A few weeks agowe told youabout a company called i.materialise that was doing some pretty amazing stuff with 3D printing. We hadn’t, until then, seen any company doing 3D with much more than ABS plastic or some other polymer. i.materialise was going a step further, though, and creating objects out of titanium powder.
The team has been scouring the world to find some great new things that can be done with 3D printing and what they’ve found is pretty incredible. Thanks to theMicrosoft Kinectand the brain of hacker Karl Willis, we’ll soon have the ability to create high quality 3D models of ourselves withFabricate Yourself.
The folks at i.materialisestates thatthe Fabricate Yourself project isn’t quite ready for prime time just yet. Some tweaks still need to be done in order to get the image quality to where it needs to be. When it’s ready, though, i.materialise plans to offer 3D printing to anyone with the images. In the mean time, it still looks incredibly cool, so have a video to get an idea of how things work:
Story byBrad McCarty
A music and tech junkie who calls Nashville home, Brad is the Director TNW Academy. You can follow him on Twitter @BradMcCarty.(show all)A music and tech junkie who calls Nashville home, Brad is the DirectorTNW Academy. You can follow him on Twitter@BradMcCarty.
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