3D printing: 3 hours per designer chair

Jewelery from plastic cups

Recently, the lowlands pop festival was held in the Netherlands. An interesting project The Perpetual Plastic Project was presented at the festival, which gave visitors the opportunity to recycle used plastic cups on site and make something on a 3D printer ( Ultimaker )



Processing steps:

- wash cups

- dried

- grind

- melted in a bar for the printer

- something is printed on a 3D printer



Mobile installation complete:



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The cups were manually ground in the shredder:





How it was. The video is in Dutch, but it is not particularly necessary to understand, everything is clear from the picture:

“Endless” armchair of waste

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A couple of years ago, a Dutch student, Dirk Vander Kooij , designed furniture for his graduation project and was inspired by an old 3D printer. He got an industrial robot from a Chinese conveyor and reprogrammed it into a 3D printer. The printer prints the furniture from recycled materials obtained by recycling old refrigerators.

A robot, called Furoc, can print a chair in just 3 hours. The traditional method of manufacturing plastic furniture requires the manufacture of an expensive stamp. In addition, this process takes a long time and is more suited to mass production than for the manufacture of single copies. The robot can quickly print the chair directly from the computer. You can immediately make the necessary corrections and print another version. So, for example, for the manufacture of the rocking chair “Endless” (see photo), Dirk created 54 prototypes of the chair until he got a chair, the lines of which satisfied the designer and which is really comfortable to sit on. Failed prototypes were immediately ground and used to make the following.