DefeXtiles Teknika Famokarana Lamba by Jack Forman

DefeXtiles Teknika Famokarana Lamba by Jack Forman is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Varahina in Famolavolana Endrika sy Vokatra Vita Pirinty 3D Competition Category.

VarahinaPirinty 3D· 2021

DefeXtiles Teknika Famokarana Lamba

by Jack Forman

Client: Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab

A' Design Award Varahina Winner in Pirinty 3D Category

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The Design

About DefeXtiles Teknika Famokarana Lamba

DefeXtiles dia teknika iray natao hamokarana lamba manify sady mora mifoloaka amin'ny alalan'ny mpanonta 3D mahazatra. Ity fomba ity dia mifehy ny fivoahan'ny kojakoja tsy ampy (under-extrusion) mba hahatonga ny fisian'ny bitika kely miaraka amin'ny kofehy manify eo anelanelany. Ny elanelana miverimberina vokatr'izany dia manome an'ilay lamba natonta endrika mitovitovy amin'ny lamba nozairina, fahafahana mivoaka rivotra, hafanginana ary fahatarafan-damba, na dia eo aza ny fampiasana akora mafy toy ny polylactic acid. Ny lamba dia natonta mitsangana miorina amin'ny sisin'ny takelaka fanontana, ka azo natao noho izany ny endrika voafolaka sy miolakolaka. Anisan'ny fampiharana azy ny fitafiana, ny finday azo tsapain-tanana, ary ny "shuttlecock" (baolina badminton). Ny kofehy mpitondra herinaratra (conductive filament) kosa dia azo apetraka anatin'ilay lamba mba hametrahana lalan-jiro (circuit traces).

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Varahina

Nandresy ny A' Design Award Varahina ny famolavolana DefeXtiles Teknika Famokarana Lamba, fankasitrahana malaza be omena ny famolavolana miavaka izay mampiavaka ny fahaiza-mamorona, ny fahazotoana ary ny fahamaotinan-tsaina. Ny mpandresy Varahina dia zavatra vita tanana mahay dia mahay ary mamorona mivantana izay manamafy ny traikefa be dia be, ny sarintsaina ary ny fahaizan-kafoy an'ny mpamolavola azy. Andrasana ho zavatra ankasitrahana be, ankafizina ary tiana, mahay amin'ny asa sady vaovao ny famolavolana DefeXtiles Teknika Famokarana Lamba. Ity famolavolana nandresy ny A' Design Award Varahina ity dia mitahiry ny fomba fanao tsara indrindra amin'ny zavakanto, ny siansa, ny famolavolana ary ny teknolojia, ary tsara indrindra amin'ny fitandremana ny antsipirihany. Ny famolavolana DefeXtiles Teknika Famokarana Lamba dia mahafa-po ny filana tsara, mikasika ny faniriana, mahasarika ny fihetseham-po ary misarika ny fahalianana.

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