Here are some more things I found cool this week. First one is a handy way to give printed models a glossy smooth surface.

This method is quite a simple way to finish your models. It involves a hotplate, a glass jar and some acetone. Sounds dangerous but the method looks pretty straightforward and would be a great way to make your prints into display quality items.

I like this photo and I would like to think in the future you can get cereal printed out in custom shapes just for fun. As far as foods go, cereal would probably be the easiest to produce printing in 3D as they are quite manufactured anyway.

This is a model that is available on the website thingiverse.com. It is a highly articulated action figure that is printed in pieces and then assembled. Finding models to print out is getting easier every day. In the future it is possible people will buy objects online, download the plans and print the item at home.

This object was printed in ceramic. This is an interesting material to use as it seems to be able to produce a smoother surface and would be a better texture to paint. For artistic sculptures and display models, ceramic would be the material of choice.

This image is of printed walls of a house. The material used is mostly derived from waste products. Producing houses this way could be a very low cost and potentially environmentally friendly way to solve  issues such as homelessness in third world countries and quickly rebuilding after disasters.

Hello there, here is a collection of items that have caught my fancy this week
I like this photo because it reminds me of a toy castle play set. This kind of modular interlocking set of buildings could create a wide ranging variety of products that could be used to make individual play sets and enable secondary creation of objects like figurines to sell with them.



This is a drill which has been printed and while its not fully functional, the chuck turns and the trigger depresses. This is a good example of the possible future of creating complex items like tools or toys although this kind of holistic printing is quite a way off.




This image is of a city that has been modelled and printed in edible chocolate. Printing with food is an exciting glimpse of what may be possible in the future. Units that can print any type of food may be found in every kitchen in a few decades and would be able to create any kind of food by manipulating a source material into the right configuration and consistency.

This image is of a printed pizza. This is a interesting one as it uses more than one nozzle to be able to complete this. Multi nozzle machines are the next step form 3D printing enabling the creation more complex items. The only problem with this machine is the amount of clean up that would be required to keep it hygienic. You would need to flush out the lines after every use plus it would require a different kind of dough and sauce that may or may not be easier to produce than normal dough.


This ball was printed using titanium. Printing with metals is the cutting edge for 3D printing at the moment. It requires a high amount of accuracy to create reliable parts. The machines that print using titanium are very expensive as is the raw materials used in the process. It is hard to see this technology reaching the hobby user because of the expenses involved. The developments achieved however will filter down into the more accessible technology as time goes by.


This is an example of a real world use of 3D printing technology. It is a very useful medium for developing and creating items that conform and work with the human form, many prosthetics are made using this method. Combined with clever electronics, this hand can become a true extension of the body and function effectively.

Hello there, here are some examples of what I would like to build and some things I found cool. These images have been pinned on my 3D Inspirations pintrest board.

This image is of a functional plane that was created at a university. This is the kind of item I would like to create, some sort of flying machine that has multiple parts which are fastened together. This would be a more complex project and would require some research into connective design.

 

This is a cool model I found on the internet. It's a character from Street Fighter and I would like to have the talent to make a model like this, but I want to focus on product design more than organic creations. I just think there's an impressive amount of detail in this model.

 

This device is called the Mush. It amplifies the sound output from a smartphone without any power. This is the sort of item I would like to design. It's innovative and useful. It looks good and has potential for being a salable product.

This is an example of some more artistically conceptual product design while still remaining functional. These designs are a bit outside the scope of what I personally would like to create but I think they're still pretty cool.

 

This looks like a modern example of the artistic style of futurism. It implies speed and movement. It looks like a complex model and is also an impressive size for a 3D print. I can't imagine how long this would have taken to print and the size of the printer. Objects this size would be hard for me to do without breaking it down into parts so I wouldn't get this ambitious just yet.

This caught my attention. This is a 3D printer that uses clay to make it's models. This feature could have some interesting applications, I'm thinking of being able to make some complex moulds for casting metal objects. This is also a more environmentally friendly material to create objects and once they're fired they would last as long as any plastic object.

Thinking about creating

I would like to start envisioning different items that are unique. I would begin by sketching out pictures and thinking about how I would go about building the items in Blender. I will continue to scan Pintrest and the net for inspiration, to find out the trends and what's been done.

I would like to get into prototyping as a first step by creating a set of characters for fun. Not sure about what type of characters I will create as in geometric or organic modelling.

Link to my 3D inspiration Pintrest board

Hello there, I've just set up my first pintrest board for my 3D conceptual development. Here's the link.

http://www.pinterest.com/2013steven/3d-inspirations/

I'll be doing regular updates as the year goes on.

Greetings. In this blog I will be exploring and taking inspiration from designs and artworks I find while browsing the web and from the social media site Pintrest in particular.

The purpose is to increase my design knowledge and held to develop my own style and method of creating products and items in particular.