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--- projects [2023/11/13 21:16] – [Aug 2023 | Aluminum Magnet Array] colin
+++ projects [2025/03/12 19:57] (current) – [July 2024 | UCSB Summer Research Academy - Bionic Creatures] bdincau
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 This page is a continual work in progress -- a place for us to document our past and ongoing projects.
+==== July 2024 | UCSB Summer Research Academy - Bionic Creatures ====
+The UCSB Summer Research Academy is dynamic summer experience that engages qualified high school students in project-based, directed research in STEM, Humanities, and Social Sciences fields.
+This summer, Ph.D. student Anna Alvarez in Mechanical Engineering leads a course called Bionic Creatures, where students form hypotheses about the evolutionary adaptations of organisms and build experiments to test those hypotheses.
+The Innovation Workshop and its staff have helped facilitate this course by providing extensive tools, training, and supervision for these students to safely build and conduct their experiments.
+==== Winter-Spring 2024 | Crystalmark + Sherline = Custom CNC Airjet Cutter ====
+In the Summer of 2022, the Innovation Workshop acquired a CrystalMark abrasion etcher secondhand from a dentist downtown. Over the next 1.5 year, the Workshop Wizards have made iterative modifications and additions to the tool. These include mounting the handheld tool to a Sherline CNC Z-Axis, creating a vacuum stage to hold wafers and glass slides, replacing the manual food pedal with relay controlled by g-code, and extensive feed and cut rate testing.
+This is a truly one-of-a-kind tool capable of cutting arbitrary contours in brittle substrates such as silicon and glass much faster than traditional cleanroom techniques. (add pics and/or videos of tool cutting)
+{{ :cutting_video.mp4 |}}
+==== November 2023 | Deep Sea Release Prototyping ====
+We were commissioned by Talia Evans, a postdoc in Professor Moran Raven's Lab, to help design an affordable and reliable release mechanism for deep-sea experiments. The prototype was made primarily from aluminum and acrylic, with a long-term goal of manufacturing all components in 316L Stainless Steel using the waterjet cutter. \\
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 ==== Oct 2023 | Stained Glass Workshop ====
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 ==== Aug 2023 | Halbach Ring====
-This Halbach Ring was CNC'd and waterjet cut for the Physics Department. It's designed to fixture magnets in
+This Halbach Ring was created for the Physics Department. Halbach rings fixture magnets
-to create a magnetic field in one direction.
+to create a magnetic field in one direction. It was made by CNC and waterjet cutting aluminum into rings, inserting permanent magnets, and then bolting the rings together.
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 ====Cool 3D Prints====
-We use a variety of 3D printers in the Innovation Workshop and the Microfluidics Lab. These include the Ultimaker and Stratasys F270 FDM printers, Form 3 SLA printers, and an Objet 30 Polyjet printer. Here are example projects:
+We use a variety of 3D printers in our Elings 3430 lab. These include the Ultimaker and Stratasys F270 FDM printers, Form 3 SLA printers, and an Objet 30 Polyjet printer. Here are example projects:
 {{::form3_capstone_spinal_implant_1.jpg?direct&200|Cured Form 3 print of a Spinal Implant}}