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The Design Museum recently unveiled a 3D printer in one of its exhibitions. The London museum reopened its doors on 24 November after a significant refurbishment. The 3D printer is one of the many new attractions, showing how design affects and influences manufacturing.
The machine demonstrates the production of a basic toy over a 24 hour period. Standing over a metre cubed in the centre of one of the exhibitions it allows people to see how 3D printing could revolutionise the way in which we mass produce products.
There has already been a lot of angst over 3D printing (information over how to use one to create a shooting gun was produced within months of new technology being release), but it really offers people the opportunity to refine and standardise the production of products globally.
These machines will create a product layer by layer out of different types of plastics, following instructions that have been coded for that product. The code-based nature of this means it is easily sharable.
It is not the first time the Design Museum has investigated the opportunities offered from 3D printing. Its opening exhibition Fear and Love, featured a series of masks produced using 3D printing.
This commission forced 3D printer Stratasys to improve their printers. Many had to be of their printers had to be converted from 32 to 64-bit memory to account for the size of the design files needed to produce the masks.