FINDING THE DESIGN

For this assignment we were tasked with 3D printing impossible objects. To find my impossible object, I browsed the stl files on thingiverse.com. I ran across a gyroscope that I really liked. Gyroscopes are impossible objects because they have a little section that sticks out on an inner ring and fits into an outer ring to keep it in place. This feature would be practically impossible to manufacture any other way.

Figure 1: Thingiverse gyroscope

PRINTING THE GYROSCOPES

After I found the design that I liked I uploaded onto 3DPrinterOS. Once in 3DPrinterOS, I was able to scale the object to the right size of the gumballs for the project. Then I test printed one gyroscope with one of the fused deposition modeling 3D printers. The print took about 30 minutes. I inspected this initial print and found that it worked well so I used 3DPrinterOS to place 3 more gyroscopes and print the rest of them.

Figure 2: Editing the gyroscopes in 3DPrinterOS

The printed results are pictured below.

Figure 3: Final printed gyroscopes

COST ESTIMATES

Below is a chart that outlines the cost estimates for this project. 

Figure 4: Cost estimates