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Building a 3D printer

It's interesting to finish building a 3D printer. It takes skills from many different fields, building the printer, adding the electronics, and fine tuning the printer. Taking work that someone else has already started and analyzing the work completed to see what needs to be done, what can be fine tuned, and seeing if any changes that be made. Then taking their progress and finishing it to a well running and fine tuned machine. This teaches skills that can be valuable to people when they move into their professional careers. When a professional career you will not always be on a project from start to finish. Sometimes you have to come in after a project has started to finish it or have to start a the project but can't finish it.

Solar Powered 3D printer with tablet interface

An interesting project would be a solar powered 3D printer. This would start with analyzing the power usage of the printer, then finding a method for collecting and storing the power, creating a design to hold the solar panels and batteries, wiring the printer to the power supply. What would be more interesting to see if it was possible to connect a tablet to the printer to replace the computer. This would make the entire printer more portable, instead of taking a monitor, keyboard and mouse. To attach the tablet the printer the printer design would need to be modify the printer to hold the tablet or find a way to wirelessly control the printer from the tablet. For the interface a tablet version would need to be found, if none could be found then a way to make the current interface function on the tablet. The benefits of having the computer on the printer itself would be easy portability you would just take the entire printing unit. The printer would also have a neater appearance that would make the printer look more professional. The biggest downside would be since tablets don't have USB ports a new method for loading the designs. It would be interesting to take the printer to a busy section of campus and set it down and just start printing. This would attract more public interest to the 3D printing community and possibilities of 3D printers.

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Something Beautiful

This nude model is called Nude panther V2 by Fanasygraph. The sculpture is detailed and looks like an expensive piece of art someone would buy from an art gallary.

Something Strange

This split skull by XXRDESIGNS is really strange. To see the face peeling away and revealing the skull is very strage. It loomks like something that would be sitting on a mad scientist's desk.

Something Useless

This exclamation mark by peterfo is useless. It's just and exclamation mark that sits on a flat surface. I don't any possible uses for this other than a decoration.

Something Useful

This Smartphone Dock by rubb3rtoe is something I would find useful. In my room I have no night stand and at night I have to leave my phone all the way across the room to charge. With this I could charge my phone in the outlet by my bed and still have access to use it.

Best Raspberry Pi Case

This case by TBSkinner has alot of potential to be cool. The mini NES holds the Raspberry Pi and allows the front cartigde slot to give access to the SD card. The only problem is with the lack of outputs in the back.

Any Surprises?

The only thing that surpised me was how all the raspberry pi cases seemed very generic. To me they all kind of looked alike and nothing really stood out. Other than that nothing else really surprised me.