{"id":1006,"date":"2012-01-07T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/07\/3d-printing-in-ice\/"},"modified":"2012-01-07T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T16:11:00","slug":"3d-printing-in-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/07\/3d-printing-in-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"3D printing in ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/dFrcwEMZcJI\/3d-printing-in-ice.html\">3D printing in ice<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/craphound.com\/images\/icelucy.jpg?w=625\"><\/p>\n<p>Katharine Gammon writes in <em>Wired<\/em> about the work of McGill University researcher Pieter Sijpkes and colleagues, who have produced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arch.mcgill.ca\/prof\/sijpkes\/ice\/\">an experimental 3D printer that produces ice-sculptures.<\/a> The researchers give current applications as a cheap alternative to printing in plastic goop (thanks to patents that will soon expire, the plastic powder used in high-end 3D printers costs more than filet mignon) and for &#8220;ice tourism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He and his team have printed a statue, an egg carton, a martini glass, and molds that melt conveniently away. Why ice? Well, it\u2019s cheap and readily available, and low-cost ice models could help inventors design products more quickly. The challenge of printing with ice, besides the very cold temps necessary for the process, was building a machine that\u2019s up to the task. Here\u2019s how Sijpkes did it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2011\/12\/st_3diceprinting\/\">Building a 3-D Printer for Supercool Ice Objects<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=e8c9a91632eefb7b0bb1c0088924d968&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=e8c9a91632eefb7b0bb1c0088924d968&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/segment-pixel.invitemedia.com\/pixel?code=TechCons&#038;partnerID=167&#038;key=segment\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/dFrcwEMZcJI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3D printing in ice: Katharine Gammon writes in Wired about the work of McGill University researcher Pieter Sijpkes and colleagues, who have produced an experimental 3D printer that produces ice-sculptures. The researchers give current applications as a cheap alternative to printing in plastic goop (thanks to patents that will soon expire, the plastic powder used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-ge","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}