{"id":418,"date":"2014-03-10T11:32:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/?p=418"},"modified":"2014-06-05T11:33:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T15:33:14","slug":"thinkbox-and-pythagorean-cups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/2014\/03\/10\/thinkbox-and-pythagorean-cups\/","title":{"rendered":"ThinkBox and Pythagorean cups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone,<\/p>\n<p>Our trip to Case Western Reserve\u2019s 25 million-dollar ThinkBox was a rousing success.\u00a0 Their facility has two $40k 3D printers, a MakerBot, laser cutter, laser engraver, circuit board creator, computerized sewing machine, complete metal and woodworking shops, vinyl cutter, and even construction paper and Play-doh! \u00a0It is an amazing facility.\u00a0 We took lots of notes and pictures and will post those soon.\u00a0 The most amazing fact is that all of the machines are open to the public for free use; folks only need to pay for materials used such as wood or plastic.\u00a0 Be sure to check it out at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/engineering.case.edu\/thinkbox\/\">http:\/\/engineering.case.edu\/thinkbox\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We plan to make another trip over a future weekend so that we can start making things!\u00a0 Let us know if you want to come along for the day.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s object is a Pythagorean cup for our Physics instructor. \u00a0Pythagoras was intelligent enough to realize that a simple cup filled to the brim would be adequate for the purpose of ensuring equal rations of water. The cup is an object lesson in greediness.\u00a0 It is an amazing print, given all of the angles the printer has to handle.\u00a0 Come to A-120 to see it being printed!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1058\/2014\/06\/pythagorean-cup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-422\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1058\/2014\/06\/pythagorean-cup.jpg\" alt=\"pythagorean cup\" width=\"368\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1058\/2014\/06\/pythagorean-cup.jpg 368w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1058\/2014\/06\/pythagorean-cup.jpg?resize=300,226 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tom<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone, Our trip to Case Western Reserve\u2019s 25 million-dollar ThinkBox was a rousing success.\u00a0 Their facility has two $40k 3D printers, a MakerBot, laser cutter, laser engraver, circuit board creator, computerized sewing machine, complete metal and woodworking shops, vinyl cutter, and even construction paper and Play-doh! \u00a0It is an amazing facility.\u00a0 We took lots of notes and pictures and will post those soon.\u00a0 The most amazing fact is that all of the machines are open to the public for free use; folks only need to pay for materials used such as wood or plastic.\u00a0 Be sure to check it out at: http:\/\/engineering.case.edu\/thinkbox\/ We plan<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/2014\/03\/10\/thinkbox-and-pythagorean-cups\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/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-418","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\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}