Scanlime designed and printed up this incredible bead-hopper. The entire plastic structure is a single printed piece! It uses a recycled CD-ROM motor to spin an eccentric hub which, via a 606 bearing, transmits vibrational forces via a linkage to the funnel, which is suspended by plastic springs. Apparently she’s working on a Perler bead printer robot!
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As part of his residency, Marius will be sharing some models. I love the first 3 in the series! We printed out 20 of these for him last week to demonstrate the power of the MakerBot Botfarm.
Marius has some great ideas for where he’s going with his work.
My goal for my MakerBot residency is to produce a set of models for my upcoming exhibition at ROM for Kunst og Arkitektur in Oslo next month. As part of that process I will be developing a new Processing library for 3D model building, to be released as Open Source along with a series of models I’ll publish on Thingiverse (see thingiverse.com/watz) in the MakerBot spirit of openness. You can already get a preview on Flickr, I can’t wait to add more!
This is going to be awesome. We’ve already got our second artist lined up, but we’ll be looking to have other artist-in-residences. If you’re interested in being one, send us a note with some links to some examples of your work and some ideas about what you’d like to get done with 2 months of unlimited access to the MakerBot Botfarm and we’ll get back to you!
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Fairly accurate model of a Boeing 737 300 series. Modeled using CAD elevations from Boeing's website:boeing.com/commercial/airports/3_view.html…
