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Maximum build size 12 x 8 x 6 inches
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October 31, 2020 Blog

3D Printed 100th running of the Indy 500

Realize is proud to call Noblesville, Indiana home and we are very excited about the upcoming Indy 500. To celebrate the 100th running we created a 3D printed Indy Car. We hope you enjoy our little prototype and have a safe and enjoyable Memorial Day weekend. For the past 100 years this holiday weekend has been even more special here in Indianapolis!

May 23, 2016 Blog

Realize Sponsors High School Robotics Team

Realize, Inc. is proud to support local science and technology students in the Indianapolis area. Recently we sponsored the Hamilton Southeastern High School Robotics Team. We talked with HSE Physics/Pre-Engineering Teacher Jeff Wilkins about the program.

Tell me about the HSE Robotics Team, What does your team do?

HSE Robotics, aka Royal Robotics, started back in 2005. That year, my Principles of Engineering (POE) classes participated in BEST Robotics (www.bestinc.org) and the Digital Electronics (DE) class participated in Botball (www.botball.org). The robotics club at HSE now participates in the VEX Robotics Competition (www.vexrobotics.com) and has been competing since 2010. BEST Robotics requires students to make a robot out of common materials from scratch. Plywood, PVC and some sheet metal are the main materials used to create these robots. My Engineering Design and Development (EDD) class still participates in this competition to this day. Botball is a completely autonomous robotics competition that requires the team to build a robot out of a lego platform and an iCreate (from the company that brought us the Roomba, iRobot). Students have 8 weeks to design, build and program a robot to complete the task for the year. VEX Robotics is where our after school Robotics Club will compete. This competition uses materials that are used in the PLTW program and the parts and pieces are premade, so designing and assembling a robot is very quick and easy.

Why is this team important for students and the school?

We have over 50 students participating in Robotics Club this year, as well as, 22 students in EDD that are participating in the BEST Robotics Competition.

How did the Realize Sponsorship help your team?

Your generous donation allowed us to purchase a GCC Laserpro Spirit GX laser cutter which is used for fundraisers for robotics club and to cut the main chassis of our robots for the BEST Competition.

What do you love about Robotics?
Robotics is sports for geeks. It has all of the excitement, hard work, and practice of athletic sports and allows students to excel on a different playfield.

How can you see Robotics and 3D Printing working together in the future?
Yes, we will be using our 3D printer to create parts and pieces for an R2D2 that we will be building next semester. It allows someone to design the robot in a 3D modeling software and get a prototype very quickly without expensive and time consuming machining.

What do you think students need more information on regarding the additive manufacturing industry?
All of the different types that are available. Most just think of FDM because that is what we have at HSE, but there are so many other options out there.

If you could 3D Print anything, what would that be?

Well, since I own one, I can print about anything I want, but 3D printing a house out of concrete would be really cool. My favorite item to 3D print so far were a bunch of digital sculpts that the Tech Art Club at Fall Creek Intermediate students designed. They were very excited to get a physical model of what they had designed on their iPad’s using 123D Creature App.

*If you have any questions or are interested in sponsoring you can contact Jeff. [email protected] 317-594-4190 ext. 11521.

October 21, 2014 Blog

Realize partners to educate students about 3D Printing

Science and Engineering made exciting through 3D Printing Technology!

Realize Inc. is very proud of our industry and we are always looking for new ways to help create excitement and deliver knowledge about additive manufacturing. The process of informing a new generation of students and creating better awareness about the technology, and how it can be utilized moving forward, is important to us. Recently we partnered with Brad Lowell, a Science teacher at Fall Creek Intermediate School in Fishers, Indiana to help him reach the goal on the project: Science and Engineering Made Exciting Through 3D Technology! We interviewed Mr. Lowell about the project and how he thinks 3D Printing technology might be applied in classrooms around the country.

Realize: Why is the addition of a 3D Printer important for students and the school?

Mr. Lowell: As our school is moving into our One 2 One initiative this next year where every student has an iPad, the 3D printer is another tool that will better prepare them for their futures. We have researched printers in the field of medicine that can print cell after cell to create sheets of skin and in the future maybe even replacement organs. 3D metal printers are being used to create car parts. We have seen printers that can produces incredible chocolate sculptures and another that builds 3D pancake creations. Like student imagination, the possibilities of the printer are limitless.

How did Realize help you reach your goal?

Through a sizable donation, Realize was an amazing partner in making our 3D dreams a reality. Realize also sent some great video examples that excited students and really illustrated how incredible the industry is.

What do you love about 3D Printing?

I love that with 3D printing really anything is possible. It will allow them to take their 2 dimensional ideas and create real 3 dimensional working prototypes.

How can you see 3D Printing helping students in the future?

I see a future where when something breaks around the house or in their classroom, students could merely go to their computer and print a replacement part.

How have the kids reacted and what projects have you worked on?

Students were so excited to see the MakerBot box show up at school! Unfortunately, with the arrival so late in the year we were not able to do much in the way of our own designs but did really explore what the printer was capable of. We successfully created a working prosthetic hand and some parts for our water rockets engineering lab activity. Some students also came in and worked during lunch with me and created their own cell phone cases.

Looking into next year and beyond, how will you use additive manufacturing in the classroom?

This next year I am hoping to spend a great deal of time at the beginning of the year teaching the kids 3D CAD designing on their ipads so that all of our engineering activities can be built on the printer. We will build prototype gravity racers, plastic boats to test Archimedes’s principle of buoyancy, bio engineer surgical tools to assist us in our Frankenstein-style ‘open heart’ surgery lab, design rocket fins and parts for our rocketry labs, and countless other activities. We’re hoping this next year to look into the possibility of the MakerBot 3D scanner where students can scan and replicate parts.

What do you think students need more information on regarding the additive manufacturing industry?

We are still really learning about the additive manufacturing industry and would welcome any additional information that could be provided on the industry. We’d love to have future communication with Realize.

If you could 3D Print anything, what would that be?

The kid in me would love to create, print, and build a working R2D2 droid. My son, however, absolutely fell in love with your outdoor ukulele and was trying to convince me to try to make one of those.

June 10, 2014 Blog

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