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Blog 4

The video talked about how arduino and reprap give away their product and make money from other sources. This allows them to get their product into more people’s hands, than if they charged. This is a common business model for open source products. Since its open sourced people can look through software source code or hardware blue prints and make modifications. This business model is like the one used by Android and Linux. I think this model has potential because other people can look and make modifications and release it. This can be seen with Linux operating systems, people have taken them and added new features, interfaces and other stuff and released it for other people to use like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Debian, and Red Hat. On the Android side there are many custom aftermarket android operating systems available for people to download and put on their device to get stock android, new features, and remove carrier bloat ware. Major examples are Cyanogenmod, AOCP, AOKP, and Paranoid Android.

Blog 3

Reading other students blogs I came across some that had some blogs and layouts that I really liked, some on the other hand had bits I didn't like or really annoyed me. These are some of the blogs that I liked and didn't like.

Abbie Letts

I really liked how he laid out his blog, with the different tabs. The tabs gave his blog a very unique feel to it. I also liked this inclusion of the about me section. Other students have an about me section but this one says a lot more about the person, but it also gives a little too much info about. All this information seems to be just too much.

Dimitar Dimitrov

I liked how he put his blog 1 into a table. This gives his blog a cleaner look than other students. With some blog one posts the pictures are on the right side, this can lead to some confusion over which picture goes with section. The table clears up these issues with all the pictures on the right side.

Crosby Owens

On his blog 2 his response was all on one line for each response. This forced you to scroll to see all of it. It really should be in paragraph format for easy reading. It also had a box around the part of the text. This doesn't have any purpose that I can see. It would be best to remove it .

Matt Digel and Madeline Roche

I didn't like that fact that they have added titles before any actual information. This makes the blog feel incomplete and unfinished, like they have only done part of the actual assignment. It would be best to just remove them and add them as the blogs are completed. Madeline Roche’s also has some weird stuff going on in the extra sections that should just be removed

Ryan Conrad

I feel that his blog 2 is very lacking, it is only a two line response. He should expand on what he has some more. He should give more detail about why he likes working on the electronics and if anything about them he would like to change to add more features, making them more efficient, or simpler to assemble.

Patrick Mangan

He really needs to add a response to blog 2. His blog other than that is fine but with blog 2 due last week it really should be added by now.

Hamed Lashkari

It kind of annoyed me to see the inconsistencies with the titles of the blogs. He has Blog 1 and then Blog Number Two, and this is just really annoying to me.

Leo Funk

In his blog 1 he had all the links at the bottom under the title of links. These should be included in the response. He should either add the link their or add a link to the links at the bottom, the first choice is the easier and better looking of the two.

Blog 2

Building a 3D printer

It's interesting to finish building a 3D printer. It takes skills from many different fields to build the printer, add the electronics, and fine tune the printer. Taking the work that someone else has already started and analyzing it 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 and fine tuning it. This teaches skills that can be valuable to people when they move into their professional careers. When in 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, and wiring the printer to the new power supply. What would be more interesting is 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 you would take the tablet. To attach the tablet the printer, the printer design would need to be modified 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 would need to be found. 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 wirelessly loading the designs would have to be used. 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.

Blog 1

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.