Learn how to create a shadow puppet; and you could win a prize! Author: Allison Peters Updated: 12:00 AM EDT May 1, 2021
HARTFORD, Conn. This month s art lesson will teach you how to create a Shadow Puppet. Local Theater Artist Noah Todd walks you through how to create a simple shadow puppet and then a more complex version for anyone wanting to challenge themselves. To create your puppet you will need paper, something to draw with, something to cut with, tape and a control rod which can be a pencil, popsicle stick or sculpting wire.and of course your imagination.
Enjoy exploring your creativity and when you are done, take a picture of your puppet in action and you can enter it into this month s contest and possibly win a master class with Noah Todd and $100 gift card to Michael s Arts & Crafts.
Updated: 7:00 AM EDT April 30, 2021
Calling all students! Enter a photo of your art for the chance to win a Master Class with this month s artist Noah Todd and a $100 gift card to Michaels Arts & Crafts.
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Engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) have created a morphing nozzle that provides a new way of controlling fibre alignment during 3D printing.
The morphing nozzle in action, 3D printing fiber-filled composite materials with on-demand control of fiber alignment for 4D printing (Image: UMD)
Fibre-filled composites are made up of short fibres that can enhance properties such as part strength or electrical conductivity. The challenge is that these properties are based on the orientations of the short fibres, which has been difficult to control during the 3D printing process.
“When 3D printing with the morphing nozzle, the power lies on their side actuators, which can be inflated like a balloon to change the shape of the nozzle, and in turn, the orientations of the fibres,” said Ryan Sochol, an assistant professor in mechanical engineering and director of the Bioinspired Advanced Manufacturing (BAM) Laborato
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The morphing nozzle in action, 3D printing fibre-filled composite materials with on-demand control of fibre alignment (Credit: University of Maryland) A new shape-changing 3D printer nozzle could enable complex new creations with unique material properties, its creators have said.
Engineers at the University of Maryland (UMD) created the ‘morphing’ nozzle, which offers new ways of printing fibre-filled composites. The materials are made of short fibres that boost properties over conventional printed parts, such as enhanced strength or electrical conductivity.
The challenge, the researchers said, is that these properties are based on the orientations of the short fibres – something that was previously difficult to control during the printing process.