3D Printing stuff

[lovelydivot]

I looked at the above machine - with the kickstarter and ask...


Where is the support material with that machine?
How can you print anything even slightly complex if it doesn't lay down support material?


But people rush in with their 200K.....to make flimsy toys...


I'm being mean again - I know.

[lovelydivot]

But I'm making stuff by hand...

My next issue is getting my - studio photography - up to quality

It really is a pain - I'm 80% there - but 80 is not 100...

after that it's getting the photos onto web and into print...quality
then - I can talk to the people in the market...quality


...hear me heaving a huge, labored *sigh*


IN the meantime - I'm looking at my own product thinking
what the fuck!! is this just more shit!!!
-cue continued existential crisis...blabbering

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[nowaysj]

All the greats need to come back.

[dial_back]

http://www.kvue.com/news/state/UT-El-Pa ... 19831.html

[lovelydivot]

conversation pieces...

I'm making conversation pieces...


The world still has a need for proper conversation pieces...I think

Correct me if I'm wrong...


I know we're not in Africa - But still...

[_ronzlo_]

[test_recordings]

I saw Chinese company printed houses the other day. Pretty sick stuff

[_ronzlo_]

"Precious Plastic" Aims To Make 3D-Printing Eco-Friendly And Recyclable

Very cool!

[Samuel_L_Damnson]

Its still pretty un-viable am i right? probably cheaper to run an injection moulder ffs.

[_ronzlo_]

Its still pretty un-viable am i right? probably cheaper to run an injection moulder ffs.

It was completely un-viable a few short years ago: it is more viable than ever now, with DIY printshops popping up in major urban centers and classes teaching the how-to stuff emerging all the time. Still not a totally ubiquitous technology but in the process of becoming so. Injection molding won't ever go away completely, but we'll likely see less of it with this and other new fab methods coming out all the time.

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Why Is Japan So Upset About a 3-D Printed Vagina?

In Japan, 3-D printer–related crimes are big news these days. In May, a man was arrested for making a gun that could fire live rounds with a 3-D printer. And Monday, a Japanese conceptual artist who distributed data allowing others to make life-sized renderings of her vagina using 3-D printers was arrested for violating Japan's obscenity laws.

Unlike the gun, police have not yet labeled her vagina a lethal weapon.

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department arrested artist Megumi Igarashi on "obscene electromagnetic record distribution charges" — in other words, for e-mailing engineering specs for her privates. Child porn possession was only just outlawed last month in Japan after many years of political struggle.

While distributing uncensored vagina pictures is a crime, it is not illegal in Japan for consenting adults to pay for or sell sex. (Prostitution is technically illegal, but the customer or the prostitute can’t be arrested in the majority of cases; only the pimp or brothel owner can.) Under current interpretations of Japan's obscenity laws, even the country's traditional erotic artwork, known as Shunga, which has graphic depictions of sexual activity, could potentially be considered illegal. As a result, some of the best collections of Shunga art are only seen outside of Japan.

Igarashi, a manga artist who uses the pen name Rokudenashiko [good-for-nothing child], sent the data to more than 30 people who had donated money to help her fund a project to build a kayak shaped like a vagina. The boat is called the Manbo, a combination of the Japanese slang word for vagina and the word for boat, a.k.a., Pussy Boat. Igarashi says her work is intended to demystify the female genitalia.


Igarashi with part of her vagina-shaped boat. Photo by Rokude Nashiko/Facebook

Police also allegedly raided Love Piece Club, a sex shop founded and run exclusively by women that Igarashi is involved with, and collected all of her art to be used as “evidence,” according to Minori Kitahara, the founder of Love Piece Club.

“I wrote a written report that stated that I don't think [her] work falls under obscenity,” Kitahara wrote on Twitter. Police sources confirm that Kitahara, who has been a vocal critic of Japan’s strange obscenity laws and police enforcement of them, is denying the obscenity charges.

The arrest has sparked a petition on Change.org calling for Igarashi's release, which gathered almost 15,000 signatures in less than a day.

“In regard to the judgment made by the police, Igarashi's handout was not 'obscene' — it's a fine piece of [data for] artwork that has a rational concept to it,” said Masanori Takano, creator of the petition and a programmer who follows Igarashi's work. “In addition, the exchange was only made between people who were connected to her via the Internet, so it does not infringe on the human rights of any individual and there is no reason for an arrest.”

Photo via Flickr

and an interesting bit in the comments:

Welcome to Catholic understanding of decency. McArthur was a staunch Catholic, and he viewed Japanese way of handling sexuality (which was similar to healthy modern non-puritan European views in many parts) as incredibly sick and perverted.

So he codified in law that no genital area may be shown uncensored. Ever wondered why tentacle porn emerged from Japan? Because that's the replacement phallic object for penis, which they couldn't show.
That's right. Drawn tentacle rape of little girls ending in their gruesome deaths? Completely fine, have fun pleasuring yourself. Glimpse of 3d printed vagina? Jail time for you, you sick pervert!
Traditional art picturing healthy sex life? Throw away the key, clearly that pervert is incurable.

Welcome to Christian morale making messed up laws.

[_ronzlo_]

3d printed Fibonacci zoetrope sculptures

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/01/f ... culptures/



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Also, good doc on the topic called "Print The Legend" worth checking out. Streaming on Netflix in the US.

http://printthefilm.com/

[KosmonautOfficial]

@_ronzlo_ that's amazing man My graphics design teacher had a printer and he would make some cool 3d things but that's insane

[Shum]

hungry?

http://boingboing.net/2015/03/03/3d-pri ... iving.html

[Phigure]

i have virtually free access to one

should make a contest, winner gets one 3d printed thing of their choosing

[Shum]

~ ♪ ♫ print me a dubplate ♫ ♪ ~

[Phigure]

i was actually just thinking about that. right now we're only about 2 orders of magnitude away from SLA printers being able to work on the nanometer scale (a single carbon atom is .5 nm). in about 10 years you can probably drop 1.5 and be able to print records at home (patience though, itll probably take half a day at least for a side)

[lovelydivot]

I can't wait for that day - incredible flood of amateur shit.

If there is one thing I learned in art school -
It's that maybe we shouldn't make every little stupid thing we think of.

The industrial Design students….
would get an assignment to do 200 sketches - of something
they had 24 hours to do it…
These kids were slamming back red bulls and driving themselves mad…

It's incredibly hard to sketch 30-60 things in a day - let alone 200…

Then next day - they would cover every hallway in the building with their sketches….
and the teacher would walk through and past pretty much all of them…
and say nothing.

Those professors have seen close to everything in the world…
They do not impress easily.


Maybe I'm experiencing some sort of bitterness…
What you do is never enough.

and then some shitbird like Kanye comes through and complains why he can't do stuff…
after having already been gifted a bunch of opportunities based solely on his celebrity.

I think about all those kids - putting in the work, being rebuffed...
but persevering with dignity.

[lovelydivot]

I'm not sure about the vagina kayak…

It sounds as bad as the dildo bottle opener
that almost got me kicked out of class…

I didn't even design it - I just commented on it
- and suffered massive heat.



I am completely confused. About this world.

[lovelydivot]

OH HELL NO!!! This is the stuff of nightmares!!>!?!?!>

That shit isn't cute!! That's a robotic spider!!!!!!! I'm gonna die.

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[hubb]

i have virtually free access to one

should make a contest, winner gets one 3d printed thing of their choosing

an opportunity for lads to mold something..... hmmm specific .. . so...?

A poll with members dicks ?


or a neo-dick with extra features like headphone input