The Emergence of 4D Printing
by frankiespeakin 16 Replies latest jw friends
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sir82
Wait - what does this have to do with the governing body's narcissitic personality disorder?
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frankiespeakin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printing
Effects of 3D printing
Predictions for future commercial additive manufacturing, starting with today's infancy period, require manufacturing firms to be flexible, ever-improving users of all available technologies in order to remain competitive. Advocates of additive manufacturing also predict that this arc of technological development will counter globalisation, as end users will do much of their own manufacturing rather than engage in trade to buy products from other people and corporations. [ 6 ] The real integration of the newer additive technologies into commercial production, however, is more a matter of complementing traditional subtractive methods rather than displacing them entirely
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Balaamsass
You need to send this to IKEA.
3d/4d "printing" from what I have seen is just advanced CAD/CAM with extra hype... from what I have seen so far. You can now send advanced 3d blueprints by email to companies that will do a plastic machining or wax injection prototype for you the same day. They can turn that into a plastic or metal part and fed-ex to you the next day. You can go from idea to finished part/setting/prototype/casting in about 72 hours with no equipment for under $100 from halfway around the world. Years ago people carved wax, plastic and clay models by hand..some still do.
This guy is talking about nano tech..much more advanced...and expensive.
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frankiespeakin
It is only a matter of time to see how far advanced our ability to make things will get. Perhaps unlocking more and more the secrets of how DNA manufactures things we will by those means and do away with lots of manufacturing wastes in energy and materials, just plant a seed so to speak.
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Vidiot
To me, the phrase "4D printing" sounds like Doc Brown built a time machine out of a photocopier.
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AwareBeing
Now we can print our own Watchtowers, yea!
But, what if we don't the money for a 3D or 4D printer?
Use the standard printer, and load up car board stock!
Yeah; now that they're rice paper thin, 16 pagers.
It will work great, just copy the front and back covers.
Sorry about the inside content, not much there any way.
It's only allot of blank space for notes, and lots of photos!
We can print tons of them and wing um' into lawns of KHs.
JW's have "drive-bys" for checking up on us Ex-JW's;
well, here's a way for us to do "drive-bys" at least we're not
spying on them at their homes. Or are we? Well at least
we're not winging frisbee-towers onto their personal properties!
There! I underlined this copy for you, now you have all the answers
before the meeting, be sure to raise your hand three times;
and release 3D frisbee-tower on each swing! With no more pages
to flutter and stall these mags, your toss is a sure distant hit!
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Satanus
Food, too. Let the kids 3d print their own supper from glop.
'Your food's in the printer... the machine that lets you create and eat your meal from freshly squeezed syringes
By Daily Mail Reporter
UPDATED: 01:07 GMT, 26 December 2010
First there were meals we had to make all by ourselves. Then 'ready made' meals came along, making life that much easier. But what if you could just print your dinner using food 'ink'?
Scientists at Cornell University in New York are developing a commercially viable 3D food printer which uses raw ingredients inside syringes. Part of their Fab@home project, an open-source collaboration, you just put the raw food 'inks' into the machine, load the recipe (or 'FabApp') - and press the button. The design takes the form of a set of syringes that deposit food inks line by line, and layer by layer, according to an electronic blueprint. The blueprint states exactly what materials go where and are drawn up using traditional engineering computer-aided design (CAD) software.
And the implications of the technology could be far-reaching. People wishing to emulate the likes of Gordon Ramsay could just download his recipe files - and doctors could prepare special dishes to suit their patients' dietary needs.
Project leader Dr Jeffrey Ian Lipton said: 'FabApps would allow you to tweak your food's taste, texture and other properties.' Ready made: The design takes the form of a set of syringes that deposit food inks line by line, and layer by layer, according to an electronic blueprint Ready made: The design takes the form of a set of syringes that deposit food inks line by line, and layer by layer, according to an electronic blueprint 'Maybe you really love biscuits, but want them extra flaky. You would change the slider and the recipe and the instructions would adjust accordingly.' The 'inks are currently limited to 'anything that can be extruded from a syringe' - such as liquid cheese, chocolate and cake batter.
But the team is working on ways to turn other ingredients into syringe-friendly materials. So far, they have had some success creating cookies, cake and 'designer domes' made of turkey meat. For master chefs, the breakthrough could mean a whole new world of customisable menus and food.
Homaro Cantu, chef at Chicago's Moto, has 'printed sushi using an ink jet printer'.
Revolutionary: Homaro Cantu, chef at Chicago's Moto, has 'printed sushi using an ink jet printer' Homaro Cantu, chef at Chicago's Moto, has 'printed sushi using an ink jet printer'. 'Imagine being able to essentially "grow", "cook" or prepare foods without the negative industrial impact - everything from fertilisers to saute pans and even packaging,' he said. 'The production chain requirements for food would nearly be eliminated.'
Mr Cantu believes this will have the added benefit of improving food production methods. 'You can imagine a 3D printer making homemade apple pie without the need for farming the apples, fertilising, transporting, refrigerating, packaging, fabricating, cooking, serving and the need for all of the materials in these processes like cars, trucks, pans, coolers, etc,' he said.
Long term, the team believes that people will take to the technology by creating their own 3D printable food recipe social networks with everyone improving on each other's creations. '3D printing will do for food what e-mail and instant messaging did for communication,' said Mr Cantu.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1341481/Your-foods-printer--machine-lets-create-eat-meal-freshly-squeezed-syringes.html
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NomadSoul
What's the "fourth" dimension?
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soontobe
It's a buzzword.
We already do self assembling structures. It's called chemistry.