{"id":12074,"date":"2024-10-09T13:15:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T20:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12074"},"modified":"2024-10-10T21:02:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T04:02:49","slug":"making-shoes-with-no-stitches-or-glue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12074","title":{"rendered":"Making shoes with no stitches or glue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Starting with the basic idea of using a hot glue gun to form and build up a model, why not make whole objects in this way? Why not shoes? If you attach that glue gun to a robotic arm and the glue into a light filament &#8211; voila: LightSpray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on.com\/en-us\/lightspray?srsltid=AfmBOor2o_uGM9VTVrJjzZyYT6yf-oxCiNqFKgVY5BYrqlns4YM8k-UH\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.on.com\/en-us\/lightspray?srsltid=AfmBOor2o_uGM9VTVrJjzZyYT6yf-oxCiNqFKgVY5BYrqlns4YM8k-UH\">LightSpray <\/a>is a technique that use a robot arm to spray a recyclable filament around a mold to create a seamless one-piece upper that is directly attached to the midsole, eliminating the need for stitching or glue. The entire shoe is fully assembled in just 3 minutes. Supposedly coming Fall\/Winter 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video is pretentious &#8211; thinking they invented something new &#8211; but it does get the idea across. Like <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11304\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=11304\">Nike&#8217;s attempts at 3D printing<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7259\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=7259\">3D printed clothing<\/a>, I think it&#8217;s definitely going to change things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X4k23UClZvE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting with the basic idea of using a hot glue gun to form and build up a model, why not make whole objects in this way? Why not shoes? If you attach that glue gun to a robotic arm and the glue into a light filament &#8211; voila: LightSpray. LightSpray is a technique that use a robot arm to spray a recyclable filament around a mold to create a seamless one-piece upper that is directly attached to the midsole, eliminating&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=12074\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,9,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artdesign","category-cool","category-luxury-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-38K","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12074"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12419,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12074\/revisions\/12419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}