3D printed titanium parts

[alaskun]

I'd love to see how this thread would've played out in 2006

[G]

steel 

Spend lots of money 3D printing dropouts then ask a drunk gorilla to weld it into a frame between shots?


G.

[alaskun]

what do you think about that amorphous foil/ribbon bonded frame?
 if it's not bs, no more need for skilled welders, or welders at all...

[alaskun]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZNTzkAR1Ho


some of these guys should be showing off a bike soon...

Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing

TU Delft team create 3D printed bicycles

Oct 29, 2015

A  team of five TU Delft students are working on 3D-printing a bicycle. Advantages of a 3D printed bicycle is that the bike can be made exactly every individual’s specifications and it is cheaper than a traditional bike.

The bike frame is made out of stainless steel, newspaper AD reports. This means it is heavier than the current aluminium bikes. But that does not mean this will always be the case – 3D printers are capable of working with all kinds of organic forms and using different materials can result in a lighter bicycle.

This bicycle is the successor of the previously 3D printed bridge, which will be placed in Amsterdam in 2017. It forms part of a collaboration between Technical Universities and the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan solutions, in which TU students work on printing practical objects from everyday life.

“We are now printing full-time”, Stef de Groot, one of the students working on the bike, said to the newspaper. “I expect the bike will be complete in two to three weeks.”

This is still just an experiment however. Commercial production is still far in the future, according to Jouke Verlinden, professor of Industrial design at the Technical University.

I wonder if they're actually going to polish it, or just leave it looking like herpes/warts

[alaskun]

probably will be polished-looking from a distance...

MX3D Open Day

26/10/2015

...For safety the printing was totally enclosed in dark welding curtains to protect the visitor’s eyes. We managed to stick a poster of renders of the bike to one of the welding curtains so that people could at least see what we were printing even if it was not possible for them to watch the printing itself...

[MEAT]

It seems you give someone a printer and the near unlimited potential for geometry and detail and they either make another spiders web or something that looks exactly like a traditionally made part....

[alaskun]

diatoms, man

http://elise.de/documents/ELiSE_AM_web_DE.pdf
http://elise.de/documents/ELiSE_Brochure_web_EN.pdf

[alaskun]

DMLS vs EBM titanium (bike) parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO6sfSU5aQA
http://pencerw.com/feed/2015/11/4/dmls-vs-ebm-titanium-parts

-shows him pulling support material off of the seatpost tops

40 minute video on a stem he's designing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKdgIy5W6Tw
Lattice design workflow, part 3: Integrating full mechanical features
http://pencerw.com/feed/2015/11/6/lattice-design-workflow-part-3-integrating-full-mechanical-features
2015.11.6


I wonder how flexy the clamp areas will be - even solid ti things thicker than that flex/pinch easily.  will it be a problem here?


reminds me of this one

[alaskun]

I like how the STA-gusset styling seems to be so common with this stuff. GT-style seatpost/toptube junctions too.



Orbitrec, a titanium 3D printed road bike with built-in sensors and IoT connectivity unveiled at CES2016
Jan 5, 2016
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20160105-orbitrec-a-titanium-3d-printed-bike-with-built-in-sensors-and-iot-connectivity-ces2016.html
https://xon.cerevo.com/en/orbitrec/

Debuting at CES 2016 – ORBITREC, a Connected, 3D Printed Road Bike and XON RIDE-1 an Advanced Sensor Module for Bikes
https://info-en-blog.cerevo.com/2016/01/05/243/
video - http://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/cerevo-unveils-first-connected-3d-printed-bike/







Eventually the asians will put sensors in flatland bikes, and then it's only a matter of time before we have flatlanding robots. Spinning, scuffing, incredibly/inhumanly fast or slow stuff... Programmable combos... It's going to happen. 

[LukeTom]

Not titanium, but 3D printed, and really cool. http://hackaday.com/2016/01/11/3d-printed-tourbillon-clock/ shows a 3d printed Tourbillon Clock, I found it really impressive

[alaskun]

I saw that the other day too, but didn't see the videos. This one was... therapeutic? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3p25T6YlQc
sooo satisfying watching it come together piece by piece. pins, gears, spacers... puzzling

The coily bits make me think of this





I usually don't pay attention to plastic stuff because there's just so much of it. I saw this at the same time though...

Audi building 3D printed titanium/aluminum rover to drive across the moon

http://microsites.audi.com/mission-to-the-moon/audi-category/mission/
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20160111-audi-building-3d-printed-rover-to-drive-across-the-moon.html

...a functional prototype is already in the works, and was revealed today at the Detroit Auto Show, where its four-wheeled, Wall-E-esque body zipped around on the showroom floor. In order to ensure that the Audi Lunar Quattro is rugged enough to withstand a lunar landing and then continue to face the elements throughout its journey, Audi and the Part Time Scientists have been working with metal 3D printing technology, constructing nearly the entire rover out of 3D printed aluminum and titanium.

3D printing also enabled the scientists to manufacture special hollow structural  components to route the wiring—something that would not be possible with CNC milling or other traditional manufacturing techniques. “It's not possible from the axis of freedom," said Robert Böhme, CEO of PT Scientists. "The parts are like one millimeter thick.”..

and there was just this the other day...

http://www.engadget.com/2016/01/07/planetary-resources-meteorite-print-3D-systems/

..showcased the first ever 3D printed object from asteroid metal as a sort of proof-of-concept of what might be common in space mining in the future.

The raw material used for the 3D print was taken from an asteroid sourced from the Campo Del Cielo impact crater in Argentina and is made up of iron, nickel, and cobalt. From there, parts of the asteroid were pulverized and powdered..

Which do you think will come first; asteroid mining/self-printing metal satellites - SpiderFab: Architecture for On-Orbit Construction of Kilometer-Scale Apertures
- or flatlanding robots?



Disney Software Makes It Easy to Design and Print Custom Walking Robots - Interactive Design of 3D Printable Robotic Creatures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xauEexkgYWY
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/robotics-software/disney-software-design-and-print-custom-walking-robots
https://www.disneyresearch.com/publication/interactive-design-of-3d-printable-robotic-creatures/

that video doesn't look too much different from the bike app clips.     plus, at ~1:22 ;
"...in this way, the user can create characteristic walking motions that convey personality and style..."

it's going to happen.

+ this one which I thought of when I saw the clock you posted
Computational Design of Mechanical Characters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfznnKUwywQ
https://www.disneyresearch.com/project/mechanical-characters/

[alaskun]

nothing new, just trying to counter my shitty posts elsewhere

this one must have turned out horrible.  mx3d is apparently known for being all about marketing (bridges) instead of follow-through. A lot of people said they didn't expect this bike to actually be finished, and as far as I can find, it hasn't.










ti










http://dailyfusion.net/2013/11/ornl-uses-titanium-to-make-tiny-uav-engines-hugely-efficient-25105/









this one makes me think about darpa/lockheed martin/boston dynamics, and hidden/integrated suspension/brake lines/valves. No more visible lines/springs/pistons...

[alaskun]

"Scalmalloy® is Airbus Group’s second-generation aluminummagnesium-scandium alloy (AlMgSc) alloy."

Future Watch: Airbus APWorks 3D printed, integrated Stem
jan 16 2016
http://www.mtb-news.de/news/2016/01/16/die-zukunft-auf-dem-pruefstand-airbus-apworks-3d-gedruckter-integrierter-vorbau/










they show a video/pictures of it being destructive tested on a stampy rig, too






somebody should send this one to mat hoffman
http://www.3ders.org/articles/20160117-paralysed-mountain-biker-tom-wheeler-now-racing-again-thanks-to-3d-printed-arm-brace.html

[alaskun]

I can't find anything out about this one

http://blogs.jccc.edu/lcline/2015/12/09/autodesk-university-2015-las-vegas-nv/




I think it's related to autodesk/dreamcatcher stuff...

ABS plastic prototype of dreamcatcher bike stem. Optimized for titanium

[Aesop Rock]

They need to learn how to size a chain properly.