Browsing Archive: August, 2010

Addicted to Dinosaurs

Posted by Trish Sloan on Thursday, August 12, 2010, In : What They Say 

 

All the way from New Zealand, Margy found out she had an addiction to dinosaurs! Her first experience was participating in the Dino Dig in 2007, now she's going great guns and completed her Honorary Technician Assessment with us.
Here's what she had to say...

I would never have imagined that I would enter the world of dinosaur digs and fossil preparation. I wouldn't want to arm wrestle a sauropod or try to outwit a theropod in the flesh, but such is the fascination that their bones have for...


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First 3D Digital Prints!

Posted by Brant Bassam on Wednesday, August 11, 2010, In : Digital Dinosaurs 

Yes, we finally turned the digital model of Australovenator's arm into a solid 3D printed reality!

Here I'm proudly holding our first 3D print of a full size
Australovenator arm model. The model is on display
in our museum and we show it during laboratory tours!


So how did we do this?, Turns out there are a number of ways to "print out" a digital model. You can carve it out of  solid block of material using a computer-numeric-controlled (CNC) "chisel" (basically a spinning router bit mounted on a...
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