delta22
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A friend contributed to the:
Reboot the Suit: Bring Back Neil Armstrongs Spacesuit
A community of backers around the world came together to help the Smithsonian conserve, digitize, and display Neil Armstrong's and Alan Shepard's spacesuits.
(still active) Kickstarter campaign launched by the Smithsonian Institution.
He asked me if I would 3D print scans of Neil Armstrong's glove.
The half scale glove is 6in tall and full scale is 12in.
My relatively thin hands were able to fit inside the full scale part.
Printed each glove in two parts. Filament deposition 3D printing process works best printing forms that start with a wide/thick base and get smaller/thinner as part goes up.
The inside of the gloves were also accurately scanned, and included a mounting collar at the wrist for joining to the rest of the spacesuit. So I split the model of the glove at this "wrist" point and that was the bottom of each printed part. Then bonded these two parts by painting with acetone and joining them.
It will take some sanding to reduce the layer banding created by the software and printer's difficulty matching the fine detail of the high-resolution scan.
The full scale glove is the heaviest and most detailed part I have printed so far at 17oz.
Small glove took about 3hrs to print and large glove about 30hrs.
Fun and cool, but not quick.
Reboot the Suit: Bring Back Neil Armstrongs Spacesuit
A community of backers around the world came together to help the Smithsonian conserve, digitize, and display Neil Armstrong's and Alan Shepard's spacesuits.
(still active) Kickstarter campaign launched by the Smithsonian Institution.
He asked me if I would 3D print scans of Neil Armstrong's glove.
The half scale glove is 6in tall and full scale is 12in.
My relatively thin hands were able to fit inside the full scale part.
Printed each glove in two parts. Filament deposition 3D printing process works best printing forms that start with a wide/thick base and get smaller/thinner as part goes up.
The inside of the gloves were also accurately scanned, and included a mounting collar at the wrist for joining to the rest of the spacesuit. So I split the model of the glove at this "wrist" point and that was the bottom of each printed part. Then bonded these two parts by painting with acetone and joining them.
It will take some sanding to reduce the layer banding created by the software and printer's difficulty matching the fine detail of the high-resolution scan.
The full scale glove is the heaviest and most detailed part I have printed so far at 17oz.
Small glove took about 3hrs to print and large glove about 30hrs.
Fun and cool, but not quick.