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<\/a><\/p>\nWe also experimented with two-color printing by pausing the print mid-way, switching to a different color filament (by unloading one color and loading another), then resuming the print.\u00a0 The technique worked perfectly!<\/p>\n
Do you remember the adage \u201chaste makes waste\u201d?\u00a0 Well, I rushed a print job on our portable printer and accidentally loaded the wrong type of plastic (I used PLA instead of the recommended ABS).\u00a0 The result is that the plastic was poorly melted and jammed in the printer.\u00a0 Dusty performed surgery on our printer to clean-up the mess:<\/p>\n Dusty is busy printing more objects for the automatic part rinser for the Chemistry Lab.\u00a0 This will save the Lab at least $400, not to mention the time it saves manually rinsing parts.\u00a0 His design is quite large; it will take almost 100 hours of printing time to build it.\u00a0 Here is one part that took 12 hours this week to print.\u00a0 We will keep you posted of the project\u2019s progress!<\/p>\n With other printer woes, our original printer has the occasional habit of shifting the print head 1\/2″ in the middle of a print job, skewing the object as it builds the remaining top layers.\u00a0 We have a service contract with the printer company; they assist us with these types of strange software\/hardware glitches:<\/p>\n The filament extruder kit arrived earlier this week, so we are busy assembling it.\u00a0 This will allow us to create our own filament at 8-10 times less the cost of buying pre-made filament.\u00a0 I will finish the electrical wiring over the weekend, but the extruder is looking good so far:<\/p>\n Next week is a trip Northwestern Middle School where Dusty and I will offer advice for building the school\u2019s own Makerspace.\u00a0 We\u2019ll the results of this trip next week!<\/p>\n In the news, President Obama acknowledged the growth the \u201cmaker\u201d culture by recently hosting a Maker Faire at the White House!\u00a0 June 18 is now a nationwide \u201cDay of Making\u201d.\u00a0 Read more below:<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/best-maker-faire-projects-white-house\/32450\/<\/a><\/p>\n Stay tuned for more Wayne Makerspace news next week!<\/p>\n Tom<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello everyone, Even in the middle of summer, exciting things are happening at the Wayne College Makerspace.\u00a0 At one point we had all three printers running, until I broke one of them (twice!). Maureen\u2019s husband learned that PhotoShop can be used to create 3D objects from photos.\u00a0 Normally, PhotoShop is a 2D program that allows one to edit digital photos and the like.\u00a0 He took a photo of a fireman, converted it to 3D, then printed the object on his company\u2019s StrataSys printer (a high-end 3D printer).\u00a0 We printed the fireman with our own printers with decent results.\u00a0 Note that the roughness of the printRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-1250","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\/1250","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=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n