Hello everyone, As with last semester, the 3D Lab is packed with students most every hour of the day.  Some complete homework, others work on inventive personal projects, and some simply hang-out with friends to enjoy the energy that is felt there. One of our students, Ashton, is going full-bore with building a personal 3D printer from scratch.  He is researching how to modify existing circuit boards to suit his needs and how to manually machine metal printer parts such as filament drive screw, gantry system, and other systems.  We’ll have more to report about this exciting project soon. Students in the Tools for EngineeringRead More →

Hello everyone, Our freshly cleaned and waxed floors in the 3D Lab are now littered with dirt, plastic shavings, discarded airplane parts, candy wrappers, and unidentifiable objects, signs of a healthy and busy makerspace.  The two Taz 3D printers provided by the Wayne County Community Foundation are true workhorses and are printing all day long. One particular student is determined to build a 3D printer from scratch, so he is busy printing parts using our existing printers, recycling used stepper motors and extruder assemblies from our older printers, reading voraciously about similar projects on the Internet, etc.  Once his project starts coming together, we’ll haveRead More →