{"581829":{"#nid":"581829","#data":{"type":"news","title":"A Bike You Can \u0027Print\u0027 at Home?","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt the School of Industrial Design, we\u0026#39;ve never met a designer who didn\u0026#39;t love having a 3-D printer. But what about printing your own bike frame, one strong enough to actually ride, on a real trail.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThat is what industrial design instructor Kevin Shankwiler and his students are proposing. At the School of Industrial Design, the design part is real, not theory.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;When we\u0026rsquo;re done, our ultimate goal is take the bike to the Silver Comet Trail and see how far we can ride it,\u0026rdquo; he told the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine. The trail runs from west Cobb into Alabama.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EShankwiler, a Georgia Tech alumnus, and his students have been working on the project for about a year. The project started last year with his undergrads, and has continued with his graduate students.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIt has taken special materials and lots of patience, since they are printing on a desktop printer. \u0026ldquo;Sometimes it takes as much as 12 hours to print one small component.\u0026rdquo; he said.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gtalumni.org\/s\/1481\/alumni\/magazine.aspx?sid=1481\u0026amp;gid=21\u0026amp;pgid=7855\u0022\u003ERead the article.\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Want to print your own bike? You one day might be able to thanks to Kevin Shankwiler and his students. ","format":"plain_text"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Want to print your own bike? You one day might be able to thanks to Kevin Shankwiler and his students."}],"uid":"32550","created_gmt":"2016-09-28 15:44:29","changed_gmt":"2016-09-28 17:01:06","author":"Malrey Head","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-09-28T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-09-28T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"581830":{"id":"581830","type":"image","title":"Kevin Shankwiler","body":null,"created":"1475077639","gmt_created":"2016-09-28 15:47:19","changed":"1475077639","gmt_changed":"2016-09-28 15:47:19","alt":"","file":{"fid":"221785","name":"shankwiler.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shankwiler.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/shankwiler.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":54153,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/shankwiler.jpg?itok=y0Yk7Gd8"}}},"media_ids":["581830"],"groups":[{"id":"1221","name":"College of Design"},{"id":"1225","name":"School of Industrial Design"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}