Posts tagged 3D printing

3D Printing, a disruptive technology…

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Photo illus­tra­tion: Andrew B. Myers

 

3D Print­ing seems to be finally hit­ting the mainstream.

Peo­ple are becom­ming aware of this new old tec­nol­ogy, much due to the fact that the avail­abil­ity and open source­ness of it is plung­ing down the cost of model printing.

The real­ity of this is falling like a ham­mer in the indus­try that is start­ing to see how dis­rup­tive this tech will be. So much that law suits over copy­right have started to hap­pen as we write.

 

Games Work­shop, the UK-based firm that makes Warham­mer, noticed Valenty’s work and sent Thin­gi­verse a take­down notice, cit­ing the Dig­i­tal Mil­len­nium Copy­right Act. Thin­gi­verse removed the files, and Valenty suddenly

became an unwill­ing com­bat­ant in the next dig­i­tal war: the fight over copy­ing phys­i­cal objects.

 

Check out the full arti­cle @ WIRED >here<

 

 

altLab Last Meetings — Update

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We have been absent from post­ing news for a cou­ple of weeks now, but we haven’t been in no way inactive.

These last two meet­ings have been fruit­full, we have ded­i­cated some time to fix­ing the tele­scope con­troller, the col­lec­tive has new mem­bers and this new blood is pump­ing full of ideas.

It is time to talk back to the com­mu­nity, and tomor­row we will be putting up some inves­ti­ga­tions we have been up.

Here’s a list of some things we will be updat­ing tomorrow

 

- PCB work­bench Project may come with a silkscreen flavour

- Dimen­sion Elite test­ing @Fablab EDP, Violeta’s Big Brother √

- Laser­cut Test­ings @Fablab EDP

- Explo­rations on PCB cre­ation tech­niques — The Silkscreen Method

- The Project’s Project

- Vio­leta Fixed and going on Tour √

 

See you soon, here is a peek at some shots of the upcom­ming arti­cles ;)

 

 

FabriCamp Lx1

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3 de Abril de 2011 | April 3rd 2011 @ Pavil­hão do Conhecimento

[PT]
É com grande sat­is­fação que a Rede de Lab­o­ratórios da AZ (Asso­ci­ação Audiên­cia Zero) anun­cia o primeiro evento da Fab­ri­Cul­ture: o Fab­ri­Camp Lx1!

É ver­dade, será um dia inteiro ao estilo bar­camp , ded­i­cado à fab­ri­cação dig­i­tal. Vários mem­bros e ami­gos dos hack­er­spaces da AZ (LCD, alt­LabxDA) irão demon­strar as suas máquinas de pro­toti­pagem ráp­ida, impres­so­ras 3D e CNC Mills.
Caso tenha uma máquina para fab­ri­cação dig­i­tal, seja de que tipo for, acabada, por acabar, avari­ada, etc., traga-a con­sigo. Ou então traga os ami­gos e a família (é um evento tam­bém para crianças).

FabriCamp Lx1

Photo by Maker­Bot Industries

Como em qual­quer outro evento ao estilo bar­camp, os par­tic­i­pantes são tam­bém oradores; por­tanto estão todos con­vi­da­dos a fazer apre­sen­tações, lançar debates, demon­strar os seus pro­jec­tos, o que lhes apetecer.

A par­tic­i­pação é gra­tuita. Inscreva-se aqui.

A Fabri­Cul­ture é um pro­jecto da AZ Labs Net­work ded­i­cado à pro­moção do fab­rico dig­i­tal open source e da cul­tura maker em geral. Saiba mais sobre a Fab­ri­Cul­ture aqui.

Se a rev­olução do fab­rico dig­i­tal é para si novi­dade , vale a pena dar uma vista de olhos à bela ani­mação da NueveO­jos Full Printed e à apre­sen­tação Schuyler St. Ledger’s Ignite Phoenix .

[EN]
The AZ Labs Net­work is extremely happy to announce Fab­ri­Cul­ture’s first event: Fab­ri­Camp Lx1! That’s right, it’ll be a bar­camp style uncon­fer­ence ded­i­cated to dig­i­tal fab­ri­ca­tion. Sev­eral mem­bers and friends of AZ’s hack­er­spaces (LCD, alt­Lab and xDA) will be demo­ing their 3D print­ers and CNC mills. If you have any kind of dig­i­tal fabricator—finished, unfin­ished, bro­ken or so and so—bring it along. Or just bring your­self, your friends, your fam­ily (this is a children-friendly event). As in any other barcamp-style event, the atten­dees are also the speak­ers, so every­one is encour­aged to give talks, start debates, demo their projects, lead work­shops, what­ever suits their fancy.

Par­tic­i­pa­tion is free. Please reg­is­ter here.

Fab­ri­cul­ture is an AZ Labs Net­work project ded­i­cated to pro­mot­ing open source dig­i­tal fab­ri­ca­tion and maker cul­ture in gen­eral. Learn more about Fab­ri­Cul­ture here.

For those new to the dig­i­tal fab­ri­ca­tion rev­o­lu­tion make sure to also check out the beau­ti­ful Nueve Ojos Full Printed ani­ma­tion and Schuyler St. Ledger’s Ignite Phoenix pre­sen­ta­tion for a quick overview.

Arduino Hack Day report

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[PT]No último sábado, 5 de Fevereiro, o alt­lab orga­ni­zou o Arduino Hack Day.
Par­tic­i­param no evento perto de 40 pes­soas, entre entu­si­as­tas em elec­trónica, artis­tas, pro­gra­madores, arqui­tec­tos, fotó­grafos, ami­gos.
[EN]On Feb 5th alt­lab held its first Arduino Hack Day. Around 40 enthu­si­asts, artists, pro­gram­mers, archi­tects, pho­tog­ra­phers and friends par­tic­i­pated in the event.

[PT]Para muitos, foi o primeiro con­tacto com o Arduino, a descoberta da sim­pli­ci­dade desta plataforma para o desen­volvi­mento de pro­jec­tos de com­putação física.
Dis­tribuí­dos por qua­tro ban­cadas, os par­tic­i­pantes começaram a exper­i­men­tar assim que chegaram!
[EN]For many this was their first con­tact with the Arduino, dis­cov­er­ing the ease with which this plat­form can be used for the devel­op­ment of phys­i­cal com­put­ing projects.
Assem­bled around work­benches, par­tic­i­pants started exper­i­ment­ing as soon as they arrived!

Arduino Hack Day Arduino Hack Day

[PT]Uma das ban­cadas, ded­i­cada ao tema Arduino, motores e a robótica, ficou por conta do Guil­herme Mar­tins (Gui­bot). Noutra ban­cada, alguns prin­cipi­antes apren­diam a dar os primeiros pas­sos, com a ajuda de mem­bros do alt­lab.
[EN]One of the tables, ded­i­cated to Arduino, motors and robot­ics, was run by Guil­herme Mar­tins (Gui­bot). Near by, at another table, some par­tic­i­pants took their first steps with the help of alt­lab members.

Arduino Hack Day Arduino Hack Day

[PT]Enquanto isso, a impres­sora 3D (“maker­bot”) trazida pelo nosso con­vi­dado neoze­landês, Tiago, ia impri­m­indo as primeiras peças.
[EN]All the while, the Maker­Bot brought by our New Zele­and guest Tiago, was print­ing some plas­tic parts for the projects.

Arduino Hack Day Arduino Hack Day

[PT]O Pedro Ângelo, do LCD­Lab, veio do Porto para nos aju­dar e ressus­ci­tou um pro­jecto antigo do Mau­rí­cio, que depois de pronto gerou alguma diver­são…
[EN]O Pedro Ângelo, from LCD­Lab, came from Porto to help out and decided to bring back to life an old project of Maurício’s which imme­di­ately turned into a lot of fun.…

Arduino Hack Day

[PT]Logo depois do almoço começaram as apre­sen­tações. A Mónica Mendes e o Mau­rí­cio Mar­tins deram a con­hecer o colec­tivo alt­lab, o seu pas­sado, pre­sente e futuro. A Cheng Xu, tam­bém nossa con­vi­dada, apresentou-nos o Seee­duino Film. Por fim, o Gui­bot e o André, da Artica, falaram do Motoru­ino e do Far­r­usco.
[EN]After lunch we had some pre­sen­ta­tions. Mónica Mendes and Mau­rí­cio Mar­tins talked about the past, present and future of alt­lab. Our guest Cheng Xu pre­sented the See­duino film. Finally, Gui­bot and André from Artica talked about the Motoru­ino and Farrusco.

Arduino Hack Day Arduino Hack Day

[PT]Pas­sadas 10 horas de puro hack­ing e muita cerveja, o Arduino Hack Day chegava ao fim, todos os par­tic­i­pantes muito sat­is­feitos com a exper­iên­cia. O alt­lab con­seguiu con­cretizar o prin­ci­pal objec­tivo desta ini­cia­tiva: jun­tar pes­soas inter­es­sadas em par­til­har con­hec­i­men­tos sobre o Arduino, aju­dar quem nunca tinha desen­volvido nada com a plataforma e con­quis­tar novos inter­es­sa­dos em per­tencer a este colec­tivo fan­tás­tico!
[EN]After 10 hours of pure hack­ing and lots of beer, the Arduino Hack Day came to an end, and every­one left with a smile on their faces. We were able to attain the main goals for this event: gather peo­ple inter­ested in shar­ing knowl­edge about the Arduino, help those who had never used the plat­form, and have sev­eral new mem­bers join our beloved collective.

[PT]Por último, fica aqui um agradec­i­mento muito espe­cial aos mem­bros do alt­lab que con­tribuíram na orga­ni­za­ção deste evento:
[EN]Finally, a word of spe­cial thanks to the alt­lab mem­bers who con­tributed to mak­ing the Arduino Hack Day possible:

Andre Almeida, Ferdi Meier, Guil­herme Mar­tins, Leonardo Mar­ques, Manuel Alves, Mauri­cio Mar­tins, Mónica Mendes, Nuno João, Paulo Rodrigues e Pedro Ângelo (LCD).

Some pho­tos by João Nogueira e Rita Carvalho.

Flickr Photo Set: http://tinyurl.com/6f7vhsx

Eng­lish ver­sion soon!

Laser Etching a PCB with a RepRap by Leonardo

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Leonardo has been work­ing on a laser-head RepRap for some time. His lat­est exper­i­ment was etch­ing a PCB with it. Above is the video of the first tests, but go on over to his blog to check out all the details.

Call for developers

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For those who have been present at alt lab meet­ings know by now that I’m cur­rently devel­op­ing a 3D Laser Printer.

Laser pro­jec­tion

As far as elec­tron­ics every­thing is almost good to go with some minor tweaks, but I’m fac­ing a giant prob­lem now. I  don’t have time to develop soft­ware for this pet and I don’t want it to be delayed for much longer than it already has been, so I’m request­ing for kind hearted devel­op­ers to step up and help me in this task.

Any help is wel­come please con­tact me to lj dot marques@fct dot unl dot pt (replace “dot” for “.”).

Cur­rent device

Please adress this Git Hub repos­i­tory for your kind code donations:

http://github.com/Reonarudo/O3DLP

Expla­na­tion of device components.

AZLabs @ O Espaço do Tempo

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After many days of work, stress and fun, we seem to have man­aged to pull through 10 projects to show­case at O Espaço do Tempo! The exhi­bi­tion opened yes­ter­day, 12th July at Con­vento da Saudação and will remain in exhibit until the end of the month.

We also have a mini-site with bios of the authors and descrip­tions of the works, tem­porar­ily hosted here. Not only of the works present at the exhi­bi­tion but also a few oth­ers devel­oped dur­ing the res­i­dency that couldn’t be exhib­ited by one rea­son or another. Check them out!

Big thanks are in order to every­one at O Espaço do Tempo for the oppor­tu­nity we had, and all the in loco sup­port to our needs, you rock. :)

AZLabs @ O Espaço Do Tempo (0day –2)

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2 days to go until the exhibit open­ing of the Audi­en­cia Zero Labs res­i­dency at O Espaço Do Tempo!

A few folks seem to be miss­ing in action. Mauri­cio is back with some news from Inter­ac­tivos to lend us a hand on pend­ing projects. Mónica and Pedro are still work­ing on B-wind!. Mar­garida work­ing on his robot Freddy. Vic­tor Silva rehears­ing his The Last Words of Dominico. Vic­tor and Marco work­ing on Dis­card­able Beauty. Guil­herme fin­ish­ing his Róbot­ica Cria­tiva works. And me fin­ish­ing up Meta Gen Haiku. Cata­rina and Joel should also show up tomorow with their Micro Dérive.

Web­site with more info on the pre­sented projects should go online soon. In the mean­time if you should show up on Mon­day the 12th July in Montemor-O-Novo for the exhibit. We will have 7 projects installed under exhi­bi­tion until the 31st July, and 2 live­acts pre­sented on the exhi­bi­tion day 12th July.

In the mean­time we’ll leave you with some impor­tant t-shirt quote mate­r­ial we have recently acquired:
“48 horas são 6 dias de tra­balho, em turnos de 8 horas“
“Eu só faço pro­jec­tion map­ping quando estou bêbado“
“Não tens pin­cel para isso. Vai antes de rolo.“
“Queres falar ao tele­fone? Fala aí! *slap*”

AZ Labs Exhibition @ O Espaço do Tempo

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LCD + Alt­Lab + xDA
12 — 31 July 2010
Con­vento da Saudação | Montemor-o-Novo | Portugal

Exhi­bi­tion: Mon­day to Fri­day — 6pm / 11pm | Sat­ur­day and Sun­day — 4pm /11pm
Open­ing: 12th of July, 18h00

Artists : Cata­rina Mota | Fil­ipe Cruz | Francesco Cerutti | Guil­herme Mar­tins | João Maia e Silva | Joël Belouet | Jorge Ribeiro | Pedro Ângelo | Mar­garida Faria | Mau­rí­cio Mar­tins | Mónica Mendes | Marco Moura | Mar­i­ana Fer­reira | Mécia Sá | Ricardo Webbens | Sér­gio Fer­reira | Tiago Serra | Vitor Lago Silva | Vic­tor Martins

This exhi­bi­tion presents the results of a unique exper­i­ment. For 17 days, 30 mem­bers of the Audi­en­cia Zero Labs from all over the coun­try and also abroad lived and worked together on col­lec­tive projects. New teams were formed, infi­nite ideas pro­posed, new tools and tech­nolo­gies exper­i­mented with, incred­i­ble adven­tures lived and new friends made. The projects at this exhibit are just the tip of the veil, the true impact of this expe­ri­ence is yet to come.

More info @ O Espaço do Tempo

makerbot as microscope: what we learned

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Joel Belouet has been work­ing on an art piece involv­ing microor­gan­isms and needed a sup­port struc­ture for his micro­scope cam­era. It turns out the Maker­Bot sit­ting on our table was the solution.

At first Joel attached the cam­era to the z axis and the slide rested on the build plat­form, but it soon became clear that it would be much bet­ter to have the sam­ple remain still and the cam­era move instead. Invert­ing the posi­tions meant attach­ing the slide to the bot­tom of the z axis plat­form in order to pre­vent the cam­era lens from bump­ing against it. This setup also allowed him to use the z crank as a focus mech­a­nism. (more…)

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