{"id":5271,"date":"2015-12-17T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T16:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/?p=5271"},"modified":"2015-12-17T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T16:01:57","slug":"homemade-cnc-machine-vintage-car-jacks-and-community-engraving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/2015\/12\/17\/homemade-cnc-machine-vintage-car-jacks-and-community-engraving\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade CNC machine, vintage car jacks, and community engraving"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n

With Finals Week nearing completion, the 3D Lab is beginning to wind-down for the winter break.\u00a0 It is still a popular place for student engineers finishing their LEGO robots, Flight Club meetings, and students crafting gifts for the season.\u00a0 We are very thankful to P. Graham Dunn for providing material for students to use.\u00a0 It gives them and community members practical skills while they make gifts for themselves and others.\u00a0 More about this below.<\/p>\n

A particularly inventive student is fascinated with CNC routing.\u00a0 These machines route and carve wood using a Dremel-like tool that is computer controlled.\u00a0 Normally, small CNC machines cost $5,000 and up; Ben is determined to build his own for under $100!<\/p>\n

With the initial rough design, he uses a carriage and rods from an old inkjet printer, stepper motors from plotters and other machines, wood from his dad\u2019s workshop, and 3D printed attachments.\u00a0 Controlling the router is an Arduino microcontroller with an attached \u201cshield\u201d to power and drive the motors.\u00a0 The motors will move the bed one direction (along the rods), the Dremel in the other direction, and the Dremel up & down, too.\u00a0 It\u2019s a fascinating project and inspiring to see Ben so excited about it.<\/p>\n

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Rough draft of the CNC machine<\/p>\n

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3D printed rod braces<\/p>\n

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An Arduino controlling a stepper motor<\/p>\n

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A few months ago, a community member provided a car jack from a vintage British race car.\u00a0 He wanted to know if the 3D Lab could produce a plastic replica of the jack.\u00a0 The 3D scanner provided by the Orrville Boys & Girls Club was perfect for the job.\u00a0 The jack was scanned from various angles using a motorized platform that rotates the jack as it\u2019s being scanned.\u00a0 All of the scans were then stitched together to form an onscreen three dimensional image.\u00a0 The image was cleaned up and polished in the scanning software, then loaded into the 3D printing software.\u00a0 After about 15 hours of printing, the duplicate jack is quite close to the original!<\/p>\n

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P. Graham Dunn generously donates material that allows students and community members to learn laser engraving (and other creative projects).\u00a0 There were a lot of crosses that needed good homes, so we thought that a retirement home would be a perfect fit.\u00a0 Dave from Shady Lawn Nursing Home in Dalton asked his fellow residents if they would like crosses for themselves, family members, and friends for the holidays. \u00a0We spent two evenings engraving names, inspirational words, and pictures onto many crosses.\u00a0 The residents were thrilled!\u00a0 It is wonderful for the 3D Lab to give back to the community for so much that it has given to Wayne College.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of engraving, a student found a clever use of sawed wooden branch pieces; they make perfect coasters!\u00a0 She personalized each coaster with a laser engraved image.\u00a0 The largest piece was used for a \u201cwords of thanks\u201d plaque that her father wrote when he was young.\u00a0 It\u2019s all beautiful.<\/p>\n

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

In the medical world, see how 3D printers have successfully 3D-printed anatomically correct models of patients’ vascular systems for pre-op practice:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3008229\/emerging-technology\/3d-printing-can-recreate-your-vascular-system-for-pre-op-practice.html<\/a><\/p>\n

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3D printing soft body parts: a hard problem that just got easier:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/technology\/2015\/10\/3d-printing-soft-body-parts-hard-problem-just-got-easier<\/a><\/p>\n

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Until next week,<\/p>\n

Tom<\/p>\n

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Hello everyone, With Finals Week nearing completion, the 3D Lab is beginning to wind-down for the winter break.\u00a0 It is still a popular place for student engineers finishing their LEGO robots, Flight Club meetings, and students crafting gifts for the season.\u00a0 We are very thankful to P. Graham Dunn for providing material for students to use.\u00a0 It gives them and community members practical skills while they make gifts for themselves and others.\u00a0 More about this below. A particularly inventive student is fascinated with CNC routing.\u00a0 These machines route and carve wood using a Dremel-like tool that is computer controlled.\u00a0 Normally, small CNC machines cost $5,000Read 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-5271","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\/5271","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=5271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5299,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5271\/revisions\/5299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}