{"id":1346,"date":"2014-07-21T16:22:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-21T20:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/?p=1346"},"modified":"2014-07-21T16:22:28","modified_gmt":"2014-07-21T20:22:28","slug":"boat-hitch-covers-cookie-cutters-and-high-end-printers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/2014\/07\/21\/boat-hitch-covers-cookie-cutters-and-high-end-printers\/","title":{"rendered":"Boat hitch covers, cookie cutters, and high-end printers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n

There is quite a bit going on at the Wayne College makerspace.\u00a0 The summer has not dampened the activities going on; it will be exciting to see what the fall engineering students will do here.\u00a0 Those classes involve using Lego Mindstorms robotics, where students can create 3D printed supplements to their robot designs.<\/p>\n

Will from our Technical Services and Support department is busy rebuilding our filament extruder from the ground up.\u00a0 We received a replacement nozzle in the mail; as the previous nozzle used a metal mesh as a filter which clogged easily.\u00a0 We plan to vertically mount the extruder, allowing filament to fall straight down.\u00a0 This should prevent problems with filament kinking:<\/p>\n

\"vertical-hopper\"<\/a><\/p>\n

During the middle of Spring 2014, one of our staff brought-in a boat hitch cover that was cracked and damaged.\u00a0 Ben, one of our engineering students, designed a replacement cover in Solidworks, a CAD program.\u00a0 We finally got around to printing his design, a cover that took 12 hours to print:<\/p>\n

\"boat-hinge-cover\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The reproduction has a couple of minor problems that we need to fix; thankfully Ben provided us with the original Solidworks design for modification.\u00a0 We may even scan the original with our 3D scanner to make a replacement that way.\u00a0 Stay tuned!<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks ago, Dusty and I demonstrated 3D printing and scanning to 35+ kids at the Orrville Boys and Girls Club.\u00a0 During the activity, kids designed their own cookie cutters using www.cookiecaster.com<\/a> or drew their designs on paper.\u00a0 We printed most all of their cutters and delivered them today, almost 40 of them!\u00a0 In the coming weeks, we plan to teach 10-12 kids CAD design on their premises in a loose summer camp fashion.<\/p>\n

\"cookie-cutters\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Representatives from Konica-Minolta visited the week before last to assess our makerspace.\u00a0 They, in conjunction with 3D Systems (www.3dsystems.com<\/a>), produce high end 3D printers such as powder based printer and liquid resin that hardens with ultraviolet laser light:<\/p>\n

\"konica-printer\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Printers of this caliber are expensive, but can print highly detailed objects:<\/p>\n

\"clear-boat\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In the weeks leading to Fall semester, we plan to offer CAD, 3D printing, and 3D scanning lessons to Northwestern Schools faculty & staff and Orrville Boys and Girls Club kids.\u00a0 We are quite busy this summer.<\/p>\n

\"3d-printing-news\"<\/a><\/p>\n

See how medical researchers are using 3D printing concepts to create blood vessels, allowing complex tissue shapes and sizes:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014\/06\/02\/3d-printed-blood-vessels\/<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Until next week,<\/p>\n

Tom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone, There is quite a bit going on at the Wayne College makerspace.\u00a0 The summer has not dampened the activities going on; it will be exciting to see what the fall engineering students will do here.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 We received a replacement nozzle in the mail; as the previous nozzle used a metal mesh as a filter which clogged easily.\u00a0 We plan to vertically mount the extruder, allowing filament toRead 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-1346","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\/1346","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=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}