{"id":126,"date":"2016-09-09T17:27:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-10T00:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/?p=126"},"modified":"2016-09-15T10:07:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T17:07:45","slug":"science-and-math-3d-prints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/2016\/09\/09\/science-and-math-3d-prints\/","title":{"rendered":"Science and Math 3D prints"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve used the 3D printer to make all sorts of things but the bulk of what we’ve made has something to do with science or math.<\/p>\n

An older post<\/a> discussed 3d printed meissner tetrahedra and I’ve made more of them but smaller and in blue filament.\u00a0 The first photo shows them as they’re being built.\u00a0 You can see how the printer deals fills internal space of a solid object with a certain amount of infill.\u00a0 You can set the infill from 0% (open space) to 100% (solid plastic).\u00a0 This is about 40% infill.<\/p>\n

\"Tetrahedra<\/a>
Tetrahedra under construction. You can see the raft they’re sitting on and the infill filling the void inside the shapes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Small<\/a>
Small Meissner tetrahedra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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One of our faculty members made a little setup for measuring light transmission through a liquid sample in a cuvette.\u00a0 It’s a nice little compact setup that is properly aligned right from the start.<\/p>\n

\"Cuvette<\/a>
Cuvette holder for transmission measurement (drawn in Solidworks).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Greta and a student made up a pipette holder to mount on the wall in the lab.<\/p>\n

\"Wall-mount<\/a>
Wall-mount pipette holder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I think this is some sort of molecular orbital model.<\/p>\n

\"Model<\/a>
Model of molecular orbital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Print of a pseudosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Pseudosphere<\/a>
Pseudosphere<\/a> from Thingverse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The bio department is going to use these microscope clamps from Thingverse<\/a> to attach mobile phones to eyepieces on microscopes.\u00a0 They’re easy to assemble from a few 3D printed parts and work great.\u00a0 Here’s a photo of a whole bunch of the parts being printed at once.<\/p>\n

\"3D<\/a>
3D printed microscope phone mounts<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here’s a photo of the final product in action:<\/p>\n

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We’ve used the 3D printer to make all sorts of things but the bulk of what we’ve made has something to do with science or math. An older post discussed 3d printed meissner tetrahedra and I’ve made more of them but smaller and in blue filament.\u00a0 The first photo shows them as they’re being built.\u00a0 … Continue reading “Science and Math 3D prints”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1015,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8,30,31,29],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","tag-meissner","tag-pipette","tag-pseudosphere","tag-spectroscopy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/digital-fabs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}