This simple sequence of drawer pulls from UltiArjan make excellent accessories or replacement knobs for cabinetry for a workshop parts storage solution. (Or a child’s bedroom!)
Shared On YouMagine — set of 8 handles by Arjan:
“Hole spacing is 128mm, like on some Ikea models. Use M4 x 30 bolts & nuts to mount. The nuts are a tight fit. I used a 0.6 nozzle and 0.2 layers. Ultimaker Orange PLA”
(Photograph by Ossip)
DUS Architects in Amsterdam has created a tiny gabled urban cabin that is a mere 25 cubic metres (882.87 cubic feet) using FDM technology. They are allowing guests to spend the night to experience what life in a micro 3d printed home might be like. There is no toilet but you can take a bath outside au natural. Concrete set into the infill gives it strength and forms a seat on certain locations while pebbles in the infill outside form a path.
(Bathtub photo by Sophia van den Hoek)
A window punctures one end, while the other integrates both an entrance and a stepped porch seating area. Its walls are patterned with angular protrusions that create a three-dimensional surface, giving the building extra structural stability.
It really is further insight into the groups design sensibility that is part of major project that launched in 2013, to be complete next year, a four story 3D printed canal house. They use the KamerMaker (Dutch for “room maker”) and KamerMaker2, a “XXL 3D Printer” 3.5 meters high and housed in an up-ended shipping container to produce the large pieces. They use bio-plastics on all pieces and say it is a part of a future ecosystem that allows full recycling of the material.
This micro home isn’t the first time DUS has exposed their designs to the public, they also unveiled a beautifully printed facade for a European Union meeting building, as seen below.
Vladimir’s Digital Fabric
Digital Fabric
YouMagine Community Member Vladimir Kuznetsov uploaded a wonderful design. His design “Digital Fabric” uses a really wonderful technique. He uses the Cura Pause at Height plug in to pause the print and then inserts a mesh like fabric which he fixes to the print. Then he continues the print. This lets you use regular PLA and then make flexible parts! His great idea coupled with his triangle design really makes a lot more possible. Vladimir has tried out a mosquito screen as well as nylon. Were curious to see what other materials would give great results. Many people are experimenting with fabrics and 3D printing. Usually people end up getting a result similar to chain mail that is rather limited. A lot of other 3D printed fashion is stiff and unwearable. We think that by mixing cloth and printed material Vladimir made a wonderful alternative.
Here you can see the Digital Fabric being 3D printed.
Vladimir’s instructions, is to pause “when half of the part will be completed (1 mm for a part of total height of 2 mm) and to lower the buildplate for 50 mm or so. When printer will pause the printing stretch a piece of mesh-like fabric (I played with my wife’s stockings, but best results achieved with mosquito screen) and fix it with scotch tape. Unpause the printer.”
Importantly he adds, “You could make a lot with that technique, just make sure that the fabric thickness is less than the layer height.” We asked him some questions via the email and here’s how he explains his project:
Dialing in your 3D Printer to get the settings right can be a long an arduous process. 3D printers have a lot of variables including: the material, temperature, ambient temperature, humidity, airflow, settings affecting all directions, backlash on parts, the way parts are fitted, electronics, firmware, flow rate and many more. Learning how they interact with each other and how changes over time can affect your performance can take time. Happily we’re a lot of people learning together! Many have uploaded test files and protocols to YouMagine in order to ensure that others can quickly improve the quality and repeatability of their prints.
Test Pieces
I made a collection of the most relevant test pieces on YouMagine here. You can see other awesome collections here.
People make a wide range of things with 3D printing and share them on YouMagine. A category that is perhaps a bit unexpected is 3D printed musical instruments. Below are some fun things to be found on the site that you can print.
This 3D printed mouth harp is a modern take on a very ancient musical instrument. Also called a Gogona, Dan Moi or a Kouxian.
Jeff Hertzberg who is a violinist made this violin mute that can also be used for other stringed instruments. His mute design comes complete with an OpenSCAD file so you can adapt it easily for other instruments.
Stringed instrument mute.
Cymon has made a number of playable recorders, including a tree recorder.
Michael Bourque made a 3D Printed Güiro, which is a Mexican percussion instrument.
Ed made a base drum pedal stopper showing us that you can repair musical instruments as well using 3D printing. He also made holders for drumsticks.
I really love Caitlin‘s Trumpet adaptive device that lets kids with a missing hand play the trumpet.
Prosthetic hand to let one play the trumpet.
David Perry at OpenFabPDX made the F F F Fiddle an electric playable fiddle.
Shapespear made a really nice looking playable electric guitar.
Close up of the steampunk hand
We love working with e-NABLE to help them create functional prosthetic hands using 3D printing. We really encourage anyone who has a printer or CAD skill to help them out. One of the most beautiful and completely totally over the top amazing things to come out of e-NABLE is Jacky Wan’s Steampunk hand.
Steampunk 3D printed prosthetic hand.
Its an amazingly well designed and post processed hand and really shows what you can do with a desktop 3D printer and a lot of finely detailed work in painting and finishing it. You can download, add to, remix or print out this wonderful hand here. This is the same YouMagine community member who made the Ducati bike and light saber.
Close up of the detailing on the 3D print.
How many things do you 3D print per month?
We’ve conducted a survey among 500 of our Community Members in order to find out how YouMagine is doing and what tools we have to build in order to help 3D printing. Since we like to share and we want to build tools for the future of Distributed Innovation we made some fun graphics for you. We thought that this was a good idea since this is the largest survey that maps the 3D printing community. The first post about the survey results are here the second is here and you are currently reading the final one.
On average our community members 3D print 21 things per month. This is an indication that the 3D printer is becoming a part of people’s lives. Reliability of the printer is especially important if people want to make things often.
How often do you use your 3D printer?
34% of our community use their 3D printer every single day. For them the 3D printer is an appliance that they continually use. 11% use there 3D printer rarely. For them their 3D printer is not currently a significant part of their lives. 50% of the community uses their printer at least 4 times a week. These usage numbers are encouraging and mean that fore this group the 3D printer is not a toy but rather a tool that they use continually.
What slicing software do you use to 3D print?
If we look at what slicing software people use then we find that some slicers that were popular only a few years ago have virtually fallen completely out of use. 58% of people use Cura and 23% use Slic3r which means that these two open source slicers account for the vast majority of 3D prints. Its also good to know that Ultimaker’s Cura is so popular. Simplify3D is doing quite well having an implied market share of 10%.
What is your favorite thing to 3D Print?
If we look at what people like to make then the most popular single category is household items with people preferring to make practical things that solve real world problems such as hooks, housings, repairs and enhancements for daily life. We see a lot of very practical things on YouMagine from enhancements for Ikea furniture, solutions for organizing tools, kitchen paper holders, table cloth clips, hooks, organizers for batteries and cradles for electric toothbrushes. Enhancing your daily existence with 3D printers to organize your life may not be what gets the headlines but it is what a lot of people are actually using 3D printers for. The second most popular item is 3D printer enhancements. We see a lot of things on the site from practical spool holders, to a camera mount for the Robo3D, Ultimaker fan mounts, calibration tools for Kossel’s, bearings,, CoreXY brackets, a turntable for your printer, Printrbot extruders, to complete 3D printers such as MonkeySh#tFight, the iTopie and the Spatial One. Those most interested in 3D printing are very often interested in improving their own printers and sharing the results.
Which is the best filament supplier for 3D printing?
We asked our community what the best 3D printing materials supplier was. Over 33% of the sample has not found one indicating that while people have been trying out vendors they have not yet found a reliable supplier. 30% of people entered a name of a vendor which was unique. The 3D printing materials market is therefore very fragmented with many vendors in many countries selling filament. The most popular choice was ColorFabb followed by Faberdashery and then Amazon. This shows us that the online retailer is already making an impact on the 3D printing market through its 3D printing offerings.
Conclusion
In general we can conclude that 3D printers are, for some, becoming a daily addition to their lives chiefly through the making of fun gadgets and practical household items. People want more reliable, bigger and faster 3D printers and they want the process of designing things and printing them to be easier. People really like PLA as a build material but have not found a reliable vendor for it. Bed adhesion is still among the most pressing problems for 3D printer users. And at YouMagine we really need to improve our search ! We would like to thank those 500 community members who participated in this survey. We hope to use their information and feedback to further improve our site and guide us to building tools for the future.
With its new Kickstarter Eggbotsz hopes to fund the, ChocoRockoBotto its unique full color chocolate 3D printing technology. The technology developed at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute by Professor Willow Yank, hopes to revolutionize the culinary arts. Chocolate 3D printers have been around for a number of years now and are making inroads into high end restaurants and chocolatiers, revolutionizing both chocolate and cooking. Is the full color chocolate Eggbot the device that will bring 3D printing to your kitchen? Two early beta testers have already done head spinning work with the first chocolate 3D printers. Their work indicates that the 3D printing revolution is moving into the kitchen and may change everything.
Paul Chichikov of Chocolatier Villages Potemkin hopes to bring 3D printing to pallets worldwide
Brooklyn based artisan organic shade grown single origin chocolate maestro Paul Chichikov of Chocolatier Villages Potemkin for example 3D prints his hand swafted GMO free Easter Ostrich Eggs to the delight of customers from Greenpoint and beyond. Paul, who is a 3D printing evangelist says that in the long weekend that he’s been mastering 3D printing, “it has changed my life. ”
A customer holding one of Paul’s 3D printed Ostrich Eggs at Villages Potemkin
The 3D printed Easter Ostrich Eggs, filled to the brim with Acai berries, bee pollen, wakame & wheat grass cost $190 each and contain 4.8 kilos of the highest quality Kyrgyzstanian Highland chocolate. Paul uses an EggBotsz to 3D print his creations. This Professional Desktop 3D printer is specifically made to 3D print eggs of any type. Until now Chichikov has run into some limitations with 3D printing. “I’ve always said for many years that 3D printing is going to revolutionize the culinary world, but as an urban forager and an artist I felt that 3D printing was holding me back. I want 4D, I want color. I told the Eggbotsz team give me full color and I’ll conquer the world. I believe that the Eggbotsz can make a Croconut-like impact on gastronomy, be something truly revolutionary. ”
The Eggbotsz putting the finishing touches on one of Ms. Jil Ipoya’s award winning culinary delights.
Japanese chef Jil Ipoya uses an Eggbotsz in her 3 Michelin star Spanish Mexican fusion tapas restaurant Pinche Wey in Manhattan. Ms. Ipoya says she, “enjoys the wealth of egg textures and shapes…as well as the design freedom she has when designing her own eggs.” Ms. Ipoya, who is the only Chef to have worked in North America who has not yet been nominated for a James Beard Award, also stated that, “3D printing will play a mayor role in the culinary arts especially in the new wave of post-molecular gastronomy.” “With atomic gastronomy chef’s creations can become even more contrived & recondite with menus hopefully becoming more akin to deadal worded technical manuals that bring true culinary fission to the table.” Ms. Ipoya, who has experimented with 3D printing scrambled & even poached eggs, uses the technology for 6 courses on her 158 course, Signature Tasting Menu with each course served either intravenously or in a pipette.
One of her most popular dishes, Muff & Min, is entirely 3D printed. The deconstructed Egg McMuffin inspired dish uses an Earl Grey infused essence of Jidori Hen terrine on Bresse egg souffle set in zest of King Crab served on a foam of sous vide sourdough wrapped in dedain and artifice with a side of liquid nitrogen spheres and granular distillate of brine. The dish is served in a shot glass hanging from a small drone to mimic man’s hunter gatherer past. Diners pursue the drone through the restaurant and once they either tire or catch it, down the shot while standing on one leg holding a ping pong paddle as wait staff fire white roses at them from Nerf guns. The New York Times called the dish “a revelation….clearly Ms. Jil Ipoya is breaking new ground in fine dining. Ms. Ipoya is truly one of the hottest chefs in lower Manhattan and her cooking is not bad either.” To reconnect with nature diners are also encouraged to pick their own eggs, forage for food in the dumpsters of neighboring restaurants as well as use a compound bow to hunt for deer in Central Park. Ms. Ipoya was searching for a clearer way to distinguish herself from her peers thinks that 3D Printing her eggs, in color, may be the way to do it.
The Invention of Full Color Chocolate 3D Printing
Across the Redheffer quad at CMU there stands an old dilapidated building used for nuclear frisson testing in the 1950’s and long since abandoned. Professor Yank along with her students Wǒ Kào & Kono Yarou has worked here for 3 years in complete secrecy on full color chocolate 3D printing. The Lamarck House, is a desolate place, with upturned desks, dust covered scientific equipment and ytwokay bugs scurrying back and forth. Here the team had little contact with other CMU students and staff. They worked long hours perfecting their full color 3D printing technique, living on ramen and hope.
CMU’s Professor Willow Yank inventor of Full Color Chocolate 3D printing
For one and a half years the team struggled to get their U axis and V axis under control. U and V axis control being one of the most essential elements to high dimensional flavor-ability in 3D printing chocolate. If they couldn’t get the dimensional flavor-ability right the team could not obtain a high Choxels Per Inch. CPI is the key Key Performance Indicator for the chocolate 3D printing industry. According to a recent research report by Ranger, CPI rates in new chocolate 3D printers are accelerating with newer systems having CPIs in the range of 9 to 11. “It was always going to be about CPI for us, Choxels Per Inch is the challenge in our industry and if would be able to develop an ultra high CPI technology, we’d be able to put a chocolate 3D printer on every kitchen-table”, says Professor Yank. The Chocolate 3D Printing Industry is set to grow by 78% to $6.4 billion by Tuesday according to a recent report by research firm Yard.
Graph by boutique investment house Wing & Prayer illustrating the explosive growth in chocolate 3D printing
Industry giants such as Chock Fill A have a big lead over new entrants with an entire line of chocolate 3D printers for home and industrial use. Other start ups such as Colorado based Hanky, makers of the iconic red and white striped 3D Chocolate Printing pen, are also forging ahead. Professor Yank knew there was an opportunity out there to create a revolutionary new chocolate 3D printing technology that was completely new and revolutionary. Hanky & Chock Fill A still relied on old 3D printing technology from ancient 3D printers that have been used since they were developed during early nineties for the Meiji Restoration of Tokyu Hands, the largest department store in Japan. Not many know that Japanese inventor Professor Kuso Kurae originally invented 3D printing in order to make exquisite wall decorations for the iconic Tokio department store. From such comparatively humble beginnings this world changing technology has now blossomed. Yank knew, that invention was the path forward and only by creating a true chocolate 3D printing revolution and developing better technology they would succeed.
Other chocolate 3D printers use stepper motors to power their axes. These stepper motors spin counterclockwise in a brownian motion propelling solid magnets in a vacuum. Standard on almost all 3D printers the team had tried to adapt them for use in their full color chocolate 3D printing technology. Without the needed U and V axes control however their results were disappointing. Rather than 3D printing Yoda dolls or other useful 3D printed objects, everything melted immediately.
An Eggbotsz 3D printing an Egg in Full color, note the U axis with its distinctive yellow tip.
Without adequate U & V control the team would never achieve high dimensional flavor-ability and their ground breaking project was doomed. A further issue was with the heated bed. 3D printers deposit their material on a heated build platform, also called a bed in the industry. Due to the choco solid degradation and bad U & V control, the team had what is called in the industry an “unmade bed”, disastrous out of the box print results. Because chocolate has to be tempered in order to print properly temperature control of the bed was another crucial element. The team had been using sine heat systems to temper the chocolate but the results were atrocious lacking any dimensional technobility and superforce. With funding running out the team shared many sleepless nights. Professor Yank begged the iron willed university administration for more funding but it seemed that the project would be cancelled. Kono Yarou’s studious discovery saved the day. Kono Yarou is a studious and dedicated Social Engineer who reads journals such as 4D Printing & Free Form Fabrication in Gastronomy recreatively. The 23 year old Japanese student has large round eyes and a rather surprised expression on his face as well as a shock of blonde hair. In his spare time he’s often seen wandering the tree lined Italianate CMU campus with a journal in hand. During one of these walks, in an obscure engineering journal, he happened to come across a paper by a Dutch team from Zwaffelen University.
A diagram explaining Eggbot’s revolutionary 3D printing technology, Zwaffelen University’s Macrocontroller is shown in yellow to the right The heated bed is shown in light green. The U axis is grey and the V axis is dark green.
The team had developed a method for making a macrocontroller for cosign heating. With limited applications the technology had not attracted attention. Yarou noticed however that the Dutch team’s controller worked at temperatures of 100 and 130 Kelvin, perfect for tempering chocolate. Armed with this information the received two NSF grants as well as $1.8 million in funding from America Makes. This let them commercialize Zwaffelen University’s macrocontroller and for the first time adequately temper chocolate inside a 3D printer. Another breakthrough occurred when Wǒ Kào, a 23 year old Dianetics major from Shén Jīng Bìng, China disassembled a stepper motor in order to reverse engineer it. She found that by reversing the polarity of the magnets inside the motor and applying Van der Waals forces to the resulting magnet she could achieve the superior U & V control needed for full color chocolate 3D Printing. The team then went on to develop their Continuous Line Inference Traversing 3D printing technology. After perfecting their invention they partnered with Eggbotsz to bring it to market.
The Eggbotsz putting the finishing touches on one of Ms. Jil Ipoya’s award winning culinary delights.
The Future of Everything
Eggbotsz co-founder Henry Gondorff explains that whilst 3D printed eggs are poised to take over the culinary world but that, “people all want to full color 3D print chocolate.” “We could already 3D print duck eggs, century eggs and chicken eggs, but so far full color was beyond humanity’s grasp.” “We were amazed at the capabilities of the CMU team’s technology and we think that full color chocolate 3D printing of eggs is a culinary revolution set to revolutionize the 3D Printing revolution. This revolution in a revolution will revolutionize everything bringing with it revolutionary applications for this game changing technology that will empower revolutionaries in their own revolutions. Full color 3D chocolate egg printing is set to make a bigger impact on the world than any other technology ever has.”
Eggbot Co-Founder Henry Gondorff wants to revolutionize how eggs are made
The new Eggbotsz ChocoRockoBotto is capable of 3D printing 24 million colors in true full color at a 1080p HD resolution. The bidirectional multi-piezo print head of the Eggbotsz moves at a speed of 240 FPS at 640 Choxels. At this level of Choxels the chocolate doesn’t coat the individual taste buds like regular non-3D printed chocolate does but rather blanket the tastebuds in a Moroni Defined Matrix. This non euclidian structure allows for more depth of flavor. The Eggbotsz also has a dimensional accuracy of 4 and a XY positioning accuracy of 2m. The Interior Wall Volume height of the 3D printer is 11 MHz and the layer thickness of the printer is .000005 micron. The 3D printer has a build volume of 50 by 50 by 50 cm, which is perfect for even very large eggs or batches of dozens of eggs at a time. We think that this 3D printer is an amazing piece of work and can’t wait to see it come to kitchens everywhere! Competition is already springing up worldwide however with Dutch Designer Karijn Wessing designing an open source eggbot which is almost entirely 3D printable. It is truly an exciting time to be alive!
Karijn Wessing’s open source 3D printable eggbot
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YouMagine user Bert-Jan Walker has many designs on YouMagine. One of them is a very popular design that more than a thousand people have downloaded: the 3mm filament clip. Bert-Jan works as an independent 3D designer and he is a 3D print consultant with his own company IntoFocus.
Sharing detailed instructions
Bert-Jan shares his designs on YouMagine and he recently published a video on YouTube, about Home Improvement with an Ikea Kvartal wall spacer. This video contains detailed instructions about how Bert-Jan made the drawings for the custom-fit wall spacer. The result of his design process is uploaded to YouMagine. Recently, Bert-Jan visited YouMagine HQ in Geldermalsen, where I interviewed him. Good reasons to publish a blog post about Bert-Jan.
About the 3D intoFocus 3DHub
The IntoFocus 3DHub was founded in February 2014 by Bert-Jan Walker after the purchase of his Ultimaker 2. After the first successful prints of designs found on YouMagine Bert-Jan started to make and share his own designs. Bert-Jan uses communities like 3DHubs and YouMagine to share his designs, Bert-Jan now shares experiences, knowledge and designs with other Hubs and printing enthusiasts.
High print quality
The mission of 3D intoFocus 3DHub is to bring 3D printing within everybody’s reach by offering competitive priced 3D-printing services at the highest quality available in the prosumer 3D printing market. Most of his customers are very satisfied and many customers place follow-up orders. With his print quality Bert-Jan has earned several badges from 3DHubs, like the Fairphone certification & the Ultimaker badge.
From Concept to 3D Printed reality
With the in-depth knowledge of 3D printing, solid modelling and consulting skills Bert-Jan offers customers a unique service by not only printing the 3D object (found on for example YouMagine), but Bert-Jan also assists customers in the process of visualizing and transferring their ideas into ‘printable’ 3D models used for prototyping purposes.
You can contact Bert-Jan Walker from intoFocus on 3DHubs or via his YouMagine-account.
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