This week the shop welcome a new addition – our 2nd Bambu Labs H2C 3D Printer. We do a tremendous amount of 3D printing, but that also means our printers are often busy and students need to wait there turn. We are happy to be able to increase our 3D printing potential with this latest asset.
This week our Student Spotlight highlights Junior Adam Dangi ’28
Adam’s latest blog post:
Several things have been done things week and the previous week to advance on my project.
But I also had other stuff to deal with. So with that, lets get started. What I needed to get done and what I did to accomplish.
A protractor. A new name tag. Printing out cage for brushless motors. printing out casing for the motors. Acquiring nerf darts. Testing.
Making a protractor was easy, I kind found a model on the internet, I needed this protractor to do my physics homework. I used acrylic and it came out fine, with a little smudge. Against belief of 2 of my shop-mates, combining all the engraving results in a protractor that is missing all of it’s lines and/or smudge. And I don’t know about them, but I’m not trying to fail physics.
On said laser cutter, using veneer, I made a new nametag for my big dumb blue box. Same process. 3d model fusion. Export dxf. Open inkscape. Export pdf. Shove thumb drive into the laser cutter computer. Kick open the laser cutter. Throw in material. Slam it shut. Somehow fumble the keys and turn it on. Press the on button 20 times. Click print. Do all that nonsense. Home it. Level it. Turn on vent fan. Press button. Wait. And done.
Here is an update on the board so far.
Printing out the parts was an easy job. However I needed a way to hold the thing. Me and Ibrahim began digging through the grey box holding all the broken and/or discarded prints. And glued on a handle. Temporary handle of course. I believe this came from Mikie and Dom’s Tensegrity, an old broke one though.
Today I hope to test the firing mechanism outside in the hallway to see how far it can go.
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