{"id":1970,"date":"2013-11-22T09:13:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-22T17:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wri3d.com\/main\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2014-03-12T22:48:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T05:48:41","slug":"practical-applications-for-the-afinia-h479-and-arduino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/?p=1970","title":{"rendered":"Practical Applications for the Afinia H479 and Arduino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I helped a student build a device known as an electrospinner. \u00a0The purpose of this device is to make nanofibers. \u00a0Nanofibers are just very small threads. \u00a0Now what do I mean by &#8220;very small&#8221;? \u00a0By very small, I mean that compared to a human hair the diameter of these nanofibers are about 250 times smaller. \u00a0Which means that if we took the hair and somehow made it hollow that we could stuff almost 50,000 of these fibers into the hair!! \u00a0That&#8217;s crazy small!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s a video of the first test of the device. \u00a0You can definitely tell that he&#8217;s quite excited that it worked.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eQXAzZqXNRA\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Here&#8217;s a video of the fibers that come out:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ensRTrUu7Vc\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Here is more video of the machine running.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0NCied8iMus\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of images of the fibers that were made. \u00a0The first image is with a slow spinning drum \u00a0while the second one is with the drum spinning at about 2000rpm (or about 5 meters per second at the edge of the drum). \u00a0You will notice that the fibers in the second image are lined up while those in the first image look like silly string. \u00a0That&#8217;s because the drum is collecting the fibers much more quickly in the second image and spooling them up on the drum. \u00a0Cool!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1972\" alt=\"Sample_7w_20130920\" src=\"https:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sample_7w_20130920-500x421.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sample_7w_20130920-500x421.jpg 500w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sample_7w_20130920-800x675.jpg 800w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Sample_7w_20130920.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1971\" alt=\"PEG fibers 2000rpm (10000x Mag SEM)\" src=\"https:\/\/ttinvent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2.0k_rpm_10kx_20130927-500x421.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2.0k_rpm_10kx_20130927-500x421.jpg 500w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2.0k_rpm_10kx_20130927-273x230.jpg 273w, http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/2.0k_rpm_10kx_20130927.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So when you start using 3D printing to build things and the Arduino platform to animate them, you are only a few steps away from being the next Einstein or Edison or Tesla!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I helped a student build a device known as an electrospinner. \u00a0The purpose of this device is to make nanofibers. \u00a0Nanofibers are just very small threads. \u00a0Now what do I mean by &#8220;very small&#8221;? \u00a0By very small, I mean &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/?p=1970\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Practical Applications for the Afinia H479 and Arduino<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[101,564,582],"tags":[143],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9PzL0-vM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2563,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developinginnovators.com\/education\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}