Today at the MakerLunch, Bas van Deursen en Tom Nagel from Ultimaker will join us.
Ultimaker and IDE faculty have a continued collaboration as Ultimakers hosts multiple master graduation students with projects on 3D printing. Talk to them about interesting new developments and for opportunities regarding graduation projects.
Customized Prosthetics by 3D Printing
Introduction: In this project, students will work on the design and fabrication of low-cost robotic hand. This low-cost robotic prosthetic hand aims to replicate advanced functionality for under US$1,000. The student will focus on using 3D printing techniques (e.g., FDM) to fabricate the well assembled components and how it can be integrated with the sensor and the actuator parts.
One example can be found as the 2nd place of last year’s Make it Wearable competition of Intel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR1t-SK3Rtw
Please find the document attached for more information.
Customized Design and Fabrication of Patient-Specific Cast
Introduction: Patient-specific instrument fabricated by 3D printing has been more and more widely used. In this project, the student is expected to develop a general design and manufacturing framework for the steps of scanning, modeling, optimization and fabrication of patient-specific cast.
Please find the document attached for more information.
Assembly-in-Printing: Product and Process Design
Introduction: The students are expected to develop new process to automatically design mechatronics products with freeform shape, where the actuators and sensors will be assembled into the products during the fabrication. In this project, additive manufacturing will be adopted to wrap-up plastic materials on top of existing electrical components to realize the customized shape of some consumer products. One example can be found at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQYyGA5LMNE
Please find the document attached for more information.
Booklization: Design and Optimization of Building by Books
Introduction: The student involved in this project is expected to develop new method to automatically convert an input 3D model into a sequence of placing books for fabricating the shape similar to the input model. In this project, the shape optimization technique will be adopted to deform the input model into a shape that is easier to be fabricated by books.
Please find the document attached for more information.