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Fun concept + execution from Metaform Architects, recently featured on Dezeen.
Designed for children aged four to eight years old, the face shield includes studs to secure personalised adornments such as crowns, animal ears or googley eyes.
A 3D-printed plastic frame is designed to fit over a child’s hat to hold a PVC shield in front of their face.
So into this project from Chris Parker Tech:
In this project I built an interactive LED wall display using an Arduino and 3D printed parts.
See more on Chris Parker Tech, YouTube, GitHub, Thingiverse and Instructables.
Check out the latest from New Story, a housing nonprofit that is constructing 3D Printed homes in Mexico.
Great write-up + photos from designboom.
each 500-square-foot, single-storey house has been finished with roofs, windows, and interiors, and is part of a new 3D-printed neighborhood that will include 50 homes once completed. located in tabasco, the project is part of new story‘s experimentation into construction processes that could help offer affordable housing for the poorest communities in the world.
Utilizing space-age building techniques (and aesthetic), these beehive cottages were designed for mars!
Via Design-Milk:
The vertical TERA maximizes livable square footage while minimizing its physical footprint on the land. AI SpaceFactory intends to transport a 3D printing robot to the site to build TERA following a laser scan of the site’s topography, eliminating the need to level the ground/foundation. And when the structure begins to show the signs of breaking down, the biopolymer basalt composite housing can be easily recycled.
This YouTube video by Eric Strebel goes through the full design process of creating a handy utility knife.
This video is about Design a Small Utility Knife for shop use. The blade is replaceable and requires no tools to swap the blade.
See more! and thanks to Eric for sharing!
Via J. Peterson’s blog – Apple’s recently introduced Mac Pro features a distinctive pattern of holes on the front grill… that pattern is very appealing, and re-creating it is a fun exercise.
The best clue about the pattern comes from this page pitching the product. About halfway down, by the heading “More air than metal” is a short video clip showing how the hemispherical holes are milled to create the pattern.
With a bit of trig, you can find half the horizontal spacing x by using the right triangle formed by that line, x and the side of the equilateral triangle. The angle from the vertical center line to the equilateral triangle edge is half of π/3, π/6. So, x=2r tan(π/6) and 2x is the horizontal spacing of the circles.
The blog goes on to use trigonometry to calculate the opposite hole positioning and with some pixel counting, some thickness estimates.
So to CAD this up, all you need to do is start with a rectangular block of thickness t, and use the formulas above to place the centers of the spheres (with diameter 2r) on the front and back of the block.
If you just want to quickly print or look at the result in 3D, there are some sample STL files posted on Thingiverse.
Functional, accessible design is so important. One of the coolest considerations of this project is the option to 3D print some of the items. From ThisAbles:
It was important for us to create maximum access in every aspect of the project, from the designated site that we constructed for the project, that was adapted for people with disabilities, to the products themselves, some of which can even be printed independently in a 3D printer based on models that we have made available to the general public.
Read more, check out the items here, and see more on YouTube
Via dezeen.
A team led by professor Xu Weiguo at the Tsinghua University School of Architecture in Beijing has 3D-printed a 26.3-metre-long concrete bridge, which they claim is the world’s longest.
The 3.6-metre-wide pedestrian bridge, which spans a canal in Shanghai’s Baoshan District, was installed earlier this year. It was designed by Tsinghua University School of Architecture’s Zoina Land Joint Research Center for Digital Architecture (JCDA), and built by Shanghai Wisdom Bay Investment Management Company.
This interesting article from Arch Daily goes over some advancements in 3D printing. From unique materials, techniques and subjects, its clear 3D printing is primed to hit it’s stride.
3D printing itself is no longer a new technology, but that hasn’t stopped researchers and innovators around the world from coming up with new applications and opportunities. Some experiments with new materials have been driven by sustainability concerns and others are simply the result of imagination and creativity. Others have chosen to invest their time utilizing more traditional materials in new ways. Materials, however, are just the beginning. Researchers have developed new processes that allow the creation of objects that were previously impossible to print and, on a larger scale, new building typologies are being tested – including a Mars habitat!
