DefeXtiles Mbinu ya Utengenezaji wa Nguo by Jack Forman is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2021 Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award in Usanifu wa Miundo na Bidhaa za Uchapishaji wa 3D Competition Category.
ShabaUchapishaji wa 3D· 2021
DefeXtiles Mbinu ya Utengenezaji wa Nguo
by Jack Forman
Client: Tangible Media Group, MIT Media Lab
Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award Winner in Uchapishaji wa 3D Category
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About DefeXtiles Mbinu ya Utengenezaji wa Nguo
DefeXtiles ni mbinu ya kutengeneza nguo nyembamba na zinazopinda kwa urahisi kwa kutumia printa za kawaida za 3D. Njia hii inadhibiti utoaji mdogo wa nyenzo (under-extrusion) ili kuunda vipande vidogo vyenye nyuzi laini kati yake. Mapengo yanayojitokeza mara kwa mara yanaipa nguo iliyochapishwa mwonekano unaofanana na kitambaa, uwezo wa kupitisha hewa, unyumbufu na uwezo wa kunyoosha, hata ikiwa imetengenezwa kwa nyenzo ngumu kama vile asidi ya polylactic. Nguo hizi huchapishwa kwa mkao unaoenda kinyume na jukwaa la uchapishaji (perpendicular to the print bed), hivyo kuruhusu utengenezaji wa maumbo yenye mikunjo na yaliyopinda. Matumizi yake ni pamoja na mavazi, violesura vinavyoshikika (tangible interfaces), na mipira ya badminton (shuttlecocks). Nyuzi za kondakta zinaweza kupachikwa kwenye nguo hiyo ili kuunda njia za mzunguko wa umeme (circuit traces).
The Recognition
About the Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award
DefeXtiles Mbinu ya Utengenezaji wa Nguo ni mshindi wa Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award, utambuzi wenye heshima kubwa unaotolewa kwa miundo bora inayotofautishwa kwa ubunifu, ustadi na busara. Washindi wa Shaba ni kazi za ufundi mwingi na bunifu ya kushangaza zinazothibitisha uzoefu mpana, mawazo na ustadi wa wabunifu wao. DefeXtiles Mbinu ya Utengenezaji wa Nguo inatarajiwa kuwa kitu kinachothaminiwa sana, kupendwa na kuenziwa, ambacho ni cha kitaalamu na bunifu kwa kiasi kikubwa. Muundo huu ulioshinda Tuzo ya Shaba ya A' Design Award unajumuisha mbinu bora katika sanaa, sayansi, usanifu na teknolojia, na ni bora kwa umakini wake kwa undani. DefeXtiles Mbinu ya Utengenezaji wa Nguo hutosheleza mahitaji kwa uzuri, hugusa hamu, huvutia hisia na kuvutia udadisi.
Behind the Design
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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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