Do you want to decorate that new laptop you got? (with something besides the requisite LLBean sticker we all have) Our on-campus expert @bisrael.18 gave us a lesson today on how to use the new Silhouette Cameo vinyl cutter. First try came out great. Thank you for getting us going! Looking forward to some creative ideas coming from the community for this machine.
Print of a wood box using PLA that has wood fibers in it – so it looks pretty much like wood. Lots of interesting materials are available these days!
We are working on an interesting project, partnering with the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. We 3D scanned, and are now reproducing, a model sled for them at a slightly smaller scale than the original.
Not only did we make the model of the museum (in Sketchup), but also we printed a few a while back…
A while back we supported Professor Brown’s Bio Art class as they were introduced to 3D printing.
When a Professor wanted to explore an object in the art museum with their course, but the students could not touch it (for obvious reasons – it is really old!) The Bowdoin Maker Space came to the rescue by creating a 3D scan of the object and then printing it in resin (SLA) and in PLA. So the students visited the Bowdoin College Museum of Art to view the original object under the watchful eye of the curator, and then were able to get a sense of the tactile object by interacting with the facsimiles that we created.
Q: Who wants a museum lion?
A: Everybody!
The Bowdoin Magazine even wrote an article about how we scanned it to create the model: https://www.bowdoin.edu/news/2022/03/a-look-at-the-lions.html
This special lion was printed using Silver Raspberry MatterHackers Quantum PLA Filament
Bust of Nefertiti on progress.
We got the model here: https://www.printables.com/model/3112-nefertiti
And there are ton of really interesting remixes here: https://www.myminifactory.com/search/?query=Nefertiti
The original sculpture is in Berlin (for those of you who have not yet taken a class in Art History): https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/aegyptisches-museum-und-papyrussammlung/collection-research/bust-of-nefertiti/
The Bust of Nefertiti is the undisputed star of the Neues Museum and, along with the Pergamon Altar and the Ishtar Gate, the best known exhibit on Berlin’s Museumsinsel: the colourfully painted bust of Nefertiti, created around 1340 BC.
9 Prong Espresso Distribution Tool for the WDT, or the “Weiss Distribution Technique”.
Made with acupuncture needles !
Found here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4819617
The key to tasty coffee, in general, is even extractions. Making sure there isn’t some coffee that is being over extracted, causing bitter flavors, and some that is being under extracted, causing acidic flavors. This is all the more important in espresso, where everything from water contact time to beverage size is concentrated down, exaggerating any unevenness. The unfortunate truth of making espresso at home is that you really do get what you pay for when it comes to equipment, and there is a high barrier to entry, where entry-level equipment may not be as forgiving, and even high-end commercial equipment may not be as home volume friendly. WDT, or the Weiss Distribution Technique, can help compensate for those shortcomings by evenly distributing coffee in the portafilter to promote more even extractions and better espresso. from
Ever misplace your wallet? We thought so.
Here is a nifty AirTag Wallet Card that we printed up a couple of different ways from the same source file. Found at: https://thingiverse.com/thing:4849497
The reason the look different is that they have different percentages of infill and were printed with no “shell” on the top of bottom.
