Dec 14, 2016 | Student blog
One of the cool things about 3D printing is that you can print things that function in a practical way in your everyday life. One of my classmates (Emily Freeland) has designed numerous practical prints over the course of the semester. For our first project in...
Dec 13, 2016 | Student blog
For my outreach event, I combined several interested parties into one session for a tutorial and printmaking workshop. I’m going to talk about each of the participants and their varied interests below. Hannah, a fellow RA, had seen 3D printing videos on YouTube,...
Dec 13, 2016 | Student blog
One of the most impressive things that 3D printing technology allows us to do today is bring the fictional into reality. If it’s a physical object, fictional or real, you can now print it. One of the most impressive things I’ve seen printed this semester...
Dec 7, 2016 | Student blog
3D Printing has numerous applications to all fields. One example of this is its application to the medical industry, in that people are now able to take 3D scans of X-rays or MRI’s and print out replicas of the bone structure. One project we had this semester...
Dec 7, 2016 | Student blog
One of the coolest things I’ve seen all semester is the 3D print of a folding ruler. This ruler was created as a class challenge which only makes this print more impressive. The ruler was designed on Fusion 360 (a software I personally find very frustrating) and...
Dec 5, 2016 | Student blog
The color of the filament you use on a print can truly change the look of the item. There are incredibly cool options such as steel and copper but even more unique, wood filament. Wood filament is cheaper and physically lighter than the normal PLA filament which is an...
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