We have a functioning printer! More details in the next few days…
Posts from ‘March, 2010’
No Google Summer of Code
No Google Summer of Code interns for concurrency.cc this year, but that did not
come as a great surprise. This years application was in large motivated by us
having talked about submitting to GSoC for a few years, but never actually
doing it. We hav…
Mailing list and archives fixed
For a long time, there weren’t many “new” people working with our tools. Therefore, our lists lived behind an https:// address with a self-signed certificate. This caused problems for many people. If nothing else, it threw big scary warnings claimin…
twitter and tea
One of our third-year students is giving a talk about two of his passions today: Tea and Twitter. Pat Canella ’11 will present a talk titled “Twitter and Tea” at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 17 in Alden 101. The talk will focus on Canella’s own experience with the tea community, on Twitter and other [...]
Google Summer of Code
Yesterday we submitted an application for the 2010 Google Summer of
Code. You can find our
application and ideas right on
this site. We won’t know if we have been accepted as an institution until the
18th of March, but if you are interested in doin…
Around the WWW
This is the first of a series of posts where we point to things we’ve found on the WWW, and do our best to address some questions/share some thoughts about our tools.
To answer the question that we’ve received several times and seen in a number of …
TCNJ Printer Update: So close, yet so far
I’ve been racing to get my printer done before spring break starts (now) and I leave for a conference next week (Tuesday). The X and Y decks are in, the power is in, the boards are mounted, and endstops are mounted, the Z deck is in… but… I managed to destroy two of the three [...]
Printing Bug
Prior to our successful (and very exciting) print the other night, we ran into a curious problem during print attempts. Namely, during the actual printing all the stages would suddenly stop but the Plastruder would continue emitting plastic. Here is an example of a failed attempt: We even tried loading the model onto an SD [...]
First Print!
Sara and Stephanie should be very pleased; they are responsible for the construction of Allegheny’s first Cupcake CNC 3D printer!
[youtube width="560" height="340"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1RcMtu1UR8[/youtube]
This was very exciting.
T…