Printing In Plastic: Build Your Own 3d Printer James Floyd Kelly

• Auteur : James Floyd Kelly
• Editeur : Springer Verlag Gmbh
• Langue : Anglais
• Parution : 01/06/2011
• Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg
• Nombre de pages : 464
• Dimensions : 23.7 x 19.2 x 3.0

Résumé
Printing in Plastic: Build Your Own 3D Printer is your gateway into the exciting world of personal fabrication. The "printer" that you'll build from this book is a personal fabricator capable of creating small parts and other objects from drops of molten plastic. Design a part using a modeling tool such as Google SketchUp. Then watch while the Fabricator head sweeps back and forth and upwards, depositing plastic in all the right places. You can build anything from a replacement tab to hold a bookshelf in place, to a small art project, to a bashguard for your bicycle. If you can conceive it and design it, you can build it, and you'll have fun doing it. There's more! The fabricator you'll build from this book is a modular design that converts easily into a CNC milling machine simply by swapping the plastic deposition heads for milling heads. Milling is a subtractive process to carve designs from blocks of solid material such as plastic, wood, or even some metals. Just one machine puts both types of fabrication at your disposal. * Leads you through building a personal fabrication machine capable of creating small parts and objects from plastic * Provides example projects to get you started on the road to designing and fabricating your own parts * Provides an excellent parent/child, or small group project What you'll learn * Design and produce three-dimensional parts and objects made from plastic. * Remove unwanted material using CNC milling. * Replace small plastic parts in household objects and appliances. * Create art objects involving wood and plastic. * Transmit designs from your computer to 3D printers and CNC milling machines. Who this book is for Printing in Plastic is aimed at creative people comfortable in using power tools such as a table saw, circular saw, drill press, and so forth. The book is aimed at those wanting to create and fabricate tangible objects from plastic and wood. Crafters, carpenters, electronics hobbyists, and others comfortable working with their hands will find the instructions easy to follow and the project rewarding.