Archive for november, 2009
I recently received a mail from Alex Mamalyha, web community manager for i.materialise, announcing the launch of a new service from Materialise NV.i.materialise is a rapid manufacturing service aimed at designers, and the beta sitegives a good idea of the way the service will work. Obviously there are many web-based rapid manufacturing services these days, and the announcement of a new one is a fairly regular occurrence which I usually just ignore. But given the extent to which Materialise have supported and encouraged designers’ use of RM technologies through their .MGX initiative, I thought this was one service that deserved further investigation. More at i.Materialise
Source: We Don’t do Retro
Vrienden van wetenschap wil een nieuwe strategie ontwikkelen om wetenschap hoog op de maatschappelijke en politieke agenda te zetten. De resultaten van andere acties, zoals de online discussies en de dialoogsessie, komen samen op het event vrienden van wetenschap. Daar maken we gezamelijk de nieuwe strategie. Programma.
De voorzitter van het Innovatieplatform, premier Balkenende, opent de dag. Daarnaast spreken oa Robbert Dijkgraaf, René Smit, minister Van der Hoeven en Jeroen van der Veer. Voor dit event worden mensen van verschillende achtergronden uitgenodigd: ondernemers, economen, toonaangevende wetenschappers, jong aanstormend wetenschappelijk talent, politiek adviseurs.
Coördinaten
Event woensdag 2 december 2009
Fokker Terminal Den Haag
Reality as we know it is finished. Welcome to reality 2.0 where the internet is ubiquitous, and the world is forested with information.
In this new world, when you see a building, you can see its Wikipedia page, Flickr sets of photographs taken inside, the websites of the companies that are based in it, the public Twitter feeds of people who work there, intersecting spheres of free wifi radiating from it, and the energy flowing from its windows. In the lobby, you’ll see scores of handwritten messages from other visitors and users, recommending nearby coffee shops and suggesting that you take the stairs because the lifts are slow. There’s also a message only you can see, from the friend you’ve come to meet, saying take a seat – she already knows you’re here.
Reality 2.0 (pdf)
Source and more: Iconeye
We live in a sped-up world in which technological advances occur faster and faster. We can’t imagine, for instance, living in our homes and working in our offices without products that were lab experiments only five years ago. Often, it has been technological innovation that has served as the catalyst for these changes. For example, will the 3D printer – the cost of which has plummeted in only a decade – move from the lab and the factory into our homes and offices in the near future? How could seemingly small changes like this actually have a big impact on society, socially, economically and culturally?
Technology has bestowed a greater responsibility on the designer by radically altering his role. Design will not only be about creating products that are a result of innovation, but envisioning future scenarios and communicating these clearly to the public, suggesting new production processes and testing the manifold uses of new technologies. The designer is now in a position to tell factories which tools should be made and/or designed in order to make products, becoming as much researchers, scientists and engineers as “designers.” In this way, they must begin to use technology as a tool with which to expand what we perceive as “normal” and constantly re-create our quotidian world.
The Evolution of the Desinger (pdf)
Source and More: Bits ‘n Pieces
Ontdekkingsreis naar nieuwe mogelijkheden en trends in 3D printing en rapid manufacturing op donderdag 5 november 2009 TNO Eindhoven. De dag wordt georganiseerd door Microcentrum in samenwerking met TNO.
Deze themadag geeft de state of the art op het gebied van Rapid Manufacturing weer voor zowel bestaande als toekomstige gebruikers van RM-technologie. Vanuit verschillende toepassingsgebieden krijgt u inzicht in de vele mogelijkheden die RM-technologie biedt. Toepassingsvoorbeelden in 3D printing met kunststoffen, metalen en combinaties van diverse materialen passeren tijdens deze dag de revue.
Onbeperkte vormvrijheid, allerlei mogelijke functie integratie, direct vanuit een CAD file produceren en het combineren van verschillende materialen in één product zijn enkele grote voordelen bij het gebruik van Rapid Manufacturing technieken.
Brochure Themadag Rapid Manufactoring (pdf)
Last year Mikrocentrum introduced a new, international event: Rapid Manufacturing & Mass Customization. The event was co-organised by Rein van der Mast and covered both topics as well as how to apply these in an industrial environment. We are proud to announce the 2009 edition tittled: Rapid Manufacturing & Mass Customization. The event will take place November 17, 2009. Its location is still undecided, however we are expecting to find an interesting place in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands. This also means we can better accommodate our international audience, amongst which are Dutch, German and Belgian guests.
If you have any topics you think would be interesting for the visitors please let us know. This year we will include open innovation because it can be linked to both of our main topics. We will focus primarily on applications instead of research. You can contact Mikrocentrum by e-mail or by phone +31402969934
Source: Mikrocentrum
