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Location: Creation Labs
Aaron Hartman opened the doors to Creation Labs, and hosted our meeting this month. Aaron has so many cool projects on display as well as 3D printers and laser cutters. Check out this video of Aaron demonstrating one of his 3D printed robots for us.
Ryan tackled the topic of multi-material printing.
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Location: Cranberry Municipal Building
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Below are some awesome animated gifs from Alan’s photobooth:
Location: Brew Gentleman
Chris and Ryan met Asa Foster, Co-founder of Brew Gentleman, at the Jellybox group build event supported by 3DPPGH, and we have been thinking of a way to work with Asa ever since. Asa and Brew Gentlemen generously hosted our 1st Beer Coaster Design Challenge! The winners took home awesome prizes like a growler of Brew Gentlemen beer (from Asa), filament and merch (from MatterHackers), and bragging rights within the ‘burgh. In addition, Asa gave us a nickel tour of the Brew Gentleman brewery, and we learned why Brew Gentleman is Ryan’s favorite Pittsburgh brewery.
We did have a couple of rules… All beer coaster designs and prints must:
The design submissions were rather awesome: dual filament, resin encapsulated, motorized with LEDs, chocolate, and sintered sugar with a saki binder… I repeat, “sintered sugar with a saki binder”.
A special shout-out goes to Chad Elish for taking some really awesome photos of the event.
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Congratulations to the award winners:
Dillon 3D-printed a topographical map of Pittsburgh’s three rivers and then filled it with clear resin. It was so gorgeous that I could not imagine covering it with a beer glass… You can download his design on Thingiverse here.
Jeff took his design to another level with the incorporation of LEDs and a motor to spin the beer as if it were on display. You can download his design on Tinkercad here.
Ryan’s Filament-Swapped and Buzzed Two-Tone Coaster is a dual extrusion design that incorporated a filament containing remnants from beer brewing. You can download his design from Thingiverse here.
Location: HackPGH
Ryan led a discussion about 3D modeling and design. We focused on the differences between artistic and engineering software options with a deeper dive and worked examples using: Sketchup, Tinkercad, Fusion360, and Tinkercad.
Location: HackPGH
Ryan continued the 3D scanning discussion from last months’ meeting. We also celebrated 3DPPGH’s 2nd birthday!
Location: HackPGH
HackPGH has nearly doubled in size!
3DPPGH was a MRRF sponsor for the 3rd year in a row. We were represented by: Ryan, Chris, Joel Johnson, and Bill White. 3DPPGH hosted the inaugural Crappy Print Award celebrated epic 3D printing failures, and Team Shake ‘N Bake raced (poorly) in the OpenRC F1 World championships. Check out the 3DPPGH MRRF 2018 post here for more information.
Chris and Ryan summarized their experience at MRRF and then provided an overview of the OpenRC F1 project to support any folks interested in printing a car of their own.
Location: HackPGH
Chris explored photogrammetry as a low-cost option for 3D scanning.
Location: Steam Studio
This meeting was focused on kids doing cool 3D printed projects. Steam Studio hosted us again with an open house. Ally showed off her ultrasonic particle tweezers, and Brandon was demonstrating his personal 3D scanner based on an XBox Kinect. He then posted the .stl files for printing your own bust.
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Location: HackPGH
Loosely inspired by the internet meme from 2000 (not really), this month Ryan discussed the pros and cons of the filament options for your fused filament fabrication (FFF) printers. We end with the announcement of 3DPPGH Kids, the Crappy Print Award to Kick off at MRRF 2018, our in-process Filastruder build, and a discussion regarding service opportunities within 3DPPGH via the Adopt-a-bot program.
Location: HackPGH
Since it is October, and Halloween is around the corner, our very own Lowell Squires and Jeremy Sweeney talked about costumes, cosplay, and a little 3D printed props…
The group learned about topics ranging from liquid latex to finishing 3D printed parts with Smooth-On’s XTC-3D.
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