Work by Alice Duong on Genetic modification and CRISPR.
Alice Duong was a Clark Scholar working on her research program with the Department of Arts and Technology.
Author: Darrell Keller
Emerging Gizmology has a 3D printer now, the Monoprice select mini v2. After 3D printing for a while, you realize that your prints can go wrong in all kinds of ways.
- The space around your printer head can fill with filament and jam up causing the buildup to burn against the printer head and prevent you from printing until you get it UN-jammed.
- Your prints can look like absolute spaghetti. (and possibly jam your printer head)
- The mechanism feeding filament to your printer may fail to feed softer filaments to the head.
- Your prints might fail to adhere to the printer bed resulting in spaghetti.
- Your prints might print fine up until the end and give you spaghetti (and possibly jam your printer head)
- Parts of your print might not print.
- Your 3D printer may become sentient and might even err in ways you’ve never seen before.
To prevent most of these errors from happening to our 3D prints we’ve created a best practices page to reference right before printing.
Be patient- Most 3D printing takes a long time, it’s important to come to terms with that before you print and inevitably fail at least once.
Always know your nozzle head and bed temperature- Printing at the wrong temperature because you assumed the temperature is a quick way to jam your printer head. Check filament temperature before you print online, it will save you time in the long run.
Use raft build plate adhesion- There are many different build plate adhesion types, this is the most resource intensive but, from my experience, it is also the most effective at keeping your prints attached to the bed.
Wipe build plate before a print- Oil from your fingers will prevent your prints from attaching to the plate, microfiber cloths should pick up some of that oil.
Preheat- You can print without preheating, but preheating before a print will help the raft print to the bed.
This is not on the best practices list but it is VITAL to printing with softer materials.
When printing with softer materials like rubber be sure to turn off “Enable retraction”- Enable retraction is great for hard materials like PLA because it prevents uneven threads from being printed.
It’s easy to skate around campus with a 360 camera and get good shots, but it isn’t easy to edit the footage afterwards. To get the footage to look like this I had to convert this double fish-eyed lens into something that covers the whole screen, an equirectangular image by “stitching” them together. The camera that I used, the Samsung gear 360, does not give you an equirectangular image. You can easily transform your images and video to an equirectangular if you are a samsung gear 360 owner with the original codes that the hardware comes with by using the CyberLink ActionDirector, but I lost that.
To Stitch in After Effects you can follow this tutorial. After you have an equirectangular image, you can upload this footage to youtube as a 360 video if you update it’s metadata with a python script or with a 360 video metadata app, or you can make the video wrap around into a sphere and make tiny planets like the picture of me on my skateboard. You can achieve this by doing a “tiny planet” effect, I followed this tutorial from Wren from Corridor Digital. 360 is a medium for storytelling that directly engages the viewer to look around, this makes it hard to tell a linear story and forces you to think about every scene more spatially. I’m curious to see what stories can come out of 360 video as a medium, but for now I just plan on making tiny planets.