A team of students from New Zealand’s University of Canterbury has designed and 3D printed a titanium engine for an eco-friendly car. The AM engineering feat is reportedly a world first. via Tumblr New Zealand students 3D print titanium engine for recyclable, eco-friendly car
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Researchers at Harvard University have developed a platform for creating 3D printed soft robots with embedded'sensors'that can sense movement, pressure, touch, and temperature. The researchers are calling it a ‘foundational advance’ in soft robotics. via Tumblr Harvard researchers 3D printed soft robots can sense movement, pressure, temperature The following sponsored content is brought to you courtesy of Blurb®, a book-making platform and creative community that enables individuals to create, publish, share and sell high-quality photo books, trade books, magazines and ebooks. Blurb is one of PRINT’s trusted partners. by Jessica Ruscello at Blurb, Inc. Print design, itself, is an art form. Going from screen to page is a complex process where each step affects the final product—a product, with its full three dimensions, that is fundamentally different from what you’ve created on your 2D screen. We talked with print design experts and rounded up a few things they wish graphic designers knew as they were creating their projects. Things to Consider During DesignColor SpaceWhen you design in a digital space, your defaults are in RGB. This gives you hundreds of nuanced colors compared to what can be created with the chemistry of the four-color ink process of CMYK. When designing in RGB, remember to do soft proofing in CMYK to reveal what your designs look like with a more limited range, so you can adjust your expectations. It’s also a good idea to calibrate your monitor so that you see what the printer sees. Even though you can universally identify and communicate color values through something like the Pantone Matching System, getting a precise match for your colors will require adding a spot color to the CMYK process. To get precise colors, it’s common for those spot colors to appear in a 2-color setup for something like business cards, but adding your color to a complete range of tones means adding a 5th color as a special request with the printer, which can be expensive. When it comes to books, custom colors are only really possible with offset orders. DPI vs. PPIDigital designers are working in pixels, while printers are working in dots per inch. We’re typically working on high-end retina screens, and these behave very differently from paper. One of the most fundamental differences comes down to size and scale. In the print world, something isn’t 800 pixels wide; it’s 8 inches. Pixels or dots are a measurement of density, not scale. All kinds of things impact required density: What size is the product? How closely will it be viewed? What kind of detail is required for design integrity? 300 dpi is considered the basic standard for book printing, but if you were creating a billboard, you may need only 100 dpi because of how far away something is viewed. As a designer, this becomes most critical with image choice and file exporting. Make sure whatever you’ve included in your design looks good at the size it will be printed. An image with a dpi that’s too low will look terrible if it’s 2 inches on your screen but is expected to be 7–8 inches on the page of a book. When you’re designing the look, think about the actual scale and surface texture of the product you’re creating so you can be sure you’ve got the right size content that places nicely on your physical product. Designing for a Physical ObjectWe can’t say this enough. Remember that you’re designing for a physical object that has to be assembled. In the case of a book, lining up content at the gutter is very difficult. When you design on a screen, you’re designing on a flat surface, so it can be hard to foresee what you’ll lose to the folds of the page or the curves of the cover. Even if you’re working with bleed and trim guidelines from the printer, there’s still no perfect guarantee. As you create your layouts, don’t lose sight of the pages in a book. How will it look and feel in the actual hands of the viewer, who may not hold it perfectly flat? How can you account for the way the eye moves around a physical space? Top 5 Mistakes Designers Make in Print Files
The best thing to do is ask a lot of questions with your print specialists. It’s easy to forget just how technical and difficult it is to take something to print, because it’s gotten easier and easier for people to take their designs to print in the era of digital printing. It’s not just pushing a button, and with a little care, your piece can benefit from the art of great graphic design and the art of beautiful print design. The post Taking Your Design to Print: What You Need to Know appeared first on Print Magazine. via Tumblr Taking Your Design to Print: What You Need to Know Massive Plastic Madonna statue is being 3D printed from 100000 plastic bottles in the Netherlands2/28/2018 Klean, a Dutch organization dedicated to reducing and reusing plastic pollution, is recreating one of the most iconic female figures in art history, the Madonna, using plastic waste and 3D printers. via Tumblr Massive Plastic Madonna statue is being 3D printed from 100,000 plastic bottles in the Netherlands Over the last few years, Naomi ‘SexyCyborg’ Wu has become one of the most popular makers in the 3D printing community, as well as one of the most outspoken women in the field. Hailing from the Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen, Wu has created and honed a maker brand that combines 3D printing and computer programming with feminine and often provocative wearables. via Tumblr Maker Profile: Naomi SexyCyborg Wu on being a woman in tech, 3D printed wearables, more ExOne, an industrial 3D printing company based in North Huntingdon, PA, has partnered with SGL Group to make 3D printed carbon and graphite components under the brand name CARBOPRINT. via Tumblr CARBOPRINT: new carbon 3D printing service from ExOne, SGL Group A French startup has designed a customizable 3D printed smart speaker. The product, called the OWA Speaker, is currently being featured in a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. via Tumblr Smart OWA Speaker with customizable 3D printed casing on Kickstarter Jugnoo, an Indian app for on-demand transport and logistics that specializes in auto-rickshaw rides, has made inroads into the field of additive manufacturing with a new on-demand 3D printing store: Printo. via Tumblr Jugnoo, Indian auto-rickshaw ride sharing app, launches Printo 3D printing store Programming expert Rongzhong Li has designed a complex 3D printable robotic cat equipped with artificial intelligence and numerous cool features. The fake feline, which contains an Arduino Pro Mini and a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, has a “Super Hard” classification on hackster.io. via Tumblr Cant afford the Sony AIBO? 3D print a robotic cat US harmonica specialist BlowsMeAway Productions has developed RackIt!, a handsfree 3D printed harmonica microphone that can be plugged directly into an amp. It sound has been described as retro and modern at the same time. via Tumblr Printin in the wind: 3D printed harmonica microphone produces great sound |
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