Less Than 3 Months After Its Introduction China Builds The First Ever Elevated Bus
The annoying part about those revolutionary concepts is that almost none of them get made. So when we heard about China’s Transit Elevated Bus ( TEB ), we thought it would meet the same fate. Three months later however, we couldn’t be happier to be wrong because they actually built it!
The idea was first suggested at the 19th China Beijing International High-Tech Expo back in May, as a possible solution to China’s traffic problems. TEB would hug the road and drive above traffic on the second floor, completely ignoring the congestion below and providing daily commuters with faster and more reliable public transport.
Just three months later its developers Jinchuang Corp introduced a fully working prototype in Qinhuangdao, Hebei and tested it on a 300 metres track. They say it’ll only take a year to prepare for mass production, and judging by the speed the project is moving forward, we have no reason not to believe them.
(h/t: boredpanda )
China’s Transit Elevated Bus (TEB) model introduced back in May
A fully functional prototype just three months later
See the introduction:
Andrius
In cahoots with the secret orde… With nobody. In cahoots with nobody.
French photographer designs and 3D prints his own lens and the pictures look incredible
If photography is your true passion, you’re eager to discover the ways to make your shots even more perfect and unique than they currently are. It’s not only the places or people photographers capture, the time they put into finding the most flattering angle and waiting for the ‘object’ to show up (if it’s an incredible natural phenomenon, a wild animal or a once-in-a-lifetime sunset), the ways they edit their masterpieces, the natural light game they use in their favor that makes their work different from average photography every person who knows how to hold the camera is capable of and turns it into the art worth admiring. The equipment they use is the tool that allows them to embody into the real life the perspective of the sites, people, nature and social issues drawn by their imagination. But, as all professional photographers know too well, apart from being dreadfully expensive, professional equipment doesn’t always satisfy the needs of a true artist, failing to give him/her the options they’d like to constantly have on hand. Thus, Mathieu Stern, a French photographer, who’s initial mission was to discover the opportunities of inexpensive and unusual camera lenses to end the photographers ‘ dependence on costly camera equipment and numerous attachments, took a completely opposite turn and decided to design a perfect lens of his own. And, after the model and the prototype were created, he did nothing but 3D printed the lens, took a few pictures and shared his experience, as well as the results of his unusual experiment with the whole world. He did that having absolutely no experience in modeling, technical engineering or even 3D printing. But, he managed to combine the best characteristics of the lenses he’d ever worked with, ripped apart an old lens he owned and used its glass and cardboard to create a prototype, which served as the visual base of his 2D design. Luckily, the 3D printing company he got in touch with saw the enormous potential in Stern’s project. They rewarded his enthusiasm by helping him transform the 2D design into a 3D model, compatible with the printer they had and printed the lens. It turned out to be a 135mm f/1.8 lens that uses a single glass element in the front – definitely the most unusual lens in Sterns collection. And, he could totally take most of the credit for its creation.
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After receiving the lens, Stern rushed to test it. After mounting his 3D printed invention to the full frame mirrorless camera, he rushed to test it and shared the photographs he managed to take with it.
After going through this unbelievable journey, Stern emphasised once again that ‘You don’t need to buy ultra-expensive lenses to make great images. A $4 plastic lens will make great results. What really matters is your vision, ideas, and creativity’.
Even though his lens is not perfect, he considers it as his first and incredibly successful step toward designing his own lenses and developing the 3D printing technology in this sphere.
Check out the amazing shots taken with his lens.
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The source of all pictures – Mathieu Stern Photography
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University Students Make A 3D Printer That Prints Soil And Grass
The future means printing your own garden. Yes, that’s the idea behind printGreen designed by the students at University of Maribor. It’s a CNC machine (which means it’s entirely computer controlled) that prints using a mixture of grass seeds, soil and water. The images will sprout grass later on, making for some crazy green designs. As long as clay soil and small seeds are used, anyways – the former for better printing, the latter to fit through the nozzle!
The project was made by a student group headed by prof. Dušan Zidar of the University Of Maribor, Slovenia. The group was comprised of Maja Petek, Tina Zidanšek, Urška Skaza, Danica Rženičnik and Simon Tržan. The project website states that “Print Green transverses the term ‘think, before you print’ as the used motto and turns it into the slogan of an alternative modern society – “print, because it is green”.
More info: print-green.org | facebook (h/t: mymodernmet )
Watch it write its own name:
Martynas Klimas
Writes like a mad dervish, rolls to dodge responsibility, might have bitten the Moon once.
