I want a Mathworks Polo Shirt
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Myself and a few Others in the Physics Department would like a Mathworks or MATLAB polo shirt.
Can someone help me/us
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Image Analyst
on 8 Mar 2020
I agree an online store would probably make a lot of sales. They've heard this suggestion many times before, but so far, nothing... ?? I'll mention it to them again. You can too - just call sales and suggest it.
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Image Analyst
on 6 Jul 2020
If you have a 3-D printer you can print your own logos.
We just bought an Ender 5 printer. (https://creality3d.shop/collections/ender-series-3d-printer/products/creality3d-ender-5-plus-3d-printer)
We tried to print the MATLAB logo in 3-D in PLA plastic from Ned Gulley’s blog.
Ned's print didn't work because one corner part of the logo starts on a really small point and goes out (expands) from there and that just couldn't happen - the printer just put out a curly blob there. So we got a different MATLAB peaks logo print file off the internet that had a solid base and printed that. It came out perfect. Right now we just have turquoise and white filament but perhaps I’ll get some orange to make it look genuine. We can scale the size to whatever size we want. This one is 2 inches (50 mm) square.
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Image Analyst
on 6 Jul 2020
Well actually my son did it. I used Ned's code to make an STL file but then it didn't work so well so we got a different STL file. If you want to alter the STL file, such as to change the size of the print, then you bring it into some kind of CAD/modeling program. We used https://www.tinkercad.com - a free online cad program.
Then you need to bring the STL file into a "slicer" program that looks at the STL file and figures out where it needs to insert supports, because you can't have something overhanging is there is nothing underneath it. So it may need to make some supports that you later cut away. For this one, it basically created some sort of triangular lattice inside to give it strength and structure I guess. You also tell the slicer program the material you're using, the bed temperature, and the nozzle temperature. Then you put the binary file the slicer program makes onto the computer box of the printer and tell it to print it. This one took about 3 hours to print.
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