Why Not Hand Over a “Shelter” to hermit crabs?

• Creator Name: AKI INOMATA
• Catgory: Art
• Country: Japan

Hermit crabs change their shells as they grow. Sometimes they are kicked out of their shelters by stronger hermit crabs and forced to exchange shells.
I gave hermit crabs new shells that I had made for them with a 3D printer, and if they liked them, they moved into my “shelters”. The shelters that I made for them represent cities from around the world.

My idea for this piece came about when I participated in the “No Man’s Land” exhibition that was held at the French Embassy in Japan in 2009. This work was inspired by the fact that the land of the former French Embassy in Japan belonged to the French until October 2009, and then was handed back to Japan for the following fifty years, after which time it will be returned to France. I was surprised to hear this story, and associated this image with the way that hermit crabs exchange shelters. A piece of land is peacefully exchanged between two countries. While it is the same piece of land, our definition of it changes. In the same way, the appearance of hermit crabs changes completely as they exchange shelters. The hermit crabs in my piece, who exchange shelters representing cities of the world, seem to be crossing over national borders. It also brings to mind migrants and refugees changing their nationalities and the places where they live.

The first time that I made this piece, I only gave the hermit crabs spherical shapes, but they ignored my “shelters”. Using CT scans, I studied the natural shapes of hermit crabs’ shells, and by printing out the 3DCG data using 3D printers, I was able to create “shelters” that the hermit crabs would move into.

Process and tools

I took a CT scan of hermit crabs' shells to obtain data such as the inner spiral structure. Then, using 3D computer graphics software, I added miniature designs of cities around the world, and created the finished pieces using a 3D printer.

AgIC print - Silver-based Inkjet Circuit Printing and Instant Prototyping

• Creator Name: AgIC Inc.
• Catgory: Machines
• Country: Japan

This project turns off-the-shelf home inkjet printers into print circuit boards with silver-based ink.

For those who make circuit boards, including skilled makers as well as new users, there are very few options when it comes to making their own. For hardware makers, people used to order expensive printed circuit boards (PCBs) online and wait for at least a week for manufacturing. Entry-level users have difficulty learning how to use special PCB layout software and need to work on breadboards where circuits tend to be unorganized.

AgIC circuit printing enables rapid prototyping of circuit boards. Circuit printers consist of an off-the-shelf home inkjet printer utilizing specially formulated silver-based ink. With our printers, users need to spend only a few dollars and a few minutes to print a circuit sheet. Moreover, people who become interested in circuits can start printing circuits with software that they are comfortable with, such as Adobe Illustrator or Microsoft PowerPoint. As the printers can print circuit boards on glossy photo paper and special-coated PET film flexible circuit boards can be made fairly easily. Moreover, those substrates have less environmental impact than PCBs.

Process and tools

To make an inkjet circuit printer, we inject silver conductive ink into empty cartridges and run a printer with those cartridges as usual. Practically speaking, not all inkjet printers work with the silver-based conductive ink. Also, we do not recommend using used printers because residual ink may contaminate the silver ink. Once we start selling the cartridges, we will be able to start printing just by inserting cartridges, without injecting the ink itself.

After the printer is set up, we download the printer's genuine driver from the printer manufacturer's website, and print using the driver-recommended settings for the best print results. Once the printer is confirmed as working properly, the user can print from any software as long as the data can be printed with a certain resolution, as we use printer usually. This is fairly simple for most people who know how to use inkjet printers.

Members

Co-founder and CEO

Shinya Shimizu

Co-founder

Masaaki Sugimoto

CEO of AgIC Intl. Corp.
(subsidiary of AgIC Inc. in U.S.)

Yuki Nishida

Technical Advisor

Yoshihiro Kawahara

Board member and advisor

Tomihisa Kamada

Traveling Knitting Machine

• Creator Name: Saki Chikaraishi
• Catgory: Beyond
• Country: Japan

The Travelling Knitting Machine is a combination of a suitcase and a knitting machine, as well as an artistic activity when travelling with it in tow It uses the energy of the wheels spinning to knit, so the more movement there is, the more knitting is done. Then, when I meet people along my journey, I wrapped the knitted product around them snuggly. By making the invisible concept of distance visible, I hope I can let the people wrapped up in the knit freely imagine the place where it began to be knitted, and the path that it has taken. The concept of this project is to invite people on a journey of imagination while being snuggled in a knit.

The actual Travelling Knitting Machine itself was created from April to June 2014, using a 3D printer for some parts. Right after its completion, I traveled around London and the Lake District in Britain for three weeks from late June, and gave out knits to 30 people.
I will continue to carry it along not only during my travels but also in daily life, and connect each place to place while communicating with local people.

●The use of 3D printers for making some parts

The 3D printer cannot make things that are larger than a certain size. Also, the suitcase has to be lightweight and strong at the same time. Therefore we made the main parts with a 3D printer in order to make it robust, and connected them with other materials, which resulted in the end result being large and light.

●Crowdfunding

This is an art project that includes the act of meeting new people and interacting with them through this machine, so I adopted crowdfunding, which necessitates the involvement of many people, from the start. As a thank-you to the people who funded me, I gave them each a miniature sample model of the product made with a 3D-printer.
https://motion-gallery.net/projects/tripknittingmachine

Process and tools

Machine used: 3D printer

1. Creation of tentative design with computer aided design (CAD)
2. Creation of sample model that is 1/5 of the actual size
3. Creation of workable sample model that is 1/4 of the actual size
4. Redesigning with CAD
5. Fabrication of the actual machine parts (corner parts, pulley, clutch knob, wheels, yarn holder, handle)
6. Construction of the frame by connecting the aluminum pipes
7. Placement of the knitting machine
8. Set up of the fabric
9. Minor adjustments (such as refabrication of the parts with a 3D printer)

Members

Director

Saki Chikaraishi

Funders for building the machine/participants in crowdfunding

https://motion-gallery.net/projects/tripknittingmachine

Machine creation (work involving the 3D printer, and the creation of the frame part)

TASKO Inc.

Machine creation (Set up of the outer fabric)

Koyuki Kato

People wrapped in the knitted goods from the machine

People I encountered on the trip around Britain

Rootless

• Creator Name: Rootless Team - Fablab Torino
• Catgory: Products
• Country: Italy

Wood is an amazing high-performance material. It's the first composite used by humanity and it's easy to work with CNC machines. We choose sustainable and certified materials, because we believe that the best approach is to know the needs and satisfy them locally.

The frame is entirely made using a CNC router, small details are in laser-cut plywood, and we are working on 3D printed accessories.

This design is very resistant and durable thanks to the fiber direction and the joints geometry.

We released everything in Creative Commons (CC BY‐SA‐NC 4.0 int) to let other people experiment and make their own customized bike.

Process and tools

We designed the frame with parametric solutions that let us adjust it on the biker that’s going to use it. The main design is then divided in two symmetrical shells and the thickness of the material is decided based on the weight and size of the owner.

From this point the CAD is prepared for the CNC milling machine, adding temporary supports, connections for the shells and so on.

The wooden parts are glued together to make the piece to mill already with the wood fibers properly oriented, this is why you can’t use plywood or similar materials.

A laser cutter is used to make the handles and 3D printing for the accessories, such as the front and rear lights.

Members

Designer

Enrico Bassi

CNC expertzandzmaker

Andrea Patrucco

3D Modeler

Maurizio Mion

Wooden Furoshiki

• Creator Name: Evdoxia Xexaki and Yuko Ishizu
• Catgory: Products
• Country: Switzerland

Furoshiki (風呂敷) is a type of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth traditionally used to transport clothes, gifts, or other goods. It was first used in the mid-Nara Era, in traditional Japanese baths (Onsen) so as not to confuse or mix the clothes.

In recent years, the use of Furoshiki is being promoted again to ensure environment protection in Japan and worldwide.

This project is intended to show wood materials in a new light and aims to create a foldable surface out of wood, which can be used in different three-dimensional shapes and function as furniture or an interior product.

The materials range between hard and soft, seating and curtains, blurring the relationships between furniture and textiles, creating a ‘Wooden Furoshiki’.

The challenge of the design is to approach a special tree, called Yew, with information technology, take the material’s irregularities as design input and create meaningful order out of them.

Through this project, we manage to combine computational design (algorithmic design), contemporary techniques and craftsmanship.

Algorithmic design integrates the potential for unpredictable patterns, as well as technology that enhances our hands-on approach and enables a unique way of using materials.

Process and tools

We take advantage of the characteristics of the yew tree and focus on the special flower-shaped grain which comes as a result of the twisted and knotty growth of the tree, with the aim to showcase it in our design.

The process we follow is as follows:

1. Collect trunks of wood
2. Slice the trunks in to slices of the desired thickness (2 cm)
3. Sand the wooden slices
4. Take photos or scan the slices and create an archive
5. Trace through the grain of each slice in order to create a variety of wooden rings (different shapes, different sizes, and different thicknesses)
6. Mill the slices according to the grain tracing and collect the varied rings produced
7. Fill the cracks with resin wherever needed
8. Select the desired pattern
9. Pack the rings according to the pattern selected
10. Connect each piece with its neighboring piece (ball joint or wire joint)

To complete this project, it is very important to use the proper tools.

• - Polygon-packing algorithm
• - CNC milling machine for cutting through the grain
• - CNC lathe for producing the metal ball joints
• - Drilling machine for making holes in the wooden pieces in order to connect them to each other
• - Sanding machine for sanding the wood
• - Scroll saw machine for slicing the wood

Members

Architect, MAS ETH

Evdoxia Xexaki

Architect, MAS ETH

Yuko Ishizu

COLORED MEMORIES

• Creator Name: ITAY OHALY
• Catgory: Art
• Country: Israel

While thinking about a project for the ‘Playing at Design Museum Holon’ (Israel) exhibition, I went back in time to my kindergarten days and childhood memories. I tried to remember my first drawings and creations, the first material I used and the techniques I learned back then.

‘Color etching’ was one of the techniques I remember. As kids, we filled a piece of paper with random and colorful doodles, covered it all with black and then etched on it to make a drawing.

It is a creative process which causes a sensation of surprise, discovery and magic, the same elements which characterize our experiences of childhood creations.

I decided to use this technique and explore it in two spaces, thus creating two different experiences. The first space was all black. The museums’ visitors were invited to participate and etch on it freely. The second space is my interpretation of the technique. It was planned by myself and etched using CNC.

This project binds together the playful, analog, childish world with the professional, digital, adult one. The project preserves the childhood values, its emotions and naivety, and stretches the boundaries of the color etching technique by using digital technologies.

* The project was done with the help of FABLAB Israel and Tambour

Process and tools

For the etching of the room (the floor, the walls, the painting on the wall, the table, the stool and the vase) I used a CNC milling machine.

I had to find the right way to use it in order to make the etching right. After many experiments I realized that I need to use the other side of the milling tool (not the sharp edge) and to use it while the spindle is off. In that way the tool only scratched 0.5 millimeter of the surface (removing the black color) and didn’t damaged the colors.

“A Machine’s Perception” door handles

• Creator Name: PeLiDesign
• Catgory: Procducts
• Country: Netherlands

”A scanner is only a human, in other words: machines are not as perfect as we see them”.

With the project ‘A Machine’s Perception’ Alexander Pelikan from studio PeLiDesign goes beyond the fringes of digital creation. To create, he exploits the digital imperfection of objects (up until now, handles – more objects will follow…suggestions appreciated). Alexander Pelikan created a series of cutting edge door handles by controlling both the possibilities and shortcomings of machines.

The exploring of errors in a 3D scan has led to the visualization of a scanner’s perception. With ‘A Machine’s Perception’ door handles, a flawed virtual reality became real and tangible.

Process and tools

Developed in partnership with: research laboratory TNO Eindhoven and Studio Ludens. 3D printed in steel by i.materialise. A 3D scan is seemingly accurate but indeed it is very much subject to coincidence (quantum effects of the laser, processing software thresholds, and funny quirks of the processing algorithms). To create these objects we first laser scanned an original and then reduced the point cloud then we used CAD software 3DS Max, Rhino, Solidworks,

Meshlab and Grasshopper to enlarge the “mistakes” or inaccuracies in the file. We then created our files and printed them in INOX steel.

Boat of sun

• Creator Name: Vladimir Andreev Semenovich
• Catgory: Art
• Country: Russia

In 2013, I had the idea of kinetic sculpture running from the wind. Art object is - rowers in a boat flying over the waves. Human, symbolizing the sun holds the scepter as a wind turbine. Helicoid verticalaxis wind turbine by a worm gear transmits motion to the wheels, and they, in turn, on the drawbar move the paddles. The idea was to visualize in this object the harmony of the natural elements: sun, wind, and waves. I wanted to show their unbreakable bond, as well as the energy conversion process. Solar energy, in wind power, wind energy - in kinetic and kinetic - in mental energy, in human mind. A source of inspiration for me were the ancient rock carvings (petroglyphs) and ancient sculpture. As a sculptor, I'm interested in not only the use of Fibonacci numbers in the form of the object, but also the aesthetics of the mechanical parts of the sculpture.

I needed to create a sculpture using bent elementary parts. Using minimal resources for maximum expressiveness. Sculpture must be durable and inexpensive to manufacture and assembly. Quick way to do and test it - digital manufacturing. This is the second prototype created in Fablab, using digital production.

Prototype was produced in the International School 3 Fablab Polytech with the help of an international team.

Process and tools

The first sketch was made with the program 3d Max 2013, as it allows an amount and animate sculpture quickly without complicated calculations. To design it, we used the program Solidworks 2013.

Human-Sun was created in Zbrush and optimizing done in Solidworks 2013 for quick assembly and producing in plywood. Plywood was cut with the laser machine StepDir 150250. Worm gear was printed into 3d printerMakerbot Replicator.

Members

Head of studio living machines

Dmitry Davidovich

Head Fablab Polytech

Igor Asonov

Curator

Gleb Miroshnik

crewman

Stanislav Samodelkin

crewman

Bendjamin Bdo

Mechaneu v1 / 3D printed spherical gear system kinetic sculpture

• Creator Name: Proxy Design Studio
• Catgory: Art
• Country: USA

Mechaneu v1 is the first in a series of kinetic, 3D printed objects designed to explore the limits of 3D printing as an art form. Created in a oneshot fabrication process, Mechaneu v1 features an elaborate network of interlocking gears and support structures. Spin one gear and the entire sphere is catalyzed with the rotation. The effect is mesmerizing; a visualization for the eye and a tactile experience for the hands. The Mechaneu design explores the limit case of commercial 3D printing; all aspects of the design are calibrated to the minimum thicknesses and maximum detail levels. Put 3D printing in the palm of your hand and enjoy the unique creative distraction of Mechaneu.

Process and tools

The Mechaneu was created with sophisticated 3D modeling tools and custom algorithms. The texture and tactility of Mechaneu v1 are a result of an algorithm that models cellular growth patterns, giving the object its porosity and pattern. Working in Processing, an open source coding environment, the designers mapped 2D biomemetic growth algorithms onto the 3D surface of a sphere.

Through multiple physical prototypes the structural thicknesses, gear ratios and other important elements of the Mechaneu were calibrated for both strength and quality of interaction.

Though each gear is extremely thin and porous, they feel solid to the touch and invite interaction. The support structure was modeled in the same software used to develop architectural structures and arguably contains the same amount of elements and detail as a building – in one millionth the volume.

The structure pushes the 1,000,000 polygon limit of most commercial print services. As the infrastructure of 3D printing improved, the Mechaneu will be versioned to continue to push the limits of the state of the art. Mechaneu #1 is a limited production art object that will simultaneously push forward and exemplify the current epoch of 3D printing.

Members

Co-director

Toru Hasegawa

Co-director

Mark Collins

ASTERISK

• Creator Name: CHRISTINA SICOLI
• Catgory: Products
• Country: Canada

Play together, learn together, grow together.

The Asterisk puzzle stool is an interactive learning experience for children. From creation to utilization, the child is involved.

The stool is assembled without any tools, simply the joinery of 17 interlocking pieces.
Each different shape corresponds using colour to a notch on the stool base. Parents are encouraged to teach their children about colour as well as construction.

Asterisk challenges children’s motor skills, nesting the different geometric shapes together. The surprising and contemporary form can stand alone in any environment, or be taken apart and stored away.

The stool is constructed entirely out of baltic birch plywood. It is finished in latex stain and an oil rub, bringing out the plywood’s grain, as well as making it resistant to staining.

Process and tools

Asterisk was created using a variety of machine and hand construction techniques. Initial prototyping utilized laser cutting, band saws, routers, and sanding tools.
Future production is to be streamlined to include not only laser cutters, but CNC mills as well.

Galatea

• Creator Name: drawn
• Catgory: Machines
• Country: France

Samuel and Sylvain the two drawn founders started out with only their dream to create furniture and to be able to customize it and to make it possible to be produced locally. Samuel is a products designers and Sylvain is an engineer & entrepreneur. Sylvain designed the 3D printer to be able to produce and allow customization as wanted. Samuel designed the first range of products to show what we can do.

We will shortly open an e-shop and offer customization online by the end of the year.
We also plan to organize workshops here and there in Europe to let our customers create their own design as furniture and to print directly to them. Our aim is to create a network where our 3D printer will spread worldwide to produce customized furniture.

Our project has several pros :

• - Reduces supply chain and logistics to its most direct link: pellets logistics is cheaper and much more environmental friendly than furniture logistics (moreover produce in Asia to be sold in Europe for instance).
• - Allows local job creation
• - Allows for re-use of materials from furniture made previously by simply crushing them and re-introduc\ing them in the process
• - Allows any designer (or anyone!) to diffuse their own creation worldwide in a very simple way!

Process and tools

Galatea has been built in order to be able to produce furniture in an affordable budget and time. The machine is 2 tons, can produce a chair in an hour. We can print objects with dimension up to 2 meters x 1.5meters x 1.5 meters.

Our first prototype can already make great things and we have a lot of ideas to further improve the process! We currently print in ABS but are working on compounds with woods, minerals, hemp and linen.

Members

CEO and Co-founder

Sylvain Charpiot

Co-founder

Samuel Javelle

Droplet Lens Maker

• Creator Name: Rachel Watkins
• Catgory: Products
• Country: Australia

Lenses are one of the fundamental building blocks of optics. Lenses are used in a myriad of applications including relays in fibre optics that power our digital work, magnifying the hidden microscopic world of cells through a microscope and creating illusions in artworks. In short, lenses are an integral part in our society.

Yet, no one can make their own lenses tailored to their own purposes. Why is this? For centuries, lenses have always been traditionally made with complex machinery due to multiple grinding and reflow moulding techniques. So, how can we simplify such a complex process?

To overturn century old lens-making tradition, we turn to Mother Nature. Every morning, a droplet of dew hanging from a leaf exhibits desirable lens qualities. This is due to well-defined curvature, formed as gravity and surface tensions balance.

Here, we harness the essence of droplet formation with a transparent silicone oil that solidifies at a low temperature (70°C).

We have constructed an elegant lens making machine, the Droplet Lens Maker, with the use of 3D printers. In our 3D printed Droplet Lens Maker, silicone droplets are gently extracted and placed over fixed through holes. Silicone droplet lenses form as they cling onto the through holes and are then baked at 70°C. Once solidified, the user can remove the lens and place it over their phone camera and immediately convert their phone into a microscope (seeing below 100 millionths of a metre).

Not only is our method elegant, it is both reliable and cost effective (requiring 15.7g of ABS to 3D print the three parts, therefore costing approximately 75 JPY).

Process and tools

Adopting the droplet lens concept presented in nature, we wanted to design a part that could be 3D printed to accurately mimic this phenomenon, and therefore create magnifying lenses in a simple and cost-effective way. Utilising Computer Aided Drawing software and a 3D Printer I was able to imagine designs, form the Computer Aided drawings and then physically realise them with the use of the 3D printer. I had the freedom to create a number of iterations, always striving to make the lens producing method more efficient and simpler than the last iteration.

The three parts of our submission were drawn using SolidWorks (a CAD program) and then the parts were printed using the UP Mini 3D Printer. Our design can be solely created using this 3D printer and all three parts can be printed simultaneously in 77 minutes.

Members

• Rachel Watkins
• Dr. Steve Lee

Kitchen 3D Printer

• Creator Name: Moeka Watanabe
• Catgory: Machines
• Country: Japan

The Kitchen 3D Printer is a 3D printer for the kitchen that can use various foods as the filament.

In the world of digital fabrication, a variety of 3D printers for food have been created in recent years. Amidst this trend, we created this machine as a 3D printer geared to Japan. The primary ingredient of the main filament for it is rice, which is the staple food of Japanese people.

In addition to rice, various foods can be used such as powdered arrowroot and fruit jelly. This machine is a new digital tool that combines local ingredients and global data exchange through the Internet.

Process and tools

We made changes to SeeMeCnc's Orion for the purpose of modeling food.
It is powered by the following:

• 1) air pressure from the compressor connected to the syringe in the upper section
• 2) the rotation of the stepping motor in the extruder

We created an extruder with a 3D printer (Roland DG's ARM-10) while still making use of the delta 3D printer's three arms.

Using a laser cutter, we created a fixator that connects the syringe and compressor. This makes it possible to exchange the ingredients in the syringe easily.

Members

Assistant engineer:

Shigeki Shimizu

Assistant engineer:

Takumi Moriya

Zero Gravity Cocktail Glass

• Creator Name: Cosmic Lifestyle Corporation
• Catgory: Beyond
• Country: USA

The Zero Gravity Cocktail Glass reinvents the way astronauts, cosmonauts, and future space settlers will drink off-Earth.

Unlike the dull way of drinking liquids from a plastic bag, the glass seeks to balance

aesthetics with unusual features of liquids.
Without gravity, the natural surface tension of liquids take over to form blobs. Using capillary action similar to a straw, the grooves in the glass guide the liquid in one direction.
The liquid is mixed with a drink machine (which we are also developing) and injected into the glass from the base.

The glass is designed in CAD software and then 3D printed. Our vision is that all kitchen items will be 3D printed on the International Space Station and in future space hotels as they are needed.

Process and tools

The glass was designed using the Solidworks CAD software. We have test printed several versions of it using a variety of 3D printers including the Stratasys Objet 300.

Members

Visionary and Chief Operating Officer

Samuel Coniglio

Chief Executive Officer

Russell Davis

Chief Design Officer

Brent Heyning

Chief Creative Officer

Nick Donaldson

Chief Financial Officer

Paul Fuller

Screw It Vase

• Creator Name: David Graas
• Catgory: Products
• Country: Netherlands

Making clever use of the universal PET bottle screw top, the 3D printed Screw It connector enables you to transform twelve ordinary PET bottles, that would otherwise go to waste, into a beautiful and functional vase that is meant to last.

The Screw It vase shows that design does not necessarily mean starting from scratch.
There is new meaning and new value to be found in the rubble of the discarded.
Transforming the seemingly worthless into something unexpectedly precious.

Process and tools

Produced by SLS (selected laser sintering)

3-PRING PRODUCT

• Creator Name: TAKT PROJECT
• Catgory: Beyond
• Country: Japan

3-PRING PRODUCT is a proposal for a new-generation style of D.I.Y. in the era of digital fabrication. Ready-made products sold in stores and original components made with 3D printers are combined to be used for something entirely different, or in a way that suits the person better.

As the sampling technique in music uses a part of an existing song to create a new piece, our proposal uses a ready-made product and combines it with your original piece to make a unique product. In this case, the 3D printer can be used like a piece of musical equipment that enhances the possibilities of sampling immensely.

Creating parts that combine with plastic products, and those that make use of certain sizes of ready-made products, may open a door to a new era of sampling with 3D printers.

Photos by Masayuki Hayashi

Process and tools

[Using a laser-sintering 3D printer*]
*Any 3D printer can be used, regardless of the type.

1. Purchase a product sold in stores.
2. Consider how it can be used to make a new artifact with the sampling technique.
3. Measure the product, and create the necessary parts with 3DCAD.
4. Print the completed 3D data with a 3D printer.
   By submitting and sending the data online, it is possible for people who do not own 3D printers to obtain the number of things needed easily and efficiently.
5. Combine the product with the parts made using a 3D printer to make it complete.

Members

Director/Designer:

Satoshi Yoshiizumi

Designer:

Takeshi Miyazaki

Designer:

Atsushi Honda

Designer:

Yoshitaka Ito

Captured Desire

• Creator Name: gokinjo-monozukuri.org
• Catgory: Beyond
• Country: Japan, Germany

Captured Desire is a project in which 123D Catch, an online service by Autodesk, is used to create 3D models, after which they are printed with full colour 3D printers. The conventional usage of 123D Catch is to take pictures of the object from multiple angles and upload them to make 3D models. In contrast, in this project, we pick out pictures from the countless pictures uploaded online, use those to create 3D models and then print them. However, the objects created are bound to be incomplete and warped, and cannot be called a precise model.
The more people are interested in the object, and the more people desire to see it, there will be more pictures online, which means the 3D model will be more accurate. Therefore, we believe this act is like taking modern people's desires and sampling them.

Process and tools

We used Autodesk 123D Catch for 3D modeling. The models come out as mesh surfaces without any thickness, so we used the 3D modeling softwares CINEMA4D and Rhinoceros to make them thick enough to print with the 3D printer. We used DMM.make's online 3D printing service for printing and made them full colour with plaster.

Members

member

yang02

member

Nukeme

member

So Kanno

x.pose

• Creator Name: Xuedi Chen
• Catgory: Beyond
• Country: USA

In the digital realm, we are naked and vulnerable. x.pose is a 3D printed wearable data-driven sculpture that changes opacity to expose a person’s skin as a real-time reflection of the data that the wearer is producing.

x.pose is an exploration and commentary on the current internet culture of our generation and the relationship we share with our data. Individuals carrying smartphones and connecting with services such as Google or Facebook have agreed, often without conscious consideration, to policies that grant these service providers explicit rights to harvest and utilize personal data on a massive scale.

Based on account activity logs, Google clearly knows where their users are, have been, and possibly even where they’re going. Google can most definitely paint a clear portrait of any of their users.

We have already ceded control of our digital data emissions, x.pose goes a step further to broadcast the wearer’s data for anyone and everyone to see. The 3D printed bustier reacts to the data being produced and becomes transparent as that data is collected from the wearer.

Process and tools

The piece was created by first building a server and mobile app to collect the wearer's data over time. These data points were fed through algorithms in Processing to output the mesh which was then refined in Rhino 3D.

Traditional techniques of the fashion industry were used in combination with digital fabrication for the assembly of the garment. Sewing patterns were tested on a laser cutter to ensure the perfect dimension and fit. Many material tests were done using the Makerbot 3D printer including the use of the Makerbot Flexible filament as well as NinjaFlex. The goal was to find the right material to achieve a strong and flexible "fabric" that is suitable to wear as well as to support underlying electronics.

The final structural mesh that was produced in Rhino was 3D printed using the Objet Connex500 in their rubber like Tango material with some rigid material mixture. The result is a flexible and strong rubber like mesh that is fabric like and comfortable to wear. The mesh was printed in 4 pieces and glued together and a layer of laser cut fabric was added to provide even more support.

Members

Creator/ Designer

Xuedi Chen

Co-Creator/ Co-Designer

Pedro G. C. Oliveira

More than two dimensions, less than three dimensions

• Creator Name: Makoto Sasao
• Catgory: Art
• Country: Japan

A series of six works where letters, which are two-dimensional in nature, are made three-dimensional. Letters, which are concrete embodiments, are made abstract and then concrete again.

Process and tools

Cut with a laser cutter.

simple laser sintering

• Creator Name: Hitoshi Watanabe
• Catgory: Machines
• Country: Japan

The current 3D printers that adopt the selective laser sintering (SLS) method, one of the 3D-printing methods, are expensive and large in size. Therefore I created a 3D printing system that can be implemented with laser cutters, which use the same CO2 laser as SLS 3D printers. 3D printing is possible by repeating the process of spreading thin powder layers and melting them with laser. As an example I made sugar jewels using 3D data. The creation of this machine enables individuals to 3D print using multiple materials as the filament powder, which has been difficult to this day. I am currently creating software to convert 3D data for laser cutters, so that anyone can use this machine.

Process and tools

The SLS machine I made has a gear structure, and two pedestals go up and down to provide the layers of powder. The gear part is made by cutting out and putting together MDF boards, and the stepping motor, which powers the machine, is controlled by Arduino. As for the 3D printing features, you can print in 2mm, 1mm, 0.5mm, and 0.25mm size. However, depending on the powder grain size, the powder sometimes gets stuck, and I am working to improve that.

kiami

• Creator Name: KOKI AKIYOSHI
• Catgory: Beyond
• Country: Japan

When you take a look at the global landscape of digital fabrication, it seems like even the end products are becoming more globally uniform. In other words, you cannot tell which country it was made in or who by just by looking at the piece. In contrast, I took into account traditional Japanese techniques to propose a technique of creating free curving surfaces with wood that can be dismantled and constructed topically. I applied the traditional techniques developed in response to the characteristics and limitations of Japan to modern technology.

Process and tools

I used the ShotBot CNC milling machine, which is the worldwide standard equipment adopted at FabLab. I also used a 3D printer for some parts in the joints.

Members

Production support:

Hiroaki Ohba