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Recently in the lab, we’ve set up a turntable and an Xbox 360 Kinect on a linear rail in order to do full, 360° scans of people! The turntable was built from a $10 bearing from the hardware store, and some bits of wood and hardware lying around the Mechanical Engineering building. The person being [...]
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Several groups have begun exploring 3D printing “out of the box” or mobile 3D printing. ****************************************************** Nazca City (Ciudad Nazca) by rodrigoderteano http://ciudadnazca.net/ “Nazca City” is a land art project, the drawing of a true scale map of an imaginary city onto the surface of the Peruvian desert. To do this we built a robot [...]
I just returned from a very interesting conference dealing with 3D printing (including hardware and software issues). It was great to see old friends and even better to meet a collection of new ones. What I liked most at this conference was the real diversity of viewpoints relating to additive manufacturing (AM) issues. A couple [...]
WIP (Work-in-progress)… We’ve been working at recreating the results of the April’s Fool by systematically testing various mixtures of ceramics, glasses and fluxes at a variety of temperatures. Seem like we’re making some progress. Here’s an example of a glass-ceramic at two different mix ratios that both appear to have fired successfully. Here’s the results [...]
3D Printista – 3D·Print·is·ta [three-dee-print-is-tuh -ee-stuh; ] –noun, plural 3D·print·is·tas, 3D·print·is·ti a person who is specially trained in the operation of 3D printing devices, and the fabrication of 3D objects using such devices at maker / create / hacker geek or research spaces. {Grant Marchelli as a 3D Printista @ UW Solheim AM Lab} [...]
Matt and his team at Metrix Create Space have been working on something really BIG! In fact, our team and their team have been engaged in a bit of a competition with our big robots. The Metrix crew is in the lead. A hardy congratulations to them! AWESOME! The Metrix crew has an old DynaCNC [...]
As our quarter winds down, we can start to breath again. There are so many projects running in the Solheim Additive Manufacturing lab this school term, it is difficult to keep an exact count. We’d like to take this moment to spot light some work that was initially done over three years ago and was [...]
Folks we are hosted at a University and we have been on break for the past two weeks. Thus, we haven’t really been doing Open3DP things. However, we are back in session now. AdderFab is the combined result of three separate Capstone student design teams over a span of over four years. The original name [...]
All I could hear was the old jingle which was associated with a certain company’s Iced Tea product and its marketing campaign. We continue with our quest to experiment with a wide variety of materials for 3DP. Our previous materials were presented in: Bone Yard Salty Parts Here is another result from our Advanced RP/RM [...]
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We continue with our quest to experiment with a wide variety of materials for 3DP. Our previous material was presented in: Bone Yard In our Advanced RP/RM (rapid prototyping/rapid manufacturing) course, I was discussing the course requirements. One our of requirements is an independent research project and report to be undertaken in teams of two [...]