Building a RepRap Prusa Mendel My RepRap Prusa: Three months' progress Earlier this summer my company spent a fair chunk of change on rapid prototypes printed by professional fused deposition modelling (FDM) printers. Thinking this was a huge waste of cash, Google led me to the RepRap project: Personal 3D printing for as little as $350. Sebran's ABC - free software for kids It's never too early for your child to become familiar with letters and numbers. Sebran's ABC's colorful pictures, pleasant music, and gentle games teach letters, numbers, simple math, and rudiments of reading. The program teaches using either Afrikaans, Bahasa Indonesian, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Samoan, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Turkish, Swahili or Swedish (in Swedish, the droll zebra gracing the main screen is called "sebran"). The six simpler exercises display four possible answers.
LAYWOO-D3: New FDM filament can print wood with tree rings Sep.20, 2012 Inventor Kai Parthy has developed a new FDM filament that can print "wood" on RepRap 3D printers. This wood filament LAYWOO-D3 is a wood/polymer composite - the filament contains recycled wood and harmless binding polymers. The material has similar thermal durability as PLA and can be printed between 175°C and 250°C. "After printing it looks like wood and smells like wood."
To Attract More Girls to STEM, Bring More Storytelling to Science A student from High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey CREDIT: Marissa Hazel Guest Post by Jonathan Olsen and Sarah Gross, teachers at High Technology High School in Lincroft, New Jersey Women and girls are historically underrepresented in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields and much has been written lately about why girls in school seem disinterested in these areas. As STEM becomes more important in our increasingly interconnected global society, it becomes even more imperative that educators find ways to encourage girls to participate in these fields. A few weeks ago, researchers at the Universities of Pittsburgh and Michigan released the results of a study that reflected many girls’ antipathy toward all things STEM. As educators in a STEM-focused high school, we come in contact with intellectually gifted female scientists every day–albeit young ones.
Rostock delta robot now moving at 400mm/s The build area is essentially a Venn diagram of the maximum reach of each arm. The central, intersecting set is the build area. If the reach of an arm is less than the pillar-to-pillar spacing, then there are cutouts in the set where the arms cannot reach. How to Integrate Technology When technology integration in the classroom is seamless and thoughtful, students not only become more engaged, they begin to take more control over their own learning, too. Effective tech integration changes classroom dynamics, encouraging student-centered project-based learning. Think about how you are using technology with your students. Are they employing technology daily in the classroom, using a variety of tools to complete assignments and create projects that show a deep understanding of content? If your answer is "No," is it because you lack enough access to technology?
reprap A little while ago I started work on a Thing Tracker Network (TTN) Client, with the intention of having at least a working beta before the end of the year. This proved to be rather optimistic, and whilst the work is still ongoing, I thought it useful to write a post outlining the goals I have in mind, and the challenges I believe have to be overcome. At this stage I believe the core design is reasonable, and so feel comfortable asking for opinions, feedback and help. The client concept differs from many alternatives by it being a distributed system. Whereas the majority (all?) Digital Literacy Standard Curriculum Version 2 Updated: October 1, 2007 The Digital Literacy Standard Curriculum Version 2 consists of five courses: Computer Basics The Internet and the World Wide Web Productivity Programs Computer Security and Privacy
Prusa Mendel Assembly Prusa Mendel Documentation Before assembling a Prusa Mendel, make sure you have all the parts necessary. For the bill of materials, see Prusa Mendel. For the visually oriented, have a look at this photo gallery of an ongoing Prusa Mendel build. You may also want to watch the complete video series for assembling a Prusa 2 How_to_build_Prusa_2. Learn To Code, Code To Learn Is it important for all children to learn how to write? After all, very few children grow up to become journalists, novelists, or professional writers. So why should everyone learn to write? Of course, such questions seem silly. People use writing in all parts of their lives: to send birthday messages to friends, to jot down shopping lists, to record personal feelings in diaries.
Reprap Prusa Mendel Build Manual - 2.0 - Frame Assembly Parts Required2 x Lower Z Mount2 x Frame Vertex4 x Frame Vertex4 x Bar Clamp1 x Y Motor Mount2 x Z Motor Mount6 x 380mm Threaded Rod4 x 300mm Threaded Rod1 x 320mm Threaded Rod2 x 450mm Threaded Rod4 x M8 Fender Washers80 x M8 Washers78 x M8 Nuts4 x 608 Bearings Step 1 Take one Lower Z Mount and push in one 608 Bearing. Push down against a solid flat surface to ensure the bearing sits flush in the plastic part. Step 2
Vision 3D Printer : An Optimized RepRap 3D Printer: The Vision 3D Printer - an Optimized RepRap Prusa Mendel A Quick Build, Optimized RepRap Prusa Mendel Awaiting approval by Kickstarter for our Project. Thank you for stopping by! RepRap by Adrian Bowyer: SomeRightsReserved Rapid prototyping takes virtual designs from computer aided design (CAD) or animation modeling software, transforms them into thin, virtual, horizontal cross-sections and then creates each cross-section in physical space, one after the next until the model is finished. It is a WYSIWYG process where the virtual model and the physical model correspond almost identically. Source: Wikipedia x close Metropolitan Works
Prusa Iteration 2 When I have RepRap presentation I always say that I update my printer almost every week. If you watch my GitHub Repository, you must be puzzled now. It's a long time since my last commit there. But when you look closer you would find out that the printer lived in Felt branch last few months. It evolved into something much slicker, smoother and sexier.