During the past century, a whole new world has been created: the digital world. Along with the development of computers, internet, mobile devices, and etc, the digital world has created a whole new reality for human beings. Combined with new sensors, nowadays, everything that can be observed digitally is stored online and is being used for marketing and other uses. In this research, we aim to combine the world of digital and physical by using RFID (radio frequency identifier) and 3D printing technology. In detail, we embedded RFID modules inside 3D printed object, and wrote its information after the object was fully printed. With this, we aim to enhance the interaction between the real world and the virtual world, bringing more rich data transition and data manipulation.
Ken Fujiyoshi, Chihiro Fukai, Hiroya Tanaka, Jin Mitsugi, Jun Murai, "RFID 3D Printing Objects that Connote Information" in Proc. IS&T Int'l Conf. on Digital Printing Technologies and Digital Fabrication (NIP30), 2014, pp 316 - 319, https://doi.org/10.2352/ISSN.2169-4451.2014.30.1.art00077_1