{"id":1797,"date":"2012-11-22T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2013-06-18T14:32:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T18:32:36","slug":"cooler-than-your-average-3d-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/cooler-than-your-average-3d-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooler than your average 3D printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1811\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/11\/jmcgill-ice-detail.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1811\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1811\" title=\"jmcgill-ice-detail\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/11\/jmcgill-ice-detail-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"James McGill statue in ice\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/11\/jmcgill-ice-detail-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/files\/2012\/11\/jmcgill-ice-detail.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1811\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James McGill statue printed in ice<\/p><\/div>\n<p>April\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/2012\/09\/27\/3d-printers-for-the-masses\/\">recent<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/2012\/11\/13\/3d-printing-revisited\/\">posts<\/a> about affordable 3D printers reminded me of a <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2010\/05\/01\/3d-printing-with-ice.html\">post I read on BoingBoing<\/a> (coincidentally posted by Cory Doctorow) back in 2010 about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arch.mcgill.ca\/prof\/sijpkes\/ice\/\">a project at McGill<\/a> that used temperature-controlled water to 3D-print ice sculptures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt McGill University (Montreal, Quebec) engineers and architects are working together to explore the possibilities of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rapid_prototyping\" target=\"_blank\">rapid prototyping<\/a> (RP) systems for construction with ice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arch.mcgill.ca\/prof\/sijpkes\/ice\/\">New Architecture of Phase Change, Computer-Assisted Ice Construction<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/2012\/09\/27\/3d-printers-for-the-masses\/\">3D printers for the masses<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/2012\/11\/13\/3d-printing-revisited\/\">3D printing (revisited)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Image: Detail from &#8220;James McGill statue: original in bronze, STL model, and RFP-constructed ice model&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arch.mcgill.ca\/prof\/sijpkes\/ice\/\">New Architecture of Phase Change<\/a><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April\u2019s recent posts about affordable 3D printers reminded me of a post I read on BoingBoing (coincidentally posted by Cory Doctorow) back in 2010 about a project at McGill that used temperature-controlled water to 3D-print ice sculptures. \u201cAt McGill University &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/cooler-than-your-average-3d-printer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[121,63],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-3d-printers","tag-mcgill-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1891,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}