Category Archives: IC.1 Digital Fabrication

3d-printed Nodes

By petr.novikov | Published: January 2, 2012

Sliding Structure

The starting point was the choice of the power that puts the model in motion – this power is gravity. The model slides down a rope and the mechanism converts the energy of sliding to rotate the joints. That’s why we needed to 3d print not only joints, but also the gears. Furthermore we needed to laser cut other details, to make the process more profitable. The joints were produced in the way that the model can rotate infinitely.

Printed details:

Upper joints: 6
Lower joints: 6
45 degrees inclinated gears: 2
13 degrees inclinated gears: 6

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Milling Information

By petr.novikov | Published: January 2, 2012

Infomilling

Because of the specifications of the Valchromat material, and because we could use different tool sizes we thought that this assignment is a very good way to display information. We decided to display information about laaC students, specifically their origin.
So we placed a worldmap on top of our piece of material. We placed laaC in the middle, and put points on top of the countries where the laaC students come from, then connected these points with IaaC.
We selected the depths of the cuts in the way that, on each “crest” is on a different color level, so circles and straight lines are drawn by colors.

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3D PRINTING – INTERLOCKING CURVES

By jayanthimala.gokulrajkailash | Published: December 31, 2011

Team : Hunia tarck tomoum,Yaping chen & Jayanthimala Thangarajan Gokulraj kailash

Aim   :  To design joints for 6mm dia rods to create flexible structures.

Joint 1 –

Two similar boomerang shaped element interlocked within a slit in them forms the first joint. The two elements are free to rotate within the limited axis. Each arm of both the elements can accommodate one 6mm Dia rod. The outcomes of these joints in more number of combinations are unpredictable.

Joint 2 –The second joint is made up of two elements which are unified by a ball and socket joint . out of the 3 arms of the joint , one arm is designned to rotate along its own axis and this is facilitated by the ball and socket joint.

Working of the joints –

Joint 1 -
Joint 2 -

Final assembly of the joints –

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MILLING IN VALCHROMAT

By swetha | Published: December 31, 2011



The milling exercise was developed to make us familiar with the milling machine and explore the myriad ways of using a multi layered and coloured valcromat panel (our assigned material for milling).Developed on the concept of “Abstract depicting of the properties of a silk cloth” ; 2 tools, a 26 mm flat edge tool  and later a 12mm tool was used for parallel finishing to achieve the desired effect.

Time taken : 1 hour and 10 min.

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EMERGENCE- CHAOS TO COMPLEXITY

By swetha | Published: December 31, 2011

LASER CUTTING: LAMP

The project of the lamp was an exercise to get familiar with the Laser cutter.The main particularity of the laser cutter as a fabrication technology is that it is exclusively used on sheet materials. Ours material is Methacrylate ribbing. Ribbing as a technique comprises quite an open range of possibilities.Our idea is founded on the reproduction of the same piece that fit with the other, equal to each other, its could multiply the light with the curved shape and dynamics . The base that holds the lamp and to which the pieces are hooked, it follows the same soft forms of the whole. The lamp was developed on the concept of “interlocking”, such that they can be dismantled and re-assembled according to user preference. A base module was created and each piece interlinked with it to bring out the desired form.

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