KRЯRL DЯAWINGS: Clay 3D Printers + Hacker Toys + AI Programs

Tuesday 23 April 2024

Clay 3D Printers + Hacker Toys + AI Programs

Last weekend I visited the hackerspaces in both Albuquerque and Santa Fe. Specifically I looked at the 3D clay printers for printing ceramics, but also checked out the other toys at MAKE SANTA FE:

QUELAB

Quelab, in Albuquerque, had a 3D Printer meet-up on Sunday, April 21, 2024, with two 3D printers designed to print in clay:

3D Printer Meet-up at Quelab

on April 21, 2023

Doug brought in the huge Delta 3D printer that he is making from scratch, to print in clay:

Doug, Troy and Aaron

gather around Doug's huge Delta 3D printer

to be designed to print in clay

Doug bought these stepper motors

for his huge clay printer

Doug had also posted

these clay 3D prints on the Quelab Discord

Piotr Wasniowski posts his clay printing on Instagram -- "I use Gaia Multitool Polish clay 3d printer with cheap de-airing clay extruder":

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4805607

Doug mentioned the WASP 2040 delta 3D clay printer

Doug is also the one that scratches real holograms on a CNC router, and posted a video and images on the Quelab Discord:

CNCed scratched

real hologram

The CNC hologram set-up

that Doug posted on the Quelab Discord

Doug uses VPYPE software to refine his vector files before making a hologram on a CNC machine

(YouTube): Handmade holograms are really weird

HoloCraft software

Forum about scratching CNC holograms

(YouTube): flyeye construction fast forward

Jonathan Casto is making holograms in Albuquerque

Aaron brought in his 3D printer for clay

Troy's 3D printer

Troy's 3D printer used belts to move the Z axis,

making his 3D printer more reliable

Adam organizes the 3D Printer Meet-ups at Quelab

I also went to previous 3D Printer Meet-ups at Quelab

Plus I had also blogged about 3D clay printing at UNM:

3D AI organic figures -- and 3D clay printmaking at UNM

MAKE SANTA FE

John and I visited MAKE SANTA FE on April 20, 2024, and it was so neat and orderly:

The computer workstations

at MAKE SANTA FE

The 3D Printers

all lined up and orderly,

with two printing away

Gene showed up the clay 3D printer in the ceramics room:

The clay extruder

works with most clays apparently

They had 3D printed some clay pieces, but had not fired them yet:

They had 3D printed this smaller clay piece

And they had 3D printed this larger clay piece

SOVOL 3D Printer

with two extruders

$339.00

Gene talked about other 3D printers:

TRINUS - The Affordable All-Metal 3D Printer -- on Kickstarter (but in 2016)

Gene also mentioned a 3D Printer that will print in metal for about $6000, but I have been unable to find that online

Ultrafuse 316L 3D printing filament

The back yard with the kilns

MAKE SANTA FE

had a huge CNC plasma cutter

MAKE SANTA FE also had a portable CNC router -- the SHAPER ORIGIN. Check out this YouTube to see how it works:

They also had a portable CNC router --

SHAPER

Besides Gene, we met James and Christy at MAKE SANTA FE:

Christy Georg

creates at MAKE SANTA FE

Of course, in Santa Fe we could also just go to the Tumbleroot Pottery Pub (near The Plaza), and make clay figurines over a beer. They only give you air dried clay -- however you could 3D scan the figurines you create and 3D print them:

Tumbleroot Pottery Pub

in Santa Fe

It's hard to keep up with all the new AI innovations in just the last couple of weeks. While new AI ART features and programs are rolling out as fast as ever, there is a kind of diminishing returns. They aren't any huge leaps in image generation.

However that is not true for music, as AI MUSIC is just exploding right now, allowing anyone to generate decent songs with AI -- using SUNO and UDIO:

Robert generated these songs in SUNO:

John Tollett generated this song UDIO: