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Art unraveled on the Greenway today
By adamg on Sun, 03/12/2017 - 11:20pm
Chris Templeman's Make and Take is a 3D printer that aims to spit out 2,000 plastic replicas - which the public can take - of a Chinese rooster at the MFA.
The printer uses spools of plastic filament to assemble the roosters. As roving UHub photographer Christina Michaud discovered this afternoon, though, one of the spools completely unraveled.
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Chinese Spaghetti Factory
Looks like a build platform adhesion issue. The printer builds the part layer by layer, and the first layers need to stick down to the print bed (the white surface in the photo). If the part gets loose, the print head keeps going, squirting out hot plastic, but it doesn't have anywhere to attach. The resulting "bird's nest" or "spaghetti" is a relatively common occurrence.
Source: I'm a professional 3D printer.
Note: Chinese Spaghetti Factory makes great frozen dumplings.
Wow - a 3-d printer that
Wow - a 3-d printer that sprouted arms and hands and can type!
You're a professional printer
You're a professional printer and you think that mess is common? Either the technology or the operator needs to go back to the drawing board.
Far more productive an occupation
Than, say, amateur troll.
Those that can, do. Those that can't, criticize.
new Björk album art looking
new Björk album art looking okay
Wow.
Just like my life!
Since Friday or so
Just to clarify: the original ceramic rooster that Templeman used for his model is at the MFA. The 3D printer is on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, in the Chinatown section of the park.
The Greenway folks posted video of the malfunction in action on Friday:
https://www.facebook.com/rosekennedygreenway/videos/10155251428272427/
One guess
Friday is when the unit dropped below the recommended ambient operating temperature for either the unit or the filament that nobody bothered to read before installing it.
Too cold?
Plausible, but it got even colder the previous weekend.
Looks great just the way it is!
I thought it was an ultra-modern chicken...
Seriously, I dig it, baby!
Protomolocule
.... is not what I want in a public art exhibit.
Although this is red not blue so maybe that's ok then?
Are the specs available ?
Because this is the singular best thing I have ever seen produced by a 3 D printer.