User:Tantoniak

Introduction

Hello my name is Thomas Antoniak and I'm a senior at Penn State majoring in Mechanical Engineering.

My career aspiration is to do research, design, or product and development work.

I am currently taking a class called Edsign 497J so I can learn as much about 3D printing and the printers themselves as I can.

I will be posting blogs pertaining to the class and the work I've done in and outside of class.

Blogs

END OF SEPTEMBER UPDATE: I have learned a lot so far in the past weeks trying to make an extruder for the blue & white printer. So far, the biggest concern with this printer is the extruder that is missing from the machine. First, I tried to make my own out of a current extruder. I added wires from the heat source to the metal tip. After testing this, the wires did not hold up and the metal tip did not get hot. Next, I added the wires via soldering the new wires to the ends of the old wires that were on the extruder before. The solder did not hold and a new plan needed to be implemented. I then re-taped