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The Realize Featured Project: Linka

At Realize we get very excited when an interesting project comes through our doors. One recent prototype we worked on is for a new product that is looking to revolutionalize the concept of locking your bike! We talked with the creator and founder of Linka Mohamed Mohamed.

Realize: Tell us about your product.

Mohamed: As I’m an avid everyday cyclist, I realized I needed more security and peace of mind for my bike and regardless of how bulky and expensive other locks were, I needed something that told me if something was wrong so I can address it immediately. If you wait a few hours, it’s too late. The recovery rate for bikes in the U.S. is less than 2%. After some research and asking many people from various environments, everyone seemed to have the same concerns. So LINKA was born! LINKA mounts to your bike in 5 minutes and stays there so you’re always ready to lock up. With a built-in siren and an accelerometer, LINKA can tell when your bike is in danger and will notify your smart phone. Beyond that, LINKA will auto-unlock as you approach making it quicker and easier than ever to ride away.

How did you use Realize and 3D Printing to help with your project?

We utilized Realize’s ability to get us finished looking SLA parts to help us with a fit and finish of our end production product. We also utilized the RTV mold process to make rubber gaskets in various colors. This really allowed us to have high quality photos for our shoots.

How do you think you will use additive manufacturing in the future and are there any new directions or capabilities you would like to see in the industry?

I wish there was a way to find quick turn solutions to simulate machined parts in aluminum and steel. Local shops have long lead times and the cost is quite high. We will continue to utilize existing additive manufacturing tools to get really quick relatively inexpensive prototypes made.

What were the biggest challenges with creating the Bike lock?

Biggest challenge for us is multi-faceted. Balancing bluetooth range combined with designing something with low-power consumption. From a mechanical side, tolerances need to be really well captured as a non-functioning bike lock provides more issues than say a non-functional bike light.

With such a cool product coming out is there a follow up idea you have ready to go?

We currently have many products in our roadmap and can’t wait to introduce them all once the time is right!

LINKA is currently available on pre-order for $99 with an expected ship date of January 2016. Find our more through our Kickstarter campaign here

July 14, 2015 Blog

The Realize 3D Printed item of the month: Jurassic T-Rex

Every month at Realize we look for a featured item to create using 3D printing and for June we have selected Tyrannosaurus rex. Commonly referred to as T. rex, it’s one of the largest meat-eating dinosaurs that ever lived. We selected this in honor of the new Jurassic World film that was just released.

The new dinosaur park movie just crushed all expectations, Universal’s Jurassic World soared to a record $204.6 million debut in North America and $511.8 million globally. Globally, the movie posted the largest weekend bow in history, eclipsing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 2 ($483.2 million) and becoming the first film to ever cross $500 million in one weekend.*

Realize, Inc. 3D Printed item of the month for June: T. rex

Here is our 3D Printed T. rex! We used Accura 25 resin and it was created in our iPro machine. Don’t forget, there was a scene is Jurassic Park 3 that referenced a “Rapid Prototyper!” It was a pretty big deal when 3D printing/rapid prototyping was mentioned in Jurassic Park III back in 2001. In the film, a group of paleontologists re-create a velociraptor’s resonating chamber using a 3D printer.

The 3D Printed T. rex in honor of Jurassic World release. Realize, Inc.

(*Source: The Hollywood Reporter)

June 15, 2015 Blog

University of Florida: FSAE Team

Realize helped out the University of Florida FSAE team with an intake for their car. It’s always exciting to see how the parts that we create perform out in the world. The intake and car recently ran in all the events in the FSAE 2015 Michigan Competition.

We talked with Andrew Cheung from the team about the competitions and the teams future goals.

“We placed 3rd overall, 1st in Acceleration, 2nd in Endurance, 5th in Business, 2nd in the Design Event, and 1st in FEV Powertrain Development. Moving forward, the overall goals for the team is to transfer knowledge, keep a top 5 finish, and have an even larger focus on powertrain development. We’ve recently bought a dynamometer to provide more validation in our designs. For the intake specifically, we are going to take what we learned from this intake and create a more refined version of it and would love to use your services again. “

-Andrew Cheung, CFD Lead , Formula Team

Congrats and Realize wishes you well on achieving your team goals!

May 27, 2015 Blog

The Realize AMUG 2015 award winning project: Klarg

KLARG

Realize, Inc. scores a victory in the Technical Competition at AMUG with KLARG!

The Realize team created Klarg for entry into the 2015 Technical Competition at the Additive Manufacturing Users Group 27th annual education and training conference. This creation was a winner for the Realize team and we are very proud of this accomplishment. That makes our team two for two. (Realize won this same award with our last entry in 2012) Please check out the video of how KLARG was created. Meet the team that gave life to this award winning character.

Winner!

Charlie & Noelle with KLARG

April 22, 2015 Blog

World’s First 3D Printed College Hoops Tournament Bracket

Realize, Inc. creates the world’s first 3D Printed College Hoops Tournament Bracket.

We are building something new each month using 3D Printing technology and for March we decided to create the World’s First (that we know of) 3D Printed College Hoops Tournament Bracket. We hope you enjoy all that March Madness has to offer and we will update the 3D Bracket all the way through until a champion is crowned in Indianapolis.