July 2014

Hello everyone, There is quite a bit going on at the Wayne College makerspace.  The summer has not dampened the activities going on; it will be exciting to see what the fall engineering students will do here.  Those classes involve using Lego Mindstorms robotics, where students can create 3D printed supplements to their robot designs. Will from our Technical Services and Support department is busy rebuilding our filament extruder from the ground up.  We received a replacement nozzle in the mail; as the previous nozzle used a metal mesh as a filter which clogged easily.  We plan to vertically mount the extruder, allowing filament toRead More →

Hello everyone, Things were too busy for a blog post last week, so this post will catch-up on what’s been happening at the Wayne College Makerspace. The most exciting announcement is the arrival of the filament extruder kit.  Once assembled, we can make our own filament in addition to buying it in spools.  That will save us 8-10 times the cost if the make the filament ourselves.  It works by feeding plastic pellets into a hopper which is pushed to a hot end via an auger.  The hot end melts the pellets and pushes out filament through a hole. Initially we had trouble with it,Read More →