3D Printer Questions

The 6 different types of 3D printers are:

1. Stereolithography (SLA)
2. Digital Light Processing (DLP)
3. Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
4. Selective Laser Sintering (SLS)
5. Selective Laser Melting (SLM)\
6. Electric Beam Melting (EBM)

The Maker Bot 3D printer the school has is Fused deposition modeling 3D printer. It works by laying down a certain material in layers. The material it ejects from its nozzle is most commonly  a type of metal, or a plastic filament. The type of material our 3D printer uses is just a plastic filament.

You can't have one single definitive average printing time for a desktop 3D printer. Many factors can change the speed, factors such as the resolution you are printing, what material you are using, the heat you are using, and the size of the object. even the complexity of the object you are printing can change the time it will take your printer to print your object.

A 3D printer can be used for many different things, such as:

1. Replication

2. Prototyping

3. Medical Uses

4. Printing Robotic Components

5. Recreation

In the scientific community, 3D printing has been used for many, many different applications. I think the most astounding that I know about it probably 3D printing prosthetics. Effectively making them cheaper to manufacture, and in turn, making them cheaper to buy for people in need of artificial prosthetics. It has also been used for human enhancements, like leg extensions to make you run much faster. It has also been used to print robotic pieces, and even using stem cells it has been used to 3D print human organs that can, and eventually will be used for organ transplants.

6 3D printed keychain ideas that I think would be interesting:

A Batarang

The Star Wars logo

The Captain America Shield

Triforce from The Legend of Zelda series

Agents of Shield Logo

Deadpool Logo

House Exterior

Here I have my house. I do not quite have the real life picture, as I have not been staying at my house for the past little while. But I will go back soon to take pictures so you can get an understanding of it as well. But you must believe me for the time being when I say it is very accurate, if I do say so myself. I do live there after all! But soon enough, I will have pictures.

Front, and right side.

Back, and right side. 

GJ - Day 5

On the second day, I made sure I did everything I didn't do properly on my last experience, I had everything built by the second day, I even changed landing permissions, and I was positive that I was going to succeed this time. I build a bigger windmill, and a bigger solar panel, and a bigger storage container so I didn't have to worry about power for a little while. Which actually was the right choice to make in the long run. I also learned that resources can decay when left outside, so I made a storage unit as well. 

I built another windmill, because wind started slowing down, and I needed to not run out of power through the night. I had a medbay too, which was a first, and I started getting more colonists to do more work, which was good.  I built a control panel so I can eventually get a telescope. 

I build my telescope, and an antenna so I could attract more ships to me for more colonists. It did end up working, but they consumed a lot of power through the night, which I only realized when it was too late. 

You can see quite the improvement from my last attempts at this game, even the colonists were going up.

As you can see, I started disabling certain domes, and stations because of the power they consumed, and I started running out of food. All of my colonists except for one died of starvation, which was because of my wrong doing, and making the landing permissions wrong. I could have made it so the right people would come more often, but I didn't, I made the wrong people. 

Well, this game did prove to be a very challenging game for the likes of me. And honestly, because I didn't get to were I would have liked to, so I might play it on my own time to see if I can beat it on my own. Because I would like to finish it. 

GJ - Day 4

This day, I was planning on being a little bit more conservative with my resources, and play at a faster, but smarter and more efficient manner. I am not planning on building a monolith this time, and focus more on getting colonists to do work and sustain the colony. 

This one I made a lot of progress in the second day, I had everything established, except for one mistake that otherwise I would have done really well in this world. I forgot to connect my mine to an electrical source, and forgot to change landing permissions. This caused me to not be able to get more resources to finish building everything queued up to be built. 

As you can see, after even the fourth day, I had forgotten to connect my mine. But i recycled some stuff for resources so I can get more power. And still didn't change my landing permissions, so I only got trading ships because colonist ships were turned off. And my biologists didn't seem to want to work in the biodome very much. I don't know why, they just didn't want to, which is kind of infuriating. 

After the seventh day, I learned that the reason my mine wasn't working was because I didn't have power hooked up to it. (Thanks Caleb for telling me) And so i had resources to build another power source so I wouldn't run out of power, and get power issues. But, I still had a lack of food. And because of that, some colonists started dying of starvation. most of which were workers, so I couldn't mine because my workers were dying, and I couldn't get more, because of my issues with landing permissions. I was still confused on why everything was failing. Sadly, I lost all of my colonists on this day, so I just quit on that day.  My issue here was still being careless with resources. 

GJ - Day 3

Today, I started my Planet base. My goals were to get the anti Meteor Laser and to Sustain My colony and invite more colonists. Both of Which failed miserably after the 9th Night. It Was going well until the 13th Night.

Day 2 (Night 1)

On my second Day, I had the bare essentials for the first day or so. Some energy sources and storage. And a place to eat your food and drink water. 

Day 3 (Night 2)

After the Second Night, I had a dorm room, a place to grow food, and a place to mine and a place to process raw materials.  I thought I was going at a good pace, and that I had this planet base thing in the bag. Little did I know, things can get crazy in a matter of seconds. My whole plan here was to go at it with an aggressive attitude, thinking it would be as simple as the tutorial, but that was a terrible mistake. 

After the fifth night, I had a monolith, and a telescope. Both of which were terrible mistakes to make. The monolith took a lot of metal to make, and I didn't even have anybody to operate the telescope. My colony was pretty stable until after that, I started using more power than I had and I couldn't keep up because I forgot I could have recycled the monolith for metal to make more windmills. Which is what gave me an untimely failure. 

Here you can see my final set up after my failure, and I had very little colonists to do work, and they were unable to operate the food pads, so they would have starved to death if I didn't just quit early. From this experience, I was able to tell that you must do everything right, otherwise you will pay the ultimate price, in this case, aggravation. 

GJ - Day 2 - Tutorial

Setting up a basic colony in Planet Side is relatively Easy. You start by placing the basic components.

The very basic being an Airlock, an energy source and energy container. And a biodome to grow your food. You must  connect all these biodomes that the colonists need access to, to the same oxygen array that way they get access to the Oxygen. But you also need an Oxygen generator.
You need an energy source(s) which can be a windmill and a Solar Panel. At least one of each.

The difference between the Tutorial and the Walkthrough Video, the walkthrough video, the guy was just building the things you need to build without an in-depth explanation as to why. While the tutorial, it showed you what you need to build, and gave you reasons and an explanation as to why you need to build it. Keeping it relatively simple. It seems simple enough, as long as I keep my resources in check, and don't get careless with conserving my resources, I should be fine. 

Here you can see all of the basic structures. A mine to get bioplastic and Ore. A landing pad to get trading ships and Colonist Ships. My energy sources, and an energy storage container. That way, if I have no wind or sun, then the energy in the container will be distributed. I have my biodome, my canteen so people can eat, drink, watch TV, and make their food. A dorm so My colonists can Sleep. A Health bay, so medics can heal people when they get hurt, a processing plant to process raw materials into usable materials. 

Trapout: The Commercial

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GJ - Day 1 - Reveal

I learned that the game called "Planet Base" is about going to a remote planet and building and establishing a stable colony to survive natural disaster and everything else the planet has to offer. The video basically showed an example of everything that can happen excluding all the disasters. I am anxious to start this project, as I hope it poses a challenge to my gaming skills 3:D

Here you can see a colonized remote planet, which is obviously based off of Mars. 

This project should pose to be a challenge to me, and I can't wait to start.

The Martian: Movie Review

THE MARSHUN IS VARY GUD

***CONTAINS SPOILERS***

   The Martian, starring Matt Damon, directed by Ridley Scott is a great Movie from Book rendition of Andy Weir's New York Times #1 Best Seller novel, written in 2015. And that has to mean something. Most book to movie films don't get the point or story off very well. But this is a very good example of an exception to that curse. The beginning to the movie isn't too long to get the point across of him being stranded, and lays the movie and its plot out very nicely, and doesn't give much room for continuity errors. Although not every part of the movie is Scientifically possible, it does prove to be interesting, ie. The Dust storm that causes the team to leave Watney behind on the desolate planet that is our sister planet Mars. When certain events that could end up in catastrophe happen, you are stuck on the edge of your seat wondering what will happen next, waiting to see what Watney or the people in Houston will do next. Events including the depressurization chamber malfunction, causing the side of the HAB to be blown out, taking out many of his potato crops. 

Even with all the circumstances taken into consideration, Watney still keeps a humorous spirit to the movie. When his Potato crops start to grow, he proceeds to say "They say once you grow crops somewhere, you have officially colonized it. So, technically, I colonized Mars. In your face, Neil Armstrong!" Or another one of my personal favourites, "I don't want to come off as arrogant, but I'm the greatest botanist on this planet."
  What makes the movie particularly good, is when you get to watch scenes that keep you wondering and foreshadowing. You always wonder what the next move is going to be, or what the next unfortunate event is going to be. You predict whether he will get off the planet or not, the entire film. Things like that are what keep me enjoying, and interested in the movie.

All in all, I think I would give The Martian (2015) a really good 8/10. 

   The humorous, yet serious nature of the film  proves to be a good mixture for a well thought out entertaining movie. Although there are some scientific issues in the movie, it didn't make it too bad. Still really enjoyable. 

***END OF SPOILERS***