Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “2016-2017 Renew 3D Print”
The SPAM team has achieved some pretty amazing successes since its inception only a little over a year ago. Completing many major projects in the timespan of mere months including: bike powered light displays, multiple outreach events, and not to mention the mobile recycling system itself. Adding to this list of achievements is team leader Will Amos’s winning the Brower …
The SPAM team didn’t go dormant this summer, not in the slightest. Aldrin and William continued to manage the lab space and worked tirelessly with professor Jackson to help continue a ten year project to transform the Marching Cubes graphics algorithm from a digital rendering process into a physical one. This tangible meditation on the interaction between the computer and …
The S.P.A.M Team at the Beall Center for Art and Technology The SPAM team gave a successful presentation of our cart during a two day exhibition at the Beall Center June 3-4. The exhibition, focused on student made inter-media art, was a fantastic venue to show the cart in a different light than had been done previously. As an art …
Last Saturday, we finally did a presentation for another program that has been vital to our group’s funding: the Multidisciplinary Design Program (MDP). After the prior week’s intense presentation and promotion at TedxUCI and UROP, our group kept the momentum going in preparation for MDP’s Symposium at Calit2 where we both presented a slideshow and our cart for viewing. IMG_6921Our …
May 14th was a huge day for S.P.A.M. as we agreed to present our group’s mobile sustainable 3D printing system at two prestigious events for UCI! Both events, held at locations roughly 6 miles apart, were TedxUCIrvine (located at Segerstrom Center for the Arts) and the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) Symposium (located on campus at UCI). While our presentation …
Print like you mean it! Long before the Specialists in Plastic Additive Manufacturing were even called such a name it was a smaller, much much smaller, team. We had only our adviser , Professor Jesse Jackson, an empty room (that would in only a matter of months become the Speculative Prototyping Lab) and the will to get 3D printing integrated …
As part of UCI’s earth week activities SPAM set up a booth demonstrating the utility of bike power. This public event debuted our new battery system as well as the light display that had only previously been seen at the Newport Beach Holiday Boat Parade. We set out to help bring attention to our own research group as well as …
The heat bed! Since last time, we were able to fix the extruder, but we found that the heat bed was it’s own separate problem, temperature not getting past 68 Celsius. We decided to order new thermistors (the thermistors are used to monitor the change in temperature on the bed). We tested the bed with an infrared thermometer gun and …
During Spring Break, the Filabot Spooler arrived which was one of the last key components that our team has been waiting on! Testing the spooler led to a few problems: 1. The guiding wheels had too much tension in between them which then caused the filament to be off center; 2. The slip-notch wheel was too loose and didn’t catch …
Currently we’re having trouble getting our recycled plastic pieces to automatically grind in our Filabot so we manually have to use a small, 3D printed trowel to push the recycled pieces into the grinder. Since the triangular shape isn’t ideal for pushing, the team assigned Aaron and I to model a tool that would resolve this issue. The first idea …
