{"id":922,"date":"2014-05-28T12:56:33","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T16:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/?p=922"},"modified":"2014-06-05T12:56:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T16:56:46","slug":"webcam-mounts-airplane-parts-and-an-elephant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/2014\/05\/28\/webcam-mounts-airplane-parts-and-an-elephant\/","title":{"rendered":"Webcam mounts, airplane parts, and an elephant!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone,<\/p>\n

Summer isn\u2019t slowing down the activity at the Wayne College Makerspace.\u00a0 All three of our printers are being put to good use.\u00a0 Thanks to the Romich Foundation, we also recently purchased finishing equipment such as a Dremel tool for cutting\/shaping\/polishing, some table clamps, and a lighted magnifier.\u00a0 Although 3D printing is dainty when it comes to plastic consumption, we print so much that we need to buy more spools sooner than we thought.<\/p>\n

A student who works for The Wilburt Company wanted to mount a webcam inside a piece of large equipment, so he designed the mount in CAD and brought it to Wayne for printing.\u00a0 The webcam mount came-out perfectly and is now being used as intended.\u00a0 Good job on the design, Andrew!\u00a0 The webcam mount is the white object below:<\/p>\n

\"webcam<\/a><\/p>\n

Dusty is hard at-work with the RC car that will be totally 3D printed.\u00a0 He is currently working on the suspension system.\u00a0 The yellow parts are printed with PLA plastic (more rigid) while the red parts are printed in ABS which allows some flexing.\u00a0 It will be exciting to see the car as it is being built:<\/p>\n

\"suspension<\/a><\/p>\n

Our own Chris from Technical Support Services is learning CAD and 3D printing.\u00a0 His current project is designing an RC airplane from foam board.\u00a0 He designed the engine mount and rudder actuators in CAD then printed them on the 3D printer.\u00a0 The plane flies beautifully (until Chris crashed it into the Wayne soccer goal cage).<\/p>\n

\"rc<\/a><\/p>\n

Dean Deckler\u2019s coffee mug cap is coming along well.\u00a0 Dusty designed a perfectly fitting replacement in CAD.\u00a0 He printed the cap with ABS plastic so that it can withstand the heat of hot coffee.\u00a0 However, 3D printing is a rough process, allowing for bacteria to form.\u00a0 This makes 3D printed objects not safe for food use.\u00a0 Dusty smoothed the cap with acetone vapor, solving some of this problem.\u00a0 However, the process shrunk the cap slightly, so a larger version needs printed:<\/p>\n

\"coffee<\/a><\/p>\n

And last but not least, we printed an elephant!\u00a0 Not a large one, but this little guy that printed laying down, but the legs are jointed and start working as soon as its removed from the printer.\u00a0 Our elephant can walk!<\/p>\n

\"elephant\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"3d-printing-news\"<\/a>Read this heart warming story about a boy born without fingers on one hand, a mechanical hand invented by a South African carpenter, and a 17-year old who 3D printed this hand from Thingiverse.com:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/americanprofile.com\/articles\/give-him-a-hand<\/a><\/p>\n

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Until our next installment…<\/p>\n

Tom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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