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End of week 6! Time to check in: What have we done so far? Currently we have purchase orders out for the plastics grinder from FilaMaker and the spooler from Filabot. We are also currently redesigning the batteries that will hold the charge from the bikes and solar power. We are also currently checking the power draw from all of …
The hardware and software involved with 3D printing is beginning to slow down in terms of innovation. Most of the consumer level printers are all variations of a similar theme. They use Cartesian coordinates and g-code to tell the hot-end where to go, how much filament to put onto the build plate, and so on. These tasks were no easy …
We were assigned the task of setting up and building lights for the Newport Boat Parade in honor of UCI’s 50th anniversary. This was the first year that UCI had participated in this event. In order to keep up with what our lab stands for, we ran the “UCI @ 50” lights off of bike power! We created a battery …
While SPAM did not exist until after the Decathlon it was the reason for our founding so we figured we should share with you the project as a whole and what we specifically did for it! The competition consists of 10 categories. We were scored based on our electricity use, our comfortability levels (heating and cooling), our design, our engineering, …
Hi everybody! My name is William Amos and I am currently a 3rd year Environmental Engineering major with an interest in sustainable design. Some people call me Will, actually most people call me Will. Some just call me “The Dude” but we wont get into that. I really enjoy solving problems. Specifically issues that most have deemed solved and rarely …
Hello friends, my name is Amihan Amargo. I am a 5th year Mechanical Engineering Major with a minor in Digital Arts. My coffee name is Amy, but I’m in the process of thinking of a new coffee name. Puzzles, making lame jokes, and playing guitar are some of the things I do for fun. Once I graduate, I hope to …
Hi there! My name is Aldrin Lupisan and I’m SUPER excited to be on team S.P.A.M! I’ve worked with 3D printers since my freshmen year here at UCI while I worked as a FABcamp Counselor (the FAB short for fabrication) teaching middle schoolers about how awesome it is being an engineer! The goal was to expose the students to the …
Hi! My name is Aaron Hilado, and I am a third year art major with a minor in digital arts at the University of California, Irvine. In 10 years, I hope to have a job somewhere in the art field, whether it be an art director, graphic designer, or photographer. I would also like to have my own company that …
The S.P.A.M team is ready to go this quarter! We had both our UROP and our MDP funding approved. Our first moves will be to purchase the equipment necessary to grind the plastics we wish to recycle and then begin testing how those plastics that are recycled perform when being used as filament. To test the recycled plastics we will …
