3D Printing Mud Kip

This time we made a Mud Kip.

3D Printing Pikachu!

Today we made a 3D printed Pikachu. I made this for friends and more, if you want this or other creation Just go to the tech club located at the library at the front desk.

3D Printing Bulbasuars!

Today we used the 3D printer to make a Bulbasuar.

We took the design from a website called Thingiverse.com/popular

3D printer returns function to tape dispensers with missing cores

Simon Templeton, Grade 4 teacher, contacted the Technology Team in February about using the 3D printer to solve a problem that has been troubling him: tape dispensers that are missing the middle ring that holds the tape in place. We went onto Thingiverse.com and searched for ‘tape dispenser core’ and found a design by rikkilambo that we can print. As we started talking with others about the solution, we found that this problem goes across the school, and are now busily printing tape dispenser cores to bring previously unusable tape dispensers back into action. What tape dispenser core would you design? Could you design a tape dispenser that doesn’t need a core? Do you know a tape dispenser that needs a core? What would you do to stop people from throwing away the tape dispenser core when they throw away an empty roll of tape? We thought a bright green core might help. :)

There's a turtle in the house!

Langvid used Blender to make a turtle and we printed it on the UP Mini in Green.

Syasya's project

Syasya made this object in Blender for her brother: his name with a batman symbol over it.

She printed it with black filament:

And then she sanded it down and painted it gold:

We hope Syahmi likes it!

The design of a chess set

Kim Tech is working on designing a chess set for Digital Design. He discovered the screw modifier in Blender and used it to make spirals around a test piece. He encountered a few problems, such as that the ends of the spirals were open (he solved that by adding spheres at either end) and the 3D printing program had problems with reading the exported file (he recalculated the normals).

Finally he got a piece that the printer could print, but Ms. Chelsea put a cylinder in the center to prevent the need for supports during the printing process. Now Kim Tech wants to find a way to make the center hollow without needing supports. The printer can only print up to a 45% angle without supports.

Here it is printed! 

I can't wait to see Kim Tech's next design! And maybe have a game of chess with custom designed chess pieces...