3D Printing with XR
Current Research
Project Team: Max Jarosz, Architect
Catalina Cabral-Framiñan
Cindy Ye
The 3D Printing XR Grant submission was a proposal to connect the Magic Leap headset with the COBOD concrete 3D printer in an effort to automate many of the 3D printing processes. Currently, the printer requires four operators, two to oversee the print head and two to oversee material mixing. Our proposal would reduce the need to have this many operators by allowing operators to control the mixer through augmented reality, including adjusting the admixture ratios, water content, and speed of mixing through a digital GUI. In addition to the mixing process, the proposal also incorporated a digital overlay of the proposed print to compare with the physical reality of the print. This enables the operators to ensure the correct geometry is being printed as well as track slump and deviation from layer to layer of the print.
This project was pushed to the second round of the University of Miami’s XR Grant. The research unit partnered with the School of Communications to develop the proposal.
