Additive Manufacturing Projects

For my first additive manufacturing design i made a rocking manta ray out of TPU. TPU is a type of 3D print filament that is really flexible. 

Next i did the same thing as the manta ray but with a hedgehog.

I also printed my AMLA puzzle that I designed for the 2D challenge.

I designed a hinged coffin box to put cards in, it has hinges to open and close, a clamp hinge to keep it closed and holes inside for cards and dice/extra things. I printed it on the SLS sand printer at clover park, the Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) printing is a type of 3D printer that uses a laser to fuse powder together to create solid objects, the cleaning process for it is extremely time consuming because the powder gets really caked onto the part, you have to spend a long time scraping and cleaning the parts to get to the finished product.

After adjusting those settings the print came out how I wanted it, but there was still an issue.

After that design failed I colored the whole top of the blocks black to hopefully prevent this issue from happening again. I also adjusted the inside of the legos because they didn't fit together very well.

Now that I figured out that my Legos are too loose I went back into fusion and adjusted the width of the columns inside the Legos and reprinted them with the same design just back to orange PLA instead of blue.

Once again the prints looked fine when printed but once I tried to put them together they fell apart, literally.

At this point I decided to just cut my losses and not continue the project since the two filaments weren't working together.