GCDS S/S 2019
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http://3dprint.com/41447/3d-printed-cool-brick/
This is a 3D printed brick comprising a ceramic lattice. It is filled with water (like a sponge). Then when hot, dry air passes through the ‘cool brick’ wall surface of someone’s home, for example, the air absorbs the water through evaporation, and becomes cooler moister air. Voila! An electricity-free air conditioning system for hot dry desert climates.
THIS is the stuff I want to help put out in the world. It has everything. It is technological, its at the intersection of both a non-existent market (a/c for poor Africans) and a huge market/impact (the air conditioning market is huge and the population of Africa is huge). It is also environmentally friendly and life changing for populations of developing nations.
I will probably never be the engineer who solves these 3D puzzles with a 3D printer, but I would like to contribute my skills for these types of wrothy projects.
Robotic Extrusions
3D printing method developed by Ji Shi uses robotic arm and biomimicry, where the output form is inspired by the structure of spider web for greater strength:
Most of today’s researches and applications of robotic fabrication are limited to replicating human labor and raising efficiency of manufacturing. However, in the project of Robotic 6-Axis 3D Printing, we developed a fabrication strategy learning and emulating the law of nature (referring to Chinese philosophy “师法自然 “). By studying the material and structure performance of 3D form in nature, we figured out a way to incorporate biomimetic fabrication strategy into 3D printing process. And by designing the special robotic-end effector (Tooling) and utilizing the great flexibility and accuracy of KUKA robotics, the biomimetic fabricating process has been fully realized.
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