The Rising Revolution // The Future of 3D Printing

THE RISING REVOLUTION THE FUTURE OF 3D PRINTING

HOW 3D PRINTING WILL CHANGE THE WORLD?

By Wen-Huan Liu

THE FUTURE OF 3D PRINTING

FUTURE OF 3D PRINTING

How 3D Printing will change the world?

Contents

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 4

3D Printing Is Infinite

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What Can We Do In The Future?

FOR ARCHITECTURE 8

Build The Moon Base

FOR FOOD 10

Food In Space

FOR MEDICINE 13

Printing Body Parts

COLOPHON 14

Resources & Colophon

CONTENTS

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Introduction

3D Printing Is Infinite

3D printing is a technology for printing three-dimensional objects with a digital machine.

Nowadays, this technology is very common for humans to do many things such as printing furniture, jewelry, musical instruments, and many household products Therefore, 3D printing is gradually changing the manufacturing industry; it reduces tool using to save money, allows for mass customization, reduces waste in

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the production process...etc.

This new manufacturing type creates many whole new possibilities. Different fields of experts are using 3D printing to invent a brand new future.

This chapbook will talk about the future of 3D printing in the future 10 years. This new innovation will lead humans to a new era.

"More Fun Than a Hypercube of Monkeys" is a 3D printed sculpture that serves as a 3D projection of a collection of monkeys linked together in a 4D hypercube.

Photo Credit: Henry Segerman / Will Segerman

"3D printing has the potiential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything." —Barack Obama, U.S. President

3D PRINTING IS INFINITE

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What Can We Do In The Future?

With 30 years of innovation, solid objects have become easy to produce from digital files by 3D printers. So far, humans have successfully controlled and have started to bring it to a new level. On the other hand, why do we need to “print� the object if it can be made by standard production methods?

What materials do we use in 3D printing? Before most of living products and concrete objects were made of metal, plastic

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and natural materials like animals and plants. Many experts began to create a new way to prevent wasting natural energy , killing animals and copying organ tissue. When 3D printing technology was mature, it gave different professional fields new approaches to research and development. Food facories can print buildings, and in the medical field we can print human organs when we need them.

FUTURE OF 3D PRINTING

A Timeline of 3D printing

Building Parts,

A Working

DIY Kits For

3D-Printing

Layer by Layer

3D Kidney

3D Printers Enter

Prosthetic Jaw

The Market Place

Is Implanted

The Birth of

Engineered Organs

SLS Leads to Mass 3D Printing in

3D Printing

Bring New Advances

Customization in

To Medicine

Manufacturing

1990s

1984

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2000s

1992 1999

2002

Gold and Silver

2010s

2006

2009

2011

2012

1. SLS (Selective Laser sintering): SLS is the rapid prototyping technology of choice for a range of functional prototype applications, including those with snap fits, living hinges and other mechanical joints.

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Photo Credit: 3dprint.com

The Schematic Pictire of Lunar Base

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FOR ARCHITECTURE

FUTURE OF 3D PRINTING

For Architecture

Build The Moon Base European Space Agency Reiterates Its Plan to Build 3D Printed Base on the Moon For a while, the European Space Agency has been talking about the possibility of creating a base on the moon, using 3D printing for a large part of its construction. So far it’s been a lot of speculation, but this month the ESA reaffirmed that they are very serious about the plan—they intend to have a lunar base by the 2030s. At a recent symposium entitled “Moon 2020–2030: A New Era of Coordinated and Robotic Exploration,” the agency laid out

plans for a series of missions, starting in the early 2020s, that will hopefully culminate in a human-occupied moon base.

The Lunar Base Printing Machine

BUILD THE MOON BASE

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For Food

Food In Space

the possibility of using a "3D printer" on deep space missions.

NASA has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to Systems and Materials Research Consultancy of Austin, Texas to study the feasibility of using additive manufacturing, better known as 3D printing, for making food in space. Systems and Materials Research Consultancy will conduct a study for the

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development of a 3D printed food system for long duration space missions. Phase I SBIR proposals are very early stage concepts that may or may not mature into actual systems. This food printing technology may result in a phase II study, which still will be several years from being tested on an actual space flight.

Photo Credit: Made in Space

NASA and a Texas company are exploring

Aaron Kemmer stares through the windows of the Microgravity Science Glovebox with the Zero-G 3D Printer enclosed.

Additive manufacturing offers opportunities to get the best fit, form and delivery systems of materials for deep space travel.

FOOD IN SPACE

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LUNG 3D lung printing may improve the quality of life for cancer patients in the future.

EYES Italian Researchers Expect 3D Printed Eyes by 2027, Providing Enhanced Vision & WiFi Connection.

HEART Cardiologists use 3D printing topersonalize treatment for heart disease.

Researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have developed a new printer they’re calling the Integrated Tissue and Organ Printing System.

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FOR MEDICINE

FUTURE OF 3D PRINTING

For Medicine

Printing Body Parts

Organs on Demand? 3D Printers Could Build Hearts, Arteries...

Off-the-shelf 3D printers could one day help create living organs to aid in repairing the human body, researchers say.

Scientists have developed a way to 3D print models of various anatomical structures, including hearts, brains, arteries and bones. In the future, this process could be used to

create 3D-printed soft implants in which living tissue can grow to form organs. Another application for this innovative technology could be food printers, reminiscent of the replicators seen on the TV show "Star Trek," the scientists added.

PRITING BODY PARTS

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Colophon

RESOURCES NBC News "Artist Uses 3-D Printing to Create 'Shadows' of 4-D Objects - NBC News." NBC News. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.

"The President’s Call for 3D-Printing." Maga Design Blog. N.p., 14 Feb. 2013. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.

"European Space Agency Reiterates Its Plan to Build 3D Printed Base on the Moon." 3DPrintcom. N.p., 30 Dec. 2015. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.

Dunbar, Brian. NASA. NASA, 23 May 2013. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.

"How 3D Printers Could Reinvent NASA Space Food." Space.com.

N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.

Q, By Charles. "Organs on Demand? 3D Printers Could Build Hearts, Arteries." LiveScience. TechMedia Network, 23 Oct. 2015. Web. 14 Mar. 2016.

COLOPHON Designer: Wen-Huan Liu | Instructor: David Hake Degree: MFA | Class: Type System Typefaces: Gibson, Tisa Pro Paper: Epson Premium Presentation Paper Matte Software: Photoshop, Indesign, Illustrator

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Designer: Wen-Huan Liu Instructor: David Hake Degree: MFA Class: Type System