Hello everyone,
Black seems to be the color of the week. We started by printing a black wrench for a staff member, a Darth Vader pen holder for a teacher, and another Ocarina for a student. We have two more orders to design parts in CAD to replace broken items. One is a deck table pole collar and the other is a replacement part for an old exercise machine. Dusty and Andrew are busy honing their CAD skills, to be sure. And more engineering students are interested in improving designs, too.
But the real news is the arrival of our portable 3D printer! Through a generous grant from the Romich Foundation, we now have a printer that can be used for offsite demonstrations to businesses, high school recruiting efforts, and more. It supports both ABS and PLA plastic for robotics and complicated pieces, respectively. Come to see the printer in A-120 as Dusty and Andrew are assembling it!
Don’t forget about our trip to Think[Box] and Maker Faire in Cleveland on Saturday the 29th. Send me an e-mail to let me know you are coming!
Some other exciting news with 3D printing…
Care to 3D print a house? The KamerMaker is the world’s largest portable 3D printing pavilion built out of a shipping container — it has started printing an entire house out of plastic.
http://hackaday.com/2014/03/20/kamermaker-begins-printing-a-house
Another contribution by Doug Woods shows how 3D printing is used in the medical field for reconstructive surgery…
http://mashable.com/2014/03/18/3d-printing-surgery/
Tom