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Common Stages of Making : 1
• Should I make or not make ?
• What all I need ?
• Where all I can get all these CHEAP
• I don't have budget
• Okay, I some how manage to get most of
things, Let's start
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Common Stages of Making : 2
• Things are not fitting
• I don't have that tool, let me borrow it from
Foo
• Ohh … I brake tool ! :(
• I m running short of this material
• It's assembled !
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Common Stages of Making : 3
• Power is not coming, Battery Short circuit or
adapter gone :(
• It's powered on but not responding
• Ohh finally, connected !
• Sensor is giving some data but that is out of
expected range
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Common Stages of Making : 4
• Ohh snap, That's wrong connection !
• Now section A is working but B not
• Now B working but A stop responding
• Shall I give up ?
• Shall I consult Expert !
• Let me search online
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Common Stages of Making : 5
• Let me give it another try! Let's review
connections
• Found issue, need to open it and reassembly it
:(
• I'm not able to open, I had fixed too hard
• I damage Part X while opening, let me get it
again
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Common Stages of Making : 6
• Finally, I'm restarting clean
• This time Section A & B are working out of box
but not together
• Let me debug it !
• Firmware was wrong
• Let me fix it and update firmware !
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Characteristics of Good Maker
• A Good maker has more failures than success
• Patience
• He knows that procedure is never as explained
on most of websites
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Typical learning while making
• Patience; should not give up
• Things will fail and take more time
• Supplier and tool quality matters a lot
• Team spirit
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Typical mistakes by Makers
• Short Time Line : 1 Day / 2 Day
• Don't make design on paper/CAD
• Short Budget, To much focus on low-cost
• Avoids professional cutting, soldering,
prototyping service
• Mostly not focused on aesthetics
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3D Printing
• Process of making solid object from digital
design
• Laying down one layer of material at time and
doing it repetitively
• Also called “Additive manufacturing”
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3D Printing & Maker Spirit
• Most low-end 3D Printing were DIY
• Based on Open Source Design
• 3D Printing was triggered by desire to “make
something in house, right now, by myself, at
affordable cost” attitude
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Learning while making 3D Printer
• Initially, Newly assembled 3D Printer may not
work as expected, have plenty of failed 3D
prints even if have minor assembly /
calibration mistake.
