[Neuro] 3D Printing Brains!

[Tracy Jacobs]

Hi Kelly and everybody,

I just LOVE this idea!   Thanks for promoting it and making the wiki  
page Kelly.  What a great way to learn about 3-d printing.  The brain  
scan I have , and I do have one, is on film.  Do you think there is a  
way I could use it by scanning  it or something?

Mold-making is something I am good at.  So, if we get through making a  
3-d printed model, I can take it from there.  I'd be happy to teach  
everybody how to make a food safe silicone mold for chocolate.   
Silicone would be better than latex, because he's talking about  
putting six or eight  coats of latex on something, and each one has to  
set up, so it takes too long.  Silicone on the other hand, is a fast  
one step deal, and you can all try out the vaccuum degasser I happen  
to have (borrowed), which is really fun to use.

Tracy

On May 29, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Kelly wrote:

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> So I started reading through the instructibles article and unpacking
> ideas into a wiki page:
> https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/3D_Anatomical_Models
>
> I am not all that excited about the idea of making a mold and then
> pouring chocolate in it. I do like the idea of straight up 3d printing
> brain models. The expensive printed one in stop 5 is pretty:
> http://www.instructables.com/id/Edible-Chocolate-Brain-from-MRI-Scan/step5/3D-Printing/
>
> But the latex mould
> (http://www.instructables.com/id/Edible-Chocolate-Brain-from-MRI-Scan/step7/Latex-Mould/ 
> )
> does have interesting affordances. For instance, instead of printing
> the brain as a positive, I could print it as a negative, and then make
> the mould a positive, like a latex mask. (ahem, nsfw: www.maskon.com)
>
> I really want to make a model of my partially segmented brain:
> https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/uzKNkaBtZYXOYpO-10w8gdMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink
>
> As Tom pointed out, this would make an awesome latex mask.
>
> Anyway, what do other people want to do? I think just making little
> plastic brains sounds nice.
>
> Also, I am going to need to find a few people who know how to use the
> makerbots if we want to do our own printing rather than farming out to
> shapeways, etc.
>
> -Kelly
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