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<\/a><\/p>\nThe highlight of this week\u2019s activities was a trip to Kingsway Christian School on the south end of Orrville.\u00a0 Nathan taught CAD design to students from two class sessions while I explained and demonstrated 3D printing with our portable printer.\u00a0 The students were clearly excited about the technology and asked all sorts of questions.\u00a0 The second class session took us surprise as teachers from three different classes crammed into the physics lab to see the demonstration.\u00a0 Nathan did an excellent job of teaching!\u00a0 Thanks to Kyle Sawyer from Kingsway to make this experience possible.\u00a0 We look forward to future collaboration, possibly with their model rocket activities.<\/p>\n
Nathan\u2019s CAD lesson showed the students how he designed replacement pins to fix broken door handles at their school.\u00a0 The door handles droop when the internal pins break, which happens on a regular basis.\u00a0 He showed how the pin can be recreated with basic shapes (circles, squares, etc.).\u00a0 The school\u2019s maintenance person tested the replacement pins.\u00a0 Nathan modified the dimensions slightly, now they have perfectly fitting pins!\u00a0 Instead of paying $5 per replacement pin from a bad door handle design, the school can fix the problem themselves for 25 cents.<\/p>\n Back at the Wayne College 3D Lab, Matt learned how to heat-press vinyl onto t-shirts using special heat sensitive vinyl.\u00a0 It is a careful combination of cutting shapes into the thicker vinyl, setting the correct temperature on the press, and the length of pressing time. \u00a0Cutting force, temperature, and time each changes with different types of vinyl and t-shirt cloth.\u00a0 He mastered the technique for our \u201cglitter\u201d vinyl with excellent results.<\/p>\n We still have a lot to learn with this technique, but we are making progress!<\/p>\n Lastly, see how a Kingsway teacher\u2019s son used a computerized plasma cutter to create a \u201cfold-up\u201d elephant from metal sheeting.\u00a0 It\u2019s an attractive (and cute) addition to any desk.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 3D printing technology has enabled some truly life-changing surgeries in the past year.\u00a0 Let’s cast our eye over some of the significant, life-changing procedures to emerge in the past year made possible by 3D printing technology.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/seven-life-changing-surgeries-3d-printing\/35186<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Until next week,<\/p>\n Tom<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello everyone, The 3D Lab is quiet today, being the last day of the semester.\u00a0 Several engineering students are staying through winter break to work on projects in the lab, notably creating a large vinyl sign for Student Services, designing a scissor lift for the Chemistry Lab, offering CAD lessons to a handful of community members and one company, and anything else that we can dream up.\u00a0 Morgan and Ifrah decorated the lab for Christmas, including a cute tree with a 3D printed \u201cMario star\u201d. The highlight of this week\u2019s activities was a trip to Kingsway Christian School on the south end of Orrville.\u00a0 NathanRead 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-tjh1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-3","post-2046","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\/2046","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=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n