{"id":5315,"date":"2016-01-08T17:18:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2016-01-08T17:18:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T21:18:21","slug":"spotting-scope-phone-adapter-visit-to-orrville-middle-school-and-a-drill-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/2016\/01\/08\/spotting-scope-phone-adapter-visit-to-orrville-middle-school-and-a-drill-press\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotting scope phone adapter, visit to Orrville Middle School, and a drill press"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n

The 3D Lab weekly blog was on hiatus over the holidays, given that Wayne College was closed.\u00a0 We are currently cleaning, reorganizing, and purchasing supplies to be ready for the Spring semester.\u00a0 Even with classes not in-session, students and community members are dropping by the lab to work-on projects, create handmade gifts, and more.<\/p>\n

We are pleased to announcement financial contributions from the Wayne Insurance Group and Gary & Martha (Hagen) McGuire.\u00a0 This support allows the 3D Lab to remain an open resource to students, the community, and local organizations.\u00a0 We are very thankful for your support!<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new feature implemented in the coming weeks is an electronics area.\u00a0 Thanks to generous donations from the community, lab patrons can build circuits with a learning kit, wire their own electronics, learn how to use Arduino microcontrollers, and create projects based on Raspberry Pi.<\/p>\n

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One of our community members is especially gifted with inventing ideas to make life easier.\u00a0 Being an avid bird watcher, Norm used CAD software<\/a> to design an adapter that attaches his smart phone to a spotting scope.\u00a0 This allows extreme close-up photos to be taken on his phone.<\/p>\n

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The original design was 3D printed as one piece.\u00a0 Because of various recesses in the adapter, much \u201csupport\u201d plastic needed removed after printing.\u00a0 Norm later revised his design as two parts that lock together.\u00a0 Individually printing each part does not require support plastic, therefore no cleaning up!\u00a0 The improved design prints faster, too.<\/p>\n

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A few weeks ago, the 3D Lab made another road trip, this time to Orrville Middle School.\u00a0 Students from three class sessions learned how 3D printing works, its many applications in the real world, careers in engineering, and watched a cowboy boot being 3D printed right before their eyes!\u00a0 The demonstrationwas a big hit with many questions during each session.\u00a0 It is exciting to see a growing number of secondary schools building makerspaces of their own where students can learn digital fabrication skills that can continue into college.\u00a0 Thanks, Mike, for inviting us!<\/p>\n

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In addition to the upcoming electronics area, funding from community members allowed the purchase of a small drill press.\u00a0 It supports pieces up to 8\u201d tall and various speeds for drilling metal, wood, and other materials.\u00a0 Our resident student engineers had it assembled and running in no-time.<\/p>\n

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One of our staff members received a smartphone stand from the Orrville Area Chamber of Commerce.\u00a0 It was a nice design, though it was accidentally broken during use.\u00a0 After taking measurements and reproducing the broken part in Corel DRAW, a replacement part was easily created on the laser cutter using donated acrylic from The Wooster Glass Company.\u00a0 The replacement fits identical to the original!<\/p>\n

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Stay tuned as we report on more interesting projects next week.<\/p>\n

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

Laser cutting isn\u2019t limited to just flat material.\u00a0 Given 3D printing is very slow, see how custom software converts 3D objects to laser cutter designs than can be quickly cut and assembled:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2015\/04\/30\/3d-printering-laser-cutting-3d-objects<\/a><\/p>\n

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Have you ever wanted a LEGO figurine of yourself?\u00a0 This company 3D prints just that!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/73186\/3d-print-your-face-lego-minifigures<\/a><\/p>\n

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Until next week,<\/p>\n

Tom<\/p>\n

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Hello everyone, The 3D Lab weekly blog was on hiatus over the holidays, given that Wayne College was closed.\u00a0 We are currently cleaning, reorganizing, and purchasing supplies to be ready for the Spring semester.\u00a0 Even with classes not in-session, students and community members are dropping by the lab to work-on projects, create handmade gifts, and more. We are pleased to announcement financial contributions from the Wayne Insurance Group and Gary & Martha (Hagen) McGuire.\u00a0 This support allows the 3D Lab to remain an open resource to students, the community, and local organizations.\u00a0 We are very thankful for your support! A new feature implemented in theRead 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-5315","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\/5315","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=5315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5351,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5315\/revisions\/5351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}