Tag: 3D Printing
The promise of Defense Distributed’s Liberator 3D-printed handgun–that it would “free” firearms from the firearms industry, putting a gun in the hands of anybody who wants one–is really a dot on the horizon. Cody Wilson and co. got one to fire, yes, but they did it with an $8,000 printer that looks like a vending […]
In an effort to produce snacks that are fit for long-distance space travel, NASA awarded a $125,000 to mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor to develop a 3D printer for food. Their first endeavor, naturally, will be pizza. According to the Verge, each “building block” of a particular food will exist as a powdered “ink,” and building […]
Avoiding much of art fair season havoc, some of us may found ourselves at Chelsea Waterside Park when for a few hours on May 10th, the park featured a collection of curious, unique 3D-printed objects, each designed by a group of artists. Concurrently, the objects were offered for sale via the Shapeways website, a service that allows customers to upload […]
For her ITP class project, NYU student/designer Xuedi Chen used 3D-printing software and chia seeds to spawn these mossy fashion accessories. Their origins are somewhat grotesque: The Invasive Growth Series was directly inspired by a parasitic fungus. The cordyceps operates by infecting an insect with spores, growing inside the insect while performing a sort of “mind control” […]
Blueprint files for the world’s first fully 3D-printed gun were pulled offline this week after the State Department requested Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson pull them from his website. The gun, dubbed the Liberator, was being hosted on DEFCAD, a website created by Wilson to host files for firearms and other potentially controversial items, where […]
There’s always been something troubling about the anonymity the Star Wars films give their most ubiquitous villains. Anytime something bad happens to one of our guys, it’s a whole big thing, but Stormtroopers are obliterated left and right without the audience being asked even for a moment to consider their deaths. Who knows? The troopers could be […]
Isn’t 3D-printing nifty as hell? Soon, we’ll be 3D-printing on the atomic level. Artist Shane Hope foreshadows hacking organic matter with his series “Nano-Nonobjective-Oriented Ontographs,” “Qubit-Built Quilts,” “Post-Scarcity Percept-Pus Portraits” and “Scriptable-Scalable Species-Tool-Beings.” Using molecular modeling research software, crafts custom code and algorithms, Hope creaties sculptural canvases of erupted, scrambled, bubbling atomic structures. Some look like tumorous day-glo Rothkos. A standout: The bursting Malevich square-type. […]
When it comes to nutrition, us Westerners are a bunch of wusses. While 80% of the world’s population is happily munching on accessible, protein-rich insects, we lose our shit at the mere sight of a cockroach (live or robotic). But might we reconsider if two of our favorite things — fatty comfort foods and 3D printing […]
A group of Harvard students has a novel and very zeitgeisty solution for helping the visually-impaired to experience paintings. Using 3D printing, the students hope to turn 2D images into relief sculptures, so the blind can approximate the act of “seeing” the paintings with their hands. “We want to bridge the gap between the visually […]
It was only a matter of time before 3D-printing and body “alteration” — two of the year’s biggest buzz-topics– collided. The result? Art. COLLAGENE is a Kinect software application designed to create custom, adaptable face masks. The program digitally scans the user’s face, allowing them to edit their own detailed, perfectly-fitting design, which is then 3D-printed […]
