Category: Projects

Comparison of digitisation methods: photogrammetry and structured light scanning

Posted Mark GoudswaardLeave a commentPosted in Non-Identical Digital Twins, Prototwinning, Publications, Seamless Digital Physical Prototyping

What are the differences in performance and usability of digitisation techniques?  In this video we compare two such methods; photogrammetry and structured light scanning. For more details please see the full paper on the link here https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-design-society/article/comparison-of-structured-light-scanning-and-photogrammetry-for-the-digitisation-of-physical-prototypes/66038D84EF1A45F22F601B899EFC0D25. This work was presented at the International Conference of Engineering Design (ICED) 2021. 

The IDEA Challenge 2021

Posted Mark GoudswaardLeave a commentPosted in Digital-Physical Twinning, IDEA challenge, Pro2booth, Projects, Prototwinning

The IDEA (International Design Engineering Annual) Challenge just completed its first iteration! Inspired by current events, this year’s participants competed to develop a novel vaccine transport system to aid in the distribution of vaccines across rural Colombia. Fourteen participants from across four institutions participated. Over the course of four days, the groups worked hard to […]

How are prototypes fungible?

Posted Mark GoudswaardLeave a commentPosted in Digital-Physical Twinning, Hybrid Prototyping, Non-Identical Digital Twins, Prototwinning, Seamless Digital Physical Prototyping

Prototyping constitutes a wide range of methods spanning both physical and digital domains, each with their respective benefits and drawbacks. Different methods are used in the product development process (PDP) to generate knowledge about both the problem and design solution. A key ingredient to successful product development is ensuring that the right knowledge about the product is […]

Research internship investigating BCI applications in engineering design

Posted Mark Goudswaard1 CommentPosted in Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI), Digital-Physical Twinning, News, Prototwinning

Written by Louise Larsson Summary of project and intended outcomes In my individual research project this term I investigated potential alternative user interfaces for computer-aided design, CAD, software and brain-computer interfaces in particular. That is looking into the prospects of making designing more intuitive and accessible by introducing brain control to the design process in […]

New Publication in PLOS ONE – 3D Printing Negligible-cost Microfluidics

Posted Harry Felton1 CommentPosted in Microfluids, News, Publications

Negligible-cost microfluidic device fabrication using 3D-printed interconnecting channel scaffolds Available open access via PLOS One: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0245206 Harry, Robert Hughes and Andrea Diaz Gaxiola have together published work that demonstrates a fabrication method to produce negligible-cost microfluidic devices that can be combined using a system of inter-connecting joints. The method uses 3D printed scaffolds – produced […]

DCC 2020 – Poster Presentation (Presented by 8-bit Harry!)

Posted Harry FeltonLeave a commentPosted in Digital-Physical Twinning, News, Perception of Mass, Publications

Harry today presented his poster titled “Investigating strategies for mass property replication in 3D printed prototypes” at DCC2020 – virtually, of course, given the world we now live in! The poster aims to introduce the use of variable infill for the purpose of replicating mass properties between as-designed and as-fabricated parts when using rapid prototyping. […]

Design 2020

Posted Harry FeltonLeave a commentPosted in Digital-Physical Twinning, News, Perception of Mass, Publications

We would like to thank the organisers of Design 2020 for a fantastic virtual conference, with four papers presented by member of the group: A FRAMING OF DESIGN AS PATHWAYS BETWEEN PHYSICAL, VIRTUAL AND COGNITIVE MODELS presented by David, DEMOCRATISING DESIGN THROUGH SURROGATE MODEL CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS OF COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN REPOSITORIES and CO-WORD GRAPHS […]

The Workshop App goes live for alpha testing

Posted Mark GoudswaardLeave a commentPosted in Digital-Physical Twinning, Machine Based Manufacturing, Project Clean Access

The Workshop is a job scheduling tool for coordinating manufacturing in areas such as university workshops. It’s a collaborative initiative between the DMF lab’s project clean access, and industry partner CFMS. It has been developed to enable the continued functioning of University manufacturing centres by assisting the transition to more virtual interaction with students and […]