Me after seeing a slice of pizza during a rugby game
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Name Paul Farson
Affiliations Principia College
Nationality USA
Interests Drawing, Sports, Lifting, Motorcycles, 3D Printing
Registered 2023
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About Me[edit | edit source]

I am currently a sophomore at Principia College taking a class on 3D printing. I enjoy gaming, working out, playing rugby, and long walks on the beach. I have only ever printed two things on the printer that I built but I cannot wait to print more.

Open Source Movement[edit | edit source]

I have a great amount of respect for the open source movement and anyone who adds to it or builds upon it. I enjoy the fact that there is a group of people who have promised and agreed to honor each others works and build upon them for whatever reason. The 3D printer that I built in the class is a Jellybox 2 printer developed by Ladi Goc so that anyone can make their own printer at home. Ladi developed this printer for educational purposes so that folks can understand how the printer works and how to make it for themselves. Ladi's work in the open source community has most likely helped hundreds of people develop upgrades and improvements to 3D printers and then given back to the open source community for others to see and improve upon. I am really enjoying this class and love the idea of the open source community, but I do not think there is a time in the future for me where I am going to add to it.

Mini Projects[edit | edit source]

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Big Projects[edit | edit source]

A place for me to upload photos of the big projects I do.

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File:Puzzle Box Final.stl

File:Puzzle Box pieces.stl

This is a simple puzzle box I designed for my 3D printing class. The point of the project was to design an educational tool, either for another professor or for an intended audience. When I started designing, I had no idea the kind of objects I would want to make for this design, but I wanted to do objects that were recognizable and easy enough for me to design. When I started my first print, I had realized that some mistakes I made was: making the box walls too thin, not printing the box upside down and having to use a ton of extra filament to make supports, and designing the holes in the box with exact dimensions as the objects so they ended up not fitting in the box. After a simple redesign, the newest print turned out great but some objects still did not print alright so I created another stl file just for my objects.

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This is a very simple tool designed to help fulfill the most basic human need for survival: clean water. This tool is simply designed as a bowl with four legs. The idea is to print multiple of these, probably three, and stack them on top of each other. You would then place a piece of cloth, like a coffee filter, and a natural filter such as grass, sand, or charcoal. Slowly pour dirty water into the top and this tool will slowly filter the dirty water into clean drinkable water. My first design was having the bowl be more triangular instead of circular because I thought that having three legs instead of four would provide more stability to the overall bowl. However, I went with four because I thought it looked more clean. The design of the pegs at the top of each leg is so that they will go into the bottom of the legs that are stacked on top of the other filter. STL files are down below the image.

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