3D Printers Are Changing The Kind Of Pottery We Can Make

Taekyeom Lee is a designer and researcher taking pottery into the future. He taught himself to build and use a 3D printer with no prior background in robotics. He used it to create 3D-printed ceramic pieces. Each piece takes on different and intricate shapes and can be used in new ways.
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3D Printers Are Changing The Kind Of Pottery We Can Make

[@sanghoonlee5171]

I'm more impressed by the sculptor who had no education in robotics and taught himself to BUILD a 3D printer that can make all this stuff. Man is greater than machine.

[@SleepyMatt-zzz]

There's not dichotomy between man or machines. Just like any technology, machines are tools for us to expand the possibilities of our own creativity.

[@logosrise1639]

Respectable view. I think it shows more in an artist to sculpt by hand. It's a more meaningful and disciplined experience. Be more intimate with what you're capable of. That's just my view.

[@dtesta]

Why would you think you need an education in robotics to build a 3d printer?? It's actually pretty easy to build one. Especially as there are a lot of kits and free schematics online.

[@cherylm2C6671]

I am in awe at his skill- what he sees as advertising and communication medium I see as fluid and ignition interface ceramics. Even now that's priceless- think of masonry ovens and furnaces that can be cast to size. His folks must certainly be proud of him. So there's hope for me too.

[@astroid-ws4py]

@@SleepyMatt-zzz Also machines and technology were and are created by us: Men.

[@paytonpryor]

I admire his determination and refusal to give up. Despite failure, and lack of resources, he adapted. That makes him genius.

[@justaguy6216]

Great thing about clay is, if your print goes to shit you can still use the clay. Unlike ABS or PLA.

[@kateapple1]

That’s not true you can just melt PLA down and reuse it

[@tokiomitohsaka7770]

@@kateapple1 Can you do it at your own home though?

[@justaguy6216]

@@kateapple1 Yes but you need specialised equipment for that, some have tired on KZbin you can check them out.

[@ryy1704]

If it's not baked

[@justaguy6216]

@@ryy1704 I mean you'll have a fucked up print wayy before you get to the baking stage.

[@Thiccolo86]

Proud to have had Taek as my professor! Very fun to have as a teacher, and very supportive of my ideas when it seemed like nobody else was.

[@Evolventity]

I can see why someone might think that using machines takes away from creativity but I would implore you to also think about what they add. Machines can produce close-to-perfect, refined, controlled pieces of art. Hands can make organic, abstract, free-feeling pieces of art. Both are valuable tools that help artists evoke the thoughts and emotions that they want to create. This isn't about which method is better, right, or wrong. It's about having more tools to create more art (or other objects.) Also, not everyone has hands or ability to create things in the same ways as others do. Machines are a great advantage for people with disabilities. They can make things like they might not have been able to before. To dis the technology and it's products isn't cool. A lot of the technology that us able-bodied people use on a daily basis originated from assisting people with disabilities. Have an open mind...and an open heart.

[@SleepyMatt-zzz]

This comment nailed it. I'm often questioned when I went from physical to digital art work, like my work has suddenly become deficient. I don't look at it like that at all. I think working in digital mediums has expanded my view on what's possible, and has made me into a more flexible thinker. The things people can do with contemporary technology is only making our collective creativity even greater. People like to create a dichotomy between physical and art and art that uses machine technology, when in reality machine technology only expands on a ever growing canon of artistic tools. In many ways, the paintbrush is the same as the tablet, their both unique tools we created, what's important is how the artist uses them. People need to understand that their views on physical art is a romanticized fabrication, they only think physical media has some kind of "meta-physical" essence because someone told them it does.

[@PierreLucSex]

Not gonna argue because I agree with the main point, which is technics open the creative field. Casting, 3d print, collabs between throwers and designers, chemists, computers, etc. Though I find this perpetual critic over metaphysics and romanticism quite inaccurate and misinformed. I can quote at least one early german romantic (y 1800) comparing "word" with "clay" in a metaphysical way in one of his letters. He was a philosopher and a poet of great caliber, Hölderlin. It is a shame that those ways of work are accused of puerility or straight new agey. It is not. Not in the slightest. Such prejudices are unavoidable yet it has to be firmly denied, exactly as you are doing about digital works. A French priest called Montmollin greatly advanced stoneware glazes understanding with not only a chemical point of view and great method, but also with a spiritual poetry about the work of the hands. I wish you could hear this side of our culture and defend your tech approach. This way of working really, really needs praise as well, if you can see it. I'm not talking about entering a church whatever it is. As you said, open your eyes, and your heart. Wish you the best for your way and work anyway.

[@angryraccoon3158]

@@SleepyMatt-zzz I love both physical and digital art but I do have to say in my opinion, physical art is more challenging. However, I see physical art as giving the art peice texture while digital art makes everything smooth. I wouldn't say an art piece is deficient simply because it is digital. What I don't have respect for is a small orange square painted into a blank canvas and hailed in a museum as one of the greatest art pieces of all time.

[@jonathangarzon2798]

If it's perfect it's not art. It's manefacturing. Four blue squares of slightly different shades of blue printed is not art

[@PierreLucSex]

@@jonathangarzon2798 it's a bit mean considering only the work of the design

[@mirumotsuyasuke8327]

I've seen a few fails in this video. It most definitely takes some skill.

[@eliashartmark1522]

The consistency of the clay is very important.

[@JamieRobles1]

From the looks of it, the walls of some of the pieces are just not being allowed to dry to a leather hard consistency. Potters and ceramists when building large/tall items, you have to let the bottom get a little dry to be able to support new layers of wet clay. Then, when the item is finished, you slow down the drying for the entire product to solidify it. That way it doesn't crack when drying and firing.

[@CB-rv2lj]

i assume the height would be tricky as well depending on consistency like elias said.

[@apersonontheinternet8006]

We've all had failed prints. I imagine the clay could be reused whereas with your various plastic filaments it is pretty much a lost cause

[@TheChenchen]

Yeah no support structure with clay so its not easy like filament

[@TheGreatCooLite]

And I'm sitting here 3D printing a keychain in computer class

[@mhgscrubadub9917]

youll be doing crazy stuff like this before you know it. always has to start somewhere

[@adminadmin8992]

@@mhgscrubadub9917 Also keychain can print pretty fast, but pottery needs long time.Also you everyone in the class can get his keychain printed.

[@BloodAsp]

@@adminadmin8992 I doubt that, based on the nozzle size I'm seeing, it is quite the competitive print rate!

[@sankalp2520]

In which class you do this? What r u a student of?

[@TheGreatCooLite]

@@sankalp2520 It was in a 8th grade computers class, the official name for the class was "Digital Literacy"

[@zair7747]

I could make some pieces working on robocasting for 2 months, what he made is incredible for me. It's many many years to reach his level. I had a little bit of relief when he shows the failures, so I think I'm doing correctly, just not with his quality. He talked about usefulness, there are many articles on this, some examples with this type of ceramic 3d printing are filters to metal casting, specific parts to replace human bone (the body reconstruct the bone around the piece) and geometries to immobilize particles like catalysts.

[@AAvfx]

Your channel is a treat to our eyes! ❤️

[@user-hl1zf3hx4s]

BAKE THE CHANNEL TILL GOLDEN BROWN

[@g4bri3l.]

And serve it fresh and warm

[@crow5228]

Ae

[@sunitharanivavilapalli1593]

I prefer people doing the pottery. It feels special and heartwarming. There is something in handicrafts that cannot be replaced by things like 3d printers.

[@z_.5557]

It's not being 'replaced', it's just another medium or way of doing it and people are still free to do hand-made pottery y'know.

[@akiratoro840]

Damn some of y'all kinda negative about this you can hate I guess but it still looks pretty cool it's not like hand crafts are going to be thrown away people still like things that are made by hand but it's cool to see the kind of things you and make with technology, it's not the technology that makes things better it's what you do with it that does.

[@aarondoherty9895]

The amount of times you have to reprint something can be frustrating but it actually really quick so it's actually fun seeing what you can do

[@phyc872]

Whoaaaa. Loved this 🙌🙌🙌🙌

[@NotAppIicabIe]

Oh wow. I knew that people used like plastic for 3d printed planters. Didn't know they had a way of using clay now! 😯

[@jacobmech1]

They have actually made a machine to 3D print a house out of concrete. Much safer, faster, and cheaper than normal construction.

[@craigathonian]

Funny thing, regular people think master artist just crank out perfection. When in reality they crank out all kinds of outcomes and then toss the unwanteds and only show the good stuff. I have seen "artist" creating by the seat of their pants, or blind...they have no idea what they are going to make. They just keep on pumping out crap, waiting for a stroke of luck. Here this genius is at least creating within barriers and variables and having fun at the same time. Designer... Yes, but every bit of an artisan if ever i saw one ! Beautiful mind-bending ART work !

[@tec4ever72]

His art is so lovely!

[@donnadarcy3978]

What printer kit did he use to build it?

[@sallyhanley9094]

Beautiful! Such a smart man!

[@zuko1569]

It looks like making a cake. Neat

[@lorenzoamato953]

yummi! lol

[@weiikitee]

Just stuff a cake clay in lol

[@dieselphiend]

All I can think of is all the new kinds of catalysts with insane surface area that this tech will eventually create.

[@gamerx112]

what was memorable about this? boring.

[@adslammer1359]

Used this clay bot printer at school, bit strange and the walls collapse easily.

[@chinchillamdgamer]

You can see they collapse easily in the video, yup

[@TsetsiStoyanova]

un-freaking-belieavable

[@Bleepbleepblorbus]

Now I know do with my 3d pen. Thank you.

[@michellelandreth89]

Love this guy.

[@StarLabs3D]

Very cool!

[@victoriaa9107]

That's dope.

[@apoorvakhare7463]

Robots are taking spots of humans destruction in very close

[@kylekinnett6093]

I've seen skilled potters make all kinds of designs just like these by hand

[@dummieall3150]

Did you consider puting a perimeter of infrared heaters making the ambient 150-180 degrees?

[@Anonymouthful]

Innovation is never about the why but the how.

[@nonnidreams]

An option, not the only way. I like handmade for the qualities that only hand made can do. And I like the special qualities of 3D printed clay for its details and intricacy. Just in case some over react to a fear of replacement or whatever. Reality is both have value. Machines are tools. Not living creations.

[@donkeybutt3239]

That's amazing what he is doing and looks so complicated, he does that so well. Practice does make perfect and what he does certainly shows that! Well done sir hope your dreams and wishes eventually comes true and then make more dreams a reality! Im sure they will. Thank for the video and have a wonderful and blessed day! 😉☺️😁

[@priyachouhan1817]

It was so satisfying 🙂🙂🙂

[@edeyawilson8537]

Great job

[@donkalzone6671]

Imagine to print hugh concrete blocks with a lot of chambers, which keeps air in it. So that those blocks can float above water. And in a next step, hold several of those blocks together in a durable rip cage. It could bring floating houses on the next level. And I can't imagine what else would be possible with those blocks. Furthermore, printing such blocks in a gas-chamber could also be interesting. I am excited to see what people will create with this 3D printing technology in the future. I believe it offers a lot of unknown possibilities, which our minds currently can't even imagine.

[@epiccollision]

Only problem, concrete isn’t air or water tight...the pockets would just fill up with water

[@andriyshapovalov8886]

You don't need 3D for that they already make floating houses with concrete base and styrofoam inside just molded I believe...

[@JohnDuffy16]

Coil pots are actually very common and have existed many thousands of years.

[@jexikavindictive]

I was looking for this comment.

[@letssmile3564]

yesss, and I have this kind of pots in my house too ♥️ (the traditional one) maybe they called it coil pot here because the technique is also like making a coil pot, stacking and joining the clay

[@HilbertXVI]

Yeah but, a 3d printer did it

[@sheetalbisht8242]

OMG amazing

[@minab.794]

Please could you shair with us your 3d machine's features(brand,power ..)

[@RubbinRobbin]

I need one

[@b_vbn]

Very good 🤩

[@skywalker5936]

Amazing

[@holzmann8443]

Even the simplest human dignity of creation shall be eradicated.

[@sanicheylautner23]

If we compare this to a bigger scale like say buliding house, it will completely change home design and we can use indestructable shapes found in nature to protect us against nature and make the price of building a house possibly cheaper for everyone to get a house.

[@sanicheylautner23]

@iostboy holy shit

[@letssmile3564]

it's already exist you should check out some!

[@LovelyDollsAndToys]

Cool! :)

[@Ritaaw1]

I’ve never seen a 3d printer fail before, nice

[@RobertA-hq3vz]

It needs a fan blowing very hot air onto the printed layer so that it solidifies slightly.

[@davidbacon9223]

HOMELESS 'sleeping box' in a garden............... shower tiles, too!

[@himanshuwilhelm5534]

Cool, mechanical coil pottery.

[@fine-n-dandy]

i'm sorry but i can't help but imagine how satisfying it'd be to squish those clay prints while they're wet

[@pd6805]

Taekyeom technique cannot replace pottery but it is a eco friendly step in 3 d printing 👏👏👏 good job sire

[@user-tz9jh6pv2j]

Yes it can. It literally is showing it working, and this is only his preliminary work. Imagine when potters and 3D tinkerers finally learn how structural engineering works (I'm a structural engineer and started picking up pottery recently) then with some quick CAD work, it opens a whole new world of 3D printed pottery.

[@pd6805]

@@user-tz9jh6pv2j u think potters will go on learning 3d printing 😂😂

[@pd6805]

I'm glad he is using clay

[@kiraangela_]

Still prefer the pottery shaped by hand, it has the love put into it that every artist craves

[@curiousdilettante396]

Not just that. The current technology cannot build the strength that traditionally sculpted ceramic can be imbued with via ovens and using catalysts. 3D printers currently also cannot make big, impressive pieces of ceramic art. Just cute little table pieces

[@romanshalamov8949]

curiousdilettante not very true lmao

[@jlehm]

If someone didn’t tell you it was printed, you wouldn’t know.

[@pk2030]

🙌🙌🙌

[@minhwangbo1]

태겸씨 화이팅~~~~~

[@tharukahiran2729]

How to buy like this printer

[@Dominikmj]

I think the. Idea is great- but basically leave one aspect unsaid: there are still limitations of the design of 3D printing (or better said the design/construction interface)! We design at this point focused on what we would like to achieve- and very limited incorporate the intricate advantages of the 3D printing process. A little has been shown in the video though.

[@alipourchamani2553]

my favorite

[@zeyadalsheikh3839]

it has no soul, it is cold and lifeless.. pottery get it's beauty from human hands that gives them feelings and passion.

[@zakr1187]

Its efficient and the soul is in the cad design. I'm guessing you don't even know what a computer is

[@zeyadalsheikh3839]

@@zakr1187 and I am guessing you don't even know what art is.. as for me.. humbly I designed and directed a 15 minutes movie with 3ds max, working every day with autocad and inventor in mechanical designs, I am also an artistic painter with oil paintings. Regards.

[@PierreLucSex]

@Nobody comments are not funny you troglodyte pottery is piss easy is the kind of statement you hear from a child.

[@tharukahiran2729]

how to buy like this printer

[@donnadarcy3978]

I would like to make one for waste plastics

[@Jenny-tm3cm]

Great idea

[@user-mi4mw9tr8p]

UV 경화로 할수있게 방향을 잡아보는게 어떨까요?

[@klamup]

How about an insulated mug

[@jiejie6549]

Oh my

[@veryconfused9768]

Wow can't believe even this

[@saraback2083]

Why do they all have a hole at the bottom

[@gilbertafidemenyo6281]

Who else had a 3D printer ad?

[@phyc872]

I can only imagine your anxiety while you watch it hoping there could be nothing wrong 😶

[@lorenzoamato953]

Well, that's part of the process also with traditional pottery. Sometimes you litterally don't know what is going to happen during the different processes, e.g. the firing. until they are finished.

[@toiletpaper5770]

The obsession with 3D printing...

[@cabbage2329]

I mean like it's cool, I don't see the problem with people enjoying new technology.

[@toiletpaper5770]

@@cabbage2329 it's cool but I have my opinion

[@cabbage2329]

@@toiletpaper5770 Seems we both have that in common

[@g4bri3l.]

I don't see the "obsession" here, he simply likes doing it

[@nickparkin8527]

Wow revolutionary we can make different shaped pots

[@PierreLucSex]

Says the man drinking his tea in a stunning Ikea mug

[@alipourchamani2553]

glorious

[@handl3_me]

Play fair, pottery is art work by hand!

[@Hoody_Moody]

Humanity: invents 3d printing. Same humanity: let's make some new pottery

[@michaeld954]

Upside it messes up just scoop it up and reload it

[@epynephrine]

Man, what *can't* a 3D printer do?

[@z_.5557]

Do things on its own. It still needs to be built by a person and used by one. Its just a tool.

[@danny6935]

You should buy a 3-D Potter printer , You would definitely get better results

[@m.sierra5258]

STL stands for standard triangle/tesselation language, not for stereo lithography

[@IronBridge1781]

That’s actually a backronym, it genuinely is just an abbreviation of stereolithography.

[@Splatterpunk_OldNewYork]

3d printing miniatures right now.

[@dccrusin8290]

The high school interns st NIST were set the problem of solving the horizontal weakness of 3D pribted objects 6 or 7 years ago. They did! 3D printed objects can be further fused by baking them. The temperature and baking time depend on the substance used to print each object.

[@pepesylvia848]

Not really a breakthrough when vulcanization of rubbers and plastics was already a known.

[@groeiro7028]

Interesante 👍

[@juniperq4900]

Like that it's starts failing and he just let's it happen haha.

[@Artinthedark83]

Uhm... You want a project to use this on? Get the CAD blueprints for a crown victoria, buy one at a junkyard, or a working one if you can, make ceramic plating for the body panels exterior similar to what the military uses on Hummers. Just an idea that might get you a long term contract. Alternatively, and complete shot in the dark. Please try to print a cylinder with a narrow end. Just wondering if this could be used on the moon the print disposable rocket motors to get payloads from the moon's surface up to whatever we have in the moon's orbit.

[@constantinosschinas4503]

those lovely 3D printer ceramics that will fill with filth in no time. hurray the future!!

[@AngelMartinez-wr6mo]

I thought because its clay thats what makes it pottery

[@TylerDurden-id6yp]

Is using a plastic jar healthier than a clay one? I really doubt that

[@PierreLucSex]

It depends mostly on the quality of the glazing but in short : plastic is garbage.

[@marksmod]

what if one used paraffin or other wax like substance as support material?

[@fluffi751]

He only thing in concerned about is when he loses ink

[@ConstantThrowing]

This, but on the scale of construction.

[@ParodieHecker-mobile]

0:18

[@jennglow4647]

😲

[@emilyfight6875]

can we please keep this art handmade.... its what makes pottery so beautiful and unique😭

[@z_.5557]

Then do it handmade. No one is forcing you or anyone.

[@ThomasRonnberg]

Imagine if this was out of granite.

[@pearlhouzukiinthereal]

4:58 OH MAN THAT MUST SUCK!

[@Faris-gp3ed]

Forget pottery how about 3d printing artificial corals next

[@Jenny-tm3cm]

Save the coral!

[@rkDigra]

I am interested to buy this printer can you send the link for more detail

[@Dylan-le9zi]

Working with clay makes it pretty easy to start over if you mess up just re mold the clay. But in all seriousness 3D printing is going to evolve into the modern microwave, basically even the poorest house hold will have one producing everything from silverware, toothbrushes and any and all things we have today except instead of amazon shipping it, you’ll make your own through buying pre coded packets from stores and hand written code to make your own personal fleshlight or dildo, if you can think it, someone’s going to do it.

[@buddyfett1341]

Its impressive, but it didn't change "what it means to work with your hands". Actual hands on is still more impressive than having a machine build anything.

[@elyssa9643]

Not really. It's pretty impressive coding a machine to do all that. And technically they are both handmade.

[@stevenmarcinkowski8577]

I prefer the human touch

[@RubenWhitter]

This is what you call using your degree.

[@gregoriatrejo9413]

Perdón por no escribir en inglés, pero al ver estas creaciones me surgió una inquietud sobre algo que sucedió hace varios años, cuando inició la revolución tecnológica con la fotografía digital, una cosa que obtuve con mis primeras cámaras digitales fue imágenes de orbes, algunos muy pequeños y otros muy grandes, estos hasta de más de un metro de diámetro, así que siendo diseñador gráfico me surgió la idea de analizar este orbe de más de un metro, así que lo ingresé a mi computadora y comenzar a usar Photoshop, del programa de Corel, así descubrí que ese orbe tenía una forma 3D, y que al buscar sus bordes esa forma surgía una esfera exacta, ya que al lo seleccionar buscar bordes y además usando los diferentes niveles de esa imagen comencé a ver qué era como cortar un jitomate, terminando con una imagen en 3D. Al ver esta impresora creo que es posible crear su verdadera composición física, solo es cuestión de usar las herramientas correctas de Photoshop. Saludos.

[@randomizedcontent9461]

I 3D printed the oof stones

[@pollywanda]

More robotics. How creative!!!!!!