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So recently my Professor told us to go this website www.thingiverse.com and choose a few items which appel to me so i set out to this webpage and it was well worth my time. My professor was right when he told us to go to this website that it will be interesting. So here’s my list on the few things which i thought were good.

1.)http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:44175 AKA POKÉBALL. Just saw it and loved it. The curves made were really accurate by the printer and well it’s a FREAKIN POKÉBALL.

2.)http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:44161 a Cooling fan for the extruder. This thing is i thing we really need in our designs then we can make sure that the plastic parts on the extruder are not melting away even at high temperatures

3.)http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:44160 A Fake Quarter. Now that’s just pointless. i mean you can’t even spend it!!!!

4.) And this http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:31569 scary whatever it is is just waayyy scary.

5.)http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:38857 cyber man. Now this just reminds me of Doctor Who. Seeing this was really Funny.

Reference: www.thingiverse.com

After seeing the article and the videos i was really impressed. 3D Printing has touched so many lives and this was just one example of it. With this technology, i believe, people with disabilities can be helped as 3D printing can be used to print out parts at a low cost. Open sourcing of 3D printing allows all the designs to be made more efficient by improving productivity and making them more cost efficient.

open sourcing is different from closed sourcing in the fact that anyone can use the open sourced ideas and build upon them. open sourcing allows for everyone and anyone to improve a product and also remove some flaws which the person/team who made it didn't notice.some problems with open sourcing is that they are bad in quality. Closed source on the other hand is expensive but really good in quality . Closed source products are heavily engineered and are sturdy unlike open sourced products which are not sturdy and poorly engineered. The fact that open sourced products can be improved upon makes up for the fact that open sourced products are poorly engineered.

Here is a link to a robotic hand which was developed by the Robohand duo: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:44150. I think If we can engineer it to make the hand movements more subtle and precise without loosing the gripping force of the robotic hand then it could be much more effective.

Robotics and 3D printing when mixed

After seeing the article and the videos i was really impressed. 3D Printing has touched so many lives and this was just one example of it. With this technology, i believe, people with disabilities can be helped as 3D printing can be used to print out parts at a low cost. Open sourcing of 3D printing allows all the designs to be made more efficient by improving productivity and making them more cost efficient.

open sourcing is different from closed sourcing in the fact that anyone can use the open sourced ideas and build upon them. open sourcing allows for everyone and anyone to improve a product and also remove some flaws which the person/team who made it didn't notice.some problems with open sourcing is that they are bad in quality. Closed source on the other hand is expensive but really good in quality . Closed source products are heavily engineered and are sturdy unlike open sourced products which are not sturdy and poorly engineered. The fact that open sourced products can be improved upon makes up for the fact that open sourced products are poorly engineered.

Here is a link to a robotic hand which was developed by the Robohand duo: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:44150. I think If we can engineer it to make the hand movements more subtle and precise without loosing the gripping force of the robotic hand then it could be much more effective.

New 3D Printers

So here i was on the internet just looking up memes when i saw this gif of a pen that could draw 3D images using the same principle technique that we use in our mendel 3D printer builds. Then our professor sends us a link and i couldn't believe it I saw the same thing and now it was in front of me with the name 3Doodler. The 3Doodler is an impressive piece of technology for people who like drawing and building projects from imagination. it is actually a really good portable 3D printer as anyone can use it and there is no need to make/get an stl file. not having to create an stl files means that people like me who don't know how to use designing softwares can also use it to create wonderful things.

The next link which i opened was Form 1 an affordable 3D printer by Formlabs which can give industrial quality prints. It is really a work of art. I was literally speechless when i saw the quality of the prints. Right now it is being sued by 3D systems for a patent infringement. The patent is on the way the products are printed and it is this way that gives Form 1 the Industrial grade accuracy.

The third link was a RoBo 3D Printer. Now it was not impressive. As i see it, it was just a mendel with good looking parts on it.

the fourth link was the Printxel 3D printer which is a low cost 3D printer. The only good thing about it i saw was that it is 300 bucks. For the price range it is very impressive but still the accuracy is pretty bad.

The last one the tangibot was really good as it supported the makerbot firmware plus it is cheaper than makerbot.

Reference list:

1. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1351910088/3doodler-the-worlds-first-3d-printing-pen 2. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/formlabs/form-1-an-affordable-professional-3d-printer 3. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/billyzelsnack/printxel-3d-printer-beta-kit 4. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1682938109/robo-3d-printer 5. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2117793364/the-tangibot-3d-printer-the-affordable-makerbot-re 6. http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/3d-systems-formlabs-lawsuit/