What is a Kugelrohr?

Sep 30, 2022 | @UR, Design, Printing, Research, SketchUp

Kugelrohr is German for “sphere tube,” and it’s used in chemistry for vacuum distillation, often necessary for chemical synthesis. Professors Dominey and Goldman research lab designed the portion of a kugelrohr that would allow isolating the chemical compounds that...

Camera Posts for Geography Research?

Feb 29, 2020 | @UR, Design, Printing

How would a post for cameras to take photos enter into scholarly research for a university geographer?  It turns out that crowdsourcing some of the data taking can help engage the citizenry as well as provide photography to augment other data.  For a national park or...

Researching Flexible Printing Filament and Resin

Oct 23, 2018 | @UR, Printing, Research

Up until 2015 or so, there were very few plastics and resins for their respective types of 3D printers.  Since then, there has been much work done to develop new an interesting resins and plastics for specialized uses, e.g., plastic filament with metal filings, carbon...

Custom Microscope Stage for Physics

Oct 18, 2018 | Design, Printing, SketchUp

Here is a time lapse video from the Ultimaker’s internal camera for the print of a custom stage for a microscope with Professor Christine Helms in the Physics Department. Professor Helms created the initial design in COMSOL Multiphysics while some tweaks were...

3D Printed Campus

Oct 21, 2014 | @UR, Design, Printing, SketchUp

As part of the century celebration on campus, the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology; Digital Scholarship Lab; and Boatwright Library collaborated on the printing of a 2 foot by 3 foot terrain map of campus as it looked in 1914 with 7 major buildings on...