DefeXtiles Kev Ua Ntaub Ntawv Siv Cov Cuab Yeej by Jack Forman

DefeXtiles Kev Ua Ntaub Ntawv Siv Cov Cuab Yeej by Jack Forman is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Tooj in Tsim Duab 3D Luam Tawm thiab Khoom Luam 3D Competition Category.

ToojKev Luam 3D· 2021

DefeXtiles Kev Ua Ntaub Ntawv Siv Cov Cuab Yeej

by Jack Forman

Client: Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab

A' Design Award Tooj Winner in Kev Luam 3D Category

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The Design

About DefeXtiles Kev Ua Ntaub Ntawv Siv Cov Cuab Yeej

DefeXtiles yog ib txoj kev siv los tsim cov ntaub uas yaj thiab luv luv ntawm cov twj luam 3D uas ib txwm siv. Txoj kev no tswj kev tso cov khoom tawm tsawg dhau (under-extrusion) kom cov khoom me me tsim los ua cov qe me me nrog cov xov me me nyob nruab nrab ntawm lawv. Cov qhov khoob uas tshwm sim rov qab tuaj ua rau daim ntaub luam tawm zoo li daim ntaub tiag, ua rau muaj kev pa dhau tau (breathability), yaj thiab ntev tau, txawm yog siv cov khoom uas nyaum xws li polylactic acid los xij. Cov ntaub yog luam tawm ncaj nraim rau sab qaum ntawm lub rooj luam, yog li ntawd thiaj li ua tau cov qauv uas muaj plooj thiab nkhaus. Cov kev siv muaj xws li khaub ncaws, cov cuab yeej sib cuag tau (tangible interfaces), thiab lub pob ntaus badminton (shuttlecocks). Cov xov filament uas coj hluav taws xob tau tuaj yeem muab tso rau hauv daim ntaub los tsim cov kab hluav taws xob (circuit traces).

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Tooj

DefeXtiles Kev Ua Ntaub Ntawv Siv Cov Cuab Yeej yog tus yeej ntawm A' Design Award Tooj, ib qho kev lees paub muaj meej mom heev uas muab rau cov qauv tsim tshwj xeeb uas txawv los ntawm kev tsim tshiab, kev txawj tsim thiab kev ntse. Cov neeg yeej Tooj yog cov khoom muaj txuj ci heev thiab tsim tshiab heev uas ua pov thawj txog kev paub ntau, kev xav thiab kev txawj ua ntawm cov kws tsim qauv. DefeXtiles Kev Ua Ntaub Ntawv Siv Cov Cuab Yeej xav tias yuav yog ib qho khoom uas neeg hwm, qhuas thiab hlub, uas tshaj lij heev thiab tsim tshiab. Cov qauv tsim yeej A' Design Award Tooj no siv cov kev coj ua zoo tshaj plaws ntawm kev kos duab, kev tshawb fawb, kev tsim qauv thiab thev naus laus zis thiab zoo heev vim nws saib xyuas cov ntsiab lus. DefeXtiles Kev Ua Ntaub Ntawv Siv Cov Cuab Yeej ua tau raws li cov kev xav tau zoo kawg, kov cov kev xav, ntxias cov kev xav thiab txhawb kev xav paub.

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