The IDEA Challenge 2021
The IDEA (International Design Engineering Annual) Challenge just completed its first iteration! Inspired by current events, this year’s participants competed to develop […]
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How are prototypes fungible?
Prototyping constitutes a wide range of methods spanning both physical and digital domains, each with their respective benefits and drawbacks. Different methods are […]
BAM @ SDM21
Brokering Additive Manufacturing has published and presented their second paper entitled “Achieving responsive and sustainable manufacturing through a brokered agent-based production paradigm” at the International Conference on Sustainable Design and Manufacturing (SDM).
Research internship investigating BCI applications in engineering design
Written by Louise Larsson Summary of project and intended outcomes In my individual research project this term I investigated potential alternative user […]
To twin or not twin and when is a twin not a twin?
Ben and James attended the Southwest Infrastructure Partnership (SWIP) workshop on Digital Twins to help answer what a twin is and when […]
BAM in Metal AM
Jennifer Johns has written an article discussing to the potential of distributed manufacturing for AM.
Welcoming our Summer Interns
On Monday we officially welcomed a cohort of five summer interns to the DMF lab. These include Lousie Larsson, Oliver Shiffmann, Lloyd […]
Augmented Prototyping – Reconfigurable, functional interfaces for real-time user customisation
How can your users understand how a product will work before it’s been made? How can they understand what it will feel […]
PCA Toolkit V2
Version 2 of the PCA toolkit is shown in the picture below. It contains a number of updates with new products and […]
Mask Design @ La Universidad de Los Andes
From August to December 2020 the PCA team were working in collaboration with la Universidad de Los Andes in supporting students who […]