DefeXtiles Ọrụ Isi: Usoro Imepụta Akwa Ihe Ejiji by Jack Forman

DefeXtiles Ọrụ Isi: Usoro Imepụta Akwa Ihe Ejiji by Jack Forman is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz in Nhazi Ụdị Ebipụtara na 3D na Ngwaahịa Competition Category.

BronzMbipụta 3D· 2021

DefeXtiles Ọrụ Isi: Usoro Imepụta Akwa Ihe Ejiji

by Jack Forman

Client: Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab

Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz Winner in Mbipụta 3D Category

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The Design

About DefeXtiles Ọrụ Isi: Usoro Imepụta Akwa Ihe Ejiji

Ederede Akwụkwọ: DefeXtiles bụ usoro maka imepụta akwa ihe ejiji dị mfe na nke na-agbanwe agbanwe na igwe mgbaputa 3D nkịtị. Usoro a na-achịkwa mwepụta ntakịrị nke na-eme ka obere ntutu wụọ na eriri dị nro dị n'etiti ha. Oghere ndị a na-apụta n'usoro na-enye akwa ejiji ahụ oyiyi dị ka akwa nkịtị, ikike iku ume, mfe agbanwe na ịdọrọ, ọ bụrụsi n'ihe ndị siri ike dị ka polylactic acid. A na-agbaputa akwa ihe ejiji ndị a n'ụzọ kwụ ọtọ n'ala mgbaputa, nke na-eme ka ọ ga-ekwe omume ịmepụta akụkụ ndị a gbagọrọ agbagọ ma bụrụ nke gbara ọkirikiri. Ojiji ya gụnyere uwe, ihe nkwụnye aka a na-emetụ aka, na bọọlụ shuttlecock. Eriri na-eduzi ọkụ eletriki nwere ike itinye ahịrị eletriki n'ime akwa ahụ.

The Recognition

About the Ihe Nrite A' Design Award nke Bronz

DefeXtiles Ọrụ Isi: Usoro Imepụta Akwa Ihe Ejiji meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz, nnabata dị oke ugwu e nyere design ndị pụtara ìhè nke a ma ama maka nzụlite ihe, ọgụgụ isi na nghọta. Ndị meriri na Bronz bụ ihe e mere nke ndị nwere nka nke ukwuu ma dị mma n'imepụta nke na-egosi ahụmahụ buru ibu, echiche na ọgụgụ isi nke ndị designer ha. A na-atụ anya na DefeXtiles Ọrụ Isi: Usoro Imepụta Akwa Ihe Ejiji ga-abụ ihe a na-asọpụrụ nke ukwuu, a na-eto na a hụrụ n'anya, nke dị oke ọrụ ma dị ọhụrụ. Design a meriri A' Design Award nke Bronz na-agụnye ụzọ kacha mma n'ime nka, sayensị, design na teknụzụ, ma dị mma nke ukwuu maka nlebara anya ya n'obere ihe. DefeXtiles Ọrụ Isi: Usoro Imepụta Akwa Ihe Ejiji na-emezu mkpa nke ọma, na-emetụ ọchịchọ aka, na-adọrọ mmetụta obi ma na-adọta ọchịchọ ịmara.

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