I will be addressed 3D printing in this blog post today. It is a form immersion that can be found at the conference. We will be exploring the technologies that come with 3D printing and what it can bring to this new type of education that we are looking at today. It is new and exciting and will change the way we can bring education to the masses.
First, lets go over what 3D printing is. It is just any process to make a three dimensional object or thing. The process involves material that is layered on top of each other using a computer to make sure it is precise. This technology is able to create almost anything and will be the future of immersive education. We all should be excited for what it can bring.
The first steps to 3D printing is making a model for it. To do this, we use a CAD, or a computer aided design in order to model the object you are trying to create. For example, if you wanted to recreate a watch, you would scan the object and the computer would render the image and create a model of it. Anything is possible and any item can be scanned to be molded into a perfect replica.
Once you have a model of the object, the computer produces a G-code file which is a list of instructions for the 3D printer to follow. One other important hardware a 3D printer needs is the GCode viewer, which tells the printer nozzle where to go and what route to follow. A 3D printer then lays down layers upon layers of of liquid and other material to make the best replica it can using the code that it was given. The possibilities are endless like I mentioned and anything can be recreated.
3D printing has come a long way since it first started. There are many types of 3D printing such as the material the printer uses and the process it makes it in. For example, Granular 3D printing uses laser melting and beam melting in order to create any object out of any metal alloy. Another type is Power bed and inkjet printing which uses a Blaster based 3D printing technology which obviously uses plaster.
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