Blog - Drawn

Drawn will be present @ MakerFaire in Paris – June 21st & 22nd

By drawn on June 5, 2014 in Exhibition, FUN :-)

We made it! Drawn will be present at the MakerFaire event in Paris and will be introducing Galatea to the public!
We’re very excited about our participation in this event, the first of its kind in France – it’s a huge achievement for us.

We’ve invested a great deal of time and personal funds in this epic adventure, and we hope to make a great impression.

We’ll soon be on our way to Paris from Lyon in order to set everything up.
Do join us there, and expect a few surprises at our stand!

Let’s meet on June 21st, we’ll be hard to miss.

More information :

www.makerfaireparis.com

Our first printed piece of furniture!

By drawn on March 11, 2014 in FUN :-), Our productions

Our original goal being to print some furniture, and Samuel having scripted the design protocol for a first stool, we fired up our newborn robot Galatea and gave it a try.

After about 10 days of tests at the plant, Sylvain felt that the day ahead of him might just be a great one for Drawn…

He prepared the machine, set up a camera, added some colour to the raw material – for the funky French touch -, and launched the process.

30 minutes later, 10 layers had been made, and everything was running smoothly !
The robot suddenly became a major attraction within the factory, with all workers, team leaders and even white collars working in the plant gathering around Galatea to admire it at work – they were truly hypnotized by the whole thing.

It did indeed end up being a fantastic day.

Our first printed piece of furniture was born.

Conclusive tests

By drawn on March 7, 2014 in Non classé

Finally! Our first conclusive tests, after a full week of tweaking parameters and general troubleshooting!

Large-scale 3D printing follows the same 3 basic rules as regular, small-scale 3D printing :
– Have a good, sound machine
– Work well on your software
– And of course, procure quality raw material !

We tested 10 different raw material types before finding the most suitable one for our process and robot.

Here are our 3 first printed objects:

3 vases en différentes matières, le dernier sera totalement étanche!

3 vases made using different raw materials – the third one was finally water tight!

3D printer assembly

By drawn on February 26, 2014 in Non classé

The first step in making Drawn a reality was obviously to put together our large-scale 3D printer.

This was done in collaboration with Laurent Martinez’s team, and the building and installation was successfully completed in a very short span of time!

The next crucial step was to convince those same people to program the robot in a way which seemed most unconventional to them.
Sylvain sure was a novice at the time, but he ended up teach the team a few subtle lessons in robotics!

Indeed, over the past months, Sylvain had accumulated a vast amount of experience and knowledge concerning the entire process he wished to set up – he certainly had all the skills required to pull it off!

Here is the assembled 3D printer, in its original colours:

parties montées de l’imprimante 3D grand format

The birth of a large-scale 3D printing team

By drawn on January 18, 2014 in FUN :-)

After a few months of extensive research and prospecting, Sylvain found the best suppliers for all the parts required to build his large-scale 3D printer. They were all shipped to Lyon, and assembly began. 3D printing was only a few minor efforts away.

This first essential step was good enough a reason for Samuel and Sylvain to shake hands and sign an agreement to launch their future company.

The Drawn team was born!

Sylvain, Galatea and Samuel

December 10th, 2013 – An Unexpected Encounter

By drawn on December 10, 2013 in Non classé

Late last year, Sylvain exited a fund-raising interview in Lyon much later than he’d expected. He had no choice but to catch the next train back to Paris. Little did he know, he had, by doing so, created the conditions for an unexpected encounter.

Entirely by chance, he ended up sitting in the same coach as Arnaud Montebourg, and after a bit of very understandable hesitation, decided to strike up a conversation with him. Drawn was obviously on his mind, so he mentioned his beloved idea.

As a result, Arnaud Montebourg, then (and still now) Minister for Industrial Renewal in the French Government, put him in touch with a key partner who’d end up supplying him with the core piece of his soon-to-be large scale 3D printer, Galatea.

Rencontre 10 décembre 2013 – Arnaud Montebourg