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Eyebeam Internship!

Eyebeam, Prototyping May 15th, 2006

I’m pleased to announce that I’m interning for the 3D Printing/Digital Fabrication position at the Eyebeam OpenLab.

Here’s the job description:

3D Printing/Digital Fabrication

The OpenLab houses a Dimension BST 3D Printer, which has been used internally for a number of projects, including OGLE and Robot Clothes. We are seeking an intern to coordinate and encourage use of this tool within Eyebeam, and to help bring in external collaborators who intend to use the 3D printer in ways consistent with the OpenLab’s goals. You will also probably get to do some 3D printing of your own.

Skills Required:

* Familarity with fundamentals of 3D surface and solid modelling

It will be a fairly short internship (one month) and I will see how far I can push the printer in the service of art/coolness. Current plans are to do some basic studies to figure out the tech, then some algorithmically generated forms and possibly some 3D parts for Blue Flower!

The current flagship use of the 3D printer at Eyebeam is for their OpenGL Extractor (OGLE) which lets you pull 3D models from most programs that support OpenGL. Very cool stuff. Pic of a model extracted from World of Warcraft and printed into plastic below.

OGLE 3D Printout

2 Responses to “Eyebeam Internship!”

  1. TikiRobot! » mang @ eyebeam! Says:
    May 15th, 2006 at 3:45 am

    [...] Right after I noticed this entry from mang in my RSS reader: “I’m pleased to announce that I’m the new 3D Printing/Digital Fabrication intern at the Eyebeam OpenLab.” [...]

  2. sophiek Says:
    May 23rd, 2006 at 9:54 pm

    Hi Michael – I’m an artist in NY working with rapid prototyping / 3d scanning – if you are looking to bring in new collaborators etc, send me an email! Email address & URL are in my profile. cheers, Sophie

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