{"id":2010,"date":"2014-12-05T10:45:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T14:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2014-12-05T10:45:15","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T14:45:15","slug":"battle-bots-egg-drop-soup-and-a-finished-coffee-lid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/2014\/12\/05\/battle-bots-egg-drop-soup-and-a-finished-coffee-lid\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle bots, egg drop soup, and a finished coffee lid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n

As the semester draws to a close, students are scrambling to study for finals and finish major projects.\u00a0 The 3D Lab is the perfect hang-out place for students of any discipline, whether it\u2019s using the 3D printers and vinyl cutter, doing homework, having pizza parties, or just hanging out.\u00a0 It is a beautiful thing to see everyone coming together to share ideas and work on projects together, academic or not.\u00a0 That is what makerspaces are all about!\u00a0 We are so thankful to the donors who made this environment possible.<\/p>\n

The highlight of last week\u2019s activity was the egg drop project.\u00a0 Engineering students designed a number of contraptions to allow raw eggs to safely drop from the top of a building without splattering their contents.\u00a0 While most devices were successful, there were still plenty of splatters, too.<\/p>\n

Some students used drinking straws to cushion the fall, a popular design idea.<\/p>\n

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Our own Chris from T.S.S., a budding aerospace engineer, built a rendition of the Osprey aircraft to safely deliver the egg to mother earth.\u00a0 His plane uses 3D printed parts to mount its vertical propellers that act as a floating mechanism.<\/p>\n

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Earlier in the semester, Dusty designed a replacement coffee mug lid for the Dean, as his cap was cracked and unusable.\u00a0 The draft version fit well, but when acetone vapor was applied to smoothen the layers, the lid shrunk from the process.\u00a0 Dusty made design improvements, scaled the lid larger, then printed the final product.\u00a0 It fits beautifully now!<\/p>\n

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The blue ring was made by stopping the printer in mid-print, switching filament to another color while the plastic was still malleable, then resuming printing.<\/p>\n

This was another big week for our engineering students, the Battle Bots Tournament!\u00a0 Students create robots that compete by pushing competitors from a round platform by any means necessary. \u00a0Some robots use brute force, others use creative ways to disable their opponents before sending them to oblivion.\u00a0 It was a fun event to bring everyone together for fun and mayhem.<\/p>\n

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Follow the link below to a wonderful story, courtesy of Paul Locher, about a couple of our students that ran on the front page of the Living section of Sunday\u2019s Daily Record. If you have the time, you may want to check out the hard copy in the library, as it is more visual.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.the-daily-record.com\/living\/2014\/11\/30\/technology-opens-new-musical-frontier-for-rittman-man<\/a><\/p>\n

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See how 3D printing makes it possible for a man to build a mechanical bird that flies by actually flapping its wings!\u00a0 It\u2019s a sight to behold:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2014\/10\/12\/mechanical-bird-actually-flies-by-flapping-its-wings\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Until next week,<\/p>\n

Tom<\/p>\n

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