OXFORD STUDENT
WINS STRATASYS
SCHOLARSHIP
STUDENT WINS FREE Stratasys
FDM 3D Printer for The University
of Oxford for a year, exposing
more students to cutting-edge
technology that will boost their
learning and research
PhD student, Daniel Fahy, has
won rst place in Stratasys’ annual
Extreme Redesign Challenge
Awards. Fahy took rst place in
the ‘Art, Jewelry and Architecture’
category winning a $2,500
scholarship, a free Stratasys FDM
3D Printer for his university for a
year and a printout of his winning
design.
Fahy is currently completing
his DPhil in Engineering Science at
the University of Oxford. Having
previously won the same category
in 2017, for this year’s competition
he leveraged his extensive
knowledge of engineering and
past experiences
with 3D printing
to recreate a fond
childhood memory
– a Hoberman Sphere – from
scratch within just a few weeks.
Fahy, comments: “I feel
privileged to have won this
competition. The main reason I
entered was because it allowed
me to be creative and explore my
passion for engineering and design
via a project of my own. While
the Extreme Redesign Challenge
provides guidelines, 3D printing
gives you the design freedom to
bring ideas to life that I previously
thought not possible. This can be
liberating, but also challenging.
“I’m particularly delighted to
have won a Stratasys FDM 3D
printer for our university for the
coming year,” he adds. “Having
utilized 3D printing throughout
the latter years of my education,
I believe all students should have
access to this technology. Not only
helping to bring out creativity in
design, but also showing students
how they can turn their ideas
into physical products in ways
traditional engineering methods
don’t allow. This is very important
for those pursuing engineering
careers in the future.”
The Extreme Redesign Awards,
hosted by GrabCAD and Stratasys,
invite students globally from
secondary to tertiary education,
to either redesign an existing piece
of art, jewellery or architecture, or
create an entirely new one.
EV motors take the strain INNOVATIVE ELECTRIC MOTORS
developed by Protean Electric for
next-generation electric cars have
been adopted in a newly deployed
technology that revolutionises the
safety of lifting loads by crane. The
wireless load controlling system,
developed by Australian-based
Roborigger, allows workers to rotate
and stabilise the crane loads with a
remote control, eliminating the need
for them to be in the vicinity of lifted
loads. The technology is being rolled
out to construction and oil and gas
companies, as well as to ports and
logistics operators globally.
control system that enables precisely
commercialised. The Pd18 is an
Roborigger worked with
calibrated articulation of the loads.
‘in-wheel motor’ designed to be
Protean Electric to incorporate its
Protean Electric’s ProteanDrive
deployed in the wheel hub, rather
ProteanDrive Pd18 electric motor
Pd18 is a permanent-magnet
than inboard where power units for
into its load controlling system.
synchronous motor packaged with
most EVs are currently packaged. It
The Pd18 is a lightweight, compact,
an integrated inverter in a single
is being evaluated by several vehicle
integrated synchronous motor and
unit. Following extensive internal
manufacturers for next generation
inverter package that provides a high
development and numerous global
vehicle applications in passenger
torque output – ideal for supporting
customer durability programmes,
car, light commercial vehicles and
heavy loads – and a high-speed
ProteanDrive is now being fully
autonomous urban mobility pods.
NEWS | EUREKA!
PPARIRNATGSO N 5S,H0I0E0L DFASC E FOR NHS
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
SUPPORT
company Paragon Rapid
Technologies, with assistance from
3D printing technology innovators,
RPS has completed 5,000 face
shields for hospitals in the North
East.
Paragon’s Additive
Manufacturing division has been
operating around the clock since
24 March to 3D print PPE face
shields for NHS sta in North East
hospitals. With the assistance of
3D printing technology innovators
RPS; global science company DSM
who provided 40kg of free SLA
resin; and digital manufacturing
entrepreneurs Carbon, who
supplied CAD and technical
support, the 5000th headpiece was
packed up and dispatched.
The headpiece represented
the last in an initial order of 5000
destined for hospitals across the
North East of England. “I am so
proud of our team,” says Neil Cook,
Paragon’s Managing Director.
“They have worked around the
clock, across shifts they wouldn’t
ordinarily have worked, and
foregone holidays and weekends
to get these vital PPE face shields
completed and shipped.”
The headpieces were printed on
two di erent types of 3D printing
technologies. “We printed 1500
headpieces using our Carbon M2
Digital Light Synthesis printers,”
continues Neil. “The remainder
of the order was printed on
our three large bed NEO800
stereolithography (SLA) printers.”
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