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It still didn't work. Our teacher Mrs. Gregorich emailed the MakerBot company to try and figure out what is going on. So our printing is put on hold. The company emailed back saying that it was probably some loose pulleys or some loose bolts, we would just need to be approved for the repair. She got a email back the next day saying that we had gotten approved! So now we just have to wait for them to ship us the packaging and then we can send it in and they'll repair it so soon we can go back to printing. I hope it doesn't take long since we only have one more month of school left! That's it for now! Peace.
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Our palm didn't print right so now we have to figure out what is going on now. As you can see it all shifted over to the right instead of printing normally. Mrs. Gregorich tried printing smaller objects such as a small cube, a bigger cube, and a finger. The small cube shifted to the left, the bigger cube shifted over to the right and the finger shifted to the right. I feel really frustrated since we can't print anything the right way for now. I hope we figure out what's going wrong soon.
We ran into our first problem with the 3D printer today. We went to go print some of the smaller pieces and they turned out lopsided. The next hour went to go print they're bigger piece (The gauntlet) and it turned out completely out of whack. Mrs. Gregorich looked it up on the computer what might have been going wrong. She found out that the extruder was too close to the build plate. So she watched the video and connected the printer up to the computer. There she went to the Z axis and moved it up , through the positive side. After that was fixed we went to go print our palm. So we put it on the maker bot software then put it on the flash drive. We tried to open up the file on the flash drive but all it said was loading file the whole time. We tried to figure out what was wrong and Mrs. Gregorich took a guess that maybe it was because she had just updated the software a little before we tried to print the palm. We tried another flash drive and it worked. We aren't 100% sure but we're guessing it was because of the flash drive. We are currently working on the palm and I'll tell you next time if we succeed with no other issues. :)
Day 2 on the project and this time we are going to print a piece of the hand. We choose to print 4 fingertips and I thought it was so cool. Just imagine what the possibilities could be with this new printer! They're endless! I can't wait for when you print the whole thing, not much longer and we can print it for a real person! Well that's it for now.
It's my first day trying out the new program e-NABLE. We had two choices, to either build the raptor hand or the cyborg hand. We ended up with the raptor reloaded. We choose to do raptor reloaded and not raptor hand to try something more updated and different. Our first task was to write a letter to the e-NABLE community, tell us who we are, why we are doing it, and what our goal is. Here's what we came up with:
Dear e-NABLE community… We are the CW 6th grade STEM group. We decided to help out the e-NABLE community after one of our 8th grade classmates brought in an article about a boy who was born without fingers on his left hand and through e-NABLE, received a 3D printed hand. We all found it very interesting and so our teacher decided to ask for a 3D printer. A short while after, we got our 3D printer donated to us by a local sand company. Our goal throughout this process is to remember that it’s more important to help others rather than ourselves. We hope that we can make a difference in somebody’s life. We take for granted being able to hold a cup or a pencil, while some people can’t even do that, and we hope to give others that opportunity. Thank you. CW STEM crew, over and out. |
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