Monday 19 February 2024

3D Print Meet at Quelab

Adam organized a 3D Printer meet up at Quelab on February 18, 2024 at 2 PM (just hours before he got elected to the Quelab board).  A lot of 3D printers showed up, it was more fascinating and productive than I imagined.

MULTICOLOR PRINTS
BAMBU X-1

Adam brought his fanciest 3D printer to Quelab -- the Bambu X-1 -- which makes multicolored prints:



Adam previously 3D printed the figure I generated with AI on the Bambu 3D printer, about 7.5 inches high.  Below it sits with masks that Tetris printed on his Bambu 3D printer:

My AI generated figure (the white print)
in front of 3D printed masks


3D PRINTED
 CERAMICS

Mike brought ceramics that he had 3D printed at home on his 3D clay printer, which was very exciting!  He even designed his own clay extruder:

Mike's 3D printed ceramic pieces,
plus the clay extruder he designed (triangular piece on the right)

Mike thought that my AI generated figure (in the background) would be hard to 3D print in ceramics because of the overhang of the chin

FAST
VORON 3D PRINTER

Troi brought in his Voron 3D printer.  While this machine only makes small 3D prints, it makes them fast.  Therefore it would be an ideal 3D printer to quickly prototype objects generated by AI, say in programs like CSM and Luma Labs Genie:


  • Troi said that these machines need a lot of maintenance, even to work out of the box.

ARTICULATED
3D PRINTS

Adam and Ally have been 3D printing a lot of ARTICULATED objects that they downloaded from cults3D:

Articulated frog 3D print


The articulated frog print 
changes colors when heated in the sun


Articulated cat 


I would like to create my own articulated 3D figures:


Perhaps I could articulate the trunk on this 3D mammoth below, which was generated in CSM with AI:

DOWNLOAD mammoth_small.GLB (438KB)





3D Scanning

There are a lot of new 3D scanning programs that do a good job creating 3D models:


Getting even more sophisticated, they can generate 3D scenes from video -- and with the upcoming SORA AI video program by Open AI (which we don't have access to yet), these scenes are really spectacular:



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Adric mentioned that GPT can help make 3D prints as well:



LASER CUTTERS

Daniel bought a cheap small laser cutter (under $200) -- DAJA DJ6 Pro Laser Engraver:




With a small VORON 3D printer and a small X-Tool lasercutter, one can carry around a portable hackerspace in a box.

This could be a PORTABLE HACKERSPACE


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