Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Live At SXSW: George CrowdSourcington”.
Hi, this is matt richardson at south by southwest interactive, i’m here with todd, blatt who’s, going to tell us about this guy right behind us. So this is george crowdsourcington and it was a collaborative project where me and five other people at the walters art museum, hackathon art bites in baltimore, plus direct dimensions. We all like joined together and 3d scanned the marble bust of george washington. So we scanned it and then cut it up in the computer into 110 pieces and made the website wethebuilders.com, where people could log in check out one part like from a library and print it and then mail it to us and then download another part and keep Doing it until all 110 pieces were printed, how many people did you have participating in printing pieces out? It was 70 people and they’re all listed like everybody who contribute is listed at wethebuilders.com and then what about the final construction? Where did that take place? How how what was involved in that construction at the end? So what happened? Was people shipped it to the office in baltimore direct dimensions? I like sat in the back room and glued it all together and tinkering studio, sponsored the shipping cost for the people to mail.
All the blocks – and it was a very short time frame because we were trying to get it done for the new york 3d print show. So the whole thing came together in like three days of gluing, and you know i did it layer by layer and each block had the coordinates on. So you could see where it was supposed to be um and it was it’s a rush job and we like glued the head on on the way up on the ride up to new york.
So, but now what you have now is a platform for doing a large-scale 3d print crowdsource. What’S the next thing you, you would want to 3d print using this platform right, so at weatherbuilders.com people can go and sign up. So we’ll have an alert say hey. Let’S do this next project so right now we’re trying to build the database. We have more than 65 and what, if we had 650, then we could make a car overnight or something like anything. So i mean we don’t have a specific plan. We’Re just excited about the platform working out the bugs, because the website was a hackathon project. It was just that weekend that we put it together and like marty, mcguire and amy hearst and dave fine and matt griffin and ryan kittleson, and i helped with the modeling, and it was just awesome. So it was just like hacked together weekend and then we had to start printing right away. So it was a big rush. All right thanks, todd and we’ll have more stuff coming at you on the make scene, channel bye, .