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DefeXtiles Technika Wytwarzania Tekstyliów by Jack Forman

DefeXtiles Technika Wytwarzania Tekstyliów by Jack Forman is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Brązowa Nagroda A' Design Award in Druk 3D Competition Category.


BrązowaDruk 3D· 2021

DefeXtiles Technika Wytwarzania Tekstyliów

by Jack Forman

Client: Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab

Brązowa Nagroda A' Design Award Winner in Druk 3D Category

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The Design

About DefeXtiles Technika Wytwarzania Tekstyliów

DefeXtiles to technika wytwarzania cienkich, elastycznych tekstyliów na standardowych drukarkach 3D. Metoda ta kontroluje niedostateczną ekstruzję, dzięki czemu powstają małe grudki połączone cienkimi niciami. Powstałe okresowe przerwy nadają wydrukowanej tkaninie wygląd przypominający tekstylia, przewiewność, elastyczność i rozciągliwość, nawet w przypadku sztywnych materiałów, takich jak kwas polimlekowy. Tekstylia drukowane są prostopadle do platformy roboczej, dzięki czemu możliwe jest tworzenie form plisowanych i zakrzywionych. Zastosowania obejmują odzież, interfejsy dotykowe oraz lotki do badmintona. Przewodzący filament może wbudować ścieżki obwodów elektrycznych w strukturę tkaniny.

The Recognition

About the Brązowa Nagroda A' Design Award

DefeXtiles Technika Wytwarzania Tekstyliów to laureat Brązowej Nagrody A' Design Award, wysoce prestiżowego wyróżnienia przyznawanego znakomitym projektom wyróżniającym się kreatywnością, pomysłowością i przenikliwością. Laureaci Brązowej Nagrody to w pełni utalentowane i uderzająco twórcze artefakty, które poświadczają ogromne doświadczenie, wyobraźnię i zaradność ich twórców. DefeXtiles Technika Wytwarzania Tekstyliów ma być wysoko cenionym, podziwianym i drogim sercu przedmiotem, który jest wyjątkowo profesjonalny i innowacyjny. Ten projekt nagrodzony Brązową Nagrodą A' Design Award łączy najlepsze praktyki w sztuce, nauce, designie i technologii oraz jest doskonały dzięki dbałości o szczegóły. DefeXtiles Technika Wytwarzania Tekstyliów znakomicie zaspokaja potrzeby, porusza pragnienia, czaruje uczucia i przemawia do ciekawości.

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

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