our understanding of the nature of life.Torquato and colleagues have published a paper in

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By Lois M. Collins Deseret Morning News An emerging branch of medicine called "organ printing" takes a patient's own healthy cells and uses a printer, cell-based "bio-ink" and "bio-paper" to create tissue to repair a damaged organ. Now a hydrogel or "bio-paper" developed by a University of Utah College of Pharmacy professor is a key component of a $5 million National Science

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Chains of 1 million magnetic nanoparticles have been assembled and disassembled in a solution of suspended particles in a controlled way, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) report. Such particles and structures, once their properties are more fully understood and can be manipulated reliably, may be useful in applications such as medical imaging and information

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Design works by Lionel Theodore Dean. tuber9"Using rapid prototyping techniques, it costs the same to produce similar parts as identical ones, so why produce two products the same?Envisage a future with 'living' consumer products, forms that grow, change, and mutate on screen.At any given moment a product may be frozen creating a unique design, digitally manufactured and delivered to the door."

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Military hardware is aging fast. In some cases, it's older than the soldiers who use it. Spare parts are required to keep this equipment running, but many of the companies that supplied them have long left the business, and drawings and documentation may no longer exist. Reverse-engineering firms have stepped in to re-create the parts using the latest computerized numerical control machinery,

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NYC design firm Firstborn has invented an computerized foot analyzer to automate sizing your feet for perfect shoes.The machine was designed for Fila Adatto line of customized shoes.The automated sales person measures your foot and creates a 3D map.The machine analyzes the results of the measurements and designs a perfect shoe for your foot. A stock of shoe parts are kept at the store so a human

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