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Tissue Engineering

Tissue Engineering is een tak van wetenschap met een hoge mate van interdisciplinariteit. Dat betekent dat er mensen met veel verschillende achtergronden in dit veld bezig zijn. Zo heb je mensen met een biologische, chemische of technologische achtergrond, maar ook artsen en tandartsen zijn in de tissue engineering vertegenwoordigd. Al deze mensen zijn nodig om de cellen en materialen zo te combineren dat ze een goed weefsel gaan vormen dat ook nog eens op een makkelijke manier in het ziekenhuis gebruikt kan worden.

• Battle of the Universities
• Wired
• Tissue Culture and Art project
• Symbiotica
• Wikipedia

Source: Battle of the Universities

Spam Architecture

The images from the Spam Architecture series are generated by a computer program that accepts junk email as input. Various patterns, keywords and rhythms found in the text are translated into three-dimensional modeling gestures. Created by Alex Dragulescu.

Source: Architectradure

DIY 3D Laser Scanner

DAVID-Laserscanner 2.1 is an Incredibly Low-Cost (or free) 3D Scanner. All you need is a camera (e.g. web cam), a hand-held line laser (around U$25), Two plain boards in the background, a Windows PC and the software. You will need to use their fusing software if you want to rotate a model and get a fully textured 3D scan, which could then be printed in a 3D printer.

What is really exciting here is that it puts some relatively advanced reverse engineering capabilities into the hands of the consumer. Let’s say that the housing for your mobile phone has cracked, theoretically you could scan the object, repair the crack, and print out a new shell. Or perhaps it could be used to scan and modify an existing product allowing you to 3D print your customized design, or maybe you could make a clay/whatever model to scan and then print?

The site has simple instructions on how to make your scanning booth, along with other forums and a wiki. This really is an amazing free software, I would love to see images of any experiments produced.

Source: DAVID-Laserscanner

Studio Ludens: 3D Voice Experiment

Studio Ludens is experimenting with a 3D shape generator that responds to voice. Here is a quick and dirty test. We are using vvvv to prototype this.

It looks like a Christmas Tree, but perhaps that has to do with the time of the year and the kind of sound, I think. So the next experience is to find out how to whisper or shout a beautifull figure. Or how to print poetry, a song or personal emotions. Technically speaking this is the first step in voice-controlled design.

Source: Studio Ludens Blog

Thingiverse: The Place to share Things

Thingiverse is a place to share digital designs with the world. Some kind of Flickr for things. Just as computing shifted away from the mainframe into the personal computer, digital fabrication will share the same path. Infact, it is already happening: laser cutters, cnc machines, 3D printers, and even automated paper cutters are all getting cheaper by the day. These machines are useful for a huge variety of things, but you need to supply them with a digital design in order to get anything useful out of them. 

Source: Thingiverse

Elektor Live

Zaterdag 22 november vond het Elektor Live event plaats in het Evoluon in Eindhoven. Het schitterende gebouw vormde een prachtig decor voor de -ondanks het slechte weer- druk bezochte beurs. Op uitnodiging van Elektor troffen niet alleen lezers, maar ook tal van andere geïnteresseerden elkaar op een dag vol informatie, besprekingen, conferenties en workshops.

Ponoko Prime: Manufactoring as a Service (MaaS)

The next part of our (Ponoko’s) evolution we’re launching a new innovation that we’ve named Designmake Prime - an online subscription service to design, make and market your product ideas like never before.

With Prime, we see a world where you can subscribe at a fixed monthly rate to make (and market) the creations of your dreams. It gives users a range of new services not offered by our original Designmake Free service. More

CandyFab 4000: 3D Sugar Printer

Earlier we gave a sneak preview of our project to construct a home-built three dimensional fabricator. Our design goals were (1) a low cost design leveraging recycled components (2) large printable volume emphasized over high resolution, and (3) ability to use low-cost printing media including granulated sugar. We are extremely pleased to be able to report that it has been a success: Our three dimensional fabricator is now fully operational and we have used it to print several large, low-resolution, objects out of pure sugar. More about the Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories 3D Fabricator Project.

(One of the first objects made with the 3D sugar printer.)

Source: Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

Lars Spuybroek: Mylight

The mylight’ lamp – limited edition of 24 unique pieces. We can now print an object directly from digital information – molds will just disappear. People have no idea yet what an incredible change in technology that is. And what that means for design. All design will become meta-design: objects can now be a range-of-objects like in a family or a species. Not one is the same, but they are similar enough to be recognised. They can be big on top, big in the middle, or big below. They can have many holes or just a few. But they will always be private, each lamp you buy is different from the other, it’s unique. – Lars Spuybroek

Lars Spuybroek has won several prizes and has exhibited all over the world, among them presentations at several Venice Biennales, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Victoria & Albert in London and the Guggenheim Bilbao. He is a professor and the ventulett distinguished chair in architectural design at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta USA.

Source: Unicahome

Oproep: Design Competition Rapid Manufactoring

In de aanloop op een nog te organiseren expositie organiseert De Hub een designcompetition Rapid Manufacturing (RM). Dit wordt ondersteund met advies en aanmaak van modellen vervaardigd met Rapid Manufacturing. Een uitgelezen kans voor bijvoorbeeld zelfstandige ontwerpers en bureaus om kennis en ervaring met Rapid Manufacturing op te doen en om zichzelf te promoten. 

Bij deelname kunt u op 16 december 2008 (10.00-17.00 uur) een workshop bij TNO volgen. Hier krijgt u de basiskennis van Rapid Manufactoring aangereikt. Met advies van TNO-specialisten kunt u uw model verder verbeteren en krijgt u hulp bij het uitwerken. Er worden samples aangemaakt zodat u kennis krijgt van de mogelijkheden van RM. Onder voorwaarden is het mogelijk via Senter Novem een innovatievoucher aan te vragen van 2.500 euro.

Het model wordt met uw goedvinden tentoongesteld tijdens een nog nader te bepalen expositie. Hierdoor krijgt u gratis publiciteit en worden mogelijk anderen geïnspireerd om ook Rapid Manufacturing te gaan inzetten.

Folder: Design Competition (pdf) 

Timewarp on the Philicorda

The Schnauzer Studios are working on many different projects, But the most remarkable one must be The Schnauzer Radio Orchestra, a musical mixture of exotica, novelty records, chip-tunes, rock ‘n roll and other geekness. Philicorda music (a former Philips project from the 60th) is one of them.

Source: Schnauzerstudios
Source: Wikipedia

3D, Science and Cultural Heritage

The simultaneous progress of computing, also of physics and chemistry have modified since about three decades the study and the restoration or the reconstitution of the artistic heritage. Archeology, applied to objects, to architecture and to the techniques of the past, has particularly benefited from new refinements in the analysis of materials, their use and workmanship since prehistory up to the 20th century (industrial archeology).

The most spectacular aspect of the use of computing for this sort of cultural heritage is, without doubt, the creation of 3D images and animations which open a dynamic window on the past. This is very attractive for the public, but also very useful for the specialist in view of the validation, reconstitution, restoration, replication, etc. In our event, open to everybody, we would like to present the main technologies, at present in use for the analysis, the reconstitution and the archiving of the cultural heritage, especially in the domain of the materials and the 3D.

Concrete examples will be presented in the exhibition: images, videos, computer animations, digital and physical models, stereoscopic displays. And specialists - archaeologists, historians, computer scientists, physicists, chemists, engineers - will present their works through lectures. The exhibition and the conference will be also displayed on the Internet, and a little bilingual (French-English) DVD catalogue will be edited.

• Place: Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers, Metz, Lorraine, France.
• Exhibition: Wednesday 19 to Sunday 23 of October, 2008.
• Conference: Saturday 22 and Sunday 23, November, 2008.

Source: Arsmathematica

FabManagers Meeting #5

Woensdag 19 november 2008 vindt van 15.00-17.00 uur de 5e FabManagers Meeting plaats. Dit keer alleen voor initiatieven die een fablab runnen of als zodanig op het web actief zijn.

• Locatie: Pakhuis de Zwijger, FabLab Amsterdam 3e verdieping. 
• Host: Waag Society.
• Info: Dirk van Vreeswijk
• Mob: 06 22540390

Frozen: Sound as Space

Dankzij digitalisering zijn beeld en geluid met elkaar verbonden op een manier die voorheen ondenkbaar was. Frozen presenteert audiokunst, prints en sculpturen als zelfstandige, maar onderling verbonden kunstwerken.

Frozen is gerealiseerd in samenwerking met de Noorse kunstenaar en curator Marius Watz, die is gespecialiseerd in het gebruik van generatieve systemen voor creatieve uitingen als print, animatie en sculptuur. Naast een bijdrage van Watz zijn er audiosculpturen te zien van Andreas Nicolas Fischer (DE) & Benjamin Maus (DE), Leander Herzog (CH) en Daniel Widrig & Shajay Booshan (UK). De audiosculptuur van Marius Watz is gebaseerd op Oslo Rain Manifesto van muzikant Alexander Rishaug. De andere sculpturen zijn gebaseerd op Reflection van Freiband, een project van de Nederlandse muzikant Frans de Waard. De geprinte stills zijn van Marius Watz en Leander Herzog. 

Frozen werd eerder gepresenteerd tijdens het 5 Days Off Festival 2008 in Amsterdam. Frozen is nu weer te zien van 17 november tot 10 december in de Concrete Image aan de Store Spuistraat 250 in Amsterdam.

• Concrete
• 5Daysoff
• Generator.x
• Pictures Flickr

          

(Marius Watz: Sound memory (Oslo Rain Manifesto). Rapid prototyping object based on FFT data from the song Oslo Rain Manifesto by Alexander Rishaug - Image by Marius Watz.)

Bron: TAG

3D Printer uses Paper & Glue

Just when you thought it was enough having a desktop 3D printer for under 5,000 Dollar, along comes The Mcor Matrix (22,000 Dollar) which Prints 3D using standard 80 gsm A4 paper, at a fraction of the total cost of ownership of current 3D printing technology (no actual numbers), but with operating costs of up to 50 times less.