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3D printing with metal: The final frontier of additive manufacturing
When Humphry Davy first discovered the electric arc in 1800, he chose to call it an arc since the evaporating gases buoyed it up into an erratic but generally rounded shape. It was not until the advent of electron beams and vacuum chambers that precise metal printing would first be made possible.
The real breakthrough that has enabled 3D printing for the masses has been the laser. Spray welding is a technique that has been used for decades to build up worn motor shafts, but it is far too crude for controlled additive printing
Full Story: ExtremeTech
3 Industries That Have Taken Advantage of 3D Printing
Here are a few examples of how 3D printing has helped give us surgeons that have enhanced training, rapid prototype testing in the automotive industry, and allowed our astronauts to travel lighter.
Full Story: Quartsoft
“It maintains all the present features but we step it up a notch,” Wilson told Ars. “The Pirate Bay has the right idea with physibles, but increasingly the fight is going to be about physical copyright—we want to build one of the tools early.” And like the Pirate Bay, which has thumbed its nose at corporations, copyright, and the legal system for digital goods, Wilson suggests DefCAD would do the same for physical objects as much as possible.
I suspect the battle here will be much more violent, especially since the governments as well as huge interests groups of ordinary citizens are the main enemies… At least if the use guns as important symbolic use.
- Manufacturing: The third industrial revolution | The Economist (via futuristgerd)
One positive point is that manufacturing moves back and decrease our dependance on low cost developing countries like China. But… The jobs will not come back, so it will continue to increase the economic gaps in the West. The question is if the gap will increase faster or slower if manufacturing moves back….
Source: futuristgerd
There might have been a time when I would have been surprised to hear that someone was using 3D printers to make a car. But, well, this is 2013.
The car in this case is the Urbee, a tiny three-wheeled economy car with an electric motor, internal combustion engine, and 3D-printed frame. Designed by the Manitoba-based Kor EcoLogic, the Urbee was manufactured using a Stratasys Fortus printer, which is able to cut down on parts by printing the Urbee in roughly 50 large blocks.
Amazing new combination of piracy by technology…
Shut Up and Take My Money of the Day:
- Download Minecraft World Exporter (Windows).
- Choose a portion of your Minecraft world.
- Upload it to FigurePrints and place order.
DARPA is funding the creation of 1,000 Makerspaces in high schools across the country to get American kids interested in making things again.
“We have to move from an engine of bureaucracy to an engine of innovation,” said Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter, announcing this week that at least 1,000 high schools around the country will be opening up Makerspaces over the next four years.
What is a Makerspace, you ask? “It’s a place where you get to do things,” Dale Dougherty, founder of O’Reilly Media’s Make magazine and creator of Maker Faire, told Co.Exist. “I think it’s sort of a mashup of a shop class, a computer lab, an art class, and maybe a bio lab.”
It’s sort of a mashup of a shop class, a computer lab, an art class, and maybe a bio lab.
The national Makerspace project is the brainchild of Dougherty and Saul Griffith, many-tentacled inventor and founder of Squid Labs, Instructables, and Howtoons, and is sponsored by a grant from DARPA MENTOR, the defense department’s research arm related to advancing manufacturing and reviving the nation’s strategic interest in making things; the organization is already sponsoring Makerspaces for adults, so this is a logical extension. There’s some pretty heavy national goals riding on this initiative: getting American kids excited about science, math and technology again and fostering a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. “I feel we’re at this point in time where people are looking for some substantial change in education,” says Dale. “And I want to be that new thing.”
DARPA is funding the creation of 1,000 Makerspaces in high schools across the country to get American kids interested in making things again.
“We have to move from an engine of bureaucracy to an engine of innovation,” said Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter, announcing this week that at least 1,000 high schools around the country will be opening up Makerspaces over the next four years.
What is a Makerspace, you ask? “It’s a place where you get to do things,” Dale Dougherty, founder of O’Reilly Media’s Make magazine and creator of Maker Faire, told Co.Exist. “I think it’s sort of a mashup of a shop class, a computer lab, an art class, and maybe a bio lab.”
It’s sort of a mashup of a shop class, a computer lab, an art class, and maybe a bio lab.
The national Makerspace project is the brainchild of Dougherty and Saul Griffith, many-tentacled inventor and founder of Squid Labs, Instructables, and Howtoons, and is sponsored by a grant from DARPA MENTOR, the defense department’s research arm related to advancing manufacturing and reviving the nation’s strategic interest in making things; the organization is already sponsoring Makerspaces for adults, so this is a logical extension. There’s some pretty heavy national goals riding on this initiative: getting American kids excited about science, math and technology again and fostering a spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship. “I feel we’re at this point in time where people are looking for some substantial change in education,” says Dale. “And I want to be that new thing.”
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