{"id":796,"date":"2011-04-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/796-kinect-3d-print-interview-with-blablablab.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:09:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:09:18","slug":"kinect-3d-print-interview-with-blablablab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/kinect-3d-print-interview-with-blablablab","title":{"rendered":"Kinect & 3D Print : Interview with blablabLAB"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

The Kinect and the 3D printer seem poised to be the perfect match in realizing the dream of making replications of real life objects for repair, replacement, amusement and art.  A recent project by blablabLAB<\/a> entitled Be Your Own Souvenir<\/a> took the art route in a very public application. I asked the collective a few questions about the project, process and future experiments.<\/p>\n

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First tell us a little about the project?<\/b>
This project was inspired by our daily life in Barcelona, a city flooded by tourists and everything that tourism implies. This fact, the rising prices, the feeling-abroad-at-home, the topic-culture, the not-productive disappearing places… produces a weird and contradictory sensation on us: actually we are “guiris” (tourists) in La Rambla.
Talking about the city and the people is what its all about.<\/p>\n

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 \"*VG4-guitarrista\"<\/a><\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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How was the reaction from the public?<\/b><\/p>\n

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The public at the beginning seemed shy, not understanding what was happening, but after a few minutes viewing somebody performing and seeing the reward for it, the result in print, many wanted to try. We ended up with a long queue and unfortunately we couldn’t attend everyone, since the resolution-performance ratio is very different in the two systems: the Rapman<\/a> prints way slower (10 minutes) than the Kinects scan real fast (real time), which is a pity, because the Rapman can plot real accurate model, while the real time scanning wasn’t mandatory for this specific project.<\/p>\n