Fab Fabjectory
I have been laid up with chickenpox for the past week, which has meant no blogging, no Second Life. Today was my first day back at work, though only from home as I am still infectious. So it was a great start to the day to be in to sign for my parcel from Michael at fabjectory. A few weeks a go I stood for a capture session in SL, and am now the proud owner of this excellent epredator potato figure straight out of a 3d printer.
Michael did some work to make sure my custom Reeboks came out, and they are very very good.
I decided to wear Judge Hocho’s eightbar t-shirt with my real life leather jacket.
The plinth is also printed with the avatar name, a nice touch.
It is great to have something like this, having wanted to get something going with 3d printers for a good few years, and to have this blended with Second Life is even better.
It has been great to catch up on all the coverage we got for the innovation jam results and having just taken a tour of Second Life its amazing what changes in a week just in our spaces.
November 21st, 2006 at 15:25
The real question everyone is waiting to ask: is it made from potato?
November 21st, 2006 at 16:42
Actually, I recall it being initially, if not now, a starch-based system.
November 21st, 2006 at 16:45
Well I believe there are starch based rapid prototyping tools, I believe mine is plastic and glue as its depends on the type of printer.
November 21st, 2006 at 19:26
Ian,
I’m very glad you’re happy with the figure. The printer itself is loaded up like an inkjet with a couple different bins of tinted glue that are applied to very fine layers of plaster dust to build up a model.
Once it’s done being fabbed, it’s coated in superglue to give it some more surface strength.
Thanks again,
Mike Buckbee
mike@fabjectory.com
November 28th, 2006 at 15:56
[...] Ian Hughes: Fab Fabjectory – “A few weeks a go I stood for a capture session in SL, and am now the proud owner of this excellent epredator potato figure straight out of a 3d printer.“ [...]
January 4th, 2007 at 15:59
[...] I am still technically on holiday, but as you all know this stuff is so exciting that its hard to keep away. Today I received a real life parcel with a present from Judge Hocho, one of the earliest members of eightbar in Second Life. Judge had, a while back, created an SL t-shirt for eightbar. He has now turned that into a real one. He very kindly made one for me and one for Algernon and had them shipped over from the US. Now the intersting thing here is that I now have 2 pieces if clothing in real life that match my main AV look. The leather jacket I converted from my real one back to a virtual one as an early experiment, and I have now become attatched to seeing it on my avatar. The eightbar tshirt until now only existed as a virtual one. As you can see from the picture the logo is very neat, and I will be proudly wearing this, and a huge thanks and real life rating points to Judge. Then of course I have my 3d fabjectory print statue of myself. This affinity we get to some of the virtual assets we have make an interesting point of discussion. It also highlight the fact that the Second Life for many of us is a very real co-existence. Just to add to the confusion, I got rainbow six vegas for the xbox 360 for chrimbo. It was a hoot trying to explain to my dad, who was visiting, why exactly I was plugging something that looked like a camera in, and why my 38 weeks pregnant wife was trying to get a decent profile shot of me with it. Luckily the laughing and initial comedy results did not cause a dash to maternity (though any day now). So I have ended up with less hair, and looking slightly youger if that makes sense, but I am face mapped should any one happen upon the xbox live epredator in Rainbow Six Vegas. [...]
May 16th, 2007 at 17:19
[...] Epredator stood for a capture session in SL, and then received a parcel from Michael at fabjectory containing “this excellent Epredator potato figure straight out of a 3d printer,” (see eightbar for more great pictures). [...]
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:56
[...] Just for completeness the thread of these is explained here and here [...]
July 27th, 2008 at 14:58
[...] a stage further. As you know I have a fabjectory model of my more human Second Life avatar. It is a physical statue made real from the virtual.So, I dug up my very old copy of the canon 3d SOM. This appears to be here now The 3d SOM packaged [...]
September 26th, 2008 at 04:28
I don’t know if you or anyone can give me any advice about fabjectory.
I ordered 2 miis in June. My credit card was chaged for them on June 26 2008. I have called Mike several times and I have e-mailed him and so far I have had no reply. It is too late to dispute the charge with paypal, because it has been over 45 days. I’ve been waiting for almost 3 months.
I don’t want to think that I have been ripped off. If you have any info about the company, could you please let me know. Thank you. Sharron
July 10th, 2009 at 19:44
This is cool! The one who made it surely is an expert to be able to intricately design it according to the model’s preference. This is a nice gift for someone.