Real World 3D Printing

Editor's Notes

• #2: Like the slide says, I’m Martin Hollywood. Heading up Creative Technology for Razorfish London. I’ve got a long history in Digital over the last 18 years – from CDRoms and WAP sites, through Flash and Creative Development into experiential activations (Digital/Physical). Previously: SapientNitro, TBWA\Media Arts Lab and Start Creative, BBH, DLKW, PlayStation and Founder/Director at (defunct) production company Gunforhire Studios. I’m sure like yourselves, on any given day, I'll be asked about anything from... Adobe CQ5, drones, Apple watch apps, iOS, Facebook, IOT, web sockets, video streaming... #armyofone That was a Monday! Basically, after a long time as a Flash-based Creative Developer, I now get to play with some cool Tech: Oculus Rift, LEAP Motion, Estimotes (iBeacons) , various Arduinos, 3D Printers (Ultimaker), Capactive Paint… Anyway, this deck came about due to the questions I was asked about 3D Printing. Basically, it was cropping up in pitches more and more, and often with little grounding in reality! The first page here was part of that investigation: 3D scan was created with the free-version of Skanect & a Kinect, then optimised in Cura and printed on a Ultimaker ‘loaner’.
• #4: The 3D printed gun now on display, at the Science Museum, has a short, but complex history. Ok, you can print a gun but: It’s highly illegal You’ll likely blow your hand off! May 2013 – The world's first 3D-printed plastic gun has been successfully fired in Texas, USA. The handgun, named The Liberator, was assembled from separate printed components made from ABS plastic, with the exception of a metal nail used as a firing pin. The design was created by Defence Distributed – a non-profit digital organisation and placed, open source, on their website so anyone could freely download and share it. Ville Vaarnes, a journalist in Finland, did just that and had the design printed in a university lab using a high quality 3D printer. He then put it together with the help of a gun maker and fired it. The gun broke into several pieces, shattering the gun barrel. It is completely illegal to own even a single component of a hand gun in the UK, including a 3D printed gun unless, like the Science Museum, you have a special licence. Manufacturing our own wasn’t an option as we only have a licence to display hand guns. Having seen a video of the gun being fired, we decided this was the only feasible opportunity we would have of acquiring a 3D printed gun. http://blog.sciencemuseum.org.uk/insight/2013/07/09/3d-gun-goes-on-display/
• #5: 8th November 2013 – An American company has built and successfully fired the world's first metal 3D-printed gun. American additive manufacturing firm U.S 3D printing company Solid Concepts has produced the world’s first 3D printed metal gun, made using a laser sintering process. After initial testing the gun has successfully fired over 500 bullets without failure and according to the manufacturers proves that 3D printing is suitable for manufacturing critical parts. The 33 parts of the gun, based on a “classic” 1911 design, were 3D printed from powdered 17-4 Stainless Steel and Inconel 625 with a Selective Laser Sintered (SLS) carbon-fiber filled nylon hand grip. However, the equipment to make this metal 3D printed gun is beyond the reach of most people, with the hardware costing over $850,000 See more at: http://www.3dprinterclassifieds.com/blog/2013/11/worlds-first-3d-printed-gun-made-from-metal-parts-fires-500-rounds/#sthash.BxLx5fqD.dpuf http://www.dezeen.com/2013/11/08/worlds-first-3d-printed-metal-gun-manufactured-by-solid-concepts/
• #6: London has been spoiled for opportunities over the past few months, with exhibiitons at: The Science Museum (above) Design Museum THE FUTURE IS HERE: A NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION And the recent 3D Print Show at the Business Design Centre THE FUTURE IS HERE: A NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Want to know your additive manufacturing from your 3D printing, and find out how the 'new industrial revolution' will impact your life? Or just want to understand more about how the things around you are made? Then visit The Future is Here. We are in the midst of a transformation in the way we design, make and use the objects that we depend on. It is a transformation that will affect commerce, industry, and the way that we all live as profoundly as any previous Industrial Revolution. The exhibition explores how the boundaries between designer, manufacturer and consumer are becoming increasingly blurred. See some of these manufacturing techniques demonstrated in The Future is Here Factory and find out how they will change the designed world around you. On show is everything from clothes to carbon fibre, dolls to decor and more, all made using automated methods. Mass customisation is central to the story of 3D printing and the exhibition. Trainer manufacturers are making personalised shoes on a globalised scale and Makies give consumers the chance to customise their own 3D printed dolls online. See more at: http://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/design-museum-exhibits-the-future-with-3d-printing-technology/#sthash.PA8CWPo0.dpuf According to a poll from the Design Museum and Ipsos MORI, for which 994 people across Britain were questioned, 71% of people say they know very little or nothing about 3D printers, with 19% saying they know at least a ‘fair amount’. Only 6% of people say they are interested in owning a 3D printer, though this rose to 20% among those who knew at least a fair amount about 3D printers - See more at: http://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/design-museum-exhibits-the-future-with-3d-printing-technology/#sthash.PA8CWPo0.dpuf
• #7: THE FUTURE IS HERE: A NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Want to know your additive manufacturing from your 3D printing, and find out how the 'new industrial revolution' will impact your life? Or just want to understand more about how the things around you are made? Then visit The Future is Here. We are in the midst of a transformation in the way we design, make and use the objects that we depend on. It is a transformation that will affect commerce, industry, and the way that we all live as profoundly as any previous Industrial Revolution. The exhibition explores how the boundaries between designer, manufacturer and consumer are becoming increasingly blurred. See some of these manufacturing techniques demonstrated in The Future is Here Factory and find out how they will change the designed world around you. On show is everything from clothes to carbon fibre, dolls to decor and more, all made using automated methods. Mass customisation is central to the story of 3D printing and the exhibition. Trainer manufacturers are making personalised shoes on a globalised scale and Makies give consumers the chance to customise their own 3D printed dolls online. See more at: http://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/design-museum-exhibits-the-future-with-3d-printing-technology/#sthash.PA8CWPo0.dpuf According to a poll from the Design Museum and Ipsos MORI, for which 994 people across Britain were questioned, 71% of people say they know very little or nothing about 3D printers, with 19% saying they know at least a ‘fair amount’. Only 6% of people say they are interested in owning a 3D printer, though this rose to 20% among those who knew at least a fair amount about 3D printers - See more at: http://www.themanufacturer.com/articles/design-museum-exhibits-the-future-with-3d-printing-technology/#sthash.PA8CWPo0.dpuf
• #8: Source: Daily Mail 3D printing is a type of additive manufacturing by which a digital file is translated into a physical object by a 3D printer. The object is made by building up multiple layers of material. A variety of materials can be used for 3D printing, and different 3D printers build objects in different ways. Most common materials: PLA is Poly-Lactic-Acid, a biodegradable polymer that has a low melting point. ABS is Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene, a very popular plastic for 3D printing.
• #9: Additive Manufacturing (AM) is a term to describe set of technologies that create 3D objects by adding layer-upon-layer of material. Materials can vary from technology to technology. Then AM device reads data from CAD file and builds a structure layer by layer from printing material, which can be plastic, liquid, powder filaments or even sheet of paper. SLA - Stereolithography is widely used in prototyping as it doesn’t require too much time to produce an object and cost is relatively cheap comparing to other means of prototyping. SLS - The material to print with might be anything from nylon, ceramics and glass to some metals like aluminum, steel or silver. SLS is more spread among manufactures rather than 3D amateurs at home as this technology requires the use of high-powered lasers, which makes the printer to be very expensive. There are others > Selective laser melting (SLM) Electronic Beam Melting (EBM) Laminated object manufacturing (LOM) http://3dprintingfromscratch.com/common/types-of-3d-printers-or-3d-printing-technologies-overview/
• #11: Lead into fashion with FLEXIBLE materials! http://i.materialise.com/materials Wax can be Printed to create wax model, prior casting and pouring of metals. 1 Polyamide A strong and flexible material with a high level of detail 2 Alumide A polyamide-like material with a distinctive look 3 Multicolor A full color plaster 4 High detail resin Lovely fine details on this photopolymer 5 Paintable resin Beautiful when painted. Water resistant. If it has to be flawless 6 Transparent resin See through 7 ABS Strong and tough with the highest level of dimensional accuracy 8 Titanium Light and the strongest 3D printing material in the world 9 Stainless steel Not your grandmother’s stainless steel 10 Silver Sterling silver 11 Gold 14 carat solid gold 12 Prime gray Very smooth, detailed and “luxurious” to the touch 13 Brass Copper and Zinc, united as one 14 Bronze What did you expect after gold and silver? 15 Ceramics A food safe material that shines like no other 16 High detailed stainless steel High grade stainless steel with a superb level of detail 17 Rubber-like A strong, high-flexible and durable material
• #12: Fashion: off the printer, rather than off the peg Dita Von Teese has unveiled the world's first fully articulated dress produced with a 3D printer. The gown was designed by Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitonti and revealed at the the Ace Hotel in New York. Created with the help of Shapeways, a company which lets designers sell objects which are printed on demand with industrial-scale 3D printers, the dress is based on the Fibonacci sequence of numbers. Shapeways said: "The gown was assembled from 17 pieces, dyed black, lacquered and adorned with over 13,000 Swarovski crystals to create a sensual flowing form." It took thousands of components to fit the dress perfectly to Dita's body, the company added. "This represents the possibility to 3D print complex, customized fabric like garments designed exactly to meet a specific person or need. As we see the material properties of 3D printing mature to produce more fine, flexible materials we will see more and more forays into fashion such as this. At first it is at the boundaries of haute couture and art but as we have seen with Nike using 3D printing in footwear, we will see more and more 3D printing creep into the world of clothing and fashion until it becomes ubiquitous."
• #13: 3D-printed fashion: off the printer, rather than off the peg Latest collection by Iris van Herpen shows that new 3D-printing technology is heading for the catwalk, and eventually the high street. These most eye-catching prints in fashion aren't florals or leopardskin but printouts. Fantastical 3D-printed designs created by a pulsed laser that layers powdered rubbers or metals into a shape calculated by computers. These creations, by Dutch designer Iris van Herpen, are the first created with 3D printing to grace the catwalk. They're loved by the likes of Lady Gaga and Bjork, but have implications for your wardrobe too. While this manufacturing technique – originally developed for engineers – has history in jewellery and shoe design, the possibilities for the clothing industry are tantalising.
• #14: New York designer Francis Bitonti worked with students to 3D-print this dress using commercially available MakerBot. Made from: Makerbot Flexible Filament and Makerbot PLA Filament Printed on: Makerbot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer Francis Bitonti created the dress while leading a three-week digital fashion workshop over the summer, which aimed to introduce students to computer software and additive manufacturing equipment. "The project wasn't to design a garment, the project was to design a method of making form on the computer that could be deployed across the body," said Bitonti. Want the dress? It’s Open Source! Download This Thing! Francis Bitonti, a multidisciplinary designer from New York City, organized a three-week workshop at Pratt that resulted in the creation of a 3D-printed dress. Bionti's designers built this dress with two MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printers and two different filaments: MakerBot PLA Filament, and MakerBot Flexible Filament, which is coming soon. MakerBot Flexible Filament is a polyester-based filament that is more flexible than PLA. It's ideal for constructing the parts of the dress that need to stretch and contract, adapting to the body's movement. The dress was made of 59 3D-printed pieces: 20 from PLA (for the harder, more skeleton-like sections), and 39 from MakerBot Flexible Filament (for the more dynamic, muscle-like parts). The pieces were glued together with Loctite Two Part Professional Heavy Duty 5 Minute Epoxy. The images show how they all fit together. All the parts of the dress took 400 hours to print and 24 hours to assemble. The MakerBot Flexible Filament was tied up the sides with leather straps, and the top was snapped into place with a plastic button.
• #15: Each shoe takes upwards of six or seven hours to print, meaning a pair could be produced overnight, assuming two shoes could be printed simultaneously on one printer. The digital files contain data for sizes 35 to 40 and customers can choose between the Macedonia style, which is riddled with holes, the Facet style, Leaf style and plain vanilla Classic style. Further size and customisation options will be added in future. http://www.dezeen.com/2013/08/02/cubify-launches-free-to-download-shoes-you-can-print-overnight/
• #16: From FASHION to the fashion for Selfies! 3D Printing is spawning a new breed of ‘selfies’ Last month say the the grand opening of iMakr at Selfridges, bringing 3D printing and 3D printed products to London’s most famous high street — Oxford Street. The 3D printing pop-up store within Selfridges, on the ground floor, will offer consumers a glimpse of the possibilities that 3D printing has to offer from 3pm (GMT) today. One of the staples during the busiest times on the retail calendar, in the run up to Christmas, will be the 3D photo booth, with a body sized 3D scanner and the option to purchase 3D printed ‘selfies.’
• #17: 3D Printing is spawning a new breed of ‘selfies’ Last month say the the grand opening of iMakr at Selfridges, bringing 3D printing and 3D printed products to London’s most famous high street — Oxford Street. The 3D printing pop-up store within Selfridges, on the ground floor, will offer consumers a glimpse of the possibilities that 3D printing has to offer from 3pm (GMT) today. One of the staples during the busiest times on the retail calendar, in the run up to Christmas, will be the 3D photo booth, with a body sized 3D scanner and the option to purchase 3D printed ‘selfies.’ I even hear that ASDA are introducing it.
• #18: http://www.shapeways.com/model/364717/a-little-sad-keanu-reeves.html Sad Keanu comes in two sizes. Both are equally sad. Teeny $25 and Little $45 It all began in June of 2010 when a photographer spotted Keanu Reeves eating a sandwich on a New York park bench. In one shot, Reeves looks dejected for reasons unknown. The image was metastatic: he was isolated from the original and pasted into new scenes all over the web. Sad Keanu was born, and then reborn, as a life-like 3D rendering. But that was all in the computer. Now he'd been printed. This was the real world. What had thethe flip-flop done to him? Light did not reflect off Sad Keanu the way it was supposed to. It was as if the photons knew he did not belong here. http://fastflexer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/me-and-sad-keanu-3d-printing-story_7665.html http://sadkeanu.tumblr.com
• #19: If Keanu is too small, Go BIG! Here we’re looking at a move from desktop to larger machines and the possibilities. SLS Ok, so we’ve spoken about the possibilities for sub £2500 printers. What do you get if you spend a few $100,000? iPro™ 8000 MP Production 3D Printer As used in Pacific Rim and Iron Man by Legacy Props. Sintering is another additive manufacturing technology that involves melting and fusing particles together to print each successive cross-section of an object. Selective laser sintering (SLS) is one form of sintering used in 3-D printing. SLS relies on a laser to melt a flame-retardant plastic powder, which then solidifies to form the printed layer. This is similar to the mechanism behind 2-D printers: They melt the toner so that it will adhere to the paper and create the image. http://computer.howstuffworks.com/3-d-printing3.htm
• #20: Going BIG! Industrial printers iPro™ 8000 MP Production 3D Printer As used in Pacific Rim and Iron Man by Legacy Effects. Now widespread across all films, and even Cosplay! https://static.squarespace.com/static/509c281de4b0cd18c7335aab/52f58444e4b0cdc9d87888d0/52f58449e4b0cdc9d878b7c4/1385574769187/1000w/5460178-23972536-thumbnail.jpg https://blog.adafruit.com/2014/10/16/community-spotlight-james-bruton/ https://blog.adafruit.com/2014/09/11/3dxreplica-nerfenstein-3d-printed-cosplayer-props-and-weaponry-3dxentertainment-3dthursday-3dprinting/
• #21: It’s not just onscreen prosthesis > MEDICAL A prosthetic arm concept made specially for the exhibition by Richard Hague, Director of Research, with students Mary Amos, Matt Cardell-Williams and Scott Wimhurst at the Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing Research Group, The University of Nottingham. Image credit: Science Museum
• #22: Spare parts! Customization has long been a limiting factor in certain aspects of medical practice, particularly those centering around damaged or lost limbs creating different person-specific needs.
• #23: Time to put the brakes on and return to every day REALITY Imagine we had a printer in reception. Imagine the Toyota / Shell /Hyundai client visits. In the printer is an engine. Perhaps it’s a working model. Perhaps it’s just a personalised giveaway. Whatever it is, it’s a talking point and it’ll make our clients see us more than stand builders! Image > https://www.lmglobal.net
• #24: Fast Prototyping: Off the screen and into your hands Desktop 3D Printing is cheap and allows quick in house prototyping Tactile
• #25: IBM has partnered with Wimbledon to provide real-time data of live matches, from double faults to aces won, the computer tech corporation is providing a constant stream of live analytics to provide greater insight for fans. Wimbledon’s technology partner is not just using stats to rank players, but combining them with a player’s popularity on social media to create its own unique leaderboards. To commemorate the event, a new 3D trophy is printed every 20 minutes – a physical representation of the current leader in the digital rankings. HOW? Using analytics to see the bigger picture Form IBM analyses eight years of Grand Slam data from over 41 million data points, to work out each player’s key performance indicators. Known as ‘Keys to the Match’, these predict what a player needs to do to succeed in a match in relation to a specific opponent. Players’ performance against their Keys will determine their Form on the Leaderboard. Status The IBM Wimbledon Leaderboard also rates players according to the positive mentions they receive on social media. Thousands of fans’ tweets will be analysed using sentiment tracking, to gauge how they feel about each player. The percentage of positive tweets about a player will determine their Status on the Leaderboard. WHY? Making business sense of Big Data IBM’s data-driven souvenirs combine insights about the players’ performance on the court with how they are perceived by fans off the court. They are a great visual demonstration of how data analytics can be a game changer for fans and players but also for business. By mining new data sources like social media and then turning this raw information into rewarding insights, smarter analytics can enable businesses to understand their customers better than ever before, and deliver relevant services or products at the right time. Data drives the tournament but it also drives business. Discover the difference that IBM Smarter Analytics could make to your business. http://wimbledoninsights.com/data-driven-souvenirs/
• #26: SapientNitro sent a bespoke 3D-printed Christmas ornament created using social network data. Each of its points, and their lengths, indicate how many Facebook friends the person has in different places around the world. Interactive marketing and creative design agency SapientNitro is sending friends a bespoke 3D-printed Christmas ornament that was created using their social network data. They used a data visualization algorithm to transform the information into a star-shaped decoration. Each of its points, and their lengths, indicate how many Facebook friends the person has in different places around the world. The ‘SapientNitro Social Media Engineered Christmas Bauble of Friendship’ comes in over-the-top Christmas packaging and includes a fold-out infographic ‘map’ that recipients can place their star on to see their galaxy of friends. Malcolm Poynton, chief creative officer at SapientNitro, says: Christmas is a time for thinking about friends and loved ones, for giving and receiving, overindulging in luridly coloured paper hats, corny jokes and the latest electronic gadgets available. SapientNitro has taken all that and given it a good shake to end up with a unique gift for each of our friends – a beautifully engineered 3D data visualization depicting individuals’ social connections in the form of a sparkling Christmas tree decoration. All you have to do is add the tree. Printed by Inition on: Our ZPrinter 450 printer has a build size of 203 x 254 x 203mm. Our Pro Jet 3000 has two build modes, high definition (HD) and ultra high definition mode (UHD). In HD mode the build size is 298 x 185 x 203mm. In UHD mode it is 127 x 178 x 152mm. We often produce models larger than these dimensions by splitting the model into sections, printing them and bonding together.
• #27: Moments in Music by Brendan Dawes Physical representations of moments in music Moments in Music is an experiment in creating real-world physical moments from digital music. Using specially written software, songs are analysed to then create momentary snapshots, producing a 3D model of a specific moment which is then printed on a 3D printer. Each piece is unique, formed from data derived from sound waves. This is data as physical object. https://gdblogs.shu.ac.uk/b1028760/2013/11/12/brendan-dawes-curated-by-1-speaker/ I Love these 3d visualisations Brendan has created. They bring a new dimension to the presentation of a piece of music, offering up a physical visualisation the viewer can explore and enjoy. They are beautifully crafted, and enable a quick glance into the personality and feel behind the song.
• #28: 3D printers to make custom Hertz 24/7 keyfobs 1000’s of keyfobs pre-printed by Shapeways and Sculptio Two ‘eye catching’ MakerBot Replicator 2 printers operational onsite From Erica: We did only activate at those 3 locations, but the 3D printing was quite popular at all and definitely helped in certain circumstances to draw people into the experience (especially when there were families and the kids wanted a trinket and to see what it was all about). I'd say that for sure the main purpose was to attract people in and start conversations. It was also a convenient lead in to enrolling for the Hertz service — BAs were around the space with the fob covers using them as a light incentive to sign up and get that extra gift. When the specific event wasn't really sign-up heavy (such as in Chicago, on the beach) we gave them away to everyone to draw them in and create some brand awareness. Beyond that, I'd say the WHY wasn't super deep, beyond tying into the theme of innovation. 
• #29: There are models out there, ready to be printed > http://www.thingiverse.com Download, Print and Put these in our clients hands in a matter of hours! Make them personal to them Showcase examples and change their perspective of what is possible Sell them on idea!
• #30: R&D “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” Samuel Beckett
• #31: FYI, Big Ben took over 6 hours to print! 6+ hours on Ultimaker Printed at 80 micron at approx 45mm/s. Don’t forget to mention FINISHING!
• #32: The Seven P's - Proper, Prior, Planning, Prevents, Piss, Poor, Performance Waiting times for new printers… As well as R&D time printing for events may require a ‘Printer Farm’, which in-turn requires equipment lead-times and, possibly, industry partnerships. As part of Robohand's #EnableOneEnableMany motto, the team wants to teach other people how to manufacture, assemble and fit Robohands and Roboarms. "This ensures the quality of the products that are being fitted to individuals is of the same high standard and quality as the original Robohand." says the team. Robohand informed us that a strategic alliance has been formed between Robohand and the College of the Ouachitas in Malvern Arkansas. The college have acquired 53 Makerbot Replicator 2 3D printers and the two parties will officially launch the Robohand Print Farm on June 25, 2014. The print farm, under the direction of Mr. Jody Callahan, College of the Ouachitas Division Chair for Applied Sciences, will prepare and distribute 3D printed Robohand components worldwide.
• #33: If at first you don't succeed try, try and try again.
• #35: Hulk DISINTEGRATE!
• #36: As CT's you need to be proactive in this. The excuse, 'but my company won't buy me a printer' doesn't hold water anymore. In London we are spoilt - maker cafes, online hubs, meet up groups - they are all out there. And if there are still barriers - collaborate! No one SHOULD be expecting you to be a 3D Modeller, print specialist, NodeJS, websocket, Arduino,iOS developing specialist!!!
• #39: Cheers! You can stalk me on Twitter and see some of my experiments on the Blog at That Hollywood .com- Where you can see the likes of the: Google Printer Ironman twitter reactor Capactitve Paint & Sensors – Touch Board An Arduino YUN taxidermied dog mashup… Oh it goes on….