We are kicking off this semester’s DDMC meetings with an open discussion about the state of 3D Printing at Duke. Courtesy of the DDI program, OIT-ITS has added two Makerbot extrusion 3D printers to the MPS lab’s services and are in the process of evaluating the addition of a resin/laser based Formlabs printer. We know several schools and departments (and […]
Well, trial and error is why we are doing this, right? Quite mind blowing that this was a real need and was really made using only Photoshop and our 3D printer. As I mentioned previously, the drivers for the Makerbot is built right into Photoshop Creative Cloud (CC). As part of the printing process, it […]
To follow up on the last story, the TobackTablet Holder v1.0 was an epic fail: [youtube]http://youtu.be/evcrY7YPOSI[/youtube] The great success was the ease in which this was sketched out in Photoshop and then printed. Realizing the failure of the design in reality before more expensive prototyping was employed is a signature benefit of this technology. Before […]
One of the most challenging aspects of 3D printing (beyond keeping the nozzle unclogged) has been the creation of models to print. Sure, there is value in printing other objects for reference, but creating your own objects and bringing them into the real world is the killer app. Maya, Blender, CAD, 3D Max, all have […]
Your mobile device can already see the world. Now, it can understand the world. Measure entire rooms all at once. The magic of 3D depth sensing begins with the ability to capture accurate dimensions of objects and environments. And it doesn’t just capture one dimension; it captures everything in view, all at once. Capture […]
Jack showed me a cool product called Leap Motion the other day. I took a few minutes to play with it and can definitely see a wide range of applications. What is it? Basically it’s a sensor system that picks up hand gestures to control applications on your computer (or even your computer itself). While […]
Along with our 3D printers we received 3D scanner and have had a a few opportunities to play with it and learned quite a bit. At first take our scans weren’t really successful and I was actually a little bit disappointed with the unit (a Makerbot Scanner) but after some practice we got pretty good […]
3D research is still going string in the Media Lab. Today we reviewed a really cool application from from Autodesk called 123D Catch. The concept of the application is simple, basically you use your cameras photos to take panoramic shots of a room or subject, the photos are uploaded to a cloud somewhere then converted […]
We’ve had the better part of a week with the 3D printers. Our printing efforts have been conservative. Much time has been spent reading documentation and using our printing material smartly (our order of filament hasn’t come in yet). But we have printed a few things including a model of the Duke Chapel, a steam […]
We spent some time with the new 3D Printers today and managed to create a few small trinkets from the stock files they sent with. Our first impressions are very positive. It took a while to get everything unboxed, setup and calibrated but never the less it was worth the wait. Above is a nut […]
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