KUWTP Ep. 14 | 15th July 2024 | Our first ever 3D Print

Don’t be caught lacking. On this fine Monday, we unlocked a new achievement – 3D Printing! Unfortunately the Chemist was still caught lacking overseas hence the workload and responsibility of ensuring the success of our 3D print fell on the Biologist and Electrician. Needless to say, they did a fantastic job and currently our load cell holders are in the process of being printed. The estimated duration came out to be approximately 6 hours, finishing after the MnT lab has closed hence we would only be able to check on our prints the next day. Stay tuned to see how our 4 babies turn out ◡̈

A small hiccup faced was perhaps the fact that the dimensions of these load cell holder models we found online did not perfectly fit our load cell dimensions. For example, one model had a width of 60cm when the width of our load cell was only approximately 3.5cm. However, with some tinkering, we successfully scaled down these models in Autodesk Fusion 360 and went ahead with printing the scaled down version.