Gallery: A Visionary 3-D Printed Chair That You Can Download Now
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Joris Laarman's Maker Chair is made from multiple 3-D printed parts that assemble to create furniture.
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The puzzle chair is made from ABS plastic and can be snapped together.
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The mesh magnesium chair works generally the same way, only you hook the metal pieces together.
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Laarmans' lab in Amsterdam.
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This piece is made from more than 300 wooden parts that are glued together iwth epoxy.
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The chair has a natural mathematic pattern that looks like honeycombs.
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Laarman is eventually making the chair blueprints available online so you can print them out and fabricate the pieces locally.
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The Dragon Bench is made from another of Laarmnan's experiments. The MX3D is a machine that 3-D prints metals on demand.
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It's made from a robot arm connected to a MIG welder. Software guides the arm as it essentially paints a 3-D object.
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A polygonal oak Maker Chair.
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This CNC-milled wood Maker Chair will be harder to make at home, but it still uses the same principles: Printing out smaller parts to make something big.
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