Introduction to 3D Printers: The Promise and Pitfalls of Desktop Manufac...

This is a great video 3D printing simplified!

Did the inventor bug bite you?

The first step with any ailment is proper diagnosis.  The following symptoms have been identified:

Sleep loss

Loss of hunger (yet you continue to gain weight)

  

Traffic has become your favorite place because it offers you quite time to think

You have had your second accident in traffic because you were thinking 

Your close friends have become spies…all of them

Your spouse is your greatest advocate 

Your spouse is your greatest critic

You suddenly read 

Your Google skills have surpassed your teenager (but still have no idea how to text) 

You downloaded the self-recording app to your new smart phone (hey these ideas hit at any given moment)

You have enrolled at the local cell phone stores “Smart Phone 101”

You have learned a second language = rapid prototyping, additive manufacturing, SLA, DMLS, NDA, NC, and many others that only you and your recorder know the meaning (see item 5) 

You have an idea book (it was your daughters’ diary, but she only uses her smart phone now)

So what now?  You have it, what is the next step?   

This is the first installment of the "Inventors Guide" we will

cover the following areas:

The invention process

Research

Life cycle

Patent

Prototype

Funding (traditional, non-traditional, crowd sourced)

Build it or sell it

Manufacturing

Marketing your idea

Rinse and repeat 

(keep adding in the comments below, share with your inventor friend so you can really drive number 5 home )

 

USP Class 6 medical grade fish tank!

3D SLA Fish tank... Yes the fish are real, no we didn't pint them

Dinsmore & Associates Inc. 

    The task of displaying the capabilities of a new product can be: exciting, challenging, and painful.  Exiting because who doesn't love a good old fashion "white board" idea session.  Challenging because now you have to figure out how to make that idea a reality. Painful because you want me to create what? A fish tank with a 3D printer!
     Here at Dinsmore & Associates Inc. we wanted to test one of our newest resins Somos® BioClear, "a stereolithography material that produces the clearest parts with the security of ISO 10993-5, ISO 10993-10, USP Class VI certifications and tracking & tracing of original suppliers"(DSM.com). Medical device engineers can create cost effective cutting guides that will improve healing times, and lessen the need for repeat surgery.
  Rapid prototyping technology continues to change the face of manufacturing possibilities.  As more R&D is devoted to resin development, new amazing procedures will be developed.  It will be only a matter of time before we start printing 3D fish.

Our first official blog!

        I dont know if I would call this first post a blog.  Perhaps it would be safer to think of this as the first step into new technology.  Well maybe not new technology for you, but certainly it is new for us at Dinsmore & Associates.   So who are we?
You can read about us on our page at: http://www.dinsmoreinc.com/about-us/

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