Designosaurus

An expo solely for mak­ing things the indus­trial way. Lots of molds, lasers and mechan­i­cal arms to see here. For me that got pretty old fast, then we got into what must have been the 3D printing/​student hall. Now this is waaaaaay better.

These guys had rigged an SLR to a Pico Pro­jec­tor and used it as a 3D scan­ner. The whole kit costs 2,000 Euro which isn’t that bad. You get the soft­ware, pro­jec­tor, cam­era, tri­pod and a turntable for plac­ing your scan­ning object on. The pro­jec­tor projects a grid image on the object and you rotate the turntable at even inter­vals to take pic­tures which can then be stitched together. It sounds a lit­tle more involved than the demo we got at school with the hand­held 3D scan gun but a lot cheaper.

This replica air­craft engine with props was 3D printed. What the heck?

Objet by far had one of the coolest booths. The res­o­lu­tion is superb and you can really feel the mate­r­ial dif­fer­ences in the lighter hard plas­tic and black rub­ber printing.

The clear half of this screw dri­ver was printed and fits per­fectly onto the mass man­u­fac­tured half AND it worked.

This group of stu­dents was spon­sored by Bosch to enter into some com­pe­ti­tion where you design a vehi­cle to be dri­ven by a sin­gle screw­driver. There’s was this crazy 3D printed ham­mer­head trike… thing.

This e-​​bike frame (with inter­nal­ized chain!?) was entirely 3d printed. And I thought our bike model was expensive.

And this lit­tle guy is also 3D printed, hap­pens to be made of tita­nium and is the size of a small marble.