grey- a-re-a: [grey air-ee-uh] an intermediate area; a topic that is not clearly one thing or the other. A grey area is a term for a border in-between two or more things that is unclearly defined, a border that is hard to define or even impossible to define, or a definition where the distinction border tends to move; something that is open to interpretation… Gray Area Symposium will be held in Mexico in 2010. This five day symposium aims to promote understanding and appreciation of the diverse ways to view, experience, and create jewellery, to encourage cultural exchange among jewellery makers.
At the inaugural event, the program will be focused on practice in two continents: Latin America and Europe. However, participants from all over the world are welcomed to attend.
The symposium will focus on artistic and scholastic encounters between Europe and Latin America, as well as on intra-Latin American exchanges, addressing and reformulating the ideological and practical construction of contemporary jewellery, examining its current state of development in both continents, and respectively exploring and proposing the present and future exchange between Latin American and European individuals and networks. (more…)
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I printed it with black ABS, and then printed a small white cube and set it with some magic glue eagleapex left at Hive.
I drew the 2d shape in gimp, then had a friend render it in 3d using sketchup (I fail at 3D). I made some adjustments using Blender for the final print.
She said yes! Now to get our MakerBot to print with white gold.
Print your way out of police handcuffs
German SSDeV (Sportenthusiasts of Lockpicking Europe) member Ray used a 3D printer to print keys official handcuff of the Dutch police. The key was produced with a RepRap machine from a photograph of a key hanging off of a police officers belt.
Oh, and if you are heading to the Amsterdam and are thinking you may be in for a wild time, why not download the STL file and print your own?
So here is where things get interesting. What are the implications here, is 3D printing this object an illegal act? Is sharing the key ethically sound? What would the liability be if this key was traced back to being used in committing a serious offense?
Dimension 3D student competition, Entries will be accepted starting September 8, 2009 through February 1, 2010
The 2009-10 Extreme Redesign Challenge consists of three categories:
Middle / high school level engineering challenge (In Europe: School/College Engineering, 16-18 years old)
College level engineering challenge (In Europe: University Engineering, 18+ years old)
Art & architectural challenge open to students of all grade levels
“Green” bonus category – one entry from all submitted will be chosen as the best environmentally friendly design
Winners in each of the categories will receive a $2,500 scholarship and runner-ups will receive $1,000 scholarships. Semi-finalists from each category will be printed on a Dimension 3D Printer and the models will be sent back to the students along with a $50 gift card. Everyone who enters the contest will receive an official Extreme Redesign T-shirt, courtesy of Dimension 3D Printers.
An Extreme Redesign entry must be submitted as a STL file along with a completed online submission form, including a 200-word or less description and/or a 30-second video describing the value and benefit of the Extreme Redesign model. An independent panel of judges will review all entries and the top entries in each category will be printed on a Dimension 3D Printer and the models will be sent back to those students.
The student/team must submit only one part as the final entry in the Extreme Redesign competition.
wow…….
Evolver is a wooden construction built by 2nd year students from the ALICE Studio at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Like a timber Guggenheim, when you walk through it, you’ll make a 720° turn and have an amazing panorama on the surroundings of Zermatt. (more…)
ShopBot need your input to let them know what you need to get your designs made..
ShopBot announces Project: Tyro, an initiative to jump-start the development process and solicit ideas on how to build its next CNC machine. A questionnaire has been posted on the company’s website, where anyone – current ShopBot owners, potential ShopBotters, tinkerers, engineers, and anyone else with an interest in the future of digital fabrication – is invited to participate. Submissions will be accepted through November.
ShopBot and Ponoko have teamed up for 100kGarages.com, using the world’s easiest making system along with the distributed manufacturing network of ShopBot owners to fabricate your designs.
I’ve put together this video tutorial of a process you can use to self-check your design files before uploading them using Illustrator – as well as covering all the common mistakes to look out for.
This is ideal if your design file won’t upload to Ponoko, or you want to be sure you’ve formatted everything correctly before getting us to make it…
How long before we see ‘illegal’ product design files to download? And what should we do about it?
New release movies are available for download from various file sharing networks before they even hit the cinemas. Despite DRM and any other copyright protection put into music files they are instantly and widely spread across the net for free download seemingly as soon as the recordings are complete. Software applications and games are exactly the same, years of development are quickly absorbed and distributed in peer to peer networks without a dollar changing hands.
We can assume the same is going to happen with physical product design in the not too distant future, as the digital design process becomes ubiquitous, and the means of manufacture become distributed and democratized. (more…)
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