on a goal towards additive aerospace
Three kayaks, of the same design, printed at RISE in three different materials and tested on the water at GKF (Göteborgs Kanot Föreningen). PLA with cellulose, rPE with wood fiber, PP with glass fiber.
A second trip of 10 km between the office at RISE and the Additive Intelligence conference at Lindholmen Gothenburg tested the polypropylene kayak on a longer trip.
Forget to tack your beer? Tired of coffee spilling jibes? Designed for Selective Laser Sintering (SLS), printed in one piece, the gimbaled bevy holder is here to save your day and let you rest at ease during those trying moments. Cocktail sailing during non-cocktail breezes is just one gimbal holder away. Snaps onto a typical… Continue reading Gimbal
Are you tired of your printer being tied to the three dimensional cartesian planes? Break your industrial robot free from planar slicing. Emil Johansson and his team at Adaxis are developing a slicer for just this. Working together with Emil, this ABB 6700 industrial robot, and Adaxis beta software AdaOne, we are able to slice… Continue reading Spline curve slicing
Stylish 3d-printed fridge box for the cheesiest of your vegan cheeses No-one wants a dried out cheese. Keep your vegan cheeses fresh, ready-to-eat, and fast-action sliceable for your cheesy sandwich pleasure with this support-free additively manufacturable fridge box. This vegan cheese fridge box is designed with a typical Violife block in mind but will work… Continue reading Vegan Cheese box
Karrimor Pannier Redesign A lightweight, strong and minimalist bike bag mount is difficult to come by. Please send innovative ideas my way. I received an inquiry about reproducing, via 3d printing, a pannier mount from a vintage Karrimor brand bag. When I received the photos of the original design, I instantly thought that there must… Continue reading Pannier Mount
Topology-optimized, additively manufacturable robotic end effector for increased productivity Using computer aided design, topology optimization, finite element analysis and additive manufacturing, we will have an end effector design with a reduction of mass and part count over the original design. This should result in increased reliability due to the lower part count and ease of… Continue reading Gripper
Rapid prototyping Upcycle a useable design The retro Suntour shifter works very well for the stock gear-set but now it’s time for an upgrade. The original shifter works, however the gear range has grown. This means the drum no longer has enough length around the cable-pull circumference. CAD and additive to the rescue An hour… Continue reading Retro Shifter
Topology optimized – 3d printed bottle opener The challenge of this task is to create a bottle opener that can be printed using PLA and function nominally. The goal is to use this task to become more familiar with FEA (Finite Element Analysis), Topology optimization and the design process for polymer additive manufacturing. The result… Continue reading Bottle opener
Kutter-Jolle, Albert Anderson This small-boat design by Albert Anderson will be my first full size boat printed using FFF (fused filament fabrication). The design has been modeled from the original drawings into Autodesk Fusion 360. A prototype has been designed and sliced to use minimum support and printed at 8 percent scale to show the… Continue reading 1896
This fridge magnet is an homage to those that take my invariant pensive appearance as being judgy. A 3D scan of my face using an Artec Eva scanner, touched up in Autodesk Meshmixer and finalized in Fusion 360 to become a lovable fridge magnet that can silently judge you right before you open the door.… Continue reading Judgy Woodrow
