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Michael Orner's EDSGN 497J Blog

EDSGN 497J Blogs

Paste Extruder

After Tom Lauerman cam and talk to our class I have became more interested in paste extrusion. One good link I found was from richrap's blog [1]. His design is one of the best and easiest that I have found to make. This extruder uses a syringe and needle system to deliver the paste in the same way that normal plastic disposition occurs. This Is something i am very interested in working on after me and graham get our current Printer we are fixing working. Pictures of the extruder and examples of prints are posted below. The link to the parts to print this extruder is on thingiverse [2]

The extruder components All extruder components 1280.jpg

The extruder put together Paste assembled.jpg

Example of Ceramic Print Ceramic second print.jpg

Example of Chocolate print Finished choc bunny.jpg


Print The Legend

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Over the weekend (10/11/2014), I watched the movie on Netflix Print the Legend. It is a documentary on the start-up of MakerBot and Formlabs. With a few interludes featuring Cody Wilson who is the guy that made the Liberator, The first 3D printed gun. It was interesting how MakerBot went from being completely open source and the driver of the 3D printing movement, comparing Bre Pettis to Steve Jobs, to becoming closed source and untimely selling out to Stratasys. Formlabs on the other hand is still in the beginnings and but are facing a lawsuit from Market Monsters, 3D Systems, who were the first to invent stereo-lithography back in the 80s. What I got out of watching this documentary was a better understanding of the market make up of 3D printing machines and lessons about start up dos and donts.

Class Work

Brown and the "Blues"

The Brown and Blue printer is currently down. The heated tip is jammed so Graham and I are cleaning out the nozzle and repairing it to get it back to working condition.


Brown and Blue

Graham and I are currently working on the brown and blue printer (10/14/2014).


Yellow and Green Printer Working!!!

Graham and I have the yellow and green printer working. We had to finish assembling the extruder carriage, add a end-stop on the x axis, and plug in all the wires into the controller board. Once we got the printer fully assembled we ran a test piece. In the middle of a test print the printer shifted. To fix this issue we added heat sinks and adjusted the voltage going to eat motor. The Printer now seems fully functional and ready for our class's printing services. -posted 10/14/2014

August 26 - October 9

I am Currently working on the Yellow and Green printer in Hammond 312 at Penn State University.

BIO

I am currently (fall 2014) a junior in Mechanical and Nuclear double major at Penn State University. I am also trying to do minors in Econ and Engineering Entrepreneurship.


3D Printing Experience

I have made my own rep rap Mendel printer and currently do random projects in my spare time with it.

MY PERSONAL PRINTER IS DOWN!(Sad-Face Emojicon)

Unfortunately over the weekend of the 11 Of October 2014 while trying to do a print my thermistor on my machine's extruder broke and I need to get another one.

My Machine

Machine picture 3.jpg Machine picutre 2.jpg Machine picture 1.jpg

3D Printed Funnel

This funnel file was taken off thing-a-verse.

Funnel printing.jpg Funnel complete.jpg Funnel demo.jpg

Bracelet Attempt

The over hang on the design of the bracelet did not work for my printer.

Braclet attempt.jpg

3D Printed Glasses Frames

These glasses were designed by me on SolidWorks and then printed out on my printer

Printing glasses.jpg Glasses parts.jpg Me Glasses.jpg