3D printing with locally dug clay, builder’s silicon, wax, sugar frosting, sugar sticks, sugar fondant and wood paste

Jonathan Keep held a workshop at Burg-Halle University in Halle near Leipzig, Germany. He demonstrated 3D printing with locally dug clay, builder’s silicon, wax, sugar frosting, sugar sticks, sugar fondant and wood paste.

Keep is well known for his work with Delta printers and special extruders on clay and other materials such as chocolate.

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2014/02/how-to-print-with-chocolate-on-your-diy.html


More at: http://www.keep-art.co.uk/journal_14.html

3d printing with wood paste

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From DIY 3d printing history 1 - Silicone 3d printer from 2003 with rotating cylindrical surface

3D printer that deposits silicone layers based on Illustrator drawings to produce printed shapes. It has cylindrical rotating surface as build platform which allows it to print shapes impossible to print on flat surface. It is hard to find further technical information on this machine, so if anybody knows more, let me know.

School project et ENSCI Les Ateliers, Paris in 2003.
Uros Petrevski, in François Azambourg's atelier Formes et matières

Source:  http://vimeo.com/67167271, http://www.nodesignlab.net/

Close up of 3d object printed in silicone

There is more to come in this post series, I'll update it as I find interesting materials from history of 3d printing development ...

Update:

Here is part 2:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2013/10/from-diy-3d-printing-history-2-humble.html

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HyRel 3d printer printing with Sugru, Play-Doh, Plasticine and Air-Dray Modelling Clay

HyRel is 3d printer in pre-sales pre-order phase. Their youtube chanell shows printer printing with various materials. Sugru is most interesting one.

This is the simplest E1 version, E5 comes with four printheads.


http://www.hyrel3d.com/

http://sugru.com/blog/3d-printing-sugru-for-the-first-time

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Soft silicone robot

It looks ... kinky ... or creepy ... air powered robotic tentacle made with 3d printed model and molding ... work by Matthew Borgatti






http://har.ms/category/blog/soft-robots/

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