Goals for 2015/2016 and beyond

As you can see from the above images, these are two prints that, due to their nature, required a lot of support material.  Not only is this support material difficult to remove but it is also a bit of a waste of material.  We are going to focus some of our efforts next year on printing with two heads on the Hyrel System 30, using one of the heads to print only the support material out of a dissolvable material.

We also want to push into printing with a wider variety of materials such as Moldlay, Sugru, Laywood and Laybrick, Ninja-flex and whatever else we can get our hands on.  For the first time in an Oregon High School, our students 3D printed a part for a metal working machine, then the students in our Metals 3 class sand-casted the printed part and poured a new one out of brass.  This is one of the collaborative efforts we have undertaken to try and get students cross curricular experience.  We intend to continue this sort of work and hope to expand students knowledge and abilities.