Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab

Last updated 07.29.2014

Policy

The CU Community Fab Lab provides 3D printers as a service during open hours. Lab rental is available as an option for people who need consultants to make 3D designs for them.

If a print fails due to machine problems (filament tangle, power loss, extruder clog, etc...) we will reprint it for you free of charge. If a print fails due to inproper support, structural design or poor choice of material we will print it again for the regular charge.

Printer Capacities

UP! Mini 3D Printers (3)

• $2 base charge for use
• 4.5x4.5x4.5 inches (120x120x120 mm)
• Can use ABS and HIPS

TAZ 3D printers (2)

By Mary Nguyen

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-0Hvavef7S5ejVLRzZJai1weVU/edit?usp=sharing

Get some ideas from Make Magazine's video: http://blip.tv/make/learn-how-to-solder-skill-building-workshop-130343 to solder one of these guys (available for $3.00 at the lab): http://www.makershed.com/Learn_to_Solder_Skill_Badge_Kit_p/mkls01.htm

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JHT4KPdZPx-0M3qbJUJf25-HJYgcW-dGiAh9ydqKdu0/edit?usp=sharing

A giant tutorial for using Minecraft to teach all kinds of fab lab concepts and digital literacies (3D modeling and printing, digital storytelling, circuit logic) is now available online:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JHT4KPdZPx-0M3qbJUJf25-HJYgcW-dGiAh9ydqKdu0/edit?usp=sharing

This will be the basis for the Minecraft training workshop on Sunday the 23rd. Feel free to edit it or make suggestions!

How to Use the CUC Fab Lab Pressfit Boxmaker

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By Robert McGrath | v1.1 | 01.2014

The Pressfit Box Maker program is a tool that helps create pressfit boxes.  It is primarily designed to be used in the Champaign Urbana Community Fab Lab, though both the software and the results can be used elsewhere. This program does not completely automate the process, but it can make it much easier to experiment and iterate to work out your design ideas.

The software uses an algorithm to create a drawing of a pressfit box in a PDF file. The result may or may not be exactly what you intended, so you should expect to try it a few times; to test some settings, examine the results, and adjust the settings, until the results are what you want.

This isn't yet a formal tutorial, just resources for 3D modeling and printing with Minecraft:

Fab Lab Creative Server

Easy | Online Sever

Connect at fablab.no-ip.org:25567

Printcraft

Easy | Online Server | http://printcraft.org/

Create in game on an a plot, get emailed your 3D model.

Mineways

Moderate | Open Source Software | http://www.realtimerendering.com/erich/minecraft/public/mineways/

Export sections of maps, including creations and terrain of existing worlds. You need access to your world file (personal server or single player) in order to use this.

MCEdit

Hard | Open Source Software | http://www.mcedit.net/

• Netfabb Studio
• Repair 3D Scans
• Netfabb Studio STL Repair

http://youtu.be/IGdbpEvusi8

Thanks to Robin Camille Davis for the donation!

New for Halloween:  small dinaosaur, to cut from pressboard.

Purchase a 6x12 in piece of pressboard from the lab attendant, then download the files.  The file 'ptero-small.pdf' is all you need.

Use the Epilog Mini laser to make your own dinosaru today!

http://youtu.be/aBFfqtvfK1E

An introduction to Silhouette Studio and printing with the Cameo:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O5C9uFRjP6rburHBaidCXOk2VyW_10yH99EL3Y_y-EI/edit