For example, Michigan Tech charges a $500 course fee to cover the cost of a MOST Delta RepRap 2 kit, which students build and use in the course and keep afterwards. It's hard to learn about 3D printing without access to a 3D printer, so schools are using a variety of ways to make them available. This has resulted in an explosion of creativity, with past students adding heated beds, multi-material capability, solar-power, engraving and laser cutting functions, climate control, touchscreens, and error alarms. The difference between the course's undergraduate and graduate versions is that the graduate students must do everything the undergraduates do, but also make a significant improvement on the RepRap printers and publish their mods. Educators can adapt all or any part of the course, including all of the course videos, and anyone who wants to learn independently can walk through it at their own pace. Schools can use the course as a foundation to help their students create the future. Following in the tradition that started with the first open source RepRap (self replicating rapid prototyper), everything in this class-which will teach you what you need to know about 3D printing-is free. Wikiversity is trying to fill this skills gap with its Open Source 3D Printing (OS3DP) course for undergraduate and graduate university students. Welcome to the communityĭemand for 3D printing skills is soaring, with many engineering job listings from a variety of fields, including biomedical, software, and transportation, requiring familiarity with 3D printing.

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