In at this time’s 3D Printing Information Briefs, opdo is launching an AI-powered co-pilot for superior optical methods, and Tempus 3D acquired $250,000 to advance plastics recycling in 3D printing. Transferring on, structure studio Mamou-Mani created a shocking, wave-like set up utilizing 3D printed bioplastic. Lastly, a Minecraft fan made a 3D printed model of the sport’s compass…and it really works.
opdo Introduced Launch of AI Co-Pilot for Optics Design & Simulation
opdo just lately broadcasts the launch of its AI-powered optics co-pilot, which transforms natural-language enter into high-performance, fabrication-ready lens methods. The platform pairs AI-driven simulation and optimization with built-in manufacturing to allow engineers to rapidly generate superior, however totally manufacturable, optical methods, from a easy immediate. Engineers can use opdo to outline optical intent with pure language, with AI brokers caring for the design, simulation, optimization, and manufacturing preparation. The AI co-pilot integrates design, simulation, catalog elements, and real-world manufacturing to drive innovation in light-based {hardware}. opdo was based by Stephan Kuehr, the founder of producing automation platform 3YOURMIND and former CCO of xolography developer xolo, and Yousef Arzhangnia, a former xolo optics specialist and AI engineer. The platform is launching with volumetric lens fabrication for layerless, ultra-fast 3D printing of freeform optics, however will increase to help different manufacturing applied sciences, like injection molding and sprucing.
“opdo makes optical design as accessible and built-in as electrical or mechanical CAD. We’re bridging design and manufacturing via clever brokers—so {hardware} groups can transfer quicker from concept to bodily product,” mentioned Kuehr.
Tempus 3D Will get $250K to Forestall Plastic Waste & Promote Recycling
Path’s Tempus 3D delivers precision 3D printing in Canada utilizing cutting-edge expertise designed for industrial manufacturing environments.
Tempus 3D, a licensed HP associate in additive manufacturing, introduced that it’s receiving $250,000 in funding as a part of a challenge to assist stop plastic waste, promote recycling from 3D printing, and create jobs. The Canadian 3D printing supplier affords on-demand and precision 3D printing for prototyping and mass manufacturing in industrial manufacturing environments. Situated in Path, British Columbia, it prints elements with advanced geometries out of each plastic and steel elements, however plastic is the main target of this challenge, for which it acquired funds from the provincial CleanBC Plastics Motion Fund. Since 2020, B.C. has invested practically $40 million in plastic waste prevention via this fund, backing 63 tasks in combating plastic waste throughout the province. This yr alone, the B.C. authorities invested greater than $8 million to help 34 extra tasks, together with Tempus 3D’s initiative to stop plastic waste and recycle PCR from 3D printing into high-quality elements. The fund’s first two phases have already created over 240 direct long-term, full-time jobs, with extra to return in section three.
Steve Morissette, MLA for Kootenay-Monashee, mentioned in a press launch, “Tempus 3D is performing some extremely spectacular stuff proper right here within the Kootenay area.”
Wave-Like 3D Printed Set up Explores Fragility & Power of Water
Harmonic Tides was put in within the archway of St John’s Gate in Clerkenwell. Picture: Mamou-Mani Architects.
The Shaping Water Competitors, a partnership between Dezeen and toilet manufacturers Villeroy & Boch, and Superb Normal, challenged designers and designers to create an set up celebrating the essence of water for Clerkenwell Design Week, the UK’s main design competition. Out of the over 200 design entries acquired that explored the aesthetic and purposeful qualities of water, 15 have been shortlisted, and Mamou-Mani Architects was the final word winner with its wave-like, 3D printed Harmonic Tides, which explores what architect Arthur Mamou-Mani says is the “energy and the fluidity and fragility of water.” The set up, created utilizing sugar-based PLA bioplastic, was a “calming” response to the competitors transient’s deal with wellbeing. It’s manufactured from two sculptural, rippling partitions, animated by ambient sound and pulsing lights to show the historic stone arches of St John’s Gate in Clerkenwell right into a sensory “water hall.” The modular elements of the set up, which was inbuilt London, have been repurposed from earlier tasks with a purpose to reduce materials use and scale back waste.
“Identical to water, this set up flows – however it additionally returns. Harmonic Tides is just not solely a celebration of the energy and fragility of water, but additionally of circularity: the construction was designed to be disassembled, re-used, and reborn in new varieties,” Mamou-Mani mentioned in a LinkedIn submit.
“Proud to discover how structure can echo nature not simply in kind, however in lifecycle.”
Fan Creates 3D Printed, Working Model of Minecraft Compass
Lastly, a fan of the sport Minecraft created a real-life, 3D printed model of the compass used within the sport, and it really seems to be purposeful! In Minecraft, gamers can discover the sport’s big world as quickly as they spawn; this could supply an excessive amount of freedom at occasions, as some inexperienced gamers get misplaced. However, the sport supplies a number of methods for avid gamers to maintain observe of their place on the planet, together with coordinates, maps, and a compass they’ll craft within the sport that factors them towards lodestones or world spawn. Lately, Reddit consumer Clever-Cause751 used a 3D printer to create their very own real-world model of the Minecraft compass. Not solely does it replicate the in-game design of the compass, however it’s additionally a purposeful compass. A brief video posted to Reddit reveals that the purple needle on the 3D printed compass really strikes, all the time pointing in the identical route regardless of which method Clever-Cause751 holds it.
The Minecraft sport stays common, persevering with to get new updates as just lately as March of 2025. From creepers to nightlights and every thing in between, 3D printing has been used many occasions through the years to make Minecraft objects. Many zealous followers of the sport just lately discovered the 3D printed compass on Reddit and upvoted the submit. They have been impressed, and needed to know the way its creator was in a position to get the article to perform. However they have been finally disillusioned, as Clever-Cause751 didn’t reveal on Reddit how they created the impact. Redditors shared their theories of how the compass was constructed, whereas others begged for the 3D mannequin and elements checklist. Consumer Baggizine even claimed to have discovered the Github repository for the 3D printed Minecraft compass. So possibly different followers will quickly have the ability to make their very own 3D printed, functioning Minecraft compass.
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