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Fabrication process

This work is a collaboration between Ayber Gülfer and Jordi Portell and describes the fabrication process for the Lego-like-brick exercise in the Digital Fabrication Tools class. The nurbs modell was converted to a mesh and exported as *.stl in order to send it to the fabrication laboratory. We rendered the modell with Blender 2.54 to [...]

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A beehive as a case study for additive digital fabrication?

Bees One can see bees as perfect, small machines fabricating with high precision wax honeycombs to protect their larvae and store honey and pollen. They are ‘programmed’ to reproduce in an endless series a very optimised structure of hexagonal cells with very thin walls. This construction is fabricated by bees producing their own construction material [...]

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