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Research Day 2015 Eugene Hahn, PhD

Research Day 2015 Eugene Hahn, PhD

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Research Day 2015 Eugene Hahn, PhD

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welcome everyone to the 2015 edition of the SU Research Day and Innovation
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Showcase this is our third annual edition of this particular event we
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appreciate everyone being here
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special thanks to our Provost dr. Diane Allen who is on her way here from a
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meeting at the system office so she should be here she said and probably
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fifteen or twenty minutes so special thanks to dr. Alan and the rest of the
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exec staff in president dr. genitalia spot for her support of this event and
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research and scholarship on this campus we really appreciate everything that
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they do for us for our next presenter from the produced goal of business we
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have Dr Eugene hot he's going to talk to us about learning by innovating as you
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very much I had it's something that we've been working on in the produce
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cool for a little while now how many of you have a 3d printer at home raise your
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hand if you have a document printer at home raise your hand so we think that
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the future
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most of you who just raise your hamper document printer will have a 3d printer
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as well and idea was that well hey the future starts today so why don't we try
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to work on this and get this going on so that's what we started to work on in our
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our department and we have some interesting courses as well some
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interesting technology to talk about today so it's pretty common for us in
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education to say learning by doing is a great way to learn and the idea behind
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this class is we're gonna actually try to learn by innovating in a business
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context so I'm gonna start off with a little video and thus the young man in
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this video is not one of my students but he could have been and this is what
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we're we're kind of shooting for us in a way as inspiring to me and also shows
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you why I thought this kind of class of be relevant
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for the business school here so I'm going to show you this and I will maybe
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skip around a little bit because of time constraints and what have you but let's
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take a look
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I created this multi because I'm a handy guy like to take things they prefer to
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carry pocket monkey instead of pocket knife because he just fits naturally and
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once lot of it and it's got 12 tools by far their college student oriented a
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literal better there are on the front
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millimeters on the back and if you stick credit card through this slide here
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making a phone stand this is really good flight and you're watching a movie you
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don't have to hold your thought the whole time work rain over your phone
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line I'm gonna zoom through a little bit and you talk about his motivation to be
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here but it's something that seems obvious now that my friends is just the
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most these days is actually the letter opener for tearing open to new things
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and after college I started to actually make the next phase I was able to create
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pocket so I can make it for free
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able to work in support of stainless steel
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wanted to kind of pause there and that actually is kind of what we're doing in
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our classes well we're also like that young man using open source tools to do
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things that really wouldn't have been possible several maybe five ten years
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ago in a business environment and I think about this young man is that he
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was able to raise money for his business on Kickstarter many of you might have
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heard of it but if you haven't he's able to do crowdfunding get people to give
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him capital based on the compelling nature of his idea that he's got the
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money to actually go out and develop this product and boom people have a
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product they'll
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of he's got an income stream and happy customers in the business so that's the
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kind of the idea that kind of got this class started there's a lot of
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interesting things going out there in the technology world that makes certain
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kinds of business activities a little bit easier we have a long history of
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entrepreneurship in the new school and many competitions and going back decades
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and have you but we don't have so many people making monkeys or other kinds of
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products we don't have too many product oriented entrepreneurs and that is
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something that would be very valuable for us to start supporting and so that's
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kind of how this class comes into play a little that to start building your own
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products and so that leads me to the class that I taught this past spring
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called
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digitally enabled product development in this class the students come in and by
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the end of the semester they're gonna have made their own digitally enabled
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product they don't know a lot about electronics in fact very little they
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don't know a lot about computer aided design none of them do they don't know
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anything about how to do 3d modeling they've never done a lot of this stuff
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before they certainly not done 3d printing probably by the show of hands
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around here is something that's new to every everyone including myself but we
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all got through and we had a great time doing it was very exciting for everybody
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and people have a lot of fun
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some of the things that kind of word clouding the class obviously I can go
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over everything but these are the different kinds of things that the
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students had to do things like presenting their work at the Salisbury
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University's use the university student research conference so they all got to
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be in a public forum saying I made this and this is a product that does
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something it solves a business need this also many of our students also did the
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bernstein competition and they were able to go for really far along in the
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bernstein competition with their innovations so how is that how did that
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get enabled the will talk about the 3d printing in just a moment but this
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digital part is actually more exciting in my opinion than just the 3d printing
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alone
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when you take these two different technologies and put them together
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you've really got some very interesting products so for example 3d printed
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products are a little bit on the static side they just kind of sit here but
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digitally enabled products can do so much more so for example we have this on
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for our lab that we made uses the Arduino and it does a lot more this is
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just an LED panel you can purchase or you can see out in the lobby out here
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and we've uses technology to program this and make it do things and you can
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interact with things that can be on the internet and do all kinds of things so
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this Arduino platform is open source kinda like that young man was talking
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about it's a do it yourself
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electronics platform and lots of people are learning how to make electronics
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including myself and my business what I know about capacitors well actually now
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I know a little and i cant each other students to know that all and we can
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make stuff and you don't necessarily have to have you know five years of
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graduate school in this area to know a lot about it
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the nice thing about the Arduino is it runs off of a USB power supply five
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votes are not going to hurt yourself with five votes and it's common to find
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USB power supplies and a university environment so this is a nice platform
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for prototyping and a lot of people do prototyping with this this is a little
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bit of an overview of the board you can see there's some inputs and outputs to
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send electricity around doesn't sound very glamorous but our 3d printer uses
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an Arduino so you can make a 3d printer with this you can make a drone with this
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you can make an artificial hand with this in fact one of my students he may
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not be here yet but he's actually interested in he's become interested in
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making an artificial hand and he's in the communications major army
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communications majors are making artificial lens doesn't happen every day
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but because of this technology is able to pursue this kind of interest
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so our students didn't really have a lot of prior experience with all this but
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they actually we all were able to get them to present their product prototypes
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let me just show you what some one of the two groups was working on and we'll
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see in this class it's actually for another professor at Salisbury's class
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but see that they collaborative aspect of this kind of technology is is part of
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the message behind the scenes here so let's have a look I'm in town and this
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is my project light sleeper
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476 with Professor very little bit about my project the light sleeper is a lot
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like they used the photoresist to turn on office play I came up with this idea
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because I'm one of those people who needs to be pitch black just the fall
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asleep and what they always knows when I was going to bed was that the alarm
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clock it's produced so much lately LEDs on the inside and I was always our short
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over so I thought why not turn on and off with your lights in your room a
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couple skills such as 3G protein coding using Arduino board and simple circuitry
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such as passive transistors and stuff like that so when I first had to learn
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was headed use it three and luckily there was a course at Salisbury this
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year that allowed me to use a make it to you see in this video clip and I'm
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actually pretty in the box for the light sleeper right now this is the start of
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the base and you can see I'm using product fees to resume for low that he's
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making the box and he's making the circuit would turn on and off and then
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things such as using a servomotor then we use the speaker and once I pretty
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much figured out how to use all those kinds of things I started building my
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own circuit which you see here in this picture on the late sleeper has an LCD
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screen that has a bunch of copper wires connected Arduino which basically means
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processor that runs everything and I just kinda
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leave that for you to view later at your own leisure but I think you may have
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gotten the idea so he's able to take all these ideas that we like talk about our
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class and he's got a new product as I never thought about that before
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automatically dimming alarm clock I might need one of those I'm one of those
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people doing the same thing with my teacher tonight is the right in here so
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that I might be his customers someday so let's talk a little bit of our 3d
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printer this is a robot with a hot glue gun is what I like to summarize it with
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the nozzle travels around you can see actually a little extruded plastic has
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come out and it will gradually trace the object of over a long period of time
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maybe 12 48 hours depending on what you're actually trying to print the each
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layer is about a quarter of a millimeter thick so as you can imagine it can take
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quite a while delay on this very about the strand of hair and in diameter and
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we use this particular video called PLA that might be familiar to organic
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chemist but for the rest of us this is actually just a very variation of
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cornstarch or soybeans fortunately derived it's also used for medical
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implants and things like that it's obviously a sustainable resource and
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will biodegrade in the environment but for my for my considerations the nice
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thing about this is no harmful fumes that you might have some other kinds of
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plastic this is about as dangerous as cooking dinner and you're smelling you
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know your food food molecules in there so it's something that we can do any
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university environment without special kind of air conditioners are things like
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that there is a lot of knowledge that goes into 3d printing because you have
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to make your structure go up in a certain way that balances it doesn't
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fall over there is a right temperature right speed for a lot of things and
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there is a lot of knowledge that has to go into teaching and learning about how
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to operate this properly so we have a Innovation Lab to help others come up
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with their own projects and their own innovations their own creations and so
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that's what our Innovation Lab is all about we just started that this semester
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and we have our first ever innovation consulting he's one of our young men
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from the class and he's working five hours a week to help others come up with
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new products this could help this could be teaching someone about 3d printing
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about the 3d modeling or any other kind of thing that might be going into this
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kind of new product or new object development we're also having 3d print
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stuff that we may from time to time and we're a feeling things off to pay
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attention to the campus Bolton we just have a young men make our win an iPhone
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stand that we are raffling off earlier in the semester we have to 3d printers
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we found that only one 3d printer is a little bit of a bottleneck when you have
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a class for students and things take to 48 hours to print I we can print things
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in about this dimensionality eight inches by 10 inches by eight but that
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doesn't mean you're limited to that for example this frame as you might guess is
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also 3d credit and its larger than this bed right here and I just made the frame
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and then digitally cut up the frame into parts and then print the parts and then
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used an epoxy to make the whole thing together this is a almost a perfect fit
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so that the LED panel can actually stay in using friction alone how hard would
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it be to me for me to find that kind of panel on Amazon or Michaels that fits
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you know pretty much down to the millimeter pretty hard how hard would it
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be for me to find a custom panel that cost about 50 or 60 cents that's a
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perfect fit that's what I estimate the cost of this materials not very
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expensive so if you have a 3d printer you can making all kinds of things that
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are perfectly tailored for you at a very low cost
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this is obviously going to have very big impacts for business in the coming years
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so that's why I think we need to learn about it in the business school so if
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you can dream of something in this size we love you come by the Innovation Lab
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and make that dream a reality that's why we're here it could be something for a
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business or could be just something that you want for a personal project or four
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for a class
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and I've gotten a 3d scanner working on putting it together as well so you would
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be able to digitally copy and object you might have maybe you have a favorite toy
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or something like that will be able to scan and make more of them
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gotta favorite pet pet kind of like a call or something like that and we can
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make copies of those kinds of things so it's in the produce cool but I really
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don't think that the preschool should be the ones having all the fun and we'd
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like to invite everybody across the campus any student from any major any
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faculty from any department to come by and get involved in here are some of the
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things that I like to point out making stuff doesn't really belong necessarily
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just in the business school there's all kinds of fun things that people are
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making all over the university and we'd love to be a part of that if you're
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interested in coming by I have a little background interest in music and stuff
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like that and so there's a lot of interesting things that you can do with
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3d printing and music so you can make some Latin Percussion or got this kind
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of kind of a musical toy from southeast asia this is like a frog truly this is
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what the sound of a fraud is just so those are some different kinds of things
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you can make you can make a little maybe just kind of you know
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objects is like Easter Island head you could make something like that and other
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things that might be a more practical this is a very interesting object it's
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several gears all interlocked with kind of a chevron track and this is an object
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that can only be made by 3d printing these can't fall out that means they
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can't go in and so as a result there's only one way to make a topic that has
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its properties which is to gradually build up layer by layer and the Chevron
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track means it cannot come apart
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course you could make something like this may be welded altogether but as one
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integrated pieces is only possible with 3d printing we could also have things
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like we could have people getting involved in mathematical structures or
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chemical molecules or we have seen some really interesting projects
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lost art archaeology has been recovered using 3d printing recently people have
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re-creating things like maybe lost temple or lost artifacts using 3d
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printing maybe in the psychology department you can use the well-known
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strip of back to print something that has one property and then has a text
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label that is contradicting that and it might be some new way of investigating
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all psychological phenomenon or developmental psychology learning
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certain things as toys for young people babies and seeing which kinds of objects
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they might prefer that might have some way of understanding how their cognitive
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development work I'm not a developmental psychologist but you know someone who
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might know about that would be able to come up with something of course there's
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a lot of great business tie-ins with this and we're working on pursuing some
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of this doing some work with Professor goldberg
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entrepreneurship Living Learning Community and we're getting students
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involved in their freshman year with 3d printing and making new products so it's
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pretty exciting for us so just kind of the wrap up you know our innovation
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consultant also can help out with these microprocessors this might be some other
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way of kind of innovating these kind of things can make very complicated things
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like artificial limbs and then drones that I've mentioned before so these are
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different things that we can do
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were also able to make these things have the Internet of Things capability to our
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3d printer has been set up to tweet out to the Internet
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whenever it's finished printing and so all the students can follow our printer
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on Twitter and then they know when they're print is John they just got a
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notification from the 3d printer up in New Hall how did I do that again it's an
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Arduino connected to a temperature sensor and when this heats up and cools
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down again it means a print job must have gone through and so the Arduino is
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able to figure that out and the Arduino got its own Twitter account for Nate and
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so it will just make make an alert on your phone and obviously that's a lot
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better than using you know your
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using walking up to produce Holland checking every 15 minutes so in the
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future of we love to see hopefully more as you cross disciplinary collaborations
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I'd love to be involved with some of your coursework or for you to come learn
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from what we've learned there is kind of a learning curve obviously where you
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know things things didn't always work so great in the beginning but we've got a
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little bit more of an understanding about how to get things done there are
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as I mentioned before there's all kinds of interesting things about instruments
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and art that I followed I read interviews interesting story about the
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earliest saxophones at a different kind of mouthpiece than they used today and
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no one's ever really heard these kind of saxophones before because they've all
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been lost but people were able to use measurements and getting the same kind
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of mouthpieces as the original saxophones and play saxophones as they
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were originally design that's pretty neat or art that's been destroyed people
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can replicate in bring it back to life so there's all kinds of things in the
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future that we might consider
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entrepreneurship innovation Sciences program maybe a venture capital
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incubator who knows all kinds of interesting possibilities I think with
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this kind of technology so that is kind of what I was hoping to speak to you
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about today love to hear about any questions you might have any ideas and I
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love for you to come by and take advantage of our new resource so thank
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you very much for having me
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well that's that's a great question that you can use a lot of white colored
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filament in the magic marker and if you can't figure out I want thirty percent
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of this to be one color forces another color and kind of the low-tech inkjet
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version you take a magic marker color it and so you can have a multi colored
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object that's the kind of the low-budget way to do it there's also ones with
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multiple heads with different colored filament in there and that would also
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print different colors so if you've got a big budget or a small budget plan that
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yes you mentioned the student from communications
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yes he's not even a producer did you have anyone else from outside the
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produce School in the class that we had 26 intrepid souls in my class and five
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of them were from 42 and one was from a communications major so and he and the
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other five intrepid souls have graduated so yes he's still here and he actually
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he was around earlier in the Innovation Lab doing some stuff yeah I imagine
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these are pretty expensive right now but as they become more marketable certainly
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come down in price and you talk about the ability to replicate things do you
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anticipate problems in the future with copyrights businesses is that a very
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interesting issue that I don't know as much about cause I'm not a person but I
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know one of our law faculties talked about that so yes you can replicate
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things for example spare parts for the printer actually if I have a printer
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problem I just printed new part and so that's kind of nice and you can make
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things very light and hollow or you can make things pretty solid and I'm not
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gonna appropriate the podium before having this part so yeah you couldn't
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potentially see very interesting applications I've seen people use this
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with concrete and they're actually making houses 3d printed house with
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other materials it's the same kind of thing as plastic and that it would get
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hard so yeah it will be very interesting area for legal issues people who know
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more about that
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would probably best to talk about that anyone interested where are your
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machines if your interest so yes yes it's up in third floor Perdue Hall 300
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we welcome the community the very end and surrounding to come again thank you
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very much
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today's activities great speakers representing the schools and outstanding
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fashion thank you all for attending we look forward to having you at next
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year's event and please join us in the atrium for the showcase component of
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today's activities