IoT 3D Printable Devices – The Spring 2021 Collection
At The Connected Environment Lab, part of The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, here at University College London we are designing and building a…
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3D Printing a Radiation Shield for the Weather Flow Air
The Weather Flow ‘Smart Weather Station‘ is arguably one of the most innovative weather sensors on the market. Launched via a kickstater campaign in 2017,…
Continue reading »Practice, production and the quest for innovation
The means to produce are changing. The chimneys stopped smoking during the past century, and large industries increasingly are replaced by distributed production lines. Production is coming to a desk near you. These new ways of producing, such as 3d …
Continue reading »Practice, production and the quest for innovation
The means to produce are changing. The chimneys stopped smoking during the past century, and large industries increasingly are replaced by distributed production lines. Production is coming to a desk near you. These new ways of producing, such as 3d …
Continue reading »Practice, production and the quest for innovation
The means to produce are changing. The chimneys stopped smoking during the past century, and large industries increasingly are replaced by distributed production lines. Production is coming to a desk near you. These new ways of producing, such as 3d …
Continue reading »Printing useful stuff
3D printing is growing up. The technology is morphing from an idea into a useful tool. Many universities and aspiring companies are developing amazing spinoffs that can produce meaningful stuff. The Design Computation Lab at the Bartlett School of A…
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Printing useful stuff
3D printing is growing up. The technology is morphing from an idea into a useful tool. Many universities and aspiring companies are developing amazing spinoffs that can produce meaningful stuff. The Design Computation Lab at the Bartlett School of A…
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Printing useful stuff
3D printing is growing up. The technology is morphing from an idea into a useful tool. Many universities and aspiring companies are developing amazing spinoffs that can produce meaningful stuff. The Design Computation Lab at the Bartlett School of A…
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Lego X Combines Augmented Reality, 3D modelling and 3D printing
Lego has been in the top preferences for architectural toys since forever. And who doesn’t enjoy playing with the super colorful Lego pieces. Within the Richard Rogers exhibition in RA London in 2013, one full section was dedicated to the famous bricks, filled with hundreds of lego pieces lying around, to engage people in the architectural thinking of creative modelling. Gravity, a company based in London, has recently announced an app that will use “location mapping and gyroscopic sensors” to generate digital models of Lego creations.
The program, “scans” Lego pieces real time and creates 3D models on the fly. Using sophisticated algorithms 3D Lego structures seem to be translated into surfaces, such as walls and roofs. The final stage appears to smooth out corners and curves to produce 3d printable objects which can be send directly for 3D printing.
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Lego X Combines Augmented Reality, 3D modelling and 3D printing
Lego has been in the top preferences for architectural toys since forever. And who doesn’t enjoy playing with the super colorful Lego pieces. Within the Richard Rogers exhibition in RA London in 2013, one full section was dedicated to the famous bricks, filled with hundreds of lego pieces lying around, to engage people in the architectural thinking of creative modelling. Gravity, a company based in London, has recently announced an app that will use “location mapping and gyroscopic sensors” to generate digital models of Lego creations.
The program, “scans” Lego pieces real time and creates 3D models on the fly. Using sophisticated algorithms 3D Lego structures seem to be translated into surfaces, such as walls and roofs. The final stage appears to smooth out corners and curves to produce 3d printable objects which can be send directly for 3D printing.
Continue reading »Lego X Combines Augmented Reality, 3D modelling and 3D printing
Lego has been in the top preferences for architectural toys since forever. And who doesn’t enjoy playing with the super colorful Lego pieces. Within the Richard Rogers exhibition in RA London in 2013, one full section was dedicated to the famous bricks, filled with hundreds of lego pieces lying around, to engage people in the architectural thinking of creative modelling. Gravity, a company based in London, has recently announced an app that will use “location mapping and gyroscopic sensors” to generate digital models of Lego creations.
The program, “scans” Lego pieces real time and creates 3D models on the fly. Using sophisticated algorithms 3D Lego structures seem to be translated into surfaces, such as walls and roofs. The final stage appears to smooth out corners and curves to produce 3d printable objects which can be send directly for 3D printing.
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3D Printing – the Form 1
Over the past few years printing three dimensional objects has become widely popular with new tools now becoming available at low costs ready to use. Whilst 3D printing has been around since the 1980s only now have consumer gadgets found their way onto…
Continue reading »3D Printing – the Form 1
Over the past few years printing three dimensional objects has become widely popular with new tools now becoming available at low costs ready to use. Whilst 3D printing has been around since the 1980s only now have consumer gadgets found their way onto…
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3D Printing – the Form 1
Over the past few years printing three dimensional objects has become widely popular with new tools now becoming available at low costs ready to use. Whilst 3D printing has been around since the 1980s only now have consumer gadgets found their way onto…
Continue reading »3D Printed Mechanical Clock
The rise in 3D printers and the move towards semi-consumer level models, such as MakerBot Replicator 2, opens up a wealth of opportunity to build everyday items. With a Replicator 2 in the corner of the office here at CASA, University College London, we thought we would try to print…
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Continue reading » Why we love 3D printing: The London Skyscraper Workshop
We are incredibly excited with 3D printers and with what people do with them. 3D printing has been around for more than two decades, however the technology has become publicly accessible within the last couple of years. This Swift, from solely the hands of the industries and some privileged designers to the end user, has signified the beginning of a new era where anyone can get a hold of a tiny industry; a portable production unit.
Back in 2006, the “Fantasy London” competition by Digital Urban encouraged creativity in schools with a workshop where imaginary buildings for London were realized in 3D and placed in London online via Google Earth. Nowadays, domestic 3D Printers and Rapid 3D modelling opened up new possibilities by creating solid versions of dreams in just moments.
The last two summers Dr. Martin Austwick, Miki Beavis and I brought the 3D printing technology of CASA UCL to one of the most popular festivals in the UK, to play with the idea of reshaping the skyline of London. The workshop focused on 3D printing and collective urban design and took place at the Mad Hackers Tea Party in the Green Man Festival, alongside many wonderful workshops around science.
Within 3 days and a total of 15 hours we played with the impossible of what would a future London look like if it was designed by children. John, Anna, Lory and many more participated in the re-design of London’s skyline contributing their own skyscraper for London.
To realise rapid 3D modelling, we are using a photo of the original drawing and a combination of digitising software that turn raster into vectors. This method has allowed the accurate 3D modelling of a number of different designs in a limited time. In total each skyscraper roughly about 20-30 min. to design, 3D model and 3D print.
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Why we love 3D printing: The London Skyscraper Workshop
We are incredibly excited with 3D printers and with what people do with them. 3D printing has been around for more than two decades, however the technology has become publicly accessible within the last couple of years. This Swift, from solely the hands of the industries and some privileged designers to the end user, has signified the beginning of a new era where anyone can get a hold of a tiny industry; a portable production unit.
Back in 2006, the “Fantasy London” competition by Digital Urban encouraged creativity in schools with a workshop where imaginary buildings for London were realized in 3D and placed in London online via Google Earth. Nowadays, domestic 3D Printers and Rapid 3D modelling opened up new possibilities by creating solid versions of dreams in just moments.
The last two summers Dr. Martin Austwick, Miki Beavis and I brought the 3D printing technology of CASA UCL to one of the most popular festivals in the UK, to play with the idea of reshaping the skyline of London. The workshop focused on 3D printing and collective urban design and took place at the Mad Hackers Tea Party in the Green Man Festival, alongside many wonderful workshops around science.
Within 3 days and a total of 15 hours we played with the impossible of what would a future London look like if it was designed by children. John, Anna, Lory and many more participated in the re-design of London’s skyline contributing their own skyscraper for London.
To realise rapid 3D modelling, we are using a photo of the original drawing and a combination of digitising software that turn raster into vectors. This method has allowed the accurate 3D modelling of a number of different designs in a limited time. In total each skyscraper roughly about 20-30 min. to design, 3D model and 3D print.
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Why we love 3D printing: The London Skyscraper Workshop
We are incredibly excited with 3D printers and with what people do with them. 3D printing has been around for more than two decades, however the technology has become publicly accessible within the last couple of years. This Swift, from solely the hands of the industries and some privileged designers to the end user, has signified the beginning of a new era where anyone can get a hold of a tiny industry; a portable production unit.
Back in 2006, the “Fantasy London” competition by Digital Urban encouraged creativity in schools with a workshop where imaginary buildings for London were realized in 3D and placed in London online via Google Earth. Nowadays, domestic 3D Printers and Rapid 3D modelling opened up new possibilities by creating solid versions of dreams in just moments.
The last two summers Dr. Martin Austwick, Miki Beavis and I brought the 3D printing technology of CASA UCL to one of the most popular festivals in the UK, to play with the idea of reshaping the skyline of London. The workshop focused on 3D printing and collective urban design and took place at the Mad Hackers Tea Party in the Green Man Festival, alongside many wonderful workshops around science.
Within 3 days and a total of 15 hours we played with the impossible of what would a future London look like if it was designed by children. John, Anna, Lory and many more participated in the re-design of London’s skyline contributing their own skyscraper for London.
To realise rapid 3D modelling, we are using a photo of the original drawing and a combination of digitising software that turn raster into vectors. This method has allowed the accurate 3D modelling of a number of different designs in a limited time. In total each skyscraper roughly about 20-30 min. to design, 3D model and 3D print.
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Manufacturing on Your Desktop
The technology around desktop production of printed 3D objects is evolving rapidly. In the past year a number of systems have surfaced in the cheap segment of printing machines. Where it only was the RepRap self built options, melting thermoplastics …
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Manufacturing on Your Desktop
The technology around desktop production of printed 3D objects is evolving rapidly. In the past year a number of systems have surfaced in the cheap segment of printing machines. Where it only was the RepRap self built options, melting thermoplastics …
Continue reading »Manufacturing on Your Desktop
The technology around desktop production of printed 3D objects is evolving rapidly. In the past year a number of systems have surfaced in the cheap segment of printing machines. Where it only was the RepRap self built options, melting thermoplastics …
Continue reading »How to Build a 3D Printer in 24 Hours
Last weekend the office here at CASA was taken over by the RepRap 3D printer build. The PayItForward team – a group of altruistic people who have RepRap machines, printing parts and gifting them to people who want to make a RepRap machine with the requ…
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