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Injured Bald Eagle Gets New 3-D Printed Beak
An anonymous reader writes "A bald eagle that lost its beak to a poacher's gun receives a 3-D printed beak prosthetic like a dental implant."
More (with pictures): "Mr Calvin, a founder of the Boise-based Kinetic Engineering Group, made a mold of Beauty's shattered upper mandible, laser-scanned it, fine-tuned it in a 3D modeling program, and created a prosthetic beak from a nylon-based polymer."
Will leach chemicals into the eagle that will cause health problems? Will it give fish a bad taste?
They really had an opportunity here. What would be cooler than a bald eagle with a shiny carbon-fiber-and-titanium beak? Maybe make him some razor sharp metal talons too. That would give the poachers pause!
State of the art dentistry uses CAD/CAM. 3D imaging creates base model which is tweaked by dental technician then created in an automatic milling machine. Takes about 45 minutes and eliminates a second visit (think one round of anesthesia).
Not sure that 3D printing could make anything nearly as strong as necessary for a tooth.
"I think I can help you with Beauty if you are interested." he said.
Unfortunately, the prosthesis is not anchored securely enough to return Beauty to the wild, but she now can feed herself and preen her feathers.
The new beak is not good enough for the eagle to be in the wild but beauty... At least it shows potential that there may be an improvement to match the original (nature) in the future. Either way, I hope that it will always be kept in good intention of use of 3D printer (such as this example in the article).
really , really old news here.
Now just to give it a 3d-printed gun, so it can go get revenge on the poacher who shot it.
I was recently asked by a client to 3D print some replacement parts for his pet duck.
But he balked when I gave him the bill.
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That 3D printing couldnt get any more awesome, something like this comes out of nowhere an proves that, yes, it can!
What implications does this hold for humans?aube we could get 3D printe false teeth with A faster turn-around than current moulding techniques.
I actually have such a tooth. I went into the dentist's office. He scanned my mouth with a 3d scanner, then used software to model the missing tooth. Then, the software sent the output to a milling machine, with a ceramic-on-metal blank. Total time, less than an hour from scanning my mouth to implanted tooth. I already had an implant grafted to my jawbone, so this was just the crown, but still, I was very impressed.
Did you mount a military-grade, variable-focus MASER on an unlicensed artificial intelligence?
I first heard about this in 2009, when I went to the Solidworks 2010 launch event in Boise.
Maybe because I am involved in the local Solidworks community, it is old news here. It was pretty fun event getting to meet the guys who did this, exam the various iterations of beaks
I am actually surprised it took this long to make it to main stream news.
Is go on tor and use bitcoin to hire a hitman for the poacher.
All jokes aside, its pretty damn cool.
Silence is a state of mime.
They should have added lasers.
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They both want to make the new film "Beauty and the Beak."
I can't wait to read 5 new and exciting 3D printing stories each and every day!
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
FTFA:
"Beauty continues to thrive under our care without her upper beak. The new growth pushed out the hardware which anchored the prosthetic beak."
And those 1 D beaks? The chicks just don't dig them.
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I emailed Birds of Prey Northwest for an update on Beauty and received this reply yesterday from Ms Fink (Cantwell):
Beauty continues to thrive under our care without her upper beak. The new growth pushed out the hardware which anchored the prosthetic beak. Recently the small amount of new growth has allowed Beauty to do something she has not been able to do since her injury-eat independently. We have constructed a special feeding platform for her and she now feeds herself! We are looking to the future as we measure her minute growth and construct a new plan of attachment. Construction of the beak is the easy part, it is the attachment that is the challenge. Recently, her 2008 procedure videoed by a Seattle news team, was made available on Vimeo and we have had lots of inquiries. Some have suggested that Beauty has a much greater educational impact WITHOUT her beak. When the prosthetic was in place, her story is lost at first glance. Time will tell whether she goes through life with or without a beak. In the meantime, she will remain in north Idaho under my care where she is cherished and well cared for.
Old news, and completely out of date now. The 3D printed beak happened in 2008, and it will no longer work due to growth that pushed out the mounting brackets. Beauty does not have an upper beak now, though the growth is allowing her to eat without the prosthetic.
I know this is a random AC posting something meant to be humorous but I have to chime in: Plastic surgery was originally developed to repair damage by accident, injury or disease. Fixing an eagle's beak would actually be the exact purpose of plastic surgery as originally developed.
This sort of thing already has medical applications. Hope the article is of interest.
Try reading the article.
The bird was never going back into the wild again. The 3d printed beak has come off due to natural growth of the beak and is no longer being used. The animal is not starving to death now that some beak has grown back.
How about the next time you are injured we put you out of your misery?
Try reading the article.
What, and ruin a perfectly good Slashdot tradition? Meh.
How about the next time you are injured we put you out of your misery?
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Wow, the crown I have got sent out to the lab and took a few weeks of having a temporary crown.
That's actually fairly impressive.
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Clearly someone just needs to install FreeBSD on their 3D-printed toaster.
Of course nobody reads the FAQ! If people read the FAQ, the Questions wouldn't be so Frequently Asked.
If Linux was any indication, it will probably be when somebody 3D prints a dead badger.
And then installs NetBSD on it.
Because as everyone knows, the GNU/Linux/Badger386 port has been unmaintained and stagnant since 1998.
I seem to recall reading that printed components are only about 10-30% of the strength of components made by alternative techniques e,g, injection mo(u)lding.
Would it not have been a good idea to create a mo(u)ld around this component and then create a much stronger beak?
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FTA: "...some kind of metaphor about America. Ruined by guns, kept alive by nonprofits, technology comes to the rescue? Sure, I think it works."
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Riiiiiight. And you're THE editor of grist.org. Guns ruined America... You look at America, and chief amongst its problems are things that you think guns cause? Seriously? Well, welcome to my little corner of communist household!
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Dentists have been offering this technology for a long time. It's basically a CNC machine to mold a tooth. The thing is that its insanely expensive. I had to get a crown and the mail-order crown was 1/3 of the cost of the "Crown while you wait"
I’ve seen so many bald eagles crying a single tear over terrorism or gay marriage or whatever that it’s really hard not to interpret this as some kind of metaphor about America. Ruined by guns, kept alive by nonprofits, technology comes to the rescue? Sure, I think it works.
Now if we can only get a 3d printed deficit reduction...
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I can't wait for 3D printing to become highly regulated so that innovation stops dead in its tracks!
You do raise the (to me) interesting question of whether or not this could have been made on a multi-axis CNC milling machine. I'm not sure how much of the interior of an object contemporary machines can remove through openings from the outside.
Additive processes can work stainless steel and titanium with relatively little loss in overall strength compared to castings, so there's little question that 3D printing can make teeth or a beak that are strong enough. Metal-based printing is, as I understand it, much more expensive to do than polymer printing.
Plastic surgery was originally developed to repair damage by accident, injury or disease.
And still is, called restorative plastic surgery, as opposed to cosmetic which is the more common and commonly known type today.
In high school, I saw a slideshow presentation by a restorative plastic surgeon. It was like 80 slides of 3rd degree burns, skin grafts, feet caught in paper shredders, and on and on. One of the first slides was a little girl who'd been hit in the face by a tire kicked off by an accident on the other side of the road. You could see her teeth through her cheek.
Several students threw up.
I have no idea what they were thinking. Other than convincing the "pre-med" students to find another major when they went to college. But why did the rest of us have to watch?
The enemies of Democracy are
* reconstrucive. Or maybe both. *shrug*
The enemies of Democracy are
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I've got two of them myself.
But how about *not* shooting an innocent individual in the first place?
Or at least create something that allows the nerves and everything to grow back inside.
I'm sorry, but unshooting is not one of your available options, and at this point neither is something that allows nerves and everything to grow back inside (at least inside the timeframe required to get the bird up the in air again). Complaining about it doesn't change things.
The options are plastic beak or death.
This eagle can't be un-shot until the time machine has been 3D printed.
And that's never going to happen. Proof: If a time machine were ever invented someone from the future would have come back in time by now.
I'd rate this more as 'cosmetic dentistry' than 'plastic surgery' though.