Day 1_Continued
After the introduction process, we were given a tour and allowed to select studios. Although it's nice to sometimes look out the window and remind yourself that you are in a "city that never sleeps," I have selected a basement studio along with my dear friend Sarah Ahmad, whose beautiful work can be seen by clicking here. Potentially, we might be working with video projections and installation, so the basement allows us to control lighting in a more effective way.
The studios are not huge, but the facility is impressive. During our tour, we were shown the Potter-bot, a rapid prototyping and 3D printing type technology that "prints" using clay to create forms from digital designs, which could potentially be molded and then reproduced or cast in metal or plastic.
Another level of the facility houses a 3D print and laser studio with CNC, where more prototyping or creation can exist from digital technology. Some of these 3D printers use a process called sintering, which in my opinion is far superior to extrusion building. 3D printing breaks down into two categories, sintering and extrusion. Extrusion is much like a pastry bag that deposits material in a layering effect to "build" forms. Sintering uses lasers, light, or heat the melt materials into forms layer by layer by layer or uses a glue like substance to adhere layers as it builds upwards. One of the great benefits to this is the lack of need for "supports" to be printed and later removed from the final object. More information on this can be found by accessing my blog on 3D printing.
Finally, we were introduced to the wood shop, metal shop, and the lighting and film studio and computer labs. All are fully equipped to produce much of anything we could dream up. It's an exciting start to the next month in NYC.
In the coming days we will look at the procedures and equipment in depth and I'll post videos of all unique and new technologies being used in the facility.
The studios are not huge, but the facility is impressive. During our tour, we were shown the Potter-bot, a rapid prototyping and 3D printing type technology that "prints" using clay to create forms from digital designs, which could potentially be molded and then reproduced or cast in metal or plastic.
Another level of the facility houses a 3D print and laser studio with CNC, where more prototyping or creation can exist from digital technology. Some of these 3D printers use a process called sintering, which in my opinion is far superior to extrusion building. 3D printing breaks down into two categories, sintering and extrusion. Extrusion is much like a pastry bag that deposits material in a layering effect to "build" forms. Sintering uses lasers, light, or heat the melt materials into forms layer by layer by layer or uses a glue like substance to adhere layers as it builds upwards. One of the great benefits to this is the lack of need for "supports" to be printed and later removed from the final object. More information on this can be found by accessing my blog on 3D printing.
Finally, we were introduced to the wood shop, metal shop, and the lighting and film studio and computer labs. All are fully equipped to produce much of anything we could dream up. It's an exciting start to the next month in NYC.
In the coming days we will look at the procedures and equipment in depth and I'll post videos of all unique and new technologies being used in the facility.
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