{"id":308,"date":"2013-06-13T14:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/?p=308"},"modified":"2013-07-08T20:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T20:45:34","slug":"from-bits-to-atoms-and-back-3d-printing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/from-bits-to-atoms-and-back-3d-printing\/","title":{"rendered":"From Bits To Atoms And Back-3D Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"3-D printing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engineering.uiowa.edu\/news\/virtually-real\">http:\/\/www.engineering.uiowa.edu\/news\/virtually-real<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Still far from the Star Trek replicator materializing objects and edibles at voice command 3-D printing is becoming more and more accessible to the individual. \u00a0There are 3-D shops materializing around the country giving access to self doers and professionals that can make anywhere from cups to machines. \u00a0&#8220;This online &#8216;universe of things&#8217; consists in a repository of mostly open and free digital designs for physical objects, i.e, models that can be downloaded and then materialized using fabrication tools such as 3D printers&#8230;As of mid 2011, &#8216;Thingiverse&#8217; contained over 8000 models ( contributed both by highly skilled designers and beginners, some of which are children and adolescents) and included a bit of everything from kitchenware, toys, and jewelry to machine parts, electronics, architectural models and eye glass frames.&#8221; \u00a0The technology has been mature \u00a0for quite some time but this democratization of manufacturing started around 2007 with a cultural trend towards Do-It-Yourself (DIY) movement with high tech manufacturing capability.<\/p>\n<p>You might find interesting these articles for further information: \u00a0<em>The New York Times article 3D Printers May Eclipse Tradition for Designers\u00a0<\/em>by Alice Tawsthorn June 9, 2013 and <em>The Rise of Personal Fabrication<\/em> \u00a0by Catarina Mota<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.engineering.uiowa.edu\/news\/virtually-real. Still far from the Star Trek replicator materializing objects and edibles at voice command 3-D printing is becoming more and more accessible to the individual. \u00a0There are 3-D shops materializing around the country giving access to self doers and professionals that can make anywhere from cups to machines. \u00a0&#8220;This online &#8216;universe of things&#8217; consists<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/from-bits-to-atoms-and-back-3d-printing\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;From Bits To Atoms And Back-3D Printing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}