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Printing 3-D Replicas of Human Beings with a Home Brew Printer (Video)
When I bumped into Abram Thau at Metrix Createspace in Seattle's Capitol Hill, he showed me a few printed figurines, including a Storm Trooper (of the Star Wars variety), and I thought at first that he had printed them as duplicates of similar-sized commercial products. Not so: It turns out these are made-from-life, specifically from cos-players who have stood on Abram's human-suitable turntable (powered by a chicken rotisserie motor hooked to a 3-D printed pulley) while he scanned them in. Thau's apartment is practically shouting distance from Metrix, but that pulley was made on a large Deltabot filament printer in the corner of his living room. (A living room usefully cluttered with tools, bottles of resin, projectors in various states of repair, and more printed objects.) More interesting still, Thau's figurines are produced with a home-built resin printer. Resin is messier to work with than the filament feedstock of RepRap/Makerbot style printers (and the resin itself has a slight odor), but it allows different results. Overhanging pieces are possible without requiring elaborate support pieces built into the mesh, and the resulting product can be noticeably smoother than typical filament printing, though all 3-D printing techniques are getting better. Thau didn't buy one of the commercially available resin printers, though (like FormLabs's), but instead decided to build his own out of scavenged and off-the-shelf components. Budget concerns and improvisation rule the day (Thau is also a grad student, studying to be a middle school teacher): That means there's a book holding up the projector which is vital to curing the resin, and the printer's case is recycled from a previous one. The results look as good as the affordable commercial ones I've seen, and he's excited to teach others to make their own. Third-party resin makers and a robust market in used projectors mean that other hobbyists can follow his lead and turn their friends into figurines. (Alternate video link)
I was hoping the replicas would be life-size.
.... that somebody finally found a commercially viable application of 3D printing?...
How many people would be ready to pay for a decent-quality figurine of themselves? Especially so at a special event involving costumes.
Useless fucken story.
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
The poet Perce Besse Shelly played around with reanimation or making the dead come to life. Animal parts were normally used for people playing around with making the dead come to life but Shelly was wealthier than most poets and could probably get a freshly dead human corpse to apply the shock that made them twitch. His wife Mary Shelly who created the Frankenstein novel probably was using images she had seen first hand in experiments done by Shelly. The chances are that Perce Shelly was the real and authentic Dr. Frankenstein. So after a couple of centuries we now only make life like copies of our friends instead of trying to bring them back from the dead. By the way, in some public demonstrations corpses actually sat up when a shock was applied. Imagine people who had no real understanding of electricity or anatomy beholding a corpse sitting up suddenly.
In Seattle, the 3D printer prints you!
They basically did this on The Big Bang Theory. The 3D printing of themselves part, not the make-your-own-better-resin-printer-out-of-scrap part. http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg....
Haha, we did this at the makerspace I go to a couple months ago.
That would explain the stationary backbenchers on cable...
Oh, I'm sorry sir, I thought you were referring to me, Mr. Wensleydale.
...you have to go to grad school to become a middle school teacher in the US these days. Yet the US has abysmal test scores. What gives?
I have been looking into this type of 3d printers and there are many others. Most not as reproducable as the standard reprap fdm printers. This is why i am currently designing the reprap petri that will be reproducable when the design is done. Right now it is in early prototype phase and does not work.
instead of using a filament deposition strategy is brilliant! I was not aware of this method of 3D printing. I'm trying to figure out if you can easily port your 3D CAD models to this printer too.
The USA is only 4X older than me...perspective
rubber GF is getting nervous now
Table-ized A.I.
Like everything else, this technology will be driven by porn.
-Styopa
I suspect a mind like his is going to inspire a lot of young minds. It's also pretty obvious that he could choose from any of a number of lucrative career paths. A truly noble and heroic human. Too bad we can't print life sized fully working copies of him. Every middle school should have at least one.
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I just read your stuff here: http://forums.reprap.org/read....
Very cool! I'm looking forward to following your project. One thing I don't like about these is the cost of the DLP, it seems that whatever your save on the platform you have to spend on the DLP...
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure."
Almost there:
http://thedriftwars.com
I give this guy a 25% chance of lasting as a teacher. He's very technically capable, he's in grad school so he likely has significant student loan debt, and he doesn't appear to be exceedingly extroverted. Unfortunately most teaching positions don't require technical capability or involve technical challenges, they don't pay anywhere near what you need to cover those loan bills, and the key to success is the ability to redirect and manipulate unruly teenagers (and their hovering parents), which can be especially challenging for someone who isn't already socially adept.
I really hope he's successful, because folks like him could do a lot to inspire some of the brightest minds. I just think the teaching profession (in the US, anyway) isn't set up to be very rewarding for someone like him. I had the same ambitions, but the cold realities of our education system drove me away.
Real Doll wouldn't give this guy a bulk discount, so he decided to home-brew?
So his exact turntable setup has been on thingiverse for a very long time, only difference is his camera is handheld. The setup most of us that print custom figurines use is automated entirely. 3d Resin printer... this one was yanked off of one of the various reprap or other 3d printing forums... there are multiple models of each kind of 3d printer, again nothing new.... Im confused as to how someone stealing others ideas and work by claiming them as his own is news for nerds since the nerds seem a bit slow on the uptake on 3D printing.
Interesting subject, but I wonder why a bunch of nerd can fail so badly in making a simple video. The lighting and sound are terrible!
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