The demonstration presentation at Northcote Pottery.

1. 3d printing
ceramics
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3. • Our practice
• 3d printing ceramics short history
• Why we built the machine
• how we built the machine
• Demonstration of workflow
• Demonstration of printing
• Limitations of 3d Printing ceramics
• Avenues of exploration
• Future plans
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4. our practice
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7. 3d printing ceramics short history
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8. unfold

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12. jonathan keep

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14. olivier van herpt

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17. date-clay.org

18. why we built the printer
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19. • mix of technology and old craft
• nexus of 3rd industrial revolution
• accessible
• Really useful 3d printed objects
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22. olivier van herpt

23. how we built the printer
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25. Jonathan Keep

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33. workflow demonstration
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35. -% water added to clay
-speed of the head
-speed in kisslicer
-air pressure
-design of the object
-nozzle size
-clay additives
-height of the head
-width of the extrusion setting
-loops
-type of clay
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36. limitations and opportunities
of 3d Printing
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37. Limitations of ceramic 3d printing
• Can’t stop the flow
• Can only print at certain angles
• Clay is temperamental
• Not an automatic process
Opportunities
• The ‘fourth way’ - Jonathan Keep
• New forms, new time, new economy
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38. I suggest that previously there had been three basic
ways of giving form to clay. First handbuilding such
as coil building and slab building. Secondly throwing
on the pottery wheel and thirdly molding in its many
forms. With printing there is now a fourth way. It is
not molding as there are no moulds involved. There
are elements of throwing but the process hugely ex-
tends the limitations of the revolving pot. It can be
considered a kind of mechanical coiling.
Jonathan Keep

39. Avenues of Exploration
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40. - technical features
- unsupported overhang
- collapsed
- colour
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41. future plans
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42. - improve machine
- improve clay consistency
- larger machine
- standardised workflow
- sell or exhibit
- collaborations
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