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3D Printer Projects for Makerspaces

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To everyone who makes this world better with their inventions and efforts.

Lydia Sloan Cline teaches drafting, digital modeling, and 3D printing classes at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. She works for architecture firms, judges competive technology events, and is active in her local maker community. Lydia is also the author of 3D Printing and CNC Fabrication with SketchUp and 3D Printing with Autodesk 123D, Tinkercad, and MakerBot (published by McGraw-Hill Education).

PROJECT 1
Architectural Symbol Coaster

PROJECT 2
Phone Case

PROJECT 3
Guardian Lion Bank

PROJECT 4
Art Stencil

PROJECT 5
Cookie Dunker

PROJECT 6
Simple Bat-Shaped Cookie Cutter

PROJECT 7
Spiral Ornament

PROJECT 8
Personalized Football Key Fob

PROJECT 9
Embossed Poop Emoji Cookie Cutter

PROJECT 10
Lens Cap Holder

PROJECT 11
Print Two Colors with a Dual Extruder

PROJECT 12
Lithophane Night-Light

PROJECT 13
Skull-and-Bones Pencil Cup

PROJECT 14
Business Card with QR Code

PROJECT 15
From Scan to Trinket Holder

PROJECT 16
Phone Stand

PROJECT 17
Cage Pendant with a Bead Inside

PROJECT 18
Military Insignia Soap Mold

PROJECT 19
Hanging Lampshade

PROJECT 20
Reality Capture of a Buddha Charm

3D PRINTING, A PROCESS THAT CREATES a physical model from a digital one, is increasingly popular with consumers, hobbyists, entrepreneurs, and businesses of all sizes. According to a 2014 Wohlers report, the global 3D printing market was valued at $2.3 billion in 2013 and is predicted to be $8.6 billion by 2020. Aerospace, automotive, medical, architectural, and high-tech industries routinely incorporate it in their design and manufacturing processes.

The beauty of the so-called maker movement is that the tools of manufacturing are not restricted to large companies anymore. Powerful, free software and relatively cheap tools are available to everyone (). Printers are sold at big-box stores and on Amazon. There are 3D printers at libraries, community makerspaces, and FedEx locations. Even the U.S. Postal Service is considering how to incorporate 3D printing. This accessibility, paired with funding sources like Kickstarter and GoFundMe, has enabled the launch of many successful small businesses.

You can use a 3D printer for decorative, useful, practical, iterative, and prototyping purposes. Its a tool that facilitates design, and helps you think of ways to convert ideas and raw materials into products and services. Find your blue ocean and create new markets. To this end, things you can 3D-print include

Replacement parts that are expensive or hard to find

Novelty parts to work with existing systems, such as LEGO-compatible bricks

Solutions to around-the-house or -office annoyances, such as the part a teacher designed to keep her computer mouse from falling off a keyboard tray or the harmonica holder a musician designed so that he could move around the stage

Downloaded models that others have made

Iterations, such as the plastic prototypes a jeweler makes before committing to expensive metals and the time casting them

Marketing and presentation materials, such as the miniature firefighting wall systems one business makes before it builds full-size ones

Small-run manufacturing items

3D printers are in many K12 and college classrooms because the future of learning is the future of making things. Students are challenged to solve everyday problems with them () and learn how to design items they cant just go out and buy. Making is not just about what we know; its about what we can do with what we know. Larger social and environmental challenges such as income inequality, climate change, recyclability, and sustainability may be addressed. For example: