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Blog 1

Part A

Prompt

Go to thingiverse.com. Use any means you like to look through the objects submitted to thingiverse and pick out 5 designs which you consider to be the most:

1. Useful

2. Artistic/ beautiful

3. Pointless/ useless

4. Funny/ weird

5. Scary/ strange

Link to the 5 objects you’ve chosen, and discuss why you consider them well described by the 5 adjectives above

1. Useful

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:26489

This is an iphone case. I think this is one of the great motivations for personal 3D printing that make life easier. It is good looking and cheaper than the commercial ones.

2. Artistic/ beautiful

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:29159

This is a really cool and beautiful design with Ballerina Charm

3. Pointless/ useless

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:23289

I suppose no one would suppose to use this

4. Funny/ weird

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:27826

This rabbit image from Disney make me so happy

5. Scary/ strange

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:25238

I just think we should prohibit the gun shooting.

Part B

Prompt

Read this article:

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/30/the_tinkerers_how_corporations_kill_creativity/

Watch this video:

Charlie Rose interviews a successful Designer

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50138327n

From jigsaw puzzles to plastic models, from Rubik’s cube to work design structure, I always enjoy breaking things apart and, of course, putting things together. Born in a family of doctors and engineers oriented in pharmaceutical industries, my curiosity of how things work runs in my blood. From an early age when my parents operated a pharmacy, I always sat beside my mum listening to her talking with patients and went to pharmaceutical company to find out how pills are made of. The influence of corporate culture on tinkering impede the development of innovation, invention, and illumination. The corporate culture could not provide an environment for Tinkers to make the world better.

The Stanford University have the synphasis of art and engineering. it's idea is equivalent with the David Design Principle. David infused Design Thinking applying human behavior into design which allows people design based on the others' idea and reach the height they want to be, and also let other's make the design better. The key to unlock the innovation and creativity is that David approach diversified background people into his firm and let them get brain-storming, the right through the idea, the execute product. This is the key to unlock the innovation, creativity, and illumination. He ask people to be a design thinker and encourage wild ideas. A good design is based on figuring out what people want to have by watching their behavior. (try to understand people through observing them). He have the 3D printing machine with his daughter. Concerning project we do in the lab, we could based on David's design principle to design staff useful, ergonomics, and make life easier and better. Just like last week we print out a useful key chain.

Blog 2

part A

The “Mother of all Demos” is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfIgzSoTMOs First, watch that first section of the mother of all demos (above), which includes the first computer mouse and cursor ever seen in public. Do you recognize the rough features we use on every computer today in its earliest form? Are you impressed by what he’s demonstrating? Do you think that you would have recognized the importance of this work if you were in the audience at the time?

Engelbart’s presentation is a hypermedia demonstration which paved the way for human-computer interaction. In his presentation, Engelbart showed how the computer could be used to deal with everyday tasks. He showed audience how to create the new files and a set of commands to organize the data. Taking an example of his wife’s shopping list, he organized the shopping list hierarchically by category and he had the ability to expand and move items to organize them as he want. These features are similar like the mouse we use nowadays. The pointers following as he moved the mouse until he stops at a specific point. The cursor looks like piano keys on his left hand, using the cursor he could type out the characters similar like the keyboard we used now. This part impressed me most, through the mouse and the piano keyboard, the research team could type input and manipulate the computer and organize the data. The first computer weighted 30 short tons and took up 1800 square feet, as an audience sit in the presentation, I think I would be realize the importance of the creation by Engelbart’s research team, because the creation of the mouse and the cursor could facilitate the collaboration between humans. They could make control computer easier and organize the data more efficiently through a monitor and a mouse instead of controlling a bulky staff weighted 30 tons.

part B

Then watch this (turn up your sound): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wbl7JEJNTJM In it, Professor Richard Doyle discusses disruptive technological change, open source, knowledge sharing, and ‘creative culture’ among other things. The first 22 minutes is his talk, while the rest consists of questions and chat. What does he say regarding the initial perception of the mother of all demos? Doyle makes a number of arguments regarding the importance of our open source efforts in comparison to models requiring intellectual property. Why do we and why should we share the information we generate? (Or shouldn’t we? Are we missing out by not trying to patent our efforts?) How might we better share our knowledge?

At the time of the presentation, people thought the demo was a hoax.

Concerning about the sharing information, I think sharing knowledge could make the progress of the society. There are many reasons that could prove the importance of the creation and application of new knowledge. Innovation and creativity is also the motto that Obama addressed his speech centered on the manufacturing of his presidency competence. I think sharing the knowledge and allow followers to make refinement could serve the human to a new level. It is undeniable to say there are tons of law suits about patent and intellectual property. I would like to apply different situation to different methods. If people could understand that sharing their knowledge helps them do their jobs more effectively; help them retain their jobs; helps them in their personal development and career progression; rewards them for getting things done; and brings more personal recognition, then knowledge sharing will become a reality. Some people object to sharing as they feel that others will steal their ideas and reap the rewards rightly theirs. This is a fallacy. Knowledge sharing isn’t about blindly sharing everything; giving away your ideas; being open about absolutely everything. You still need to exercise judgment. If you have a great idea – don’t share it with a competitor – external or internal but on the other hand don’t try to develop it on your own and don’t sit on it for fear of it being stolen from you. Figure out how you can bring it to fruition by collaborating with other people.

3D printing in civil engineering

Concrete Printing Process could create a new era of architecture that is adapted to the environment and fully integrated with engineering function. According to the Maslow’s pyramid’s human needs, shelter as the base of the pyramid embody its essential effect of the human needs. In 21st century, 1 billion world people are now tortured under the risk of disease, crime, and over population. The problem of conventional construction is the most serious problem. Behrokh Khoshnevis pointed out that most of products are automated except construction which is slow, inefficient and may be dangerous to workers. The CAD/CAM is a great development to transfer from hand-made to automate by addictive manufacturing. It is undeniable to say that the application of 3D printing in construction would revolutionize the coming construction. However, I have my reservations about that addictive manufacturing applying to construction instead of conventional construction. The first point is that the 3D printer is too expensive to countries which are highly under the risk of disease, crime to purchase. The governments do not have the ability to hire the scientists and technicians to run the machines. Countries would like to develop 3D printing to construction normally with low risk of dangerous laboring. If these governments take 3D printing instead of conventional construction, they would deprive of jobs from people make a living by manual labor. The result would cause the instability of society, and people would hard to make a living. The second point need to be pointed out here is that the technology for 3D printing is immature. If the extruder does not work, scientists need to take the extruder out and fix them; the labor cost would be really expensive. Furthermore, we need to reprint the whole building again if minor mistakes happened during process. The cost of the 3D printing would much more expensive than conventional construction.

3D printing in medicine

I am highly impressed by the 3D printing technology applied into the medical field. I think this technology could save more people’s live. As the article said that the 3D printer might print a kidney use the patients’ cell tissue which would not cause allograft rejection. Even though developing functional organs may still be a decade off, we are moving toward to possibility to make them came true. Scientists need to develop the technology of “ink” as the filament we sent into the extruder and also need to figure out the way to keep the organs alive. Thousands of people dying off organs problem, if this technology could be reach, people do not need to spent much time on finding a fit replacement.

3D pinting in food

The 3D-bioprinted meat uses the same process scientists have studied for printing organs in medical field. The Modern Meadow offers the hamburger is so expensive even though this idea is really awesome. Actually, I do not recommend 3D printing technology applied in food as much as in medical field. Because the technology could save people’s live and easily create organs as replacement instead of trying to find a person like to transplant a kidney for you. However, human, as on the top of the food chain, we should eat animal’s meat to harmonize the balance of the food chain. If people would eat meat printed 3D printer through cultivate stem cells, and stop killing animals, there might be a miserable environment unbalance of the nature. In order to keep the harmony of the nature, we still should stick on the life we live in now. However, I like the article that the 3D printer print chocolate because I really love eat chocolate especially when it with diversify shapes. I think technology applied into chocolate industry could allow customers involve into the design, the customerization could bring more economical benefit to the firm.

3D printing in fashion

Iris Van Herpen with the most inquisitive mind has been exploring advanced ideas with the help of scientists, architects and 3D printing. I think the beauty of the art and fashion is innovation and not afraid of being expressive. She turns the imagination into reality and gives us a chance to see the beauty of the arts.

3D printing in gun

There is a huge problem that the 3D printer could print everything, and the 3D printed gun has already a reality. I doubt with the advance of the 3D printing technology, there might also increase the criminal rates. Criminals could print gun without buying from legal association and take the training of safety. Government would be much harder to execute the gun control. The tragedy that 20 children got killed in school, and then President Obama proposed the policy to to gun control. people should live in a society with trusted government and safe place, if the 3D printer made the illegal criminal easily commit crime, this is the tragedy we do not expect.

3D printing help kids who had amputation of hand digits and could not afford the X-finger

In the article: robohand:how cheap 3D printers built a replacement hand for a five-year old boy made me realize the value of open source on thingsverse.com. The story of Liam who got amputation of hand digits before birth and cannot afford the expenses of X-finger is lucky enough to get the help from two men-- Ivan Owen and Richard Van As –from the opposite of the globe, and Liam finally can have a prosthetic using a 3D printer. Owen and Richard make the design public and help people who can’t afford prostheses. Oven and Richard prove that there are people who don’t care about monetary gains but the good of mankind The key success of their designing is that they both have their own 3D printing machine at home from Makerbot which accelerate the design cycles ; The pervious two weeks now reduce to just hours that send a code and then print them out. The 3D printing machine could print functional parts apply to the prostheses without waiting a long time. It is much more efficient to test the idea and modify it quickly. The speed is key to the success. They could generate new ideas and test the products as if they receive the code. The speed could motivate people to be innovative Furthermore, the custom manufacturing would not need additional cost, accordind to the article, they could use metal material to help Liam print a new prostheses with the 3D printing machine.

Open source

I really appreciate the benefit open source bring to the mankind. With the open source, Oven could use OpenSCAD to design code, and take advantage of the thingsuniverse materials. In the note from Ivan, he promise that the signs they develop would be shared with the public as open-source documents. They would not patent the designs and would also keep working on this project in order to avoid others patent the designs. Their dream is to share the knowledge and spread the information make that as many people as possible be able to benefit from it. I now understand the difference between the open-source and corporate culture. I think people should not patent stuff that could help human beings better.

blog 5

In the article of ‘what’s the Deal with Copyright and 3D printing’, the author addresses the relationship of the intellectual properties which are copyright, patent, and trademark. According to the definition from Author that the “copyright covers creative works, patent covers technical works, and trademark covers the ways in which goods are identified in the marketplace”. The 3D printing merges the physical and the digital world and also bring problems that the how to protect the copyright on Thingsverse. Sometimes, products not protected by copyright because they are the type of “useful products”, and the copyright infringement is also hard to break.

A) Concerning my first blog, the useful part I choose is an iPhone case. I think it is protected by copyright. However with the popularity of the iPhone case, they are not patentable and are not protected by copyright, because they belong to the “useful” products. The beautiful part I choose is a ballerina dancing girl. I think it is neither protected by copyright nor are patent-able. For the things of the useless, I cannot decide the utility of the product, so I could not decide whether it is copyrighted or patent-able. For the funny Bugs Bunny, the characters from movies or TV are definitely copyrighted. For the Gun staff, I think it is a physical product so it is copyrighted, and it is not patent-able.

B) Other people’s things: Electric Motorcycle from btz5006, I think it is related with the utility, and it is copyrighted by the creator, and I think it is not patentable.

C)The two reason in “licensing of non-copyrightable files is the legal reasons and the cultural reason. Concerning about the legal reasons, granting a license make the owner assert their authority of the project, and also allow the users on Thingsverse to access the code. For cultural reasons, creators would like people know who create the project.

3D printing would transform education

bonus blog

http://www.forbes.com/sites/tjmccue/2011/11/01/3d-printing-will-transform-education/ People was criticized the existence of the computer, never mind that the computer now on every desktop. I believe that in the near feature, the 3D printing would on the desk to help students to learn science principle. I think it's creating a Renaissance in manufacturing and the design world because even the average person can use it. From the article of 3D printing in education (http://www.stemulate.org/2012/07/19/3d-printing-education), Penn State University has already brought the RepRap research into classroom and also I believe the future of higher education is reshaping universities through 3D printing. The Delamare Science and Engineering library became one of the first academic libraries in the United States to provide 3D scanning and printing to all students and faculty, as well as the public. The move is part of a plan by director Tod Colegrove to transform the facility from a typical library that promotes knowledge through books to one that also encourages creative thought and discussion via hands-on technology. For many universities, 3D printers have become an indispensable asset for promoting learning and education. At Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, the devices are considered a regular tool in student's everyday lives. Carlito Bayne, the manager of the GSAPP's Output Shop, says “the school has dabbled with 3D printers since 2000, including one that used wax. Their printers get so much use that the school is purchasing another machine. Other departments such as the fine arts, medical and engineering schools have their own 3D printers. “During presentations most students have models as well as renderings to show the design process," Bayne said. "It shows the students and professors what works structurally and what just looks good. This is something that a 2D render or drawing can't do because you only have one view. " At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, students such as Steven Keating are using 3D printers in cutting edge ways. The mechanical engineering student describes 3D printers as a valuable research tool because they can help accelerate projects that would normally take time using conventional modeling methods. The technology also helps democratize processes that may be too technical for the average person when done the traditional way. The materials on Thinsverse is valuable. there will indeed be a 3D printer on every desktop in the United States. With a community focus, there are many passionate users and fans that will likely help them make that vision a reality.

blog 7

A)Comment on these projects. Who is suing Formlabs and why? Why do you think the 3Doodler is making such headlines lately? Look around kickstarter for similar projects which were not listed.

3Doolder

I am amazed to see the creation like 3Doolder. 3Doolder is just like 3D printing pen that draw in the air and you can hold in your hand. It is a brand new way of creating objects and artistic works. It is the technology that lift your imagination off the page. And 3D printing is additive manufacturing that turns computer models into real physical things. I think the market for the 3doolder is has bigger market than professional prototyping machine because people are free to use it as if you can scribble, trace or wave a finger. 3Dooler might make great contributions to the design and art development. Also, it is also has practical use that as the author said you can fix toilet and save 85 dollars. 3Dooler’s low barrier to entry that can allow more non-engineering people use it and people might interest in it. For kids, it could be a really toy to make their imagination off the paper. If their mother does not allow they buy something they want, they could draw it. For artists, they can use pen plotter to serve their artistic design. For people love life, they can use 3Dooler to decorate their home.

Formlab-High resolution and professional 3D printer

Formlabs, is a company in media lab started out of MIT. Kickstarter provide the platform for them to raise money through crowd-sourcing. They try to build a simple 3D printers and provide low entry barrier for users without dauntingly complex instructions but with high resolution which keep the quality of the products. The Stereolithography technology also applied in formlabs. Kickstater’s stragety that help people get fund from community and make their product continue.However, from the article (http://blog.makezine.com/2012/11/21/3d-systems-suing-formlabs-and-kickstarter-for-patent-infringement/) 3D systems suing formlabs and kickstarter for patent infringment. SL technology is used to solidify UV curable material in layers, SL technology creates 3D prints that are much higher resolution than can be achieved by plasticc extrusion technology. The result of this lawsuit is that EFF recentlky issued a statement about how patents may harm DIY 3D printing industry. “While many core patents restricting 3D printing have expired or will soon expire, there is a risk that “creative” patent drafting will continue to lock up ideas beyond the 20-year terms of those initial patents or that patents will restrict further advances made by the open hardware community.”

Printxel 3D printer

The printxel 3D printer is a $300 desktop 3D beta kit. The sample prints from the blog is interesting. This project has 96 backers with the pledged of 7500 goal and actually got 12077. The huge success of the crowd sourcing fund money help the creator make the project come true. A selection of prints created over the development cycle of the printer. Some of the prints have support structures, but most are printed without. The prints shown range in height from 19mm to 100mm and have a layer thickness from 0.05mm to 0.4mm.

Robo hands

• Open source 3D printer that anyone can use, regardless of knowledge and skill level.
• Precise and high detail printing.
• Low cost without sacrificing quality.
• Easy to use/Easy to assemble
• Large print area 10x10x8in / 254mm x 254mm x 203.20mm
• Looks great, professional, and enticing
• Sturdy structure, high quality parts, built to last
• Great beginner printer, or advanced printer-RoBo does it all!

Robo hands is the simplication of the replicator 2 and has the strong competitive price. The robo hand is only 520 and the replicator 2 is 2199. The size of the robo 3D is also smaller thatn the reploicator 2. The Robo hand combined the best minds from the open source cpmmunity. This machine is applicable to the architects, deisignders, hobbyists, students.

Tangibot

The TangiBot is a clone of a popular open source 3D Printer. The same performance and features at a roughly 33% discount. There are 4 different models of tangibot. It offers the same great performance and features but it costs roughly 2/3 what others will charge you for it. The TangiBot is 100% compatible with firmware upgrades, parts and accessories that are available from multiple suppliers on the internet. Because the TangiBot uses a popular design there is also a very active community that also supports the machine The similar products I found on kickstarter is a 3D mouse. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mycestro/mycestrotm-the-next-generation-3d-mouse?ref=live

B)Do you think kickstarter represents the future of crowd-sourced fundraising? Kickstarter provides an useful platform for people get money to develop their product. However, there also people criticize the intention of kickstarter and think they just want to make money. Josh Mac question about the kickstarter works more for engineering industry technology and people make less attention on design and arts. Josh also think that the kickstarter cultivates the illusion that when you use its fundraising tools, you are opting out of wage labor and he think the successfulness of the funding is depend on the creator’s social network community. He think the third party tool like amazon.com and kickstarter would let you get less money because they would peels off a dime for every dollar your social networking community chip in and then a nickel of that dime goes to kickstarter’s exclusive money broker Amazon for processing the financials. However, I do not agree with the Josh’s opinion. I think kickstarter is a really useful platform for people to communicate and spread their ideas. They not only fund the money but also display their products, express themselves to the world. It is a good business mock interview before they truly run their business. You lose nothing even though you did not fund the money from people. This could cheer you up and make you realize why other products can fund the money and you could not. You could always refine your product until you catch the audiences eye. I highly like kickstater, if I could invent or want to develop my own product in the future, I would definitely come to kickstarter to ask people whether you like it and this could be used as customer preferences.

C) What are the drawbacks of kickstarter? Compare (and contrast ^_^ ) kickstarter to a traditional storefront. Are there alternatives to kickstarter? Compare with the traditional storefront, they both sell goods to public. Kickstarter has the advantage that they could save the money to rent the house and save the money on pre-development. However, the storefront can guarantee for customers that they could touch and feel the products and make sure they buy the things they want. If I would be an entrepreneur to develop my business in the future, I would first start my business on kickstarter and wait my products be more mature, and then when I get the money to run a real business, I would open a storefront to allow customers feel the product. I think the kickstater provide a wider opportunity for creators to start their business and help them make their dream come true. The drawback of the kickstarter is that the third party would peels off money.