This week we plan on focusing most of our attention making a new and improved base for the Makerbot. Kelley has been put in charge of the project while Alex and I continue to try to get the printer to work on Mr. Gallagher's Linux computer. Both of these projects have proven to be fairly large undertakings, but we are confident we will make a lot progress this mon...
Monday, April 30, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
After some investigation, we have found that our problem is in the motherboard. We took apart the test computer and we will be replacing the motherboard soon.
We're also another step closer to getting the 3D printer to work for the 3DP group. Now we just have to work with the computer's serial port setup to get ReplicatorG to wor...
Today we practiced our last mock presentation before we skype with MIT. Today in my mind was definatly our best one yet even though we had to present it online to Mr.Gallagher who was home today. In addition to that, Casey also had a presentation to give an idea of what the website will look like in the future when complet...
Our group has split into three for the next few days to try to optimize the amount of work we get done, Sam, with the help of Alex and a few others from the Computer Cooling group are working on getting the MakerBot working on a computer Mr.Gallagher brought in. We're also working perfecting our spool design and are now trying to tackle building a new base, so the wires are easily assessable. Right now we're considering bring the electronics...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
As some of the cooling groups members are absent from school, the remaining group members are helping set up a linux computer for the 3d printer group. Fedora 16 is the distribution of Linux being used. The Linux is already installed on the computer, as well as the software. The only thing left to install is a few files to ensure compatibility between the printer and the computer. This task should be completed by the end of the week...
Monday, April 23, 2012
Today, Brad pitched another mock Presentation to practice for this friday's meeting and condensed the presentation afterwards. Shane is making more aesthetic changes to the firefighter website that consist of changing link colors, and much more. Liam is researching further into whether to use a remote server call or a server push to write an rpc...
Friday, April 20, 2012
April is an exciting month for seniors everywhere. The month is a cacophony of congratulations, have you decided, and what is that school like? It also brings the last and most extensive round of college visits. In the past month I have visited so many colleges deciding which school will help me to the future that I've been dreaming about. During these visits I have received tours of each schools engineering department and labs. I've realized how...
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Today on April 19th, Brad did a mock presentation to update MIT with the progress we have made for the year. Jeff and Shane are formatting the website even further to make it look professional, centering the sign-up box and giving it a more professional appeal and aesthetically pleasing. Liam is researching whether to use a remote server call or a server push and then writing an rpc. Shane and Casey are working on...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The Cooling group ran into some computer problems in the past two classes, as the test computer would not fully boot. We are currently working on this issue and we hope to resolve it in the next few classes.
As soon as our computer is up and running again, we will have access to another set of test results for analysis.
We are also researching patents with regards to the different types of patents and the application process we would have to und...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Today in class we put together one of our designs for a plastic holder for the MakerBot. We also thought that having a thinner rod might be benificial if we ever get plastic on a spool alreay so we could just put the whole spool on our holder. So, we designed another plastic holder that allows us to change to size of the r...
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Today, on April 5th, Shane and Jeff continued to work on the FFA website making it look more professional. They added tabs for members to make it more aesthetically pleasing. Liam continued to work on the the Java coding for the client side of our application, The Presentation for MIT had to be condensed to better show our progress for the ye...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Since we ran into a problem with our spool prototype last class, we decided to come up with a new design that will be lighter and not depend on weight to make it spin. These factors will be important for our design because we plan to have the spool sit on top of the MakerBot and thread the plastic down to the extruder from the...
The computer cooling group is testing to see if adding mesh to our simple part to increase turbulence will increase cooling. Right now the simple part is almost on par with current products on the market and we are hoping that this will make out new design superior than existing designs. Originally, we felt that having smooth flow would increase cooling, but we've decided to test that theory. Pictured above is the bottom of the modified simple part,...
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
We tried testing our first carriage design today and we ran in to some problems! The plastic is hard to pull and it's getting tangled. So we worked at simplifying our plans and we'll hopefully have a new design next class. We are also still having problems with getting the 3D printer to work with the school netwo...
This week the 3D printer group has two main goals, make serious progress on our plastic carraige and get the Makerbot Thing-O-Matic to work on the school computers. Last week we made considerable headway with the carraige by starting to gather the pieces needed to build it and by making some design modifications. A few of us will also commit our class time to getting the Makerbot working on Tuesd...
Monday, April 2, 2012
Modifications and testing them, primarily with the simple part will be the focus for this week and after break. The modifications in line for the simple part are a "turbulence screen" to make the flow in and out of the fittings more turbulent and see how that affects cooling. Also a divider between the fittings inside the water filled chamber and filing down the whole part have been proposed. For the complex part we are testing a bump milled out...
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