AM Offers DIY Potential for Consumer Products
When it comes to manufacturing consumer products, it is not necessarily a matter of setting up machine tools or producing injection molds that will pop out thousands and thousands of the same thing. Nowadays, designers can work with engineers and produce products with additive manufacturing (AM)—or they can do it themselves. To provide a sense of the range of opportunities, we asked AM provider EOS (eos.info) to provide us with some examples of what’s been done in this space by users of its equipment.
While it is common to customize iPods with skins, what about the headphones? Here’s an answer: customized ‘phones made with plastic laser-sintering.
(Courtesy Freedom of Creation)
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The problem of seeing someone wearing the same jewelry isn’t a problem. These titanium pendants are direct metal laser-sintered. Each is customized.
(Courtesy FutureFactories)
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This shoe was designed by Kerrie Luft. That heel is a direct metal laser-sintered titanium. (Courtesy Kerrie Luft)
This is a laser-sintered plastic shoe. Check out the Eiffel Tower heel.
(Courtesy of Freedom of Creation)
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No, not a model of a solar system from some far-off galaxy, but an LED color-changing chandelier inspired by microphotography of pollen spores. Created with plastic laser-sintering.
(Courtesy FutureFactories)
