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Imagineering For The Uninitiated Fimal
Imagineering For The Uninitiated Fimal
for the
Uninitiated
3D Printing to Solve Problems
Human Beings as Problem Solving Machines
Every Problem is an Opportunity
How:
Complicated? Expensive?
Dr Adrian Bowyer
(Replicating Rapid Prototyper)
Build your own 3D printer?
The RepRap Open source solution has driven down
costs of 3D printing
● Components are readily available.
● Cheaper to build from kits
● Commercial kits now cost effective as well
● Building one is initially painful and takes a
few hours
○ You learn how to fix it, service it
○ You can customise it
○ You learn engineering
Examples
The Intra-Cavity BioMatrix Printer-(mechanism)
Origin of the
Use a 75cm2 Cullture flask as a
coordinate system
portable build and extended culture at the isthmus of
environment. the neck of flask
Requires a Spherical
polar coordinate system,
Rho, Phi, Theta, instead
of cartesian X,Y,Z
Deconstruct Problems 8-legged robot