3-D printing is defined as a process for making a physical object from a three-dimensional digital model, typically by laying down many successive thin layers of a material. That sounds really confusing if you read it first right? But actually it’s a really awesome process that is not just making simple objects, but also thriving usable parts like tools and organs. The thin material used is called filament. The filament is kind of like plastic that melts down so they can connect to each strand. There are various types of filament, depending on what type of item you are creating. Click here to see various types of filament according to your project or object. Plus there are different types of printers too! There are mini ones and big ones. Plus there are ones that use stronger filament for tougher projects. There are new printers that are even the best as I think. The one uses plastic bottles and reuses them. They melt down the plastic and runs in through the extrudes. The second printer recycles old car dashes into filament to create objects. Before you can even get started with printing, you have to know the software to create and print your objects. That’s the tricky part in 3-d printing. Olivia and I tried printing for the first time, and we discovered with some help how to create and print on our own. There are a lot of test and run, but after you develop the knowledge about the software and printer, the experience will be very amazing as you will be able to print 3-D objects.
The thriving use for 3-D printing is in the medical world. Organs like spleens, bladders, and hollow tubes can be 3-D printed using a certain printer. This a huge plus in the medical world, as it lifesaving. Instead of waiting for a donated organ, the doctors and surgeons can print an organ according to the certain cells and DNA of a patient. The patients are less likely to reject the organ as it will include their blood type and parts of their DNA. The more complex organs such as the heart, are taking longer to plan out as they have different systems. The heart has four chambers, the blood travels through and out of to the lungs and body. So the more complex it is, the more planning and time it takes to construct the organ. They are making heart valves though, just not a heart as a whole. The doctors are continuously constructing different organs in the human body every day.
The 3-D printing world is amazing, and as Olivia and I began going deeper and created something more useable than keychain, we may be created trials and tested them. We’ve already started on testing how sturdy 3-D printed objects are. We thought about this as we stood on a 2x2x2 printed cube, and it didn’t break. So that sparked our minds about how sturdy our simple printer can be. We’ve already began talking about what to print next and how we can use our different objects that printed. Olivia and I will be discovering a lot more about the 3-D printed world, as we expand our minds.
The thriving use for 3-D printing is in the medical world. Organs like spleens, bladders, and hollow tubes can be 3-D printed using a certain printer. This a huge plus in the medical world, as it lifesaving. Instead of waiting for a donated organ, the doctors and surgeons can print an organ according to the certain cells and DNA of a patient. The patients are less likely to reject the organ as it will include their blood type and parts of their DNA. The more complex organs such as the heart, are taking longer to plan out as they have different systems. The heart has four chambers, the blood travels through and out of to the lungs and body. So the more complex it is, the more planning and time it takes to construct the organ. They are making heart valves though, just not a heart as a whole. The doctors are continuously constructing different organs in the human body every day.
The 3-D printing world is amazing, and as Olivia and I began going deeper and created something more useable than keychain, we may be created trials and tested them. We’ve already started on testing how sturdy 3-D printed objects are. We thought about this as we stood on a 2x2x2 printed cube, and it didn’t break. So that sparked our minds about how sturdy our simple printer can be. We’ve already began talking about what to print next and how we can use our different objects that printed. Olivia and I will be discovering a lot more about the 3-D printed world, as we expand our minds.