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Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot

You're reading from   Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot Learn Processing with exciting and engaging projects to make your computer talk, see, hear, express emotions, and even design physical objects

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782166726
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nikolaus Gradwohl Nikolaus Gradwohl
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Processing 2: Creative Coding Hotshot
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Romeo and Juliet FREE CHAPTER 2. The Stick Figure Dance Company 3. The Disco Dance Floor 4. Smilie-O-Mat 5. The Smilie-O-Mat Controller 6. Fly to the Moon 7. The Neon Globe 8. Logfile Geo-visualizer 9. From Virtual to Real Index

Making it real


The final task of our current mission is to take the file we exported in the third task and turn it into a physical object. I will show you how to print these STL files on a desktop 3D printer, and how to order them from an online 3D printing service. The 3D printer I used for these examples is the Makerbot CupCake CNC (2009). Other printers use different control software, but the steps required to convert an STL file to a physical object are very similar on each of them.

If you don't have a 3D printer at home, you can try to find a hackerspace or fab lab near you. These are groups of makers and hackers who meet on a regular basis to share their projects and provide the tools and information to get them done. Many of them have 3D printers these days.

From step 9 onwards, I also show you how to use an online 3D printing service to order your object. I used http://www.shapeways.com for this example because they offer a wide range of materials to choose from and deliver to most...

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