Jacobs School of
Engineering undergraduate student Alistair Twombly was demo’ing Sebastion,
the UC San Diego human powered submarine last night at the Jacobs School’s Corporate
Affiliates Program board meeting. This project is part of the UC San Diego
chapter of ASME.
During the course of our
conversation, Twombly, who is a second-year aerospace engineering major, showed off the palm-sized prototype of the dolphin-tail propulsion
system the team is developing for the next iteration of the human-powered sub. (see photo below)
The plan is to get the propulsion system designed, built and installed in a human-powered submarine in time for the international submarine races competition in June 2015. He printed his dolphin-tail propulsion prototype using his RepRap 3D printer which he assembled himself.
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| Overhead view of the prototype of the dolphin-tail propulsion system |
The plan is to get the propulsion system designed, built and installed in a human-powered submarine in time for the international submarine races competition in June 2015. He printed his dolphin-tail propulsion prototype using his RepRap 3D printer which he assembled himself.
If you haven’t heard of
RepRap, it’s pretty cool…the idea is that it’s a self-replicating manufacturing
machine.
Photos of Twombly’s RepRap
prusa mendel iteration 2 are below. “The build instructions are all
open source and hosted at reprap.org which in general works as a hub for the whole reprap community,” Twombly wrote in an email.
open source and hosted at reprap.org which in general works as a hub for the whole reprap community,” Twombly wrote in an email.
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