The document provides summaries of 9 exciting stories about 3D printing from August 2013, including: 1) The ability to 3D print your Minecraft skin. 2) A 3D printed robot that moves on power lines to inspect for damages. 3) A project to 3D print and place 10,000 tiny bunny figurines around the world. 4) Figurines of bloggers in a movie suit that were 3D printed and gifted to promoters.

1. Most exciting stories on 3D
Printing
August 2013

2. # 1 - Get your Minecraft skin
3D printed
It’s now possible to 3D
print your own Minecraft
skin !
Visite this blog post to now
how !

3. # 2 - The 3D printed robot
that moves on power lines
Nich Morozovsky, a mechanical
engineering graduate student at
University of California San
Diego, designed a robot that can moves
on power lines to look for damages in the
wire.
His robot, the SkySweeper, only use off-
the-shelf electronics and 3D printed
plastic parts. It is produced with only one
motor and is reasonably priced.
“Current line inspection robots are
large, complex, and expensive. Utility
companies may also use manned or
unmanned helicopters equipped with
infrared imaging to inspect lines. This is
much simpler.”
Read more…

4. # 3 – 10 000 white rabbit figurines
placed all over the world
Ji Lee took and his team decided to 3D
print 10 000 tiny sweet white bunny
figurines and place them in random spots
all over the world.
“We hope they (Mysterabbits) will stop
people from their daily routine and for a
brief moment, make them wonder about
their mysterious, newly found gift, and a
small piece of the beautiful world that
surrounds them.”
Read more…

5. # 4 – Figurine of bloggers in a
Pacific Rim’s pilot suit
To promote the new Guillermo del Toro
movie Pacific Rim produced by Warner
Bros, the french communication
agency MNSTR offered ten very
influential bloggers a figurine of
themselves in a pacific rim’s pilot suit.
Each blogger received a very cool
“buzz Box” thought by MNSTR. The
box contained a full survival kit and the
figurine in an awesome packaging.
Read more…

6. # 5 – NASA shows 3D printing
in Zero-Gravity
We already published a post about
NASA’s big plans to integrate 3D
printing in the International Space
Station. Made in Space is the startup
behind the project, and together with
the NASA, they published a video
about 3D printing in zero-gravity
conditions.
The goal behind this is to install
manufacturing units on ISS, and to be
ready to print small spare parts without
having to lunch them from earth.
Read more…

7. # 6 – Make it Stand
To avoid that a 3D printed model don’t
stand up, researchers from INRIA
Nancy and the Interactive Geometry
Lab, of the scientific and technical
university ETF Zurich, came up with a
digital solution. They’ve developed an
intelligent application to help designers
work around gravitational issues.
Make it Stand is a program that allows
users to modify the centre of mass so
that the model does not tip. The
application creates holes inside the
model to distributes weight according
to the points of balance chosen by the
user.
Read more…

8. # 7 – b hold
The company defines itself as a
design house and aims to be a
design hub for 3D printed objects.
The goal is to create innovative
and user-centric designs, that are
directly thought for 3D printing
and not for traditional
manufacturing. In house
designers are working around the
latest materials available in 3D
printing, with the aim to let
anyone use it in its every day life.
Read more…

9. # 8 – Leopoly
since the end of June, the 3D
software company Leonar3Do
introduced a new way to easily
create designs in your browser
with their website Leopoly.
And in deed Leopoly is probably
the gateway to let anyone access
professional creation tools without
having any knowledge. It works
as a WebGL browser based 3D
modeling tool and lets you create
and edit 3D objects in the
browser. It’s incredibly easy to
use, and you only needs a few
tries to understand how it works.
Read more…

10. # 9 – The first 3D printed SLR
camera
Léo Marius, a young french
designer, created this first open source
3D printed camera.
OpenReflex can be made at home for
about $30. It combines 3D printed
parts that can be made on a home
filament 3D printer, pieces using a
Laser-cutter, a few
screws, magnets, plastic sheet, Sugru
paste. It’s functional, and it looks really
awesome! OpenReflex has been
shared massively since it’s been
published.
Go there to know more about his
project, and understand what are his
plans for the future.

11. See you next month !
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