Rapid Prototype Blog

Archive for March, 2010

Test print on Z-corp 450 3D printer. The print was a test of facade pattern and scale for a project under development. More information at www.variousarchitects.no

So, Shmup-Dev.com hosts a rapid prototyping session once a month which last 2 weeks out of that month with a different theme each session. This session’s theme was bullet cancellation. So here is my entry with no polish. You can download my entry here: www.filefront.com My entries thread is here: www.shmup-dev.com Controls: Arrows: Move Z: Shoot X+Z: Laser(uses energy) A: Place and Remove field Any bullet that enters the field is slowed down and has it’s color changed. Green means it still has an owner, Red means it doesn’t. If you destroy an enemy all of its bullets that have been turned green will be destroyed and you’ll gain energy. The laser also destroys bullets, but it uses a lot of energy. Also, please visit my3ambitions.Com

www.fabathome.org Fabbers (aka 3D Printers or rapid prototyping machines) are a relatively new form of manufacturing that builds 3D objects by carefuly depositing materials drop by drop, layer by layer. Slowly but surely, with the right set of materials and a geometric blueprint, you can fabricate complex objects. Believe it or not you can build your own fabber, Fab@home is a site with all what you need to build your own fabber, Our goal is to explore the potential of universal fabrication Machines that can use multiple materials to fabricate complete, active systems. Inspired by this history, the goal of this project is to offer an open-source, low-cost, personal SFF system kit, which we call “Fab@Home”. The aim of this project is to put SFF technology into the hands of those same curious, inventive, and entrepreneurial citizens. In addition, through this Wiki web site we hope to inspire users of Fab@Home to exchange their ideas for applications and their improvements to the hardware and software with us and each other. Several machines are already in use.

Rapid Prototyping Right Before Your Eyes is presented by Print To 3D. www.printo3d.com This 3D printer is a Dimension 768 BST. The cup is 1 inch tall and 1/2 inch in diameter. The base or floor of the cup is 40 thousands of an inch thick as are the sidewalls of the cup. The stem of the cup is 100 thousands of an inch in diameter. This machine uses Fused Deposition Modeling or FDM for short. The machine is basically a large hot glue gun!

What would someone have to learn to do that kind of stuff?

I have some consumer product ideas I’d like to prototype and potentially have mocks created for. Any recommendations for how I should get started and what software I should use?

I’m trying to decide which of these packages that work with ZCorp’s 3D printers to try:

SolidWorks
Maya
RapidForm
3D Studio Viz
Pro/ENGINEER
SketchUp
Alias
Form Z
CATIA
RasMol
Raindrop GeoMagic
VectorWorks
3D Studio Max
Rhino
Inventor
Mimics

I want to become a video game designer and I am soon going into college. I wanted to get as much of a head start as possible and I have used and gotten pretty good at Blender, though I don’t think that it is used for professional game design often if at all. So I was wondering, which program is?

Web 2.0 api’s should be reviewed for programmic issues before they are used. This video is a quick walk through of fxcop and looks at how a security engineer should be looking at all the code that is being used on a web site.

what you can do with 3d printer