Showing posts with label 3D Printing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 3D Printing. Show all posts

Goa Lobaugh | 3D Printing & The Rise of the Multi-Dimensional Maker

Source: globalbem.com, liquidbuddha.com



Goa Lobaugh at the Breakthrough Energy Movement Conference, 2013 Boulder

Title: 3D PRINTING & THE RISE OF THE MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MAKER

Run time: 42:32 min
Speaker: Goa Lobaugh
Produced by: Globalbem
Language: English

Presentation: What is 3D printing? What will it mean in the future for your daily life and for the development of Breakthrough Energy Technologies.

Bio
I consider myself a modern mystic. Blending technology with intent, my professional and personal footprints trace a non-traditional path through the daring and digital domains. I have envisioned, created and managed information systems, digital pipelines and publishing pathways for a full spectrum of projects, from corporate giants to my own entrepreneurial adventures. After receiving a Management of Information Systems degree from the University of Arizona, I was part of AOL's meteoric growth, as both a general manager and brand technology developer. During that time, I followed my fathers footprints and became a private pilot. On a fateful Friday afternoon, while on a solo flight to Annapolis MD, I nearly crashed my aircraft. That day marked a shift, an awakening of sorts, and a reboot of my fundamental orientation toward conscious evolution.

In the months that followed, I divorced myself from corporate life, and opened my heart mind to a simple question... "What would you dare to do, if you knew you could not fail?" I answered that question first by starting liquidbuddha.studios, an animation and visual effects studio with the intention of creating visual effects to evolve consciousness. Since then I've had the privilege of working on creative projects with consciousness leaders like Foster Gamble, James Twyman, Barbara Marx-Hubbard; with groups like the Institute of HeartMath, EarthDance; and most notably as Director of Visual Effects for the film THRIVE: What On Earth Will It Take?

During the first year of starting liquidbuddha, I attended SigGraph, the industry conference for 3d graphics, and had my first experience of 3D printing... In just 14 years I've watched the barrier for entry vaporize, and 3D Printing become a wildfire affecting all aspects of our lives. How has this happened?
-Goa Lobaugh

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‘I can now climb trees’: 6yo kid gets prosthetic arm from 3D printer, July 27, 2014

Source: RT.com


A 6 year-old boy from Florida born with right arm deficiency has received a prosthetic replacement. Now climbing a tree and catching a ball will be easier for him. Students from Florida University made it on a 3D printer for just $350 in just 8 weeks.

Help for little Alex Pring, missing his right arm from just above the elbow, came from students at the University of Central Florida. An engineering doctoral student, Albert Manero, heard about the boy’s needs and decided to recruit a team of students to create a solution for the boy.

“I mean, I’m me. So I don’t have an arm,” little Alex said. “I still try real hard to do things like other kids using what I’ve got. But it’s getting harder the more I grow,” according to the official website of University of Central Florida.

The arm and part of the hand were made on a 3D printer. They run with off-the-shelf servos and batteries that are activated by the electromyography muscle energy in Alex’s bicep.

Alex’s new limb only cost $350 to build. In comparison, prosthetic arms for children cost much more – about $40,000 - and they have to be replaced often as children grow.

Also prosthetics for kids are more difficult to make than for adults because the components are much smaller, according to Manero. When Alex gets too big for his new limb, new parts will be printed and they will also be cheap– only $20 for a new hand, and around $40 to $50 for a replacement forearm.
"I hope that people look at these other arms that cost $40,000," Manero said. "If we can do this for just $350 in 8 weeks, I'm sure we're going to keep pioneering."

The arm was delivered to Alex on Friday. He practiced his new limb on a toy duck. He managed to grip the toy and squeeze it with his new hand. Then he rushed to his mother to hug her with both hands –for the first time in his life.

“When he hugged me with two hands, he just didn’t let go,” said Alyson Pring, Alex’s mother. “It was amazing. I think it will help his confidence, so he can see future possibilities and make them seem all the more reachable for him.”

Manero, who has a master’s degree from UCF in aerospace engineering and is writing his Ph.D., said he believes the team’s design could help many similarly affected children.

“My mother taught us that we’re supposed to help change the world,” said Manero. “We’re supposed to help make it better. That’s why we did it. The look on Alex’s face when he used it for the first time was priceless.”

And the enthusiastic team doesn’t want to stop at Alex - they have decided to help all children with such problems.

“We’ve already heard from another family who needs an arm. We’re committed to helping who we can.”

“I think 3-D printing is revolutionizing our world in many ways. I believe changing the world of prosthetics is very real. There’s no reason why this approach shouldn’t work on adults too.”
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