What’s Been Printed?

The following have been printed on the research 3D printers:

  • Golden Ladle award plate
  • dendritic sample of flexible resin printing (looks like coral)
  • microscope adapters and stages
  • Legoscope pieces
  • autoharp to show formulaic printing using acoustic equations
  • test tube bracket
  • light switch sign
  • nail guide to prevent smashed fingers
  • crystal lattice using flexible resin
  • torture test for 3D printers that has been adapted to teach 3D printing concepts for teaching 3D design
  • Cathedral at Reims
  • UR Spider Trackr case
  • Digital sundial
  • Orihon accordion-style 3D-printed book

Printed with the CTLT 3D printers between 2012 and 2015

  • a large bucky ball (C60 – 60 Carbon atoms in a soccerball pattern)
  • adenine for an instructional materials experiment
  • carbon nanotube cup, iPad dock stand, sign for 3D printer, Yoda
  • sample chairs for 3D design course
  • printing extrusion block for 3D printer, itself
  • printing a block of letters that read, “EMERGING TECH @ CTLT.”
  • FlyTracks for biology experiment
  • UR Dennis Hall  (TLC student worker SketchUp project)
  • Carole Weinstein International Center Greek theater (TLC student worker SketchUp project)
  • set of planetary gears (see http://www.thingiverse.com/make:35571 )
  • test print of prototype (below) with PLA plastic (first significant project with different plastic)
  • prototype for fly locomotion experiment apparatus
  • “LATE NIGHT @ BOATWRIGHT” for a project with the Boatwright Memorial Library and University Communications
  • a 3D-printed QR code for the Ti3D blog site URL (see http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:46884 )
  • dozens of “I ♥ TLC” (I Love the Technology Learning Center) tokens.  We will add a magnetic strip and give them to the TLC to hand out to visitors on Valentine’s Day.
  • a 1″ PVC Schedule 40 tee, cap, and tube for pulling exhaust from the Solidoodle 3 printer.
  • an adapter from 1″ Schedule 40 PVC to a 4-inch duct hose for pulling exhaust from the Solidoodle 3 printer.
  • a 3D knot – this is a test of printing at 0.1mm resolution! (3X the normal resolution of 0.3mm)
  • UR Spider Tie (black with red spider)
  • the gothic cathedral (good test of printer accuracy)
  • tokens for giveaway at Educause 2012 conference (there will be a session presented by UR about 3D printing!)
  • Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Core
  • Philadelphia city hall complex
  • two classes full of 3D sculptures
  • Klein Bottle with holes throughout
  • a business card holder for the CTLT offices that is paired with the purchased wall folders
  • a mount for a dial indicator for the “old” 3D printer (designed in-house)
  • a computer housing for a Raspbery Pi computer
  • a 3D representation of the musical performance of Bapang Selisir
  • a mascot for the TLC
  • spool holders for the new 3D printer
  • a statue with two sides: Neil Armstrong’s footprint and a relief of the moon.
  • mount for a dial indicator on the new 3D printer (it helps with alignment)
  • tile of the Gale Crater (landing site for recent Mars mission)
  • another spool holder base
  • 4 bases for a filament spool holder.
  • BPTI protein (bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor) rendered as ribbons but with three active amino acid side chains highlighted with space-filling spheres.
  • lever for a replacement for the printer’s extruder housing
  • archaeal prefolding (1FXK) 
  • Dengue Virus