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Introduction

My name is Dimitar. I am a super senior in Computer Science with a Math minor.

Blog Four 9/25/2013

Comments regarding the Mechatronics: Arduino & RepRap - Creating Wealth by Giving it Away video.

The video lecture is about Arduino, RepRap and the nature of Open Source projects. Open Source is great for any product that requires rapid innovation and fresh flow of ideas. That is easily accomplished by having the source code or design blueprints available for anyone to see, comment and modify to suit their needs. Open source is a very non-conventional business model, but non the less successful. Giving a product for free almost instantly creates a huge market. One way to make profit is by people who need to maintain or adapt the given product and provide such services for a fee.

The Arduino board is an open source hardware platform that is currently has projects from garden sprinklers to orbiting satellites. A lot of innovation is being done by "ordinary people" all because it is a free platform for anyone to use.

The other project mentioned is the RepRap 3D printer. Making the printer open source allows the RepRap community to improve upon the design and then replicate it in real life. Very similar to natural evolution.

As a conclusion I would like to add that current licensing laws only benefit single individuals and need to be changed in order to once again promote the well being of humans.

Blog responses

Following the suggestion from Abbie Letts, I fixed the formatting and added a bit more content to my Blog One post. I would like to make a suggestion to Abbie Letts to have her Main page be the actual Class Blog, instead of having to click the links to find it, as it is the current and most relevant content.

Crosby Owens suggested for me to put the table vertical, but I believe that would open up too much white space. I would suggest to him to put his contact information at the bottom. Otherwise, it is a very well maintained blog.

Joseph Benjamin commented positively on my Blog One and I would like to say that I also like his blog. An improvement could be to add a bit of personal/contact information to his page.

Blog Three 9/16/2013

Good Blogs Searching

I really like the blog of Matt Digel . I think Matt has picked out some interesting prints and added good commentary to them. I think his choice of items solve problems that I did not think existed, like the Ice Cube Tray Holder . However, the empty content of the blogs is not needed and defeats the purpose, so they should be removed altogether.

Blog Two 9/11/2013

3D Printer and 3D Scanner In One Unit

The convergence of both technologies into one working unit will spark a new age in custom design. Personally designing and building something will not require years of training and work with a given material. I imagine the following model: Designing the dimensions and shape of the piece from Play-Doh. Then scanning and improving it using a piece of software. Finally, printing it out. Sounds easy and it should be. I believe there are very few negatives for that model, and I believe technology is bound to go in that direction.

Since plastic is very hard to dispose of, here is a crazy idea about the future to end with. How about a 3D printer that takes in as filament recycled plastic, or better still, has a bin on top that would recycle the plastic itself. Throw away trash .... *bzzt-bzzt* ... get a new item.

Blog One 9/4/2013

A list if interesting objects from Thingiverse

Something Beautiful Coral Cuffs with Voronoi patterns that show a coral structure. Math and art fusion!	Something Strange Octocat is based on the GitHub's logo, but it is a tiny bit more creepy.	Something Useless Banana Nunchucks that are not going to help you in a fight nor will keep bananas fresh.	Something Useful Human Hand Bones - Thumb could be very a good prosthetic one day.	Raspberry Pi Case The Raspberry Super-Pi Case with mounting ears is extremely useful.