User:Scottmilander
Introduction
My name is Scott Milander and I am a super senior at The Pennsylvania State University. I am majoring in Civil Engineering with a specialization in Geotechnical Materials. I work full-time for Penn State at the Larson Transportation Institute in the Pavements Lab as a Lab Technician, while taking classes part-time to finish my degree.
During this Fall 2013 semester, I am working on the Rainbow 2 printer, which you can follow the status of the printer here. My group consists of Quinn Carpenter [1] and Abbie Letts[2].
BLOGS
Weekly blogs will be written based on prompts provided by the professor. These blogs are typically related to RepRap in one way or another but not always directly.
Blog Number Three
9/18/13
Blog Number Two
9/11/13
While searching the web for interesting topics about 3D printing, I came across a article about printing human organs, particularly human kidneys. The website can be found at here. The company is taking living human kidney cells and combining them with a hydrogel solution which is then used for printing the kidney. They say the printed kidney can live for up to four months.
This would save millions of lives each year, for the people who are on transplant lists and die before ever recieving their new organ(s). The technology is still new and the organs are only a fraction of the size of the real organs, but they say that the printed organs function the same as the real ones do. It looks like the science from the movies like Star Trek and Blade Runner might become reality in the near future. I look forward to the future so see what else we can print using 3D printers, which can enhance or save lives.
Blog Number One
9/4/13
A) Something amazing/beautiful:
Here is something that looks beautiful, the Eiffel Tower. The STL can be found at here.
B) Somethinig funny or strange:
Here is something very strange, a birdhouse where the birds enter through the zipper of someone's pants. The STL can be found at here.
C) Something useless:
Here is something I find useless, a handle for shopping bags, where would one store this while shopping. The STL can be found at here.
D) Something useful:
This is something I find useful, a holder for my K-cup coffee. The STL file can be found at here.
E) The 'best' printable Raspberry Pi case:
Here is a neat looking Raspberry Pi Case that I found. The STL file can be found at here.
None of these things surprise me, but the Birdhouse with the zipper is very strange, not sure how someone thought of that as the enterance to the birdhouse. I think I saw more strange things than any other category, but all of these things are creative and took some imagination to come up with the designs.
