3D Printing

 

The Immersive Education Initiative has been confirmed and will be coming to Paris, France this summer. The conference will address many topics surrounding the rather new immersive education initiative, including topics such as virtual reality, holograms, robotics, augmented reality, cybernetics, and more. The immersion conferences have a high reputation because of the various speakers and companies they bring in to speak every year. This year's conference will be even more exciting as it takes place in this beautiful city. More information about this event can be read at (http://summit.immersiveeducation.org/).

3D Printing is a way for us to print out three-dimensional objects. These objects are made by utilizing additive processes to layer and create the object. It is also being controlled by computers to deposit material onto a powder bed with inkjet printer heads. It allows for you to take any graphical image and turn it into a 3D image.



In this video it shows you that the 3D printers can in fact produce anything. For example, they show an ear being made by using a 3D printer. It is an example of bioprinting and is being used to create people's body's parts such as fingers ears and noses. The cells anchor onto the scaffold and slowly making tissue and the scaffold then goes away. The ear shown in the video takes about 4 hours to make and is made of something called "bio-ink".

  

It is very interesting that they are using this 3D technology to create human body parts. They are attempting to use this technology to create organs that are eventually going to be used in transplants somewhere along 10 years down the road. Bioprinting will allow for us to create thousands of any organ that we want. This will be revolutionary in being able to provide people with body parts that they need. They are first testing this on dropping skin cells over the wounded area as a first step towards integrating bio-printing technology.

Some commercial planes are equipped with air ducts that are created with 3D printers. These are not only a lot more lighter but also a lot more cheaper and affordable for airline companies. In order to do this or any other usages of 3D technology a blue print is processed and printed by a printer. They can use these printers to create literally anything in this day and age.

 People are also speculating the ability to 3D print food. They have already been able to create simple foods such as chocolate with 3D printing which sounds almost absurd. In addition, the 3D printer will soon be able to print other technologies such as Ipods according to those who are working closely with this innovative technology.

This tool was first only used as an industrial tool but now has gone mainstream. A commercial version of the 3D printer is actually available to the public for around $2200. The company is called MakerBot and was one of its kind as of 2013. The printer allows anyone to create anything using a SD card to upload blueprints that are then printed by the printer.