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Blog 1: Thingiverse Printable Designs
Blog Description: "The objective for this blog was to go online to thingiverse.com and look for printable objects in which other people have actually printed. Several particular design criteria we had to look for including: something amazing/beautiful, something funny or strange, something useless, something useful, something which surprised you".
Blog 1a: Something Amazing
"In this case, I found a world famous video game character: GlaDOS, also known as the evil machine who loves to test and lies about giving you cake at these tests in Portal. I found this amazing since the guy printed the parts very well. The character is unmistakable. He also added some robotics pieces to make it move and act as a lamp. Check out the clip!"
Blog 1b: Something Funny
"I just thought this was funny. The picture is self explanatory."
Blog 1c: Something Useless
"What is more useless than a useless box?"
Blog 1d: Something Useful
"I lose my head phones all the time and they get tangled even more frequently. I will be printing these ASAP!"
Blog 1e: Something Surprising
"I just did not think this was possible, but then again, I have never actually considered it..."
Blog 2: The Open Source Ecology Kit from Marcin Jakubowski
Blog 2a: The Ted Talk
"Marcin Jakubowski did a ted talk on his ideas on the open source farming equipment. His idea was that industrial grade equipment can be made just as efficiently at a much lower cost. I think it's a very effective idea. Why pay for something much more expensive if you can just build it? In fact, according to the wiki page about him, he has built and constantly uses his tractor, compressed earth brick press, 150 ton hole puncher, heavy duty drill press, and more!
Blog 2b: The New Yorker Article On Him
"Emily Eakin of the New Yorker recently wrote an article on Marcin Jakubowskion 12/23/2013 which can be found here. While reading the article, I realized Emily isn't too enthusiastic about the ideas, Marcin, or his enthusiastic visitors. Personally, I think he has a great idea going for him and definitely deserved a much more praise-sounding article."
Blog 2c: Interested Professors
"Unfortunately, I do not know of any professors who would be interested in supporting an idea like Marcins's."
Blog 3: Kansas Teen Creates 3D-Printed Prosthetic Hand
"On January 31, 2014, an article was posted about a Kansas teenager who printed a 3D-Printed prosthetic hans for the son of a family friend who suffered from a rare condition known as limb difference in which the boys fingers never really grew properly. The teen got the idea, and possibly even the print itself from a site dedicated to creating an open source prosthetic hand design called Robohand. Robohand was started after a man named Richard Van As lost the fingers on his right hand in an accident in May of 2011. He collaborated with a man in South Africa named Ivan and together built the first robotic prosthetic hand made out of aluminum in 2012."
"Since the first robotic hand, other people who either lost their fingers or their whole hand have had the privelege of getting some normalcy back with the robotic hands. Such stories include here is a article from The Christian Science Monitor about a father, McCarthy, who 3D-Printed his son a prosthetic hand. The very design came from Ivan Owen and Richard Van As. Another article written by NPR in June 18, 2013 writes about Richard's story and even refernces McCarthy's story."
" If I wanted to print a prosthetic hand, I would either look for one on Thingiverse or GrabCAD. If neither option was available, I would probably start from scratch on Solidworks."
Blog 4: Other's Comments on Blog 2
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