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- Provides exciting advanced projects for hobbyists
- Provides the open-source models with the book
- Uses a more advanced and sophisticated scientific approach while keeping explanations clear for the general public adult or advanced younger student
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Learn physics, engineering, and geology concepts usually seen in high school and college in an easy, accessible style.
This second volume addresses these topics for advanced science fair participants or those who just like reading about and understanding science. 3D Printed Science Project Volume 2 describes eight open-source 3D printable models, as well as creative activities using the resulting 3D printed pieces. The files are designed to print as easily as possible, and the authors give tips for printing them on open source printers.
As 3D printers become more and more common and affordable, hobbyists, teachers, parents, and students stall out once they've printed some toys and a few household items. To get beyond this, most people benefit from a “starter set” of objects as a beginning point in their explorations, partially just to see what is possible. This book tells you the solid science stories that these models offer, andprovides them in open-source repositories.
What You Will Learn
- Create (and present the science behind) 3D printed models
- Review innovative ideas for tactile ways to learn concepts in engineering, geology and physics
- Learn what makes a models easy or hard to 3D print
Who This Book Is For
The technology- squeamish teacher and parents who want their kids to learn something from their 3D printer but don’t know how, as well as high schoolers and undergraduates.
Authors and Affiliations
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Nonscriptum LLC, Pasadena, USA
Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
About the authors
As an engineer and management consultant, Joan Horvath has coordinated first-of-a-kind interdisciplinary technical and business projects, helping people with no common vocabulary (startups, universities, small towns, etc). work together. Her experience as a systems engineer has spanned software development, spacecraft flight operations, risk management, and spacecraft/ground system test and contingency planning.As an educator, Joan’s passion is bringing science and technology to the non-specialist in a comprehensible and entertaining way that will stay with the learner for a lifetime.
As an educator, Joan’s passion is bringing science and technology to the non-specialist in a comprehensible and entertaining way that will stay with the learner for a lifetime.
Rich Cameron:
Rich Cameron is a cofounder of Pasadena-based Nonscriptum LLC. Nonscriptum consults for educational and scientific users in the areas of 3D printing and maker technologies. Rich (known online as "Whosawhatsis") is an experienced open source developer who has been a key member of the RepRap 3D-printer development community for many years. His designs include the original spring/lever extruder mechanism used on many 3D printers, the RepRap Wallace, and the Deezmaker Bukito portable 3D printer. By building and modifying several of the early open source 3D printers to wrestle unprecedented performance out of them, he has become an expert at maximizing the print quality of filament-based printers. When he's not busy making every aspect of his own 3D printers better, from slicing software to firmware and hardware, he likes to share that knowledge and experience online so that he can help make everyone else’s printers better too.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: 3D Printed Science Projects Volume 2
Book Subtitle: Physics, Math, Engineering and Geology Models
Authors: Joan Horvath, Rich Cameron
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2695-7
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Copyright Information: Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-2694-0Published: 24 May 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-2695-7Published: 22 May 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 181
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 82 illustrations in colour
Topics: Hardware and Maker