Excellent video - you mention using 4 bars of pressure when printing. Have you ever seen any need to decrease/increase pressure? Any drawbacks? Also I notice that you also had the 2040 as one of your profiles. Aside from size have you noticed any other differences between the machines (I have the 2040)?
Hi Jonathan, I'm quite late to these videos but I'm finding them really helpful! How do you close up one side of the vase? e.g. if I want it to be a vase or a plant pot, it needs a base but no "lid". How do you do that?
Wow beautiful efficient design and great work man skill, I thanks for sharing your great work, I wish you successful for your hard work in your products.
@jkpottery Hi Jonathan, I am a master's renewable engineering student working on a clay printer design to help with structures in this industry I would really like to hear your thoughts on some of the premise designs that have really exciting use cases! Please let me know if you would like to discuss
Hi, I have not had a chance to use an EAZAO M500 and so it is difficult to comment on your choice. When you get it I would be very interested to hear how you get on. It certainly is more reasonably priced than other commercially available printers and has good size and proportion to the printing area. My philosophy is always that it is more important what you do with your equipment than the equipment itself. Simple tools can do great work if the ideas and concepts behind the work are good and so I am sure you will get on just fine with it. I would expect that it might take a little while to learn how best to use it especially if you are experienced on some other machine.
if you write time steps in the description of your video, in the following format, youtube automatically generate "chapters" wich allow viwers to more easily skip to their part of interest: 00:00 An Introduction to Types of Ceramic 3D Printing 22:08 Users of Ceramic 3D Printing 32:03 Examples of Clay Extrusion 3D Printing 56:57 Issues Arround the Use of Digital Technology
Thanks Jay, I guess you have not seen my video '3D Printing with a WASP 40100 Clay Printer' - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mqwy771VmTQ.html. About two minutes into that I talk about keeping the clay container well lubricated.
it's is really fantastic research Jonathan. I know you have been researching and working with this for years, and at the forefront of research in this. Thanks so much for all your work and publicly sharing it openly. Amazing
This has been so informative for me as an old-school trained ceramist! Thank you for sharing this on RU-vid, it's a great introduction to 3D printing for potters,
In France they do incredible cookware from vitroceramics. Amazing material. I always wondered if the window frames would be mass produced from it instead of plastics today, it will be very sturdy, forever white windows which never need to paint.
@Jonathan Great Video again. Along with digital tools that you have shared in this video, are you also exploring generating 3D models from Artificial Intelligence tools?
No I have not used the popular AI tools. I am well aware of how they work and although there is an element of collective consciousness about them the tool is to heavy for the way I work. Tools and how artist's use tools is an important subject and I am always very weary when the tool begins to take over from the expression of the artists. This is why I am interested in making my own generative tools with the Processing code. By doing this I can control or try and let my personal thoughts and intentions drive the outcome. I would suggests AI tools are going to have a positive impact on unpacking what it is to be human. By this I mean AI tools give mechanistic, logic driven technological results. While art is a human behaviour and cultural construct that has been selected for over generations, 50 000 years or more and so the functions of art to individuals and society are deeply embodied in human psychological (imaginative) and physical (feelings) makeup. AI might be used for making art, as a tool but art is about communication and connection between human beings.
Jonathan, Great presentation and emphasizes on value of embracing new technologies and pushing the boundaries of traditional art forms in order to create truly innovative and impactful work.
Hello Jonathan, great work!! In the same way that you created instruction videos for blender, could you create a video series on how to code and turn music into printable object as you shown in this video?
Hi Monish, thanks for your kind word, across many videos. With regards video tutorials on the Processing coding, I am afraid my coding is self taught and my mathematics education is reliant on school classes of more than forty years ago and so I am not confidant at coding. I get it to work for me but I am in no position to consider teaching it to others. I know enough to know that there is so much more that I need to learn and I should leave it to others. I have experience in working with clay and that is my strength. My use of Blender is also reasonably simple knowing what can be done with the software and so those tutorials are aimed at a very basic level.
Giving code design/form an actual item shapes was a brilliant idea. Today, the majority of people spend time on their computers and mobile devices. Since it was previously impossible to make organic objects in their current form, I think more and more people will begin to connect with them. The appeal of 3D printing also lies in the fact that it can be tailored to each person, making it more unique to them.
I've had a 3d printer for a few years, took up ceramics as an extra hobby. Now I find THE most comprehensive video for combining two of my favourite past times! Thank you John!
Thank you for uploading this series of videos. I am a industrial designer working in the manufacturing industry for the last 8 years I have grown a bit tired of just designing with primitives and was looking for ways to explore new forms and creation methods. Your videos convinced me to invest in a clay 3D printer and a small electric kiln can't wait to start. :)
Awesome series on ceramic 3D printing Jonathan! Very nice of you to share these years of experience and research for free with the public. I'm looking forward to start experimenting with this as well whenever I get access to a workshop again.
Hi Jonathan - Do you know of anyone experimenting with directly mixing powder and water within the extrusion chamber to create the extrusion paste? Thanks Bob.B (Aussie Potter)
Hi Bob, I don't know of anybody mixing dry clay and water in the extruder chamber. Early days with WASP and watching them doing their architectural scale printing, for eases of material delivery I did wonder about the extruder head mixing dry clay ingredients and water. The dry clay powder would be easier to pipe to the printhead rather than a paste mix that needs a lot of force to be moved down a pipe. The drawback of mixing in the printhead is that freshly mixed clay is very short, it is not very plastic and the extrusion crack up very easily. On an architectural scale this might not be too bad but if you are working at a pottery scale you want a good well matured plastic clay for a good extrusion. I don't know if you have seen my video 'Clay Extrusion 3D Printing - The Process' ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M2grAyX8sdE.html ) but about 33 minutes into that I talk about the shortcomings of freshly mixed clay. That said I would not want to put anybody off trying new things. For all I know in-printhead mixing might be just the breakthrough we need. On the subject of in-printhead mixing the French company 3D Minerals ( www.3d-minerals.com/lang_en/ ) are doing something interesting, although I have not got to the bottom of it exactly. I think they are deflocculating the clay to make it more runny to pump to the printhead and then deflocculating it, making it stiff again in the printhead for the extrusion.
Thank you. The Western European Fine Art canon is so powerful and with the weight of the commercial market behind it, it is difficult to go against it but as you gather I feel very strongly we need to get back to the humanist and cultural function art plays in society.
@@jkpottery I agree with your statement and I also believe art has a vital part in human culture and society with a power to connect people, express important issues, and provide a window into the human experience.
If you want a bottom, in edit mode select the ring of vertices that make up the bottom. Select all those vertices with say an Alt+left click. Then just press the F key on the keyboard (F for fill) and you will have a base surface. If this is for 3D printing the slicing program does not care if there is a base on the 3D model or not. In the slicing settings you select whether you want a base to be printed or not.
Wow sir, your are blessed, I can understand your efforts to bring this to live and keep it as open source, I pray for your success and your great work and knowledge sharing. I am very thankful to you ❤️ and learning from you.
