Marco Mahler’s 3D Printed Kinetic Sculptures

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Marco Mahler (previously), an artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon, has released a new collection of kinetic sculptures on his site, which were created in a collaborative effort with Henry Segerman, a research fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. Mahler claims that these are the first fully 3D printed mobile sculptures in the world.

Made out of laser sintered nylon plastic – one of the most popular materials used for 3D printing – the intricately designed mobiles come out of the printers in a completely assembled state, and are heatproof up to 80 °C / 176 °F.

More about the making process:

The balance points for these mobiles were calculated to 1/1000th of a millimeter (1/25360th of an inch). The models for some of these mobiles were drawn up “by hand”, others were created utilizing scripts that we wrote. Some of the mobiles, like Mobile 4.2, are designed with a very small increase or decrease in thickness from one part to the next, something that is not possible to do with conventional handmade mobiles. Utilizing scripts also allows for designs that would be very time consuming to make by hand, such as the Quaternary Tree (Level 6), which has 1365 pieces.

You can buy these kinetic sculptures at their Shapeways online store, for prices ranging from $10 to $600.

Here are a few more images of the sculptures.

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Marco Mahler’s Lovely Mobile Kinetic Sculptures

These adorably-whimsical pieces of handmade mobile art were created by Marco Mahler, a musician and sculptor based in Portland, Oregon.

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Marco’s says that his works “have been featured at New York Fashion Week in Bryant Park and at numerous galleries, events and public spaces in New York City, South Carolina, Texas, New Mexico and Oregon.”

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All the mobiles are available for purchase on his Etsy store, and come with an offer of free worldwide shipping.

Marco has graciously setup an exclusive coupon code for JazJaz readers. Just use the code "JAZJAZREADER" to get 10% off on the prices of the mobiles. Do keep in mind that this offer will expire on March 31st.

Link to the store.

More images after the jump.

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