{"id":554,"date":"2011-03-01T03:22:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T09:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/?p=554"},"modified":"2011-03-01T03:22:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T09:22:04","slug":"3d-printing-at-the-discovery-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2011\/3d-printing-at-the-discovery-center\/","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing at the Discovery Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to head over to the Discovery Center this week to check out their 3D printing facilities.  They have a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stereolithography\">SLA<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fused_deposition_modeling\">FDM<\/a> and are looking into an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Selective_laser_sintering\">SLS<\/a> machine.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00383.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[554]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-560\" title=\"DSC00383\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00383-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00383-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00383.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the lobby of the new building are a number of cool 3d models demonstrating a variety of capabilities:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00376.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[554]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-555\" title=\"DSC00376\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00376-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00376-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00376.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00377.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[554]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-556\" title=\"DSC00377\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00377-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00377-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00377.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Poking around a little further into the labs reveals a full dinosaur on a print tray ready to be cleaned up:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00378.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[554]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-557\" title=\"DSC00378\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00378-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00378-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00378.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand of course a whole pile of parts awaiting assembly:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00382.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[554]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-558\" title=\"DSC00382\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00382-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00382-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00382.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00379.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[554]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-559\" title=\"DSC00379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00379-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00379-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00379.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never seen a server room without a torn apart desktop or two sitting around:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00381.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[554]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-561\" title=\"DSC00381\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00381-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00381-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/DSC00381.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the opportunity to head over to the Discovery Center this week to check out their 3D printing facilities. They have a SLA, FDM and are looking into an SLS machine. In the lobby of the new building are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/2011\/3d-printing-at-the-discovery-center\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,3],"tags":[128,129,124,127,126,125],"class_list":["post-554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-trip","category-news","tag-3d-printing","tag-dinosaurs","tag-discovery-center","tag-fdm","tag-sla","tag-sls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sector67.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}