Three Dee Printing

2013

Project: Hato Rey Ballers 1

Community Basketball Tournament

A few samples of the games I documented during the season.

Find the whole album (79 photos!) here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjQ2nBpi

A 3D printer from Will.i.am and Coca Cola? Not usually something I’d mention here. BUT:

The Ekocycle Cube printer’s cartridges will include filament – 3D printing’s equivalent of ink for traditional printers – partly made from used plastic bottles.

The company says each cartridge will contain 25% of “post-consumer recycled materials”, using an average of three bottles.

Robocop Suit 3D Printed By Stratasys

Leading 3D Printing company Stratasys announced today that its multi-material 3D printing technology, Objet Connex, was used to create the suit worn by RoboCop in this year’s blockbuster hit movie.

Meet Jimmy, Intel’s Open Source, 3D Printable Robot

"By far the best speaker of Inside 3D Printing New York, for me at least, was Brian David Johnson, a futurist at Intel. As Johnson described it, his job at Intel is to, not just brainstorm ideas for technology that will exist ten to fifteen years down the line, but to actually create specs for those products. And, now, after about ten years of making the specs for one such piece of tech, the time has come for that product to manifest itself in reality. For that reason, Johnson announced, at Inside 3DP, the launch of the 21st Century Robot: Jimmy.”

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Ustream live feed of 3D printing from creative partners pussykrevv, creating some net-art inspired sculpture:

Live streaming video by Ustream

I’ve only learnt that 3D printing live streams are a thing …

3D Printed Human Organ Coming in 2014

San Diego-based company Organovo is getting ready to unveil the world’s first 3D printed human liver next year. The organ will be used for research and drug discovery but the bioprinting company’s vision is to leverage this technology for surgical therapy and transplants. 

Bioprinting works in a similar fashion to the 3D printers which use plastic or metal. But instead of printing an iPhone case the end result is an organ. The bioprinter prints layers of material, in this case live tissue instead of ABS, which create a solid physical item. 

The biggest hurdle in printing tissues is developing the vascular system required to keep the tissue alive. Without a functioning system providing tissues with the  nutrients and oxygen they need to survive the printed tissue dies. Organovo says they have overcome these issues.

According to the ComputerWorld, Organovo has printed a liver that is greater than 500 microns thick, the equivalent of 5 stacked sheets paper. But more importantly, they have maintained the live tissue for at least 40 days.

Organovo’s breakthrough is that they have successfully printed living tissues that can be kept alive long enough for research or in the near future to implant in a human body to continue to develop.  

The ability to print organs is a game changer for the thousands of people who are on the organ waiting list. But don’t expect it to happen overnight. Once the technology is there, it will need to go through regulatory approvals to make it available. But Organovo’s milestone is a sure sign that we are headed in that direction.

This isn’t the first time we have seen 3D printers used to create human parts. Back in August reports emerged about researchers from Princeton and Johns Hopkins who had printed an ear using cartilage and electronic parts.

Source: ComputerWorld