DefeXtiles Mahi Matua: Tikanga Hanga Kaakahu by Jack Forman

DefeXtiles Mahi Matua: Tikanga Hanga Kaakahu by Jack Forman is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 A' Design Award Parahi in Hoahoa Āhua Tā Āhua-Toru me ngā Hua Competition Category.

ParahiTā Āhua-Toru· 2021

DefeXtiles Mahi Matua: Tikanga Hanga Kaakahu

by Jack Forman

Client: Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab

A' Design Award Parahi Winner in Tā Āhua-Toru Category

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The Design

About DefeXtiles Mahi Matua: Tikanga Hanga Kaakahu

Tuhinga Pukapuka: Ko DefeXtiles he tikanga mō te hanga kaakahu angiangi, ngāwari hoki i runga i ngā mīhini tā 3D paerewa. Ka whakahaeretia e te tikanga nei te kore-kume o te para, kia hangaia ai ngā porotiti iti me ngā aho angiangi i waenganui i a rātou. Ko ēnei āputa auau ka hōmai ki te kaakahu tāta te āhua o te kaakahu tūturu, te manawa, te ngāwari me te toro, ahakoa ki ngā rauemi pakari pēnei i te polylactic acid. Ka tāia ngā kaakahu kia whakapae ki te papa tā, nā reira ka taea te hanga ngā hōputu whakakōpekapeka me ngā hōputu piko. Ko ngā whakamahinga ka whai take ki ngā kākahu, ngā atanga pā-pono me ngā manu-poi (shuttlecocks). Ka taea e te filament kawe hiko te whakauru i ngā ara ara-iahiko ki roto i te kaakahu.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award Parahi

Ko DefeXtiles Mahi Matua: Tikanga Hanga Kaakahu te toa o te A' Design Award Parahi, he whakaaetanga tino whai mana e hoatu ana ki ngā hoahoa kōeke e tohua ana mā te auaha, te mahi mōhio me te whakaaro hōhonu. Ko ngā toa Parahi he mahi pukenga e rite ana, he auaha mīharo, e whakatūturu ana i te wheako nui, te whakaaro me te mōhio-ā-ringa o ā rātou kaihoahoa. E tūmanakohia ana ko DefeXtiles Mahi Matua: Tikanga Hanga Kaakahu he taonga whakanuia, whakamīharotia, aroha nui, he ngaio, he auaha hoki. Ko tēnei hoahoa i toa i te Parahi e whakauru ana i ngā tikanga pai rawa i te toi, te pūtaiao, te hoahoa me te hangarau, ā, he tino mīharo ki ngā taipitopito. Ka whakatutuki a DefeXtiles Mahi Matua: Tikanga Hanga Kaakahu i ngā hiahia, ka pā ki ngā hiahia, ka whakaoho i ngā kare-ā-roto, ā, ka kume i te pākiki.

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