Week 3 - 3D Printing & Scanning

How to Make (Almost) Anything - Manolis Zampetakis

3D Scanning

For the scanning part we choosed to scan \the following pinnaple.

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The Sense 3d scanner failed a lot of times and we used the software 123D finally from which we got the following result after cutting the produced STL file appropriately.
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3D Printing

For the 3D printing task we had the idea of designing a digital sun clock. After a search over the internet we found that someone else has done this using 3d printers pretty successfully.

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But then we decided to try to make the numbers coming from a solid shadow instead of dots. The task was difficult and we couldn't finish it but we made a step toward it. By implementing the following four pieces. TODO : Description of the pieces We first designed them at Fusion 360.

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We then print them
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and then we checked their shadows

Sphere

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Cube

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Inverted Cube

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Sun Clock First Attempt

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Lessons Learned

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