This machine will be on Kickstarter in January 2017. It is expected to cost between $2000 and $3000. SeeMeCNC® (seemecnc.com), based in Goshen, Ind., showed live 3D printing. The PartDaddy Delta 3D printer was actively making a large-format stars/gear bearing design that would nearly be a foot tall when completed — Fig. 5. It was performing this act using extruded resin pellets at about 2 lb/h with a 4-mm nozzle. The Eris® Delta desktop 3D printer RTP™ for small-scale 3D printing was 34 WELDING JOURNAL / DECEMBER 2016 Fig. 5 — SeeMeCNC® made this large-format design as part of the company’s 3D printing demonstration. also on display and making objects. “I’ve always automated,” said President and CEO Steve Wygant. “3D printing is powerful because you design what you are going to build vs. how you are going to build.” Learn-to-Solder Workshop Let Guests Construct a Pin More than 900 people participated in the Learn-to-Solder Workshop. After emphasizing not to touch the soldering iron’s hot tip, volunteers guided participants in how to use this process. By holding the iron with your dominant hand and the wire in your other hand, then joining them to solder various points, and cleaning the tip when needed, the Makey robot pin with blinking LED eyes (thanks in part to a battery) got assembled. Dr. Geo Chico, a local podiatrist who joined his children in volunteering at the event, helped to teach solering. Being a handy guy, he had per- Fig. 4 — Ben Willard stands beside his creation, the Ability3D – 888, which offers the ability to 3D print your own metal parts at home. Fig. 6 — Volunteer Dr. Geo Chico (left) slides in the battery on a Makey robot pin put together by 11-year-old Jason Tenczar, so its LED eyes would blink, as his father Joe Tenczar watches. Fig. 7 — Jonathan Thompson forms copper wire into unique figures. He poses here beside Orlando Skyline. This wall-hanging, rolling-ball sculpture took him 250 h to make.
Welding Journal | December 2016
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