Jonathan Brand is a designer and artist and he’s done something gearheads, motorcycle freaks and 3D printing mavens will love.

Working from his studio on Orange Street in New Haven, CT, he’s printed out an entire, full-sized replica motorcycle.

It’s based on a classic 70’s Honda CB 500, and it’s built from translucent plastics with his pair of Ultimaker 3D printers.

And it’s amazing.

Brand says that when he was living in Brooklyn and looking to buy an actual, working Honda motorcycle, he settled on the idea of buying a CB. He said that when he and his family decided to move out of the city, he was buying one to ride, but his plans changed.

But the fact that the birth of his son – and the fact that he admits to being slightly accident prone – made him decide a plastic version of a motorcycle was a better and safer way to spend his time and energy.

Born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada, Brand completed a BA from the University of Guelph, Ontario, and then finished up his master’s degree course work at Yale University. .

According to Brand, he spent quite a lot of time on the project, and that creating such accurate, usable parts involved some major hurdles.

The artist says that while he’s only been working with 3D printers for about five years, his initial experience building a Cupcake 3D printer has served him well as he took on the motorcycle project.

“If you have a lot of money, you can get a pretty robust and reliable printer, but the material still seems to be a limitation,” he added. “The biggest problem I’ve had is getting reliable quality printing materials in the US. I’d really like to experiment with a resin based printer, but for now it’s just too expensive for the large scale work I’m doing.”

To build the Honda piece, Brand used his two Ultimaker 3D printers, Rhino, Netfabb, Geomagic, Kisslicer, 3D Studio Max and Adobe Illustrator.

Accomplishing the design means working with heavy stock coated with a matte inkjet print varnish to build his initial forms, cutting the parts out by hand or with a vinyl cutter which uses a laser eye for registering the printout, and then printing and cutting each model piece by himself. He adds that the process is roughly analogous when he gets to the 3D printing stage, as the finished product is printed in small sections and glued together piece-by-piece.

And he’s convinced what he’s come up with is art and not engineering.

“I personally think it’s art, because I have a lot of respect for engineers,” Brand said. “My education is in art. I had an engineer tell me that if I knew what I was doing (from an engineering perspective) I’d never make my work, because I’d know beforehand that it wouldn’t work. I have a factory of one.”

There’s art, and then there’s art and engineering, and artist Jonathan Brand’s fully 3D printed motorcycle fulfills both categories rather nicely. What do you think about this melding of art and reverse engineering? Please let us know in the Jonathan Brand 3D Printed Motorcycle forum thread on 3DPB.com.

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Artist Jonathan Brand says he started out to buy himself a motorcycle, but ended up building one for himself that was a tad less dangerous after the birth of his son. Brand, a gearhead, technician and motorcycle fan, used a pair of Ultimaker 3D printers to make an amazingly accurate and full-sized replica of the bike he once wanted to buy, a 70’s Honda CB 500. It took more than a year to complete, but the result is a translucent, ghostly and magnificent in every way. If you want to read the whole story and see the incredible photos of the finished product, you can check it out here:  http://3dprint.com/35429/jonathan-brand-3d-printed-motorcycle

fuente: http://3dprint.com/35429/jonathan-brand-3d-printed-motorcycle/

Back in August, we reported on the implantation of the world’s first 3D printed vertebrae, and it was surely a sign of things to come from the medical field. Usually once one procedure is successfully completed, other doctors and other hospitals throughout the world begin taking notice and start to consider using these same practices. Now, yet another patient has been successfully treated with 3D printed vertebrae, in a “first of its kind” surgery that took place on December 3 at the The First Affiliated Hospital located at the Zhejiang University School of Medicine  in Hangzhou, China.

fuente http://3dprint.com/30512/3d-printed-thoracic-vertebrae/

Disponible el video de la conferencia del Profesor José Maria Kenny.

Dentro de las actividades de la Semana de la Ciencia, hoy 27 del noviembre, se ha impartido una clase magistral por parte del Prof. Kenny. El profesor Kenny es  director del  European Centre for Nanostructured Polymers S.c.a.r.l. (ECNP), Profesor Investigador en el Instituto de Ciencia de Polímeros y Tecnología del CSIC en Madrid (España), con licencia de la Universidad de Perugia (Italia), donde es catedrático de Ciencia de los Materiales y Tecnología. En la actualidad esta realizando una estancia en el Campus de Alcoy dentro del programa de visita de investigadores de prestigio en la UPV. Esta estancia se encuadra dentro de la colaboración que  con este Centro europeo realiza el grupo de procesado y caracterización de materiales plásticos,  perteneciente al Instituto Tecnológico de Materiales.

Nuestro amigo el Prof. Kenny ha estado de visita en Alcoy. Se prepara una charla.

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LA impresión 3D de la EPSA estaba tambien en el estan con nosotros

The first version of Sneakerbot was created last year with a prusa I3 mod which has a large working space (Y axis) and glass bed.

«The new design is more comfortable than the first one. You can vary the softness by changing the percentage of infill.» says the company.

The Filaflex elastic filament allows you to create elastic parts without any modification to your 3D printer. It adds a lot of possibilities for your creation, for example you can combine the Filaflex material with rigid materials like ABS/PLA for 3D printers with a dual extruder. To print with FilaFlex no kapton tape and heated bed are needed.

CAD design engineer Gyrobot has recently remixed Filaflex filament with Makerbot Translucent Red to create printable hand with «live hinge» flexible joints. It is both tough and rugged. Its fingers open automatically, no return tendons or springs needed. The stretchable tendons offers adaptive grip on irregular objects.

Por  Javier Penalva

Imaginarium prometió juguetes con posibilidad de personalización y ya tiene en marcha su tienda Imaginieer. En ella, cualquiera puede, vía web, diseñarse su propio juguete y recibirlo en casa directamente.

El servicio, que está preparado para que lo usen los más pequeños de la casa con su interfaz sencilla e intuitiva, permite ahora mismo configurar tres juguetes: un coche, una pulsera y un colgante. En todos los casos se parte de un modelo base y se pueden ir añadiendo pequeñas modificaciones así como decidir colores y acabados.

Cuando el niño o niña acaba de personalizar su juguete, el sistema creado por Main 3D envía el producto a ser impreso en 3D y luego se envía a casa del cliente. El material que se usa es PLA, que es biodegradable.

Los juguetes podrán personalizarse ya desde la web, pero también en las tiendas Imaginarium a partir del 15 de octubre. Los precios se estos juguetes serán de 25 euros para los coches, y de 20 euros la pulsera y colgante. En 2015 se añadirán más categorías de productos para personalizar.

fuente: http://www.xataka.com/accesorios/imaginieer-te-deja-disenar-tu-juguete-e-imaginarium-lo-imprime-en-3d-para-ti

Por Laura Ortega

La bioimpresión 3D es una de las áreas de investigación que mayor crecimiento ha experimentado en los últimos tiempos. Según un estudio reciente de IDTechEX, se estima que el sector de la bioimpresión 3D generará más de 6.000 millones de dólares anuales en diez años.

El desarrollo de técnicas de bioimpresión 3D mediante extrusión, abre un abanico inmenso de posibilidades para crear implantes y prótesis personalizados con materiales que no generan rechazo, y toda una fuente de tejidos celulares para órganos muy diversos.

Según explica José Becerra, director científico del Centro Andaluz de Nanomedicina y Biotecnología (BIONAND) y miembro del comité de expertos del European 3D Printing Summit, el avance de la impresión 3D en conocimientos de nanomedicina y biotecnología, junto con la aparición de nuevos materiales, permite observar un futuro a medio plazo que hace posible crear órganos y tejidos a medida, a partir de células obtenidas del propio paciente, por lo que no contemplará ningún problema de compatibilidad.

En la actualidad, la dificultad que radica en trasplantar este tipo de tejidos en las personas, es generar las miles de ramificaciones de los pequeños vasos sanguíneos necesarios para transportar la sangre a los órganos.

Una gran ventaja que está permitiendo hoy la bioimpresión 3D, es generar tejidos que permitan a las empresas y centros de investigación acelerar sus proyectos de investigación de fármacos para la cura de enfermedades hasta ahora incurables o de difícil tratamiento, como ocurre con el cáncer; así como ahorrar costes en los ensayos de fármacos, vacunas y pruebas de tolerancia sobre tejidos “humanizados”, en vez de en experimentar con animales.

El European 3D Printing Summit, se celebrará en el Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid los próximos 18 y 19 de febrero, reuniendo a expertos de todo el mundo como Carl Hauser, Onno A. Poonfort, Phil Reeves o José Greses, que analizarán las tendencias y retos de la impresión celular 3D y su aplicación en la medicina regenerativa de tejidos.

fuente: http://www.impresoras3d.com/la-bioimpresion-3d-abre-un-mundo-de-posibilidades-para-crear-implantes-y-protesis/