Guest blogger, Michael Jukes (Master of Science candidate in the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology) has been instrumental in the establishment of an active community of makers at Rhodes University, South Africa. Below he describes one seemingly simple printed modification to a light microscope. “Yay, 3D printers to the rescue printing useful microscope tools!! Well, […]
“What’s with the hairspray?” A question posed by everyone that comes by the lab to be introduced to 3D printing. For those not in the know, in order for an object to be successfully 3d printed it needs to stick to the build surface. As this is plastic (in most cases) that is being extruded […]
Using a single extruder RepRap Ormerod we attempted to print a Rotavirus viral capsid available for download from the recently launched NIH 3D Print Exchange site (SA11 Rotavirus trypsinized Triple Layered Particle Model ID 3DPX-000275). The downloaded STL was imported into Meshmixer 2 to generate some supports as the spikes that extend from the capsid (VP4 protein) […]