{"id":2642,"date":"2015-03-20T12:43:41","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T16:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2015-03-20T12:43:41","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T16:43:41","slug":"microphone-clips-milkshakes-and-rubber-band-airplanes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/2015\/03\/20\/microphone-clips-milkshakes-and-rubber-band-airplanes\/","title":{"rendered":"Microphone clips, milkshakes, and rubber band airplanes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

It\u2019s hard to believe how fast the semester flew, quite literally.\u00a0 With five weeks to go before Finals Week, students will be using 3D printers to build model rockets from their own custom designs.\u00a0 The 3D Lab is also a popular place for the R\/C Airplane Club where students build planes from foam board, 3D printed parts, motors, and batteries.\u00a0 There are student-made planes scattered around the room; come to A-120 to take a look!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Speaking of R\/C airplanes, the <\/span>NE Ohio Electric Festival<\/a> is happening this weekend at the University of Akron Stile Athletics Field House.\u00a0 Hundreds of attendees will fly planes (with many spectators, too), the proceeds of which will be donated to cancer research.\u00a0 It will be an exciting weekend!<\/span><\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, Kevin Platz (director of Orrville Boys & Girls Club) brought a flexible microphone stand with a broken clip.\u00a0 Morgan designed a rough draft of a replacement clip, then another student refined the design into an exact match.\u00a0 The replacement is quite strong, printed from our portable printer provided by the Romich Foundation.\u00a0 \u201cPol-E\u201d is a reliable and rugged printer; we have taken the printer offsite to a dozen schools and organizations already.<\/p>\n

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Earlier this week, Wayne College offered its annual Milkshakes and Majors event.\u00a0 Students visited with representatives from all the colleges and departments at The University of Akron.\u00a0 Anthony, Morgan, and I set-up a table to demonstrate 3D printing and talk about careers in engineering.\u00a0 There was non-stop interest at the table; we barely had time to finish our milkshakes that afternoon.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Last Friday, a group of kids from the Orrville Boys and Girls Club visited the 3D Lab to learn technology and generally have fun every two weeks.\u00a0 This session, Morgan and I taught the kids how to assemble and launch rubber-band powered airplanes.\u00a0 The excitement was contagious; the kids had good fun flying them in the gymnasium.\u00a0 Over the summer months, we hope to offer a summer camp that involves a long-term project that involves various technologies in the lab.\u00a0 Stay tuned for more information!<\/span><\/p>\n

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In other exciting news, we received confirmation from the Romich Foundation for a resin 3D printer for the lab!\u00a0 These printers use liquid resin and a low-power laser to create very detailed parts.\u00a0 We are quite excited about this as we\u2019ve had a number of requests that could not be addressed with our current printers.\u00a0 See the comparison between regular 3D printing and a resin printing:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stay tuned for more information about this development.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Speaking of resin 3D printers, a new type of resin printer is being developed that will print parts in minutes instead of hours.\u00a0 This is accomplished by creating a layer of dissolved oxygen to delay the resin curing process:<\/p>\n

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Think that 3D printers are limited to plastic, metal, and resin?\u00a0 Think again!\u00a0 Introducing the ‘Foodini’ machine that lets you print edible burgers, pizza, chocolate:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2014\/11\/06\/tech\/innovation\/foodini-machine-print-food\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Keep watching our blog for more exciting news next week!<\/p>\n

Tom<\/p>\n

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Hello everyone, It\u2019s hard to believe how fast the semester flew, quite literally.\u00a0 With five weeks to go before Finals Week, students will be using 3D printers to build model rockets from their own custom designs.\u00a0 The 3D Lab is also a popular place for the R\/C Airplane Club where students build planes from foam board, 3D printed parts, motors, and batteries.\u00a0 There are student-made planes scattered around the room; come to A-120 to take a look! Speaking of R\/C airplanes, the NE Ohio Electric Festival is happening this weekend at the University of Akron Stile Athletics Field House.\u00a0 Hundreds of attendees will fly planesRead 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-2642","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\/2642","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=2642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2642\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}