Champaign-Urbana Community Fab Lab

Make a Pokemon in Spore, take a screen shot and put him on a custom-made card! Template and example attached.

See http://www.exploratorium.edu/pie/downloads/Cardboard_Automata.pdf

A pretty good list is available at http://appdevwiki.com/wiki/show/HomePage

The Noun Project - icons for everything

Game icons - hundreds of free icons for games

Possibly of interest:  An NSF sponsored collection of high quality scanned specimens (skeltons and fossils).  The datasets are availalbe in a number of formats, some of them are available in STL, intended for 3D printing.

The Digital Morphology library is a dynamic archive of information on digital morphology and high-resolution X-ray computed tomography of biological specimens.

Following up on the HASTAC presentation mentioned here, I have posted a much longer, more throrough discussion.

See the link at: http://robertmcgrath.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/draft-white-paper-communit...

I would like to revise and improve this draft.

(By the way, I couldn't find a good "Section" for this entry.  "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.")

Work by Matthew Schroyer building sensors for drones:

http://www.mentalmunition.com/2013/01/nodes-for-journalists-primer-on.html

Using the method described here - http://cucfablab.org/book/3d-print-your-spore-creature-3d I was able to create a number of monsters in 3D by using Spore, the game. I then later went back to combine parts from monster models with scans from the xBox Kinect.

• Netfabb Studio
• Repair 3D Scans
• Netfabb Studio STL Repair

http://youtu.be/IGdbpEvusi8

Thanks to Robin Camille Davis for the donation!

I ran across this paper that explains one way to calculate support structures for 3D printing. 

http://cybertron.cg.tu-berlin.de/rapid_prototyping_11ws/slicer/

I found it relatively clear and easy to understand.

Of course, there are more than one way to skin this cat, so this isn't necessarily the way any given software works.

This is pretty cool:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/26/next-4-d-printers/?src=twrhp

When I was first told about the laser engraver I was told that I should always bring a PDF document to print. While looking through the epilogue website I see that you are supposed to be able to print in any format. Has anyone ever printed anything besides a PDF document? Would we have to set up the computer to do something different if we want to use a different file format? I am interested in printing some things that were drawn in autocad but am having a lot of trouble converting them to PDFs. I have scaling issues, and sometimes the drawings are just messed up once converted. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Jeff

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oPyE5XWww48-A-vrIknJXfWkFjjgsM2HQbP9I5KATZI/edit#