User:Dslewicki
Introduction
My name is Dimitri Lewicki, a student at the Pennsylvania State University Schreyer Honors College in my second year. I am majoring in Mechanical Engineering and am pursuing minors in Engineering Entrepreneurship and German. My career goals include product development and serial entrepreneurship. I intend to graduate May 2016.
BLOGS
Weekly blogs will be written based on prompts provided by the professor. These blogs are often related to RepRap.
Blog Number One
Part A
An item that is amazing/beautiful
There is a really beautiful vase made up of external curves and crevasses that are apparently parametric sinewaves. It curves out at the bottom and tapers toward the top. Here is the link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:145913
Part B
An item that is funny or strange
I found a bow tie that you can tie to your shoe as a fashion piece. It looks really weird, especially on the shoes that the guy is wearing in the picture. Here is a link to the page: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:145406
Part C
An item that is useless
Someone made a miniature model of a smart car. I see no purpose in this, and certainly does not have the "wow-factor" that a model of a supercar would have. Here is the link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:141481
Part D
An item that is useful
I found a DNA Helix model. Someone printed all the cross rungs and the outlying end pieces. Then they assembled them around a metal rod. This is useful for educational purposes. Her is the link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:145329
Part E
The best printable Raspberry Pi case I could find
The best one I could find got good reviews and many likes (60), which is more than a lot of the other cases. Also, the top and bottom of the case are interchangeable, so the design is quite versatile. Many users have printed the design. Here is the link: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:26922/#comments
None of these designs surprise me, but I could see that some of them would need support material to be printed properly.
