DefeXtiles Teicníc Déantúsaíochta Teicstíle by Jack Forman

DefeXtiles Teicníc Déantúsaíochta Teicstíle by Jack Forman is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Duais Umha A' Design Award in Dealbhadh Cruthan agus Thoraidhean Clò-bhualaidh 3D Competition Category.

UmhaClò-bhualadh 3D· 2021

DefeXtiles Teicníc Déantúsaíochta Teicstíle

by Jack Forman

Client: Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab

Duais Umha A' Design Award Winner in Clò-bhualadh 3D Category

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The Design

About DefeXtiles Teicníc Déantúsaíochta Teicstíle

Is teicníc é DefeXtiles chun teicstílí tanaí solúbtha a tháirgeadh ar chlódóirí 3D caighdeánacha. Rialaíonn an modh seo an fo-easbhrú ionas go bhfoirmíonn meallta beaga le snáitheanna míne eatarthu. Tugann na bearnaí tréimhsiúla a thagann as seo cuma teicstíleach, análaitheacht, solúbthacht agus sín don éadach clóite, fiú le hábhair righne mar aigéad polalachtach. Clóitear na teicstílí go hingearach leis an leaba chló, agus mar sin is féidir foirmeacha filltithe agus cuartha a dhéanamh. I measc na bhfeidhmeanna tá éadaí, comhéadain inláimhsithe agus vólaí (shuttlecocks). Is féidir le fibín seolúil rianta ciorcaid a leabú san éadach.

The Recognition

About the Duais Umha A' Design Award

Tha DefeXtiles Teicníc Déantúsaíochta Teicstíle air Duais Umha A' Design Award a bhuannachadh, aithneachadh gu math urramach a bheirear do dhealbhaidhean sònraichte a tha air an comharrachadh le cruthachalachd, innleachd agus geurchuis. Tha buannaichean Umha nan obraichean gu math sgileil agus gu sònraichte cruthachail a dhearbhas eòlas farsaing, mac-meanmna agus tapachd an luchd-dealbhaidh. Thathar an dùil gum bi DefeXtiles Teicníc Déantúsaíochta Teicstíle na nì air a bheil mòran meas, ion-mholta agus gràdhach, a tha gu sònraichte proifeiseanta agus ùr-ghnàthach. Tha an dealbhadh seo a bhuannaich Duais Umha A' Design Award a' cur nan cleachdaidhean as fheàrr ann an ealain, saidheans, dealbhadh agus teicneolas an gnìomh, agus tha e sàr-mhath airson an aire do mhion-fhiosrachadh. Bidh DefeXtiles Teicníc Déantúsaíochta Teicstíle a' sàsachadh fheumalachdan gu h-iongantach, a' suathadh ri miannan, a' tàladh faireachdainnean agus a' togail fiosrachd.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: DefeXtiles is a rapid and low-cost technique to produce realistic high-fidelity textiles on 3D printers. In this work, we demonstrate that under-extrusion defects can be finely controlled to quickly print thin flexible textiles into complex 3D shapes. Our approach enables a myriad of applications including printing full sized garments, deformable tangible interfaces, and ultra-tough shuttlecocks.
Tags: textile, 3d print, lace, advanced manufacturing, fabric
Production Technology: In this paper, we demonstrate that under-extrusion can be leveraged to quickly print thin, flexible, textiles. Specifically, as the extrusion multiplier decreases, there exists an ideal regime where globs form with fine strands connecting them. The periodic gaps that arise from printing this way not only yields textile-like aesthetics and breathability, but also textile-like properties such as flexibility and stretchability even with classically rigid materials such as polylactic acid (PLA).
Design Challenge: To democratize access and ability to make 3D forms with textiles by developing a new technique that allows textiles to be 3D printed into complex 3-dimensional forms using unmodified commodity 3D printer and no new software.
Research: We present a new strategy, called DefeXtiles, to 3D print quasi-woven fabrics that are thin, flexible, and fast to fabricate. Since our approach prints the textiles perpendicular to the print bed, complex geometries can be produced including pleated, curved, and metamaterial structures. With our approach, a standard 3D printer can print decameters of fabric in a single print. The use of multi-material printers allows users to embed circuit traces into the textile via conductive filament.
Inspiration: For thousands of years, the manufacturing of textiles into shaped forms has remained largely the same; fiber becomes a fabric which is then constructed into a 3D object. The high-tech approach, machine knitting, uses expensive machines with a significant learning curve for use. The low-tech approach, classic sewing, requires painstaking processes. As such, there is a need for a fast and accessible approach to manufacture textiles into 3D forms.
Project Duration: Started in October 2019 in Cambridge Massachusettes, and finished in June 2020. The work will be presented and demoed at the ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium 2020.
Operation Flow: This work has introduced a new approach to quickly print thin, flexible textiles composed of common 3D printing ma-terials with an unmodified 3D printer. Our approach com-bines the flexible, thin, and breathable properties of textiles with the affordances of 3D printing: rapid iteration, hands-free fabrication, and computer aided design. Through char-acterization, we demonstrate how our approach enables tun-ing of the mechanical and aesthetic properties through mate-rial and parameter selection. Through a series of applica-tions, we demonstrated the potential applicability of our approach for smart textiles, tangible online shopping, toys, fabric design, and everyday life.
Team Members: Jack Forman, Mustafa Doga Dogan, Hamilton Foryseth and Hiroshi Ishii