So, while this isn’t exactly 3D printing, it’s close. Shapeways has an interview with Bjorn Hogberg, who is doing research on actually building things out of DNA. This reminds me of Neil Gershenfeld's TED Talk. The best quote from the talk:
The killer app of personal fabrication are products for a market of one person.
This is [...]
There’s an interesting trend in 3D printing lately: using the technology to bring virtual worlds to life.
Most people who play online MMORPGS spend quite a bit of time with their in-game avatar. Since most of these games are in the third person, you end up looking over your little Tauren for hours upon hours, so [...]
This video from Jay Leno’s Garage shows the amazing power of 3D scanning and printing equipment. Take a valve from a 1907 steam car, scan it in using the NextEngine and then print with a Dimension machine. Both together make a “Xerox” for parts.
Leno talks about how so many cars sit idle for want of [...]
From Desktop Engineering:
“Dr. John Lanzalotti, a plastic surgeon and sculptor /owner of Williamsburg Sculpture, located in Williamsburg, Va., sculpts lifelike busts of the nation’s founding fathers, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, and Robert E. Lee, among others…”
“With the help of Direct Dimensions and rapid prototyping companies, Dr. Lanzalotti has been able [...]
There was a mini-symposium at Carnegie Mellon University this week called: Code Form Space. The idea is to show how art and technology can merge to create some amazing effects that are truly novel. The two speakers, C.E.B. Reas (co-creator of Processing) and Marius Watz were on hand to give us the story and the [...]