Tag: education
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You Can’t Push a Rope – Engineering at its Simplest
You can’t push a rope. I had a professor who liked to say that engineering school could be summed up in two sentences: 1. f=ma2. You can’t push a rope. Although humorous, this does demonstrate an important problem solving skill that all engineers need to have. Several times in engineering school, I would solve one… Read more
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The Spirograph & The Cycloidal Gearbox
This common toy actually demonstrates one of the biggest flaws of a well-known piece of modern machinery. The cycloidal gearbox– whose most significant limitation is well-demonstrated by the beautiful patterns that the Spirograph creates. Did you grow up using the Spirograph? It’s a tool for creating geometric art, pictured below. I remember being really impressed… Read more
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Anti-Aliasing in 3D Printing
Stair-stepping on shallow surfaces has always been a limitation of FDM… until now! 💪 Anti-aliasing is a new FDM 3D printing technique I recently learned about. When applied, it almost eliminates the stair-stepping texture you see on all shallow top surfaces! Let me tell you how it works. All standard slicers typically print each layer… Read more
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Reverse Engineering – How It’s Done
Reverse Engineering Is More Than Copying Geometry Reverse engineering: the starting point when a critical part fails and no drawings, CAD files, or supplier support exist. At Wolfpack Workshop, based in Columbus, Ohio, we specialize in reverse engineering. Through this process, we take a physical component and rebuild it digitally so it can be improved,… Read more
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How to Choose the Right Materials for Functional 3D Printed Parts
Choosing the right material is one of the most important decisions in any 3D printing service’s workflow. 3D printing makes it easy to turn a digital model into a physical part, but it’s material selection that ultimately determines whether that part will survive real-world use, or fail. At Wolfpack Workshop, material choice is never an… Read more
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What Makes a Good Engineer?
The chopping block question in a good engineering interview. How would you answer? 😱 During the interview process for my mechanical engineering position, I was faced with a question that I still think about often. Q: If a customer insists that you do something a certain way, but you know there’s a better way, what… Read more
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Engineering with 3D Printing in Mind: From Concept to Production
Engineering and 3D printing work best when they’re treated as a single process, not two separate steps. At Wolfpack Workshop in Columbus, Ohio, we approach every project with the end manufacturing method in mind from the very first sketch. This mindset allows us to design parts that aren’t just printable, but stronger, faster to produce,… Read more
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Making a CNC Machine from Scratch
View this post on Linkedin Building a CNC at Home In 2023, I designed & built a CNC Machine at home. Here’s what I learned: 1. CNC machines need to be rigid. Like… VERY rigid. As you take away rigidity, the materials you can machine become fewer. Your machine also becomes quite loud with something called “chatter”. Chatter happens… Read more