To begin my name is Garrett. This blog, as much as I dislike writing, will hopefully by a all encompassing view in to my experiences building a 3-d Printer for the 20% project. Since I don't have very much other information about myself that is worth mentioning here are some facts about me.
Favorite Quote- Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
Favorite Sports Team- Florida State, and no I didn't just jump on the bandwagon.
Monarchy Rank- Peasant (don't ask)
Grade- 10th
Other things you may need to know- I am a very excellent procrastinator, evident by the fact I'm writing this less than a hour before it's due. I am the youngest person in my family. I despise rap music.
Now that we have gotten through the portion of the blog about my exciting life let my introduce my project. My goal by April is to build a 3-d printer. You might ask what that even is but instead of boring you with various technical talk and monotonous reading here is a picture of how a 3-d printer works.
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| A 3-d printer with a completed infinite pentagon. |
Basically a 3-d printer takes a long piece of plastic, the "ink" of a regular printer, melts it, and stacks multiple layers on top of each other to make a shape.
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| The various colors of "ink" of a 3-D printer |
With these printers you can make anything your mind, or someone else can conceive. This s what drew me into doing this. The main reason I choose to build rather than buy is both so I can learn, as this project includes electronics, software, mechanics and much more, as well as cost. My plan is to keep the whole project under $350. This amount of money does not seem much to me for the possibilities I see opening up with a 3-d printer.
Although other people are just writing books for there projects, or putting on a concert, I wanted to do something I thought I would enjoy.
Note: I am not very good at endings.
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