{"id":11467,"date":"2019-04-12T14:10:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T18:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/?p=11467"},"modified":"2019-04-12T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T18:10:51","slug":"stair-climbing-robots-laser-etched-circuit-boards-and-a-visit-by-home-school-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/2019\/04\/12\/stair-climbing-robots-laser-etched-circuit-boards-and-a-visit-by-home-school-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Stair climbing robots, laser etched circuit boards, and a visit by home school families"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring Break is just about over at Wayne College; students\nand instructors begin the final weeks of Spring semester on Monday.  A\nsteady stream of community members and students visited the 3D Lab throughout\nthe week, keeping our lab staff busy in addition to their usual duties. \nDynamics class students worked on model rockets for the upcoming launch in May,\nanother person brought a broken lamp retainer to design a 3D printed\nreplacement, and Tristan helped a friend build a mug drying \u201cspinner\u201d using MDF\nwood cut on the laser engraver.  There is always something interesting\nhappening in the 3D Lab!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you haven\u2019t signed up to participate in the Wayne County\nMini Maker, do so quickly!  The deadline is the\nend of this weekend, by Monday, April 1st at the\nlatest.<\/strong>  If you have any kind of hobby, invention, or\ncreative\/crafting talents, the Maker Faire is the perfect place to show your\ncreations.  You\ncan signup here<\/a>.  Participation and attendance is free! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are you a girl aged 11-18 and like to code? \nIntroducing Code\nHopper Challenge 2019<\/a> at the Akron Art Museum, part of the UA Urban STEM\ninitiative.  Bring a friend and code a challenge! Code in Scratch,\nJavascript, Pencilcode, or whatever you’re comfortable using.  For more\ninformation, see the attached flyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tim, one of our students, enjoys board and role playing\ngames.  Over the past several years, he used the 3D printers and laser\nengraver in the 3D Lab to create custom props, such as cardboard barricades\nfrom (literally) pizza boxes using 2D design software Adobe Illustrator<\/a>. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tim also makes amazing three dimensional props in the form of\nmodular buildings made from MDF board and the laser engraver\/cutter.  He\ndesigns even these buildings in Illustrator complete with connecting tabs for\nthe walls, ceilings, & floors with connectors for the rooms\nthemselves.  The result?  All of the rooms below can be connected in\ndifferent ways to make custom shaped buildings for any purpose.  It’s\namazing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tristan, another one of our students, continues to do\namazing work with custom etched circuit boards using the laser engraver. \nFor a robotics project, he\u2019s been working on a camera slider for fancy YouTube\nrecordings that the human hand couldn’t possibly recreate.  With his\nproject, smooth cinematic shots will be possible due to the bot\u2019s three stepper\nmotors along with multiple sensors which will be implemented to make it user\nfriendly.  But how could all of the components fit in one small little\nbox?  Well a PCB (printed circuit board), of course!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Around 1950, PCBs were being manufactured for commercial\nuse.  But the expense of having them produced detoured many electronics\nenthusiasts away from them.  So hobbyists did what they do best, they made\ntheir own!  While a handful of websites today allow you to purchase a PCB\nfor low-cost, many hands on people found it satisfying to make their own. \nAll it requires is copper plated fiber board, Rustoleum high heat spray paint,\ndiluted ferric chloride (etching solution), and a high wattage laser.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The concept involves etching away copper with the ferric\nchloride solution.  An image is carefully drawn on a computer (Tristan\nused Microsoft Paint) where the copper needs to be etched away from.  Once\nthat\u2019s done, the laser engraver is used to \u201cretrace\u201d the image onto the\nboard.  By laser engraving the image onto the board, paint is removed and\ncopper is exposed.  The PCB is stuck into a ferric chloride solution until\nthe visible copper is dissolved.  Lastly, steel wool is used to clean-off\nthe remaining paint and holes are drilled.  An old school PCB with new\ntech!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last month, a group of home school community members visited\nthe 3D Lab to learn how to use 3D printers and let their imaginations run\nwild.  3D Lab staff Ashton and Thomas showed these young adults how the\nmachines work and helped them print objects and make designs with the laser\nengraver.  Many of them had never seen a 3D printer before; it was an\nexciting experience for them.  Many thanks to Ashton and Thomas for giving\nthem a wonderful experience!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Stay tuned next week as we introduce more interesting folks\nwho participated in last year\u2019s Maker Faire!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until then,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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See how this 3D bioprinter patches up wounds using a patient’s own skin cells:
https:\/\/newatlas.com\/skin-bioprinter-prints-onto-wounds\/58688<\/a>
Taking too many pills?\u00a0 3D printed pills deliver exactly the dosage and types that you need:
https:\/\/all3dp.com\/2\/3d-printing-drugs-the-latest-advancements-around-the-world<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just in-time for Easter!\u00a0 Print this cute, windup bunny:
https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/Windup-Bunny-2<\/a>

Speaking of Tim\u2019s board game props, 3D print your own Dungeons & Dragons pieces:
https:\/\/all3dp.com\/2\/d-d-3d-print-your-own-dungeons-dragons-pieces<\/a> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Wayne County Mini Maker Faire is coming\nsoon!  May 18, 2019 from 10:00-3:00.  Sign-up soon<\/a> to\nparticipate as space is limited at this huge community event.  Deadline is April 1st.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDon\u2019t miss the next Maker Monday on Monday, April 15th\n at 7:00 p.m. at the Schantz Makerspace in Wooster.  Find out more at\nwww.schantzmakerspace.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We offer a free \u201clistserv\u201d that allows to you ask questions\nto members in the makerspace. It\u2019s great for sharing ideas, forming\nfriendships, and helping & advising each other. To join, send an email to listserv@lists.uakron.edu<\/a> with \n\n“SUBSCRIBE\nMAKERSPACE-GROUP” in the subject line.  \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone, Spring Break is just about over at Wayne College; students and instructors begin the final weeks of Spring semester on Monday.  A steady stream of community members and students visited the 3D Lab throughout the week, keeping our lab staff busy in addition to their usual duties.  Dynamics class students worked on model rockets for the upcoming launch in May, another person brought a broken lamp retainer to design a 3D printed replacement, and Tristan helped a friend build a mug drying \u201cspinner\u201d using MDF wood cut on the laser engraver.  There is always something interesting happening in the 3D Lab! If youRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10004],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-tjh1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","post-11467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-articles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11467"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11527,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11467\/revisions\/11527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}