We got a 3D printer! Stop by the Bay St. Louis-Hancock
County Library to learn how to use it...we **may** have already printed some
awesomely geeky stuff, like a Star Trek communicator badge and a Cthulhu pencilcup...
Here it is: an Ultimaker 2. It will print objects up to 8
inches square cubed. Depending on size and the amount of detail,
print jobs take from 30 minutes to a couple of days.
So far we have 9 colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
magenta, silver, gold, and black. The filament looks kind of like weed-whacker
string, and the printer works like a glue gun. A very expensive, precise
glue gun. It melts the filament and the print nozzle moves back and forth
to lay down thin lines (really thin, we're talking half a millimeter) and build
your object one layer at a time.
It's easy to set up a print job. You can either download a
ready-made design from free sites like Thingiverse, or create
your own in TinkerCAD or
any other 3D design program. Stop by our class!
It's September 15 at 5:30 at the Bay St.
Louis-Hancock County Library. We like TinkerCAD because it's free and easy to learn.
