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Presentazione della ricerca: “Studio e Fattibilità di Stampa 4D”

Buongiorno,

con questa comunicazione  viene dato avvio ad un sintetico e cadenzato aggiornamento in merito alla ricerca che chi scrive sta svolgendo presso ICTP – SciFabLab.

Tale ricerca riguarda la realizzazione, mediante stampanti tridimensionali a basso costo, di elementi plastici che risultino essere deformabili post stampa, e che, con opportune manipolazioni, possano suscitare, nell’osservatore, una percezione spaziale dell’oggetto molto diversa da quella dell’elemento in condizione di riposo.

La parte iniziale dello studio si pone come fine quello di realizzare semplici elementi deformabili in maniera reversibile, ovvero, entro predeterminate sollecitazioni, in maniera elastica.

La ricerca di elementi che presentino caratteristiche elastiche conduce “naturalmente” ad effettuare stampe di oggetti che riproducano le tradizionali molle meccaniche; l’intento è quello di ottenere informazioni, prima di carattere qualitativo, sul comportamento della struttura stampata in presenza di sollecitazione fisiche.

Nei successivi aggiornamenti verranno documentati questi primi oggetti realizzati.

 

Math Exhibition using Low-cost 3D Printers: introduction

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The inspiration for this project was born when a colleague of Enrique Canessa has referred to this site:
http://imaginary.org/hands-on/four-math-sculptures
where are displayed beautiful representations of curves or surfaces described by mathematical formulas, reproduced with kind of professional 3D printers.


Naturally, professional printers have accuracy and print quality that absolutely can’t be compared with low cost 3D printers.
We asked whether, applying various techniques and precautions, objects of a certain complexity that are normally made with professional printers, could be reproduced also with low-cost models and which was the quality that could be reached in prints.

 

Opening Ceremony / Inaugurazione

The Science Dissemination Unit of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) is pleased to invite you to the opening ceremony of the

ICTP Scientific FabLab

Tuesday 12 August 2014 2:30 pm

Venue:
ICTP Fermi Building (ground floor) via Beirut 6, Grignano Trieste 

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The first FabLab being established in Friuli-Venezia-Giulia, the new ICTP Scientific Fabrication Laboratory aims to play a significant role as a hub to support the creative work of scientists and scholars from the region.

It will host projects in the fields of science, education and sustainable development, with the availability of modern and versatile computer- controlled rapid prototyping tools, such as 3D printers, 3D scanners, laser engraving and cutting machines.

The ICTP ScifabLab will also welcome guest projects, offering free access to the local community of Makers in the evenings/weekends. 

Welcome to the ICTP Scientific Fabrication Laboratory!

“How to Make (Almost) Anything”

ICTP 3D Printing Lab evolving into a “Scientific FabLab”
ICTP has recently announced plans to expand its 3D Printing Lab managed by the Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) into a full-fledged creative space for people to design and build digital products with low-cost equipment.

The experimental space, known as a “fabrication laboratory” (or FabLab), provides small-scale manufacturing equipment such as laser cutters, low-cost 3D printers and printed circuit board milling machines for making “almost anything”, and is considered a key asset for developing new technological ideas and prototypes.

ICTP’s FabLab will play a significant role as a focal point to support the creative work of scientists and scholars.  This Scientific FabLab is to be devoted to creativity, invention and research,  and it will be open to all ICTP scientists and external subscribers interested in science for the benefit of the whole society. 
SDU has been a pioneer in using innovative, low-cost technologies to transfer scientific knowledge and education to and from the developing world.  Early 2013 they launched ICTP’s 3D Printing Lab with low-cost technologies. This activity was further supported by the First International Workshop on Low-cost 3D Printing for Science, Education and Sustainable Development, together with the publishing of a popular open book on the topic that has been then translated into multiple languages.

We foresee that ICTP’s Scientific FabLab will be exported to the developing world, specially across the ICTP’s research networks, and extended to empower scholars, scientists, and individuals there.  Such FabLabs will help them in designing, discussing and creating innovative low-cost devices, such as inter-linked tiny sensors to gather data from multiple places with the use of Arduino microcontrollers. The field of interaction between man and machine is also of special research interest within FabLabs.

For more details, please contact us at scifablab@ictp.it

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