July 18, 2009 | Broadcast News
The Desktop Manufacturing Revolution
Fast Company reports on how your home/office won’t just be a printing press or a digital photo studio; word has it that 3D printing will soon be a new addition to the things you can do in your very own living room. With this technology fast becoming common place, and with the price of such fabrication technologies set to fall within the coming years, architectural practices would benefit from the rapid prototyping capabilities that 3D printing offers:
Take a design for a simple product–an engine part, for example, or a piece of silverware, and feed it into a computer. Press “print.” Out pops (for a sufficiently wide definition of “pops”) a physical duplicate, made out of materials plastic, ceramic, metal — even sugar. Press “print” again, and out comes another copy–or feed in a new design, for the next necessary object.
It may sound like a scene from a low-rent version of Star Trek, but it’s real, and it’s happening with increasing frequency. This process goes by a few names, but it’s most commonly known as “3D Printing“…
via Fast Company
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JJ is the co-founder of 5ft Creatives and is presently enrolled as a graduate student at the Yale School of Architecture.
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