New Software Helps 3D Print Objects That Feel Movement
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists at CSAIL and Tianjin University made X-Hinges.
- A2
Scientists at CSAIL and Tianjin University made new software called X-Hinges.
- B1
Researchers at CSAIL, an MIT computer research lab, and Tianjin University in China have created design software called X-Hinges.
- B2
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Tianjin University (TJU) in China have created design software called X-Hinges.
- C1
Earlier ways of 3D printing objects with built-in sensing typically used one conductive material—which lets electricity flow through it—for both the sensors and the internal wire-like traces.
- C2
Earlier attempts to 3D print objects with built-in sensing ran into a stubborn physical problem: their internal parts talked over one another.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- custom
- made specially for a particular person or purpose
- filament
- a very thin thread or fibre, such as the plastic thread used in 3D printing
- sensor
- a piece of equipment that notices changes like heat, light, or movement
- outline
- a line that shows the outside edge or shape of something
- bend
- to curve or move so that it is no longer straight
- track
- to follow and record the movement or progress of something
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.