This 3D printed clock by Peter Schmitt looks pretty interesting. Though printing the mechanism in this manner is currently much more costly than making the parts using an injection molding process, he makes the case that cutting out the assembly process could potentially make this process more efficient over all.
[via hyperexperience]
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The clock itself is amazing, but I have never in my life heard anyone say "um" as often when describing their work!
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The bio link (which is repeated at hyperexperience) has almost zero information. Anything about how this works?
This would be a huge leap in manufacturing, but apparently a huge leap backwards in Makership. Version 2 of the clock goes immediately to "completely enclosed without any way of repair". Unless the idea is that we'd all have our own printers and we can melt a broken clock back down into raw materials?
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I looked around, but couldn't find any other information about the clock. I would like to see more, as well.
That's an interesting point about the non-repair/mod-ability of completely enclosed bits. One of the coolest parts of this process to me is the ability to make things that can't be assembled traditionally, but that does go hand in hand with the lack of ability to take them apart Perhaps melting them down to make new things is a solution, however that doesn't seem like a great direction to be heading in. Hmm.
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