2017 is, of course, the Year of Rooster. An art exhibit-slash-vending machine spitting out 3D-printed plastic roosters, day and night, for next year is a complete innovation. The Year of the Rooster in China was celebrated majestically as the Rose Kennedy Greenway park in Boston hosting an unusual 3D printing project.
Artist Chris Templeman is part of Artisan’s Asylum fablab in Somerville, MA. A creation dreamed up by this artist, the all-new 3D printer will be printing out more than 2,000 3D printed plastic roosters for visitors to keep. This will take place over the course of the year.
Peeqo is a 3D printed small robot,
developed by New-York-based researcher Abhishek Singh. The main feature
of Peeqo is that it communicates using GIFs only. Abhishek Singh explains his 3D
printed cute robot Peeqo. He describes it as a Disney character and the
love child of Amazon Echo. He made this robot as an alternative to the
current social robots, which according to him are unable to express any
emotion. Hence, Singh used GIFs features, which are popular to convey
specific emotions, to create this 3D printed robot. This GIF-talking
robot is the result of a lengthy and difficult development process.
Singh has explained the development process in an Imgur post. https://www.3dprintersonlinestore.com/3d-printed-robot-peeqo-communicates-using-gifs
Purdue University’s researchers in Indiana have collaborated with the National Science Foundation to start an innovative platform that enables your smartphone to assist in 3D printing, allowing you to create some unique designs. This new platform is known as Makerpad – an inventive and advanced platform specifically for beginners. The patents of this platform are presently pending by the Purdue Research Foundation’s Office of Technology Commercialization.
Angelo D’Angelo, an Italian engineer is making the news headlines as he creates miniature 3D printed replicas of the popular monuments that he has been traveling for a long time. He started this mission with the construction of Milan Cathedral and has moved to making models of buildings located in countries like Pisa, Athens, Cologne, Bucharest and other places.
D’Angelo runs a blog on the name of “3DPrinTravel.” With the help of this blog, D’Angelo has been detailing his travels, posting Instagram pictures of the 3D printed model that he holds in front of the famous landmarks he visits. Even, hundreds of D’Angelo’s Instagram followers eagerly wait for his next post as his posts appeal to a number of people who are 3D printing fans.
An Australian man has been suspended for six months for his attempt to 3D print a handgun. As the court revealed that 3D printing a handgun is not yet widespread, however, it can emerge as a major problem in the coming days. This man belongs to Mudgeeraba in Queensland, Australia.
3D printing technology has evolved immensely in almost every country, but Australia has emerged as one of the most concerned countries, facing the threat of 3D printed guns. Even Australian officials are concerned about the safety of guns and also regarding their ownership laws.
Widening the scope of 3D printing in the cosmetics niche, Chinese company – Jala Group has developed a technology and process to make 3D-printed skin a reality. Using 3D bioprinting technology, the organization has successfully accomplished the mission to print an artificial “Asian skin,” having both dermis and epidermis, that is useful to test cosmetics products for the Asian market.
Scope of 3D Printing in Western Cosmetics Industry
When companies fall short in providing proportionate cosmetics options to those with non-fair skin as compared to fair skin, 3D printing technology has come across as a total success. For instance, the one-third population of United States is non-white, there is a disproportionate amount of cosmetics products, including foundations as well as eye products, targeted at the fair skin. But that does not solve the problem. Further, every skin has different characteristics, therefore having reacted differently to cosmetics. This implies, if you don’t fall into the target market, there are high chances that often products end up being aesthetically or biologically unsuitable for you. Fortunately, Jala Group recognized this problem and consequently developed a radical cosmetics solution specifically for Asian consumers.
How Bio-Printing Works?
Dr. Morgan Dos Santos– the Jala R&D department head, together with French company LabSkin Creations, carried out 98 in-depth experiments over the course of five years. The result? — a unique 3D bioprinting process capable of fabricating 3D printed skin in vitro (outside of a human body). Creating patches of synthetic “Asian skin,” made from human stem cells is used to test cosmetic products. This skin functions just like the skin of an Asian cosmetics consumer. Hence, it is a good option to test the safety, effectiveness, and appearance of new products.
Before recreating it as a digital 3D model, Jala researchers analyzed a real human skin to create a 3D printable skin. Special algorithms were then used for printing bio-inks into skin-like structures, all of them being identical in appearance and composition to the of real skin.
A bit about 3D printable bio-ink
The 3D printable bio-ink used by Jala is patented under LabSkin Creations. Composed of many elements, including human stem cells, this ink can be printed into a skin structure in just 1 minute and 56 seconds. It takes 21 days for the 3D printed skin to mature until it has the appearance, composition, and function of just the real skin. Once this period has elapsed, researchers are free to use the artificial Asian skin to test makeup, soap, and all manner of skin products.
Jala is confident about the new 3D bioprinting technology and for two good reasons.
For starters, testing will be more accurate than equivalent tests on animals
Alterations to the stem cells and the bio-ink recipe could lead to more tailored cosmetic solutions for those with different skin types.
Summary: This article discusses the success of Jala group for developing 3D bioprinting technology for testing cosmetics on Asian skin and also highlights the scope of 3D printing in western cosmetics industry.
Divergent 3D's Blade is the name of world's first 3D printed supercar, recently shown at the CES 2017 in Las Vegas this week. Kevin Czinger, the CEO of Divergent 3D, has already unveiled this car back in 2015. This supercar was made from the registered and exclusive technology of the Divergent Company.
IRPI – Oregon-based spacecraft fluid system firm, has created a 3D printed coffee cup. This exceptionally designed coffee mug can be used in zero-gravity atmosphere. The firm has even released the 3D printed coffee cup to the public with the help of a project known as “Spaceware.”
This cup looks like a combination of a nose and a gravy boat – a long and narrow jug used for serving gravy. It has been attentively designed to enable astronauts to sip coffee or other liquids without squeezing them out of a pouch. This project was started eight years ago, when Don Pettit, an astronaut of NASA, had enquired IRPI about a way to drink any liquid in space without having to use pouches or straws.
The firm prototyped a cup that took it into wetting, account geometry, and surface tension, enabling drinking liquid in space with the help of its senior scientist and vice president Mark Weislogel. As revealed by IRPI, the lipped edge of the coffee cup is ideal for wicking liquid from its surface to the drinker’s mouth. With the help of basic structure, Weislogel along with IRPI started to 3D print a set of cups so that it can be tested in orbit through the “Capillary Beverage Experiment.” It was done in 2015.
Samuel Sia – a biomedical engineering professor at Columbia University, has invented a 3D printed biobot for releasing controlled doses of drugs from inside the body. This 3D printed biobot can be implanted in the body but it can be controlled outside the body using magnets.
Patients who are being diagnosed with cancer usually take a strong course of chemotherapy as treatment options are generally few in such cases. Chemotherapy sometimes can even harm our body in various ways like nausea, fatigue, hair loss, chronic pain and chances of patients being infertile. Luckily, scientists along with medical practitioner are working hard to invent other effective ways of giving chemotherapy drugs to patients. Hence, this innovative 3D printing method has been developed that also includes fabricating squishy, “clockwork” – micro machines used for releasing drug doses from the body.
Mars Ice Dome – a theory or a concept for an ice-based habitat on Mars, has been revealed by a team of designers, architects, and NASA experts. This is done by the Mars Ice House – winner of 3D Printed Habitat Challenge given by NASA in 2015.
As the surface of the Mars has high temperatures and the atmosphere of the planet is not suitable for high-energy radiation, the humans who want to settle on the Mars will require robust and protective shelters from the unflavored weather conditions. However, constructing such shelters is not an easy task. Even astronauts can also take only a few resources at a time from earth to the planet. The construction can’t be done with old materials. Hence, astronauts need to make use of those valuable things that they could find on the planet including water.
CONTEXT – an IT market research Company, has recently released the figures stating that shipments of 3D printers have risen +25% on a global basis. These figures have been achieved in the first three-quarters of 2016 due to shipments of less priced desktop 3D printers.
Out of 217,073 3D printers shipped year-to-date (YTD), 96% of these 3D printers were personal or desktop 3D printers having an average price of $1,000. This shows 27% of growth in this sector as compared to the shipment sector that had a decline of -12% YTD. Only 7,726 units have been shipped through the first three-quarters of 2016. The market is well-defined by the shipment of Industrial printers which are also responsible for 78% revenues worldw
The Berlin-based maker “Niklas Roy” introduced the first homemade software called as gDraw that allows you to sketch 3D printed traditional holiday images — perhaps one of the best innovations in 3D printing world this year.The aptly named innovative gDraw allows you to first sketch a design in 2D and then creating a G-Code file that can be 3D printed. Roy launched the software via his website before Christmas, but the nifty code package can be used for crafting all year round.
Roy’s post features images of some greeting cards made by him using gDraw that have an eye-popping 3D effect, featuring Christmas trees, text, and some basic line drawings. Easy to Use gDraw
The applications of this innovative software can be as inventive and creative as you like. From creating delicate window decorations, sophisticated business cards, to cranking out a few cute holiday tchotchkes, there’s no better way than a software package like gDraw.
2017 is, of course, the Year of Rooster. An art exhibit-slash-vending machine spitting out 3D-printed plastic roosters, day and night, for next year is a complete innovation. The Year of the Rooster in China was celebrated majestically as the Rose Kennedy Greenway park in Boston hosting an unusual 3D printing project.
