A couple of short videos of cool stuff

[thewayne]

A 3-D printed BRIDGE in Amsterdam made of 4.5 tons of stainless steel and was welded by robots. Definitely something that I want to see and photograph extensively if I ever make it over there!

https://mashable.com/video/amsterdam-3d-printed-bridge-worlds-first


The podiums at the recently concluded Tokyo Olympics? Made entirely out of recycled plastic! I think that's wonderful. Cardboard bedframes and recycled plastic podiums!

https://mashable.com/video/tokyo-olympics-recycled-podium


Sadly, Mashable's video code doesn't embed well into DW and apparently they're not on YouTube. Well, they may be, but I'm not going to spend the time looking.

Comments

[motodraconis]

That bridge is so cool! Ironic that digital technology could lead to more organic looking designs. Fingers crossed.

[silveradept]

More digital fabircation and the use of recycled and recyclable materials. These are good things, although it still feels like we're at the novelty stage of building projects like these, rather than settling into the part where we start mass-producing the things. A thing the videos don't talk about is what the timelines are on constructing the objects. The home 3D printer device can take a day or more for particularly large projects using plastic, so I wonder if the bigger devices also have timeline troubles.