this episode of "in the making"is brought to you by ting, mobile to make sense. we're in oakland,california, and i just heard about a 3d printedmedical cast that involves a social mediaand an app that you use. we gotta check this out. we're going intofathom here where they've taken a100-year-old brass foundry, and they've turned into ahigh-tech 3d printing studio.
we noticed that there was a lotof casts being made in the 3d printed community,and we loved the idea of a medical applicationfor 3d printing. we have the scanning abilitiesto get that close fit to your arm, and thematerials of 3d printing are really good formedical application. we started off withthe scan of an arm, from that we're able to create asurface by wafting curves based on that scan.
we had that solid cast, we wereable to unroll that surface, and that's what it lookslike when you unroll. and then once we had that, weput down the text on top of it. so we used control pointsto pinch and pull things to be denser in thisarea that we marked up as the break, the areathat needed more support. once we rolled it back on,that's what it looks like. you would have a page that'sdedicated to the cast. so you would say, hey, i justbroke my arm, big bummer,
but send me a message thati could put on my new cast. to me the mostinteresting technology driving the hash castis parametric modeling. parametric modeling takesin various parameters, and then helps create a3d model based on that. in this case thereare three parameters. there's the actualdimensions of your arm, which come from a 3d scan,there's the information from the doctor, whichlargely came from x-rays,
and then there'sthe social media, which defines thetext, which will then be wrapped around your arm. the parametric modelfor the hash cast takes these three parameters,combines them together, creates a 3d file, which isthen sent to the 3d printers, and prints out the hash cast. having broken a bone,or seven, in my day, i know what a pain casts are.
so assuming you get thatitch you just can't scratch, not only does hash casthave the physical benefits of being lightweight,removal, and breathable, but it also has anemotional benefit, providing a constant reminderthat your friends care. unless they're like my friends,who would write something like, you dumb ass. great news, everybody. we've got our first sponsor,ting, mobile that makes sense.
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