The open source world of MakerBot & Thingiverse: objects for free
Now that the open source concept has migrated from software to hardware, it's the right time for a hackable robot that can make "nearly anything", even copies of itself. The MakerBot Cupcake CNC is a computer numerical controlled machine that "prints" things in plastic. It's creators are self-described open source nerds who have kept all their work open- design files, board files, schematics for the electronics- so that their work can be improved upon. Original story here: http://faircompanies.com/videos/view/makerbot-open-source-self-replicating-stuff-making-robot/
[AWESOME VIDEO] Makerbot test printing a mustache
The printable mustaches posted by gianteye on Thingiverse (http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1503) caught my attention and I couldn't help printing them. I think it was not the most clever idea to print the grid under the mustache but this was my third print using the Makerbot.
Shapeways White, Strong & Flexible 3D Printing
This video shows the 3D Printing process of 'White, Strong & Flexible' - the strongest thermoplastic material that we have at the moment. The material is a polyamide 12, powder. The machine used is an EOS Formiga P100 SLS machine. SLS stands for Selective Laser Sintering and this is the 3D printing process used by the Formiga.
3D printing in 4 simple steps: Shapeways
Have you ever wanted to turn your 3D designs into reality? Enter Shapeways! Just upload your design, we print it and ship it to you - it's easy. Within ten working days you'll hold your own design in your hands. Website: www.shapeways.com
MakerBot Thing-O-Matic printing heart shaped cookie cutter
My brand new MakerBot Thing-O-Matic number #86 printing my Heart Shaped Cookie Cutter http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1271).
iPad wrap- block & pixel (Shapeways product)
A wrap for your iPad that puts a pattern on the backside and adds basic protection to the corners and surfaces of your iPad. Manufactured on demand with 3D printing.
The iPad Wrap: Block is available for purchase here-
http://www.shapeways.com/model/142657/canvas_wrap___block.html
The iPad Wrap: Pixel is available for purchase here-
http://www.shapeways.com/model/187899/canvas_wrap__pixel__plain.html
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The iPad Wrap: Block is available for purchase here-
http://www.shapeways.com/model/142657/canvas_wrap___block.html
The iPad Wrap: Pixel is available for purchase here-
http://www.shapeways.com/model/187899/canvas_wrap__pixel__plain.html
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SRX Industries Wave 1 Prototypes
Wave 1 Products go on sale tomorrow! (January 14th, 2011)
Minimum spending linit is $25. I can't change it. Shapeways ships world wide. Products come directly from Shapeways.
http://www.shapeways.com/shops/battlefieldbricks_jon
Awesome Shapeways 3d Printed Robot Toys
Three great possible custom targetmasters that are affordible and profits go to a fellow collector and new designs.
PICK THESE UP.
Ramriders Never grow up shape ways store.
http://www.shapeways.com/shops/nevergrowingup
Thing-O-Matic! MakerBot Industries at CES 2011
The Thing-O-Matic, an open-source 3D printer from MakerBot Industries really deserved to be shown...it won Forbes "Best of CES" and it's a lot of fun to watch things be made, check it out!
It's definitely safe to say that while guest blogging for Logitech at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, I got to see a lot of neat technology. =D
BotMill Glider. USB, Huge Build Chamber. Assembled. RepRap Based. $1395
Details
BotMill's fully assembled, plug-and-play Desktop 3D printer. Ready for 3D printing:
Take out of the box, plug in the power cord and USB and load a file to print.
Many free extras included.
Shipping: This top quality item is produced individually for each incoming order. Shipping is usually within 7-10 days. We do our best to minimize any delay.
Colors: We do our best to accommodate your request for a specific plastic color, however, we reserve the right to ship in a different color if at the time of shipment the requested color is not in stock.
This printer is based on the RepRap Mendel which can be found here: http://reprap.org/wiki/Mendel
Additional Information
Size 20" (W) x 16" (D) x 14" (H)
Weight 15.5 pounds
Build Envelope 8" (W) x 8" (D) x 5.5" (H)
Materials PLA, ABS
Speed 0.92 inch per hour solid
Accuracy Diameter of nozzle 0.020", 0.080" min. feature size, 0.004" positioning accuracy, layer thickness 0.012"
Platic Pieces Sturdy and precise. Will not break or warp. No drilling or sanding required
Hardware All nuts, bolts, washers
Bearings 2 (8mm x 22mm x 7mm) + 50 (4mm x 13mm x 5mm)
Threaded Rods M8 zinc steel - 2 x 440, 6 x 370, 4 x 294, 2 x 355, 2 x 418, 2 x 330
Precision Ground Bars 8mm Stainless Steel alloy 303, - 2 x 406, 2 x 330, 2 x 495
Thin Sheets Made from 6mm cast acrylic
Belts X, Y and Z axis
Thick Sheets Table and Y spyder are made of T6 6061 Aluminum
Electronics Plug-N-Play Generation 6 electronics with all optos and cables to length
Power Supply 12v/24v Universal Power Supply
Stepper Motors 4 x NEMA 17
Extruder Geared NEMA 17 extruder: Including all plastic parts, hardware (nuts, bolts, washers...), bearings, M4 insert, thermistor, PEEK, PTFE thermal barrier, brass nozzle
Extras Roll of Kapton tape, some ceramic tape, 100k resistor, a couple feet of Nichrome wire, Heated Bed Platform (for those large ABS prints) as well as many other extras
Filament FREE 1LB coil of plastic
Project BotMill Glider 3.0 is based on the RepRap project
Botmill Glider
Print your food in 3D
In another section of our popular "Sweet heaven! It is a _____ printer! "cavalcade, we have reached a machine that prints food out in 3D. Madprinteren using syringes with different fillings, such as cookie dough, which was used in an early prototype of the printer to test whether it could ever print. The picture is made to "designer domes" of a core with sellerimos and kalkunmos around. But of course, only imagination sets limits.
Madprinteren is far from complete design. The research team at Cornell University who is behind the project hope that madprinteren will one day become as normal in the kitchen as a microwave or blender. Using madprinteren you can make exactly the type of cookie you like - for example, varying degrees of crispness or softness - by changing a slider or similar. And the printer is able to replicate biscuit as many times you press the "print"and in such a degree that only machines can.
In the future you will then be able to download recipes directly to topkokkes madprinteren or follow doctor's low-fat diet from point to strictly.
So far works madprinter for obvious reasons, only foods that can be sprayed out without losing form - (small) cake batter, cheese, nougat, mashed potatoes, etc. - but the research team is starting to mix more liquid products with hydrocolloids, which makes them to congeal as a gel.
It seems that tomorrow's food consists of different kinds of moss meticulously sprayed patterns. And that people in the future will not need their teeth.
Madprinteren is far from complete design. The research team at Cornell University who is behind the project hope that madprinteren will one day become as normal in the kitchen as a microwave or blender. Using madprinteren you can make exactly the type of cookie you like - for example, varying degrees of crispness or softness - by changing a slider or similar. And the printer is able to replicate biscuit as many times you press the "print"and in such a degree that only machines can.
In the future you will then be able to download recipes directly to topkokkes madprinteren or follow doctor's low-fat diet from point to strictly.
So far works madprinter for obvious reasons, only foods that can be sprayed out without losing form - (small) cake batter, cheese, nougat, mashed potatoes, etc. - but the research team is starting to mix more liquid products with hydrocolloids, which makes them to congeal as a gel.
It seems that tomorrow's food consists of different kinds of moss meticulously sprayed patterns. And that people in the future will not need their teeth.
3D printer can copy itself
A small army of volunteers on the Internet working on a machine that can print out new versions of itself.
It has been called the invention that will make global capitalism redundant start the second industrial revolution and save the environment.
A small project that began at Bath University in England, has developed into a small army of volunteers on the Internet, working on an open project that no one owns or controls.
The work is organized remains from the university, where an engineer and mathematician Adrian Bowyer and his development team has great vision.
The machine can reproduce itself
"In principle, the machine can do almost any thing that people want," says Adrian Bowyer to The Guardian.
Invention, they are working on, called RepRap (self-replicating rapid prototyping).
It is a 3D printer that is able to make a copy of itself. Almost.
Some parts of the machine, such as glue and electrical components must be purchased because they are still too complicated for the primitive 3D printer.
The ultimate do-it-yourself technology
"It sounds like a scene from Star Trek, but it is reality, and it develops very quickly," writes Jamais Cascio from Fast Company.
He believes that RepRap is the ultimate 'do-it-yourself' technology, and the machine will change our production system basics.
Not a new invention
3D printers are not a new invention. They have been around for about 20 years but is found primarily in plants because they are very expensive and complicated machines.
The cheapest commercial 3-D printer costs about 150,000 dollars and can not replicate itself.
The revolutionary aspect of the RepRap is that the project, which counts several thousand volunteers on the net, looking to make the 3D printer to trivialized through open and free exchange of ideas.
A RepRap costs about 3,000 dollars in materials. This makes it accessible to local communities in both developing countries and the industrialized world, writes Adrian Bowyer, who started the project in 2005.
Layers of plastic
It is still a relatively primitive RepRap 3D printer. It prints 3D objects by a thread to remelt the plastic, which then added layer upon layer.
As a plain paper printer, RepRap is coupled to a computer. To print a 3D object requires therefore that we have a 3D model of it on his computer.
On the project site is a lot of different parts, as owners of RepRap'ere have printed out. The program includes sandals, imprinteres, doorknobs and martini glass.
New models coming
Currently RepRap limited to objects of a single material.
But volunteers and paid developers working to create the next generation who will also be able to embed electrical components.
Professional 3D printers capable of printing very complicated objects with moving parts.
The potential overwhelming
But it does not change the potential of a popular 3D printer available is overwhelming.
If all goes as the people behind RepRap hope so parents will in future be able to cope with Christmas shopping at home.
Why stand in line at City 2 to buy the new Lego pirate ship when you can find the cartoons online and print it out at home?
The future of sharing
Instead of large companies that manufacture large quantities of consumer goods and distributes them so consumers can even share the design on the Internet and print them out at home.
The implications for intellectual copyright tiger entirety is also large. Even says Adrian Bowyer, it quickly dawned on him that it is not possible to control a machine that can replicate itself and everything else.
One of the founders of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, called RepRap for 'Future of sharing'. Simply.
It has been called the invention that will make global capitalism redundant start the second industrial revolution and save the environment.
A small project that began at Bath University in England, has developed into a small army of volunteers on the Internet, working on an open project that no one owns or controls.
The work is organized remains from the university, where an engineer and mathematician Adrian Bowyer and his development team has great vision.
The machine can reproduce itself
"In principle, the machine can do almost any thing that people want," says Adrian Bowyer to The Guardian.
Invention, they are working on, called RepRap (self-replicating rapid prototyping).
It is a 3D printer that is able to make a copy of itself. Almost.
Some parts of the machine, such as glue and electrical components must be purchased because they are still too complicated for the primitive 3D printer.
The ultimate do-it-yourself technology
"It sounds like a scene from Star Trek, but it is reality, and it develops very quickly," writes Jamais Cascio from Fast Company.
He believes that RepRap is the ultimate 'do-it-yourself' technology, and the machine will change our production system basics.
Not a new invention
3D printers are not a new invention. They have been around for about 20 years but is found primarily in plants because they are very expensive and complicated machines.
The cheapest commercial 3-D printer costs about 150,000 dollars and can not replicate itself.
The revolutionary aspect of the RepRap is that the project, which counts several thousand volunteers on the net, looking to make the 3D printer to trivialized through open and free exchange of ideas.
A RepRap costs about 3,000 dollars in materials. This makes it accessible to local communities in both developing countries and the industrialized world, writes Adrian Bowyer, who started the project in 2005.
Layers of plastic
It is still a relatively primitive RepRap 3D printer. It prints 3D objects by a thread to remelt the plastic, which then added layer upon layer.
As a plain paper printer, RepRap is coupled to a computer. To print a 3D object requires therefore that we have a 3D model of it on his computer.
On the project site is a lot of different parts, as owners of RepRap'ere have printed out. The program includes sandals, imprinteres, doorknobs and martini glass.
New models coming
Currently RepRap limited to objects of a single material.
But volunteers and paid developers working to create the next generation who will also be able to embed electrical components.
Professional 3D printers capable of printing very complicated objects with moving parts.
The potential overwhelming
But it does not change the potential of a popular 3D printer available is overwhelming.
If all goes as the people behind RepRap hope so parents will in future be able to cope with Christmas shopping at home.
Why stand in line at City 2 to buy the new Lego pirate ship when you can find the cartoons online and print it out at home?
The future of sharing
Instead of large companies that manufacture large quantities of consumer goods and distributes them so consumers can even share the design on the Internet and print them out at home.
The implications for intellectual copyright tiger entirety is also large. Even says Adrian Bowyer, it quickly dawned on him that it is not possible to control a machine that can replicate itself and everything else.
One of the founders of The Pirate Bay, Peter Sunde, called RepRap for 'Future of sharing'. Simply.
3D Printed Car
The parts for this car has been printed out on a 3D-printed, put together and can actually run. Meet Urbee.
Urbee is obviously not like the others. For its part has not been made in a factory, but has instead been printed from a "3D printer.
A 3D printer is not like your printer at home in the closet that just barely can transform a blank sheet of paper into a concrete document, but it's made to be able to print everything out across forms. We tried a printer to last year's Future Next exhibition in Aarhus, where we had printed our faces out of plaster. See how it happened here.
Urbee is equipped with all parts, printer spat out. Even the windshield has been printed by the company Stratasys and put together by the engineering company Corinthians Ecologic. It runs on a mixture of gasoline and ethanol, which would range to 84 kilometers to the liter.
And best of all is that it actually works and can run around. It will be exhibited in Las Vegas later this week.
If I had the opportunity, what would you print? Apparently, anything is possible with such a 3D printer so guy finally loose!
(OSD) aka Linux Forum 3D Printers
Then there is again little to wonder: At Open Source Days (OSD) aka Linux Forum was one of the most popular stands the inventive self-builders.
Labitat provides a place where young people make good things outward cheap parts. Here is a machine that can create objects from digital engineering drawings. It can make parts for a machine mate himself. These are the plastic parts that hold standard rods and electric motors (stepper motors) together.
The machine melts corn plastic and lead wire in knitting patterns as an object of desired shape
Labitat call it a 3D printer, because it makes computer data about the right things in three dimensions, not just on flat paper is two dimensional.
They live on HCØrstedsvej, and interested parties can get on courses or just participate.
Conference held at the IT University over two days, the first with commercial participants and the other with all of us. The amazing people who organize the conference, have contacted speakers from throughout the English-speaking computer world, and there were lots of lectures. You can see materials and videos (soon) on http://opensourcedays.dk/
Labitat provides a place where young people make good things outward cheap parts. Here is a machine that can create objects from digital engineering drawings. It can make parts for a machine mate himself. These are the plastic parts that hold standard rods and electric motors (stepper motors) together.
The machine melts corn plastic and lead wire in knitting patterns as an object of desired shape
Labitat call it a 3D printer, because it makes computer data about the right things in three dimensions, not just on flat paper is two dimensional.
They live on HCØrstedsvej, and interested parties can get on courses or just participate.
Conference held at the IT University over two days, the first with commercial participants and the other with all of us. The amazing people who organize the conference, have contacted speakers from throughout the English-speaking computer world, and there were lots of lectures. You can see materials and videos (soon) on http://opensourcedays.dk/
3D printers for the food moves into the kitchen
If kitchen tjansen seems a little long, so take heart, for soon there is help available 3D printers that can construct your favorite dishes.
If the cupboard is stocked with ice makers, coffee grinders, baking machines, fully automatic mincers and mandolin iron which nobody uses anyway, here's the ultimate kitchen equipment for the engineer who has everything: 3D madprinteren.
The idea has been underway for some years. The simple versions are chocolate printers that works on exactly the same principles as the famous 3D printers.
Instead of plastic or metal powder is heated up just before it is placed in layers, so we are talking about liquid chocolate is cooled down at the moment it hits the previous layer.
Another fun example of a homemade 3D printer to food, is Candyfab where the weirdest candy shapes can be created. Here's users in the development process, as the whole project runs as open source.
But the real madprintere who can create just the meal we sit and dream about - or would never dream of - is still slightly ahead. Here it is necessary to dream about new ways of preparing food. Without being able to explain the details of the actual cooking process so there is no doubt that the concept of molecular gastronomy gets a whole new meaning.
A good attempt to imagine such a comes from the Swedish giant Electrolux kitchen. Here, the annual design competition thrown a 3D printer off.
The idea is a bit like the eternal coffee brews that are up under the Christmas tree every year when there shall be found on gifts for Dad: You take an ampoule with the desired court (in the pictures from Electrolux is similar to most desserts) and stops the cartridge in the printer and out comes the product - or dessert, if you can call it that.
Chocolate Printer, built of Lego bricks
Another step up the fantasy scale find Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy, drawing from MIT. The project has just started and if the result is just roughly holds in relation to the intentions and the stunning design images, so it probably will be able to lift an eyebrow or two.
Here refrigerated ingredients refilled ink cartridge similar container. Depending on the desired right, the contents of carefully measured quantities, mixed in a mixer.
The mixed ingredients are then sent into a chamber where it can be heated or cooled as needed. What you can do at such a madprinter, reports the story nothing about, but it is hardly a lasagna or roast beef.
The advantage of the MIT project would be to carefully measure out with the use of ingredients have full control over the nutritional value of the finished product.
For the really creative, here finally a chocolate printer with a Danish twist. It is in fact made of Lego.
Incidentally, there is little to suggest that we are even going to change our way of cooking. 40 years ago was the microwave proclaimed a revolution in the kitchen region, but many use it only for popcorn - bon appétit.
If the cupboard is stocked with ice makers, coffee grinders, baking machines, fully automatic mincers and mandolin iron which nobody uses anyway, here's the ultimate kitchen equipment for the engineer who has everything: 3D madprinteren.
The idea has been underway for some years. The simple versions are chocolate printers that works on exactly the same principles as the famous 3D printers.
Instead of plastic or metal powder is heated up just before it is placed in layers, so we are talking about liquid chocolate is cooled down at the moment it hits the previous layer.
Another fun example of a homemade 3D printer to food, is Candyfab where the weirdest candy shapes can be created. Here's users in the development process, as the whole project runs as open source.
But the real madprintere who can create just the meal we sit and dream about - or would never dream of - is still slightly ahead. Here it is necessary to dream about new ways of preparing food. Without being able to explain the details of the actual cooking process so there is no doubt that the concept of molecular gastronomy gets a whole new meaning.
A good attempt to imagine such a comes from the Swedish giant Electrolux kitchen. Here, the annual design competition thrown a 3D printer off.
The idea is a bit like the eternal coffee brews that are up under the Christmas tree every year when there shall be found on gifts for Dad: You take an ampoule with the desired court (in the pictures from Electrolux is similar to most desserts) and stops the cartridge in the printer and out comes the product - or dessert, if you can call it that.
Chocolate Printer, built of Lego bricks
Another step up the fantasy scale find Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy, drawing from MIT. The project has just started and if the result is just roughly holds in relation to the intentions and the stunning design images, so it probably will be able to lift an eyebrow or two.
Here refrigerated ingredients refilled ink cartridge similar container. Depending on the desired right, the contents of carefully measured quantities, mixed in a mixer.
The mixed ingredients are then sent into a chamber where it can be heated or cooled as needed. What you can do at such a madprinter, reports the story nothing about, but it is hardly a lasagna or roast beef.
The advantage of the MIT project would be to carefully measure out with the use of ingredients have full control over the nutritional value of the finished product.
For the really creative, here finally a chocolate printer with a Danish twist. It is in fact made of Lego.
Incidentally, there is little to suggest that we are even going to change our way of cooking. 40 years ago was the microwave proclaimed a revolution in the kitchen region, but many use it only for popcorn - bon appétit.
Are you in the market after a new printer?
Are you in the market after a new printer? Why not take the leap into the third dimension and make you a real 3D printer.
There is still a long way to 3D printers will be to buy the layman, but with objets latest copy Alaris 30, we are a little close-up. The printer uses something called polyjet Photo Poll Ymer jetting to make small objects with a oplsønging 600 x 600 dpi. You print out directly from your 3D program, and because the printer is so uncannily accurate, it can also create moving parts. Quite impressive.
I would recommend you look at the video HERE, which is a short demonstration of the printer, and afterwards in the check out the Official website.
There is still a long way to 3D printers will be to buy the layman, but with objets latest copy Alaris 30, we are a little close-up. The printer uses something called polyjet Photo Poll Ymer jetting to make small objects with a oplsønging 600 x 600 dpi. You print out directly from your 3D program, and because the printer is so uncannily accurate, it can also create moving parts. Quite impressive.
I would recommend you look at the video HERE, which is a short demonstration of the printer, and afterwards in the check out the Official website.
Print a house with new 3D printer
3D printers can print models and other small 3D objects, but a finished house? A British company has now made it possible.
The British firm D-Shape has allegedly built the world's largest 3D printer that can print objects the size of a house. 3D printers are already in limited use in industry to produce models of such. cars or buildings, and they are also used in the art world.
3D printers based on inkjet technology builds the finished object up layer by layer, where each layer has approximately the same thickness as a piece of paper. The printers use a special powder which is very expensive, but work on finding cheaper materials.
D-Shape has been dealing with another problem - namely how to get the printer to print larger objects.
The big machine consists of an aluminum frame of six times six meters (can be extended almost indefinitely) that resembles an ordinary building scaffolds. And it's not completely wrong. Printer head moves back and forth on a bridge, mounted on the tripod and running up and down, back and forth in the racks.
Head inside the team 300 servo nozzles that spray a combination of sand and a special bonding material out with a speed of 0-500 mm / sec.
First, the architect designing his object in an ordinary 3D CAD program on your computer, then file is converted to STL format (stereolithography) and imported into the program that controls D-Shape printer head. The process starts from scratch and build the object up layer by layer.
D-Shape says that it takes 24 hours before the material is firm and dry. The machine itself takes a few hours to assemble and disassemble. The entire facility weighs five tonnes and uses 40 kW during normal operation.
The British producer imagines that the machine can be used to print everything from benches, sofas and bridges for gravestones.
A presentation of the unusual 3D printer can be obtained from D-Shape. Apparently not what giant printer to cost.
The British firm D-Shape has allegedly built the world's largest 3D printer that can print objects the size of a house. 3D printers are already in limited use in industry to produce models of such. cars or buildings, and they are also used in the art world.
3D printers based on inkjet technology builds the finished object up layer by layer, where each layer has approximately the same thickness as a piece of paper. The printers use a special powder which is very expensive, but work on finding cheaper materials.
D-Shape has been dealing with another problem - namely how to get the printer to print larger objects.
The big machine consists of an aluminum frame of six times six meters (can be extended almost indefinitely) that resembles an ordinary building scaffolds. And it's not completely wrong. Printer head moves back and forth on a bridge, mounted on the tripod and running up and down, back and forth in the racks.
Head inside the team 300 servo nozzles that spray a combination of sand and a special bonding material out with a speed of 0-500 mm / sec.
First, the architect designing his object in an ordinary 3D CAD program on your computer, then file is converted to STL format (stereolithography) and imported into the program that controls D-Shape printer head. The process starts from scratch and build the object up layer by layer.
D-Shape says that it takes 24 hours before the material is firm and dry. The machine itself takes a few hours to assemble and disassemble. The entire facility weighs five tonnes and uses 40 kW during normal operation.
The British producer imagines that the machine can be used to print everything from benches, sofas and bridges for gravestones.
A presentation of the unusual 3D printer can be obtained from D-Shape. Apparently not what giant printer to cost.
3D printer to build a heart
Scientists are working on a 3D printer that can build entire organs, which can be plugged directly into the body. It will give us something close to eternal life, says one of the developers of the Danish agency printer.
In the future, a 3D printer will be able to print a full, viable heart out, tailor-made to knock the blood around a heart patient's body. (Photo: Stanwhit607)
Future alcoholics could replace their worn-out living with a new one, created by their own stem cells.
Heavy smokers may have built a brand new, clean lung.
And anyone with heart defects get replacement parts or all of their heart with a new fabricated from scratch in a laboratory.
It sounds far fetched, but the method of producing agencies is even more incredible: They are printed with a "3D printer.
"To print the heart is the ultimate goal. When you can print out the heart, I would think that in theory could live forever, "says inventor Jeremie Pierre Gay.
The 28-year-old Frenchman has settled in Aalborg, where he is currently building a 3D printer that is reminiscent of an inkjet printer, with the difference however is that the 3D printer can print up in height and with many different materials.
Together with stem cell researchers from Aalborg University, he hopes in future to be able to print with living cells, which layers can be put together and replace vital body parts, which are already working hard to achieve in the U.S. (see video at bottom of article).
"Of course it is possible. It's going to happen sooner or later. I do not know when but it will definitely happen, "says Associate Professor Vladimir Zachar from the Laboratory for Stem Cell Research at Aalborg University.
'We want to see it in our lifetime'
DID YOU KNOW
565 Danes are waiting right now on a new body, but since only 12 percent of the population are enrolled donor register, there are many who do not undergo the vital organ in time.
This year alone 2008 died 56 Danes on the waiting list because they did not get an organ, and the figure has been rising in recent years.
"I think there will come a new biotechnology company that fits your stem cells. The day you'll need a new heart, they will create a customized heart to you. They look at the mistakes your heart is, repair it in their software and printer a new look. Then go to the hospital with your new, tailor-made heart and undergoing surgery, "says Jeremie Pierre Gay.
He guesses that it will take 20-25 years before you can print out tissue that can be inserted into the body and replace defective parts of bodies.
"Being able to print an entire body will take longer. I'd say 40-50 years, so it's not so distant future. I think we will see it in our lifetime. Life expectancy age will be much longer, "he predicts.
Bodies of printed layers
Inspiration comes from Professor Gabor FORGÁCS, who heads a team of researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. Over there they have already started with the first experiments with 3D printers that can print with stem and literally build organs from scratch.
Americans' body print works on the same principle as an ordinary inkjet printer. First, the printer is a thin bed of so-called biopapir consisting of a special gel that cells can live in. Then bioblækken, which consists of living cells, drop by drop embedded in the thin layer of jelly. The cells are placed carefully in a pattern that scientists have instructed the machine to print later.
Once all the drops, each containing about 30,000 cells that are in place side by side in biopapiret, nature takes over. Cell droplets flow together, and the cells organize themselves to form tissues and blood vessels.
Once the first layer are grown together, added a new layer biopapir upstairs, and new droplets of cells printed into the gel. The process is repeated floor on floor as if you built a skyscraper until the tissue forms a three-dimensional structure. Finally dissolved biopapiret, the layers merge and back is the finished body.
They have printed veins and nerves
Gabor FORGÁCS and his research team believes that the method can be used to print any body and as the tissue formed by the patient's own stem cells, the body will in all likelihood, not repel it. But that day is many years away, but Americans have already shown that their 3D printer mastered the ability to build tissue.
To print a piece of a vein: First down biopaper and then printed cell drops down into a ring. The process is repeated layer by layer, and eventually grow the cells together to form the finished vein. (Photo: University of Missouri) "We have printed full biological nervous and blood vessel transplants. We are close to implant pieces of arteries in animals, and we've already done it with our nervetransplantater, "says Gabor FORGÁCS to videnskab.dk.
The U.S. researchers have founded the company Organize Novo, who in two years will do the same tests on humans, but it will take somewhat longer before the company can sell blood vessels and nerves.
"Because of the need to cultivate large quantities of cells and mature they printed designs, so they achieve the necessary biomechanical skills, it will take some time before these transplants can be mass produced for use in humans," says Gabor FORGÁCS.
Aalborg presses will build body printer
At Aalborg University puttering Jeremie Pierre Gay and stem cell researcher Vladimir Zachar with the idea of creating a similar 3D printer that can create human tissue. The method will be simpler than the U.S.. First they will print a support structure and then print the cells inside.
The goal is to print simple body parts such as cartilage, bone, muscle and adipose tissue. So far, however, the project failed because it needs money to hire a PhD student to work with it.
But whether the printer body is developed in the U.S. or Aalborg, Vladimir Zachar sure that 3D printers will be used to build body parts out of cells in the future.
"It is very likely. We have the technology to do it. We do not know yet, but it is very possible. Especially when it comes to simpler tissues, "he says.
In the future, a 3D printer will be able to print a full, viable heart out, tailor-made to knock the blood around a heart patient's body. (Photo: Stanwhit607)
Future alcoholics could replace their worn-out living with a new one, created by their own stem cells.
Heavy smokers may have built a brand new, clean lung.
And anyone with heart defects get replacement parts or all of their heart with a new fabricated from scratch in a laboratory.
It sounds far fetched, but the method of producing agencies is even more incredible: They are printed with a "3D printer.
"To print the heart is the ultimate goal. When you can print out the heart, I would think that in theory could live forever, "says inventor Jeremie Pierre Gay.
The 28-year-old Frenchman has settled in Aalborg, where he is currently building a 3D printer that is reminiscent of an inkjet printer, with the difference however is that the 3D printer can print up in height and with many different materials.
Together with stem cell researchers from Aalborg University, he hopes in future to be able to print with living cells, which layers can be put together and replace vital body parts, which are already working hard to achieve in the U.S. (see video at bottom of article).
"Of course it is possible. It's going to happen sooner or later. I do not know when but it will definitely happen, "says Associate Professor Vladimir Zachar from the Laboratory for Stem Cell Research at Aalborg University.
'We want to see it in our lifetime'
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565 Danes are waiting right now on a new body, but since only 12 percent of the population are enrolled donor register, there are many who do not undergo the vital organ in time.
This year alone 2008 died 56 Danes on the waiting list because they did not get an organ, and the figure has been rising in recent years.
"I think there will come a new biotechnology company that fits your stem cells. The day you'll need a new heart, they will create a customized heart to you. They look at the mistakes your heart is, repair it in their software and printer a new look. Then go to the hospital with your new, tailor-made heart and undergoing surgery, "says Jeremie Pierre Gay.
He guesses that it will take 20-25 years before you can print out tissue that can be inserted into the body and replace defective parts of bodies.
"Being able to print an entire body will take longer. I'd say 40-50 years, so it's not so distant future. I think we will see it in our lifetime. Life expectancy age will be much longer, "he predicts.
Bodies of printed layers
Inspiration comes from Professor Gabor FORGÁCS, who heads a team of researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA. Over there they have already started with the first experiments with 3D printers that can print with stem and literally build organs from scratch.
Americans' body print works on the same principle as an ordinary inkjet printer. First, the printer is a thin bed of so-called biopapir consisting of a special gel that cells can live in. Then bioblækken, which consists of living cells, drop by drop embedded in the thin layer of jelly. The cells are placed carefully in a pattern that scientists have instructed the machine to print later.
Once all the drops, each containing about 30,000 cells that are in place side by side in biopapiret, nature takes over. Cell droplets flow together, and the cells organize themselves to form tissues and blood vessels.
Once the first layer are grown together, added a new layer biopapir upstairs, and new droplets of cells printed into the gel. The process is repeated floor on floor as if you built a skyscraper until the tissue forms a three-dimensional structure. Finally dissolved biopapiret, the layers merge and back is the finished body.
They have printed veins and nerves
Gabor FORGÁCS and his research team believes that the method can be used to print any body and as the tissue formed by the patient's own stem cells, the body will in all likelihood, not repel it. But that day is many years away, but Americans have already shown that their 3D printer mastered the ability to build tissue.
To print a piece of a vein: First down biopaper and then printed cell drops down into a ring. The process is repeated layer by layer, and eventually grow the cells together to form the finished vein. (Photo: University of Missouri) "We have printed full biological nervous and blood vessel transplants. We are close to implant pieces of arteries in animals, and we've already done it with our nervetransplantater, "says Gabor FORGÁCS to videnskab.dk.
The U.S. researchers have founded the company Organize Novo, who in two years will do the same tests on humans, but it will take somewhat longer before the company can sell blood vessels and nerves.
"Because of the need to cultivate large quantities of cells and mature they printed designs, so they achieve the necessary biomechanical skills, it will take some time before these transplants can be mass produced for use in humans," says Gabor FORGÁCS.
Aalborg presses will build body printer
At Aalborg University puttering Jeremie Pierre Gay and stem cell researcher Vladimir Zachar with the idea of creating a similar 3D printer that can create human tissue. The method will be simpler than the U.S.. First they will print a support structure and then print the cells inside.
The goal is to print simple body parts such as cartilage, bone, muscle and adipose tissue. So far, however, the project failed because it needs money to hire a PhD student to work with it.
But whether the printer body is developed in the U.S. or Aalborg, Vladimir Zachar sure that 3D printers will be used to build body parts out of cells in the future.
"It is very likely. We have the technology to do it. We do not know yet, but it is very possible. Especially when it comes to simpler tissues, "he says.
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