Starting with 3d printing in the bucky lab is the latest feature we are able to offer our students, while the printer for the course that will be hosted by Paul de Ruiter from CAD will arrive while we write this ( we hope so), our Dr. Bucky Lab was lucky to receive his printer for his facade consulting office already a week earlier.
Beeing busy to increase his 3D modelling skills and tweaking the machine to its best performance he already started to produce his own tools. We love sharing and the internet based platform thingiverse is the best place to share own designs he already uploaded his first part, available to the world.
So for the future we can also share the things we develop and print with others on this forum, have a look and see all the other parts that are available out there.
Here is the Screwdriver handle he made : http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:64475
this blog is dedicated to the Bucky Lab from the TU Delft faculty of Architecture. Within the mastercourse we design, develop and at the end build architecture and building construction related prototypes. Its a "get your hands dirty" approach in which the students learn how to translate concepts from sketch into working prototypes. We try to live the spirit of buckminster fuller: what ever you can imagine, you can also build!