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Kerala's First 3D Printed Building

Created as a showcase project, AMAZE-28, the single-room summer house, was successfully constructed within 28 days on the grounds of the Kerala State Nirmithi Kendra. The 3D-printed building at the Kerala State Nirmithi Kendra in Thiruvananthapuram. (Photo: Shekunj)  The inauguration of Kerala's inaugural 3D-printed structure, a 380-square-foot single-room summer house, is scheduled to take place on October 10 at the Kerala State Nirmithi Kendra (Kesnik) campus located in PTP Nagar, Thiruvananthapuram.  Conceived as a showcase initiative, the summer house named AMAZE-28 was successfully finished within a mere 28 days. This impressive project was executed by Tvasta, a construction technology startup based in Chennai, founded by alumni of IIT-Madras, who have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kesnik.  AMAZE-28 is perched upon a concrete foundation atop a gentle elevation within the Kesnik campus. Febi Varghese, the Director and Chief Executive Officer of Kesnik, p

Controlling LEDs over WiFi using NodeMCU and Blynk App.

This article is the base on the Internet of things ( IoT ) . IoT describes the network of physical objects—“things” or objects—that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the Internet. In this article 3 LEDs will be controlled by an android application (made using Blynk) over a wifi connection. How to use NodeMCU with Blynk  If you want to start learn the Internet of Things (IoT) concept, then controlling a LED over the  internet is the " Hello World!" of the IoT journey. Performing the " Hello World" task will be easy using NodeMCU micro-controller as the first client and Blynk as the 'broker' or server and Blynk android application as the second client. Now communication between two clients will happen through broker over the internet. Now lets, make this happen.  Components Required For this activity we will need following components: Nod

How to 3D sketch and use Swept Base/Boss Command in SolidWorks | 3D Sketch | Sweep | Penrose Cube

  How to 3D sketch and use Swept Base/Boss Command in SolidWorks | 3D Sketch | Sweep Command | Penrose Cube   In this Tutorial, an amazing 3D solid model of cube will be generated using SolidWorks. This cube is made up of single continuous extruded material in the form of a loop. This tutorial will demonstrate you some basic tools and operations of SolidWorks.  Tools/Commands used: 3D Sketch Fillet (Sketch) Sweep Boss Command Cube: using 3D sketch and Sweep Boss       Download 3D Solid Model File of Penrose Cube: Download Download STL file of Penrose Cube:  Download

Materials used in Additive Manufacturing

  Additive Manufacturing (AM) is one of the advanced manufacturing method. Additive manufacturing method includes a number of technologies. Various types of additive manufacturing or 3D printing has been discussed previously, if you want to read it, pleas click here . In this article we will study about the materials used in additive manufacturing or 3D Printing.   Primary materials used in additive manufacturing are: Polymers Metals Ceramics Material used in Additive Manufacturing. Nowadays, composite  is also being used in 3D printing. The composite is a material, which is made up of two different materials. The composite used in 3D printing  may be of:  Composite of Metal and Polymer Composite of Polymer and Ceramics Composite of Metal and Ceramics Polymers Polymer is most popular in 3D printing, because it is cheap and technology which used polymer as feed material for 3D printing, are also easily available and simple in design. Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) is one of