3D Printing comes to the Martinsburg Library

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3D PRINTING may take forever, but it’s totally boss

3.17.15 was more than St Patrick’s Day this year!  March 17^th 2015

marks the first trial of our magenta-colored Cube 3D printer. 

Thanks to a generous grant, Martinsburg Public Library was able

to obtain four 3D printers (two white, two magenta, the colors

of which do not determine its function, they’re just fun).  You

can see the general size of the printer is smaller than a com-

mon printer, about the size of smallish box. If you can see on

the computer screen in the background, we're printing a rhino-

ceros head that is a wall hanger (hang on the horn).

The printing for this particular object will take (get ready for this) 6 hours and 26 minutes. Yikes! Not something one would want to wait around for, but we plan to have our printers up and running for upcoming festivals.  Among many other activities, we’ll have them printing during Martinsburg’s Chocolate Festival on April 25^th.

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images and a video of the 3D printer as it constructs the

rhino head wall hanger.  Very cool.

Check this link to Cube’s website to see the possibilities –

people have printed prosthetic arms, and these printers even have the capacity to print 3D objects with food (hummus, banana,meat).  Crazy?!  You decide.

http://cubify.com/?utm_expid=54557154-16.MbczTxfJSdy7HzF61vdnTw.0&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fcubify.com%2Fen%2Fstore%2Fkids

3.17.2015 Erin K Henry