Explore the journey of Digital Knowledge Center fellows through their personal reflections and documentation of their fellowship projects.
Most Recent Fellows Posts
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Significant Progress: 3D Molecular Representations
Where we left off… Hello again to those reading the blog. It has been a complete struggle with the multi extruder going from issues galore to straight up malfunctioning. Point being I have made basically no progress with the multi extruder, and I plan to try my best to get something over the next few weeks. Regardless, to keep moving forward I have been mostly working with CAD to figure out a good way to interconnect multi-subunit structures. I have already printed one of the designs and I feel pretty good about how it came out. First off check out…
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Andrew’s Video Essay (I have lost track of time)
The creative block is here. I really talk about “blocks” in creativity when it comes to reading or writing. I cannot finish a book or I cannot finish writing a piece. Those feelings are valid and true even when you are the only one stopping yourself. The new frontier, for me, is combining both the feelings of art and research. Well, I have hit the researcher’s block. There is a little site on the internet called the Internet Archive. I highly encourage everyone to at least see the library of what they offer. Earlier in the month, someone launched a…
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Shifting Goals: 3D Molecular Representations
Hello everyone, this is my fourth blog post that outlines updates on my 3D molecular representations project. This one might be shorter than previous posts, but there are a few things that I need to address. Firstly, the soluble support that I was using previously (Polydissolve S1 from Polymaker, PVA Filament) went bad and I am currently waiting for the new filament to come in. I was not aware that I needed to keep this filament in a very dry environment, and it seems the filament absorbed too much moisture and became extremely flimsy. This seems to be the reason…
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Evelynestallation Blog Post 6!
Hello, friends! This was a huge week for the project- Cartland and I installed the lights on Saturday, October 19! We completely changed the plan while doing the installation because Cartland realized the lights fit perfectly within little grooves in the wall the media wall is mounted on. It’s going to look so cool! I also coded a loop that cycles for the day and one that cycles through the night. I’ll add my code to the bottom of this post! I had a few difficulties with the amount of voltage going into the lights, so I adjusted the code…
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Third Steps: 3D Molecular Representations
Good evening, everyone, I am back once again with another update on my “3D Molecular Representations” project. Since my last post I have been working in CAD and trying my hardest to get this MMU printer to work. In this blog post I will mostly be talking about what I have been up to in CAD as I did not make much progress on fixing the printer issues. Also, the image above shows the print that was running in my last blog post. I personally think the white appears to have a pinkish shade to it as a result of…