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About Anil Senturk
Mechanical Engineering junior working on the OS3DP project, AKA EDSGN 497D. I think I'm the only international student in my section. I'm hoping to learn alot more about this project so that maybe in the future I can introduce this open source technology to Turkey and its surrounding countries.
Good luck to all fellow classmates.
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BLOG 1-
FUNNY : Admiral Ackbar got his first fame from the amazing Star Wars series. However people around the internet are pretty good at creating funny memes almost out of everything. I still smile at the pictures with the Admiral Ackbar "It's A trap" meme.
USELESS : Although this design is a little artistic it does not contain the awesomness of a real three dimensional helmet. But it's still a good attempt to look like one of the 300 spartan soldiers.
ARTISTIC : This 3D print got my immediate attention since NASA had successfully landed a high-tech mars rover which weighed almost 2000 pounds. Scientists are now able to study the enviroment surrounding the rover so that the future generations will be able to land safely on the red planet. I haven't seen any Mars Curiosity Rover toys around, so printing these stl files make you one of the very few people that own a mini Curiosity.
WEIRD : One of the few things I can remember about my childhood is my lego set. To make this print complete, you will have to remove the head of a legoman that you own. I would have never though about designing such a ring so that would be reason why I named it a weird design.
USEFULL : I live in a dorm enviroment and the water faucets require the students to lean forward a little bit to wash face or brush teeth. Leaning for over a small period of time causes some discomfort and using this little foutain would greatly reduce the leaning distance which in return would provide a more easier water tap usage. If students are allowed to print something they need, in the near future, this little design would be my choice.
An interesting article
"You don't bring a 3D printer to a gun fight -- yet"
PLUS: WATCH AND LEARN ABOUT THE ARDUINO DOCUMENTARY
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1) We live in a world where it is almost impossible to predict the next decade. No one could have imagined a cell phone with a quad-core processor clocked at 1.5 GHz take high quality pictures and connect to extremely high speed mobile networks back in the early 2000s. So anything that we could imagine at this very moment will most likely be achievable in the future. A completely self replicating device may sound very odd but we are already in the process of building simple 3D printers that could print all of its plastic parts. I find it difficult to imagine a small device like an OS3DP extruding metal components and assembling it all alone without an external interaction. We need to achieve very high temperatures to give shape to metallic parts, finding a technology that would enable this process in a much smaller scale could work together with a plastic extruder to print every kind of part necessary. Lastly I could imagine small robotic arms and numerous sensors and a very advanced control system assembling itself. Further research needs to be done on new type of material processing in smaller scales. It may be possible to build a small robot that could assemble parts together on its own in a pre defined sets of commands. Governments and big corporations may not like the idea of building everything from cheaply available materials. Most companies earn money by putting a lot of profit on building goods and distributing them. Some people are already able to build gun components to improve current firearms as OS3DP owners could print anything they want.
2) Although wealth may just mean money and the amount of valuable goods someone possesses for many of us, it may not easily increase its value without having to work very hard. Bowyers phrase refers to the OS3DP that we have at the labs, these devices just need PLA, a few electric motors, sensors and some metallic parts. After building one, you can easily start printing more of the plastic components that you need so you actually create components without needing to buy them which basically increases your wealth without wasting alot of money. All you need to do is buy these cheap components and keep producing more of the same kind of devices which will increase the output exponentially. If these devices become very popular in the near future, we could assume that all of its users are basically entrepreneurs. Because entrepreneurship means innovation, we will not need to purchase certain goods as we have our own building device. These device currently cannot print everything, we will still heavily rely on the mass market of goods. Currently, these devices are for replicating and developing purposes and a lot more work has to be done to revolutionize the world of creating goods of your own.
3) The OS3Dp project started from only one person but now there are possible thousands that are interested in this project. There are currently websites that describe the history of this project, many free soft-wares and all CAD files are available to print any component of any model. There are many open-source projects around the world and the first one that comes up to my mind is the Linux operating systems. Many people contributed and there are now many types of Linux OSs and useful software available for free. I see the OS3DP project like this, the number of different kinds of models will continue increasing however the most stable and sturdy ones will be the focus point. Along with this, more user friendly and easy to understand websites will be available to public. For this project to be more successful I think an online catalog of PLA components submitted for donation purposes should be created, this way people could purchase these components for very low prices and some money could be made from online advertisements to cover up the costs of running the website. Unlike today, there will be a lot less variety of different models, this would be due to the development process leading to fewer better designs.
