Shoe in for Arrk prototyping technology
By Anthony Clark Posted 21 October 2009 9:32 am GMT
Arrk’s SLA room where the components for The Gadget Show were made
Prototyping specialist, Arrk Product Development Group, helped the makers of Channel Five’s The Gadget Show bring one of its presenter’s futuristic gadgets to life using its rapid prototyping technology.
The presenters of the show, Suzi Perry and Jason Bradbury, were each asked to create a wearable gadget of the future. With some ideas in mind they turned to product design and innovation consultants Smallfry to help make their ideas a reality.
It was at this point that Perry’s team, having decided to develop a pair of futuristic MP3 shoes, approached Arrk to produce a number of prototype components to house the electronics within the soles of the high-heeled shoes.
With both presenters competing against the clock, once Arrk had received Perry’s team’s CAD data it quickly set about building a number of components for the shoes using its fleet of in-house stereolithography (SLA) and selective laser sintering (SLS) machines.
Within hours of the builds being initiated the parts, built out of SLA’s high clarity resin and SLS’s glass filled nylon powder, were dispatched for final assembly.
Perry’s MP3-playing shoes were chosen as the programme’s winning gadget.
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