Model error

So I ordered TM 3-5-40-20 a myself to check it out. But today I received an email from Shapeways that there in an error in the model. The minimum thickness of 0.7mm has been surpassed. I thought I had this covered but the cell wall was modeled separately from the Grasshopper model and morphed into place. I should have foreseen this.

Above is the image Shapeways sent, really nice of them to do this by the way. The value should have been 0.7.

I removed all the shop models and have to fix the digital model. Stupid setback.
The good news is however that no other people have ordered a TM, although this was the plan :.(.

Shop up and running

Dear all,

Finally the shop is up and running, so now everyone can order a prototype and join in finding a application for the structure. The intro clip is on the TM(TurrisMotus) blog and hopefully circle the web. I'm trying to post it to some design blogs and am planning to do the nastiest form of guerrilla marketing, in the commenting section of TED. Hope they don't arrest me for it.

ciao,

bArt

Project development

So the project is changing, let me explain how.

Currently I'm looking for a company willing to have me as a graduate student, since I still have to graduate from IDE. Combining this with a open design project is the second thing I'm working on. For enabling others to join the project I have set up a Shapeways shop. Through the shop you can buy several configurations of TurrisMotus and play with them yourself. I hope to get a broad range of inspiration and speed up the fuzzy front end of the project. This because I really have no specific application that best fits this structure. Once I have this application in which it could outperform current products the next phases of the product development process can begin. Specifics in this still need to be determined but is depending on both application and company.

Tomorrow I plan to have the shop up and running. If you order before December 4th you can have your TurrisMotus printed and send to you before Christmas.

Next to that I need to send out a press release of some kind, since now I don't really have any followers, but anyway it's all for fun so far. Testing if a real OpenDesignAgency could work and what the business model should / could be like.

the Open business card

If you'd like to have my card you can download it by clicking on the image, shared via Picasa.

Van OpenOpenDesignAgency

The project is undergoing some change

Dear internet, world and curious persons.

The TurrisMotus project is currently undergoing some changes that in the near future will allow you to participate in the creative process, the most fun part, in developing a product using its principles.
For now though it is hard to be open since change is going really fast right now and I don't want to disappoint anyone with false pretenses.

But I want to still keep the principals of the OpenOpenDesignAgency and am therefor open in what is going on behind the screen (of your interface with the web). I am working on really getting you involved in the co-creation of a product using the unique structure that is TurrisMotus. The projects name will change slightly as well into the plural of the word TurrisMotus, although I need to some help from people that still speak the dead language of Latin to do so.

I am also looking to grow the team, which for now is only myself.

Ciao,

bArt

My current project is called TurrisMotus
Please click here for its own blog, the video is only the beginning.

quick project using processing

Current occupation

I'm currently working on the TurrisMotus and created a new blog for this.

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Start of a new project

So I found a new project this summer to keep me occupied again.
It is this shape I made after watching another exiting episode of How It's Made about sandwich panels. What's interesting is when you link the layers back on themselves, see the video.

For the course Stand-Up Architecture, at the faculty of Architecture, I am investigating it further.

Open Innovation Being done today

I found an interesting company called Bax & Willems working with open innovation projects and processes. They are doing what I was brainstorming about lately, Ill post these results later.
Here's the link:
http://www.bwcv.es/voices/blog/2009/3/17/recombinant-open-innovation

Setup of the Agency

Yes! We've started!

This is the blog about my experiment for the comming time.
Setting up and running an Open Design Agency and trying out the open source model in design.
I am a master student at Industrial Design Engineering, TU Delft, the Netherlands and will be sharing my explorations into the world of Open Design. In order to see what this possible future can really bring for us designers.

This is just the start, I will be doing projects and reporting the process and results as I go along.

Ciao, bArt