KRЯRL DЯAWINGS: 3D Print Meet at Quelab

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:

Bambu X-1

the top-of-the-line 3D printers

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

Note that even the metal screws were 3D printed in China -- by JLC3DP
Also check my blog post about 3D printing in clay at UNM

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:

Voron 3D printer

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

downloaded from cults3D

The articulated frog print

changes colors when heated in the sun

Articulated cat

downloaded from cults3D

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

cults3D: APP TO CREATE ARTICULATED THINGS
cults3D: ARTICULATED ANYTHING!

Instructables: How to Create 3d Printable Articulated Sculptures
Printerly: How to Make Articulated 3D Prints – Design (4 Steps)

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

Leonardo.AI

CSM

EzGif

Optimized GLB

DOWNLOAD mammoth_small.GLB (438KB)

January 29, 2024

Leonardo.AI

PIKA LABS

The animated version

of the mammoth in 3D

3D Scanning

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

AI Confusion -- and ABQ Art Walk January

Me in my car

scanned in THE DARK on an iPhone using LIDAR,

using 3D Scanner App

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: