Silevera Masela · 2021
DefeXtiles Mokhoa oa ho Etsa Lesela
by Jack Forman
- Moputso oa Silevera oa A' Design Award 2021 in Masela
- CLIENT: Tangible Media Group, Mit Media Lab
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 53,867
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About DefeXtiles Mokhoa oa ho Etsa Lesela
DefeXtiles ke mokhoa oa ho etsa lesela o hlahisang masela a masesaane le a fetohang habonolo ho li-printer tsa mophara tse tloaelehileng tsa 3D. Mokhoa ona o laola ho ntšoa ha thepa hore libolo tse nyenyane li thehe, e le hore ho be le mesifa e metle pakeng tsa tsona. Likheo tsena tse hlahang khafetsa li fana ka ponahalo ea lesela le lohiloeng, ho phefumoloha, ho fetoha habonolo le ho otlolloha, esita le ka thepa e thata joalo ka polylactic acid. Lesela le hatisoa le lebisitse ka lehlakoreng le tobileng la bethe ea ho hatisa, kahoo libopeho tse mena-menang, tse kobehileng le tse rarahaneng li ka etsoa. Litšebeliso li kenyelletsa liaparo, li-interface tse tšoaroang le lipapali.
About the Moputso oa Silevera oa A' Design Award
DefeXtiles Mokhoa oa ho Etsa Lesela ke mohapi oa Moputso oa Silevera oa A' Design Award, kananelo e hlomphehang haholo e fuoang meralo e phahameng ka ho fetesisa, e ntle le e tsosang maikutlo. Bahapi ba Silevera ke mesebetsi e khanyang haholo le e nang le boqapi bo ikhethang e bontšang botsebi, talenta le bohlale ba baqapi ba eona. DefeXtiles Mokhoa oa ho Etsa Lesela e lebelletsoe ho ba mosebetsi o motle, oa mohlala, o nang le boprofeshenale bo bonahalang le mehopolo e mecha e tebileng. Moralo ona o hapileng Moputso oa Silevera oa A' Design Award ke mohopolo o hlokomelehang haholo le o ratoang o tlisang molemo mme o sutumelletsang meeli ea bonono, mahlale, moralo le theknoloji. DefeXtiles Mokhoa oa ho Etsa Lesela ke mosebetsi oo batho ba bangata ba o lakatsang, o tsosang litakatso, o tlisang maikutlo a matle le o tsosetsang ho makala le ho hlolla.
Press Kit
- 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.
