Post by sgraber on Nov 24, 2014 15:06:25 GMT -5
Hi, my name is Shane Graber and I've been with the group for just a little over two years now when the group initially started in Goshen, IN.
I have a B.A. in Chemistry and work as a Research Scientist for Serim Research in Elkhart, IN, where we design, develop, and manufacture medical diagnostic point-of-care test strips. I have worked here for ~5 years and prior to that I worked a year stint at Abbott Nutrition in Sturgis, MI as a 3rd shift QA Chemist where I ran various FDA-required analyses to ensure the products we produced complied with FDA regulations for infant formula and medical nutritionals. Before that, I worked 15 years as a Research Chemist at Sauder Woodworking in Archbold, OH, where I focused almost exclusively on designing, developing, and implementing ultraviolet and electron beam curable coatings, adhesives, and wood fillers for furniture and paper applications.
I've been making things all my life. Even as a little kid, I remember taking things apart to see how they work. I distinctly remember finding an old vacuum tube TV in an abandoned house across the street from where I grew up and loved dissecting it. I know I got the bug from my Dad as I remember him making a two-story play fort for us and just "doing it." I asked him how he knew how to build it and he said he just "knew." I wanted to be able to do that, and I guess I have.
I got into 3D Printing in ~2010 with a Makerbot Cupcake. Since then I have built a Prusa i3, designed my own Graber i3, built a LittleRP, and ripped the guts out of my Makerbot Cupcake to build a Cerberus PUP 170 delta printer. My Prusa i3 will possibly soon be printing parts to replace itself with a RichRap Sli3dr that's based on high-tensile fishing line and a unique pen plotter XY movement path. I actively blogged about 3D printing and its uses for the aquarium hobby over on Advanced Aquarist, a website that I co-own with two other individuals for saltwater aquarium hobbyists that gets ~3-4 million pageviews/month.
I also hang out on irc.freenode.net in the #reprap and #dlp3dprinting channels under the nick 'sgraber'. Since I have a UV formulating background, I also work with Josh Ellis at MakerJuice Labs on UV stereolithographic formulations for UV resin printers. UV stereolithographic resins aren't so much different than UV coatings and a lot of what I know about UV formulating directly translates over to UV resins.
I've recently started learning C++ and Arduino and have built a number of projects with them, with the latest one being a coin flipping mechanism that our team used at Startup Weekend for our CoinBot.
I've also recently purchased a Sieg X2 mini-mill (Harbor Freight) and a cheap K40 desktop laser cutter from Ebay, which I will eventually put to good use. My plan is to CNC'ify the X2 and mod the K40 to make it more user friendly and safe.
I enjoy the camaraderie of the Makerhive and try to be there every Thursday night if possible.
I have a B.A. in Chemistry and work as a Research Scientist for Serim Research in Elkhart, IN, where we design, develop, and manufacture medical diagnostic point-of-care test strips. I have worked here for ~5 years and prior to that I worked a year stint at Abbott Nutrition in Sturgis, MI as a 3rd shift QA Chemist where I ran various FDA-required analyses to ensure the products we produced complied with FDA regulations for infant formula and medical nutritionals. Before that, I worked 15 years as a Research Chemist at Sauder Woodworking in Archbold, OH, where I focused almost exclusively on designing, developing, and implementing ultraviolet and electron beam curable coatings, adhesives, and wood fillers for furniture and paper applications.
I've been making things all my life. Even as a little kid, I remember taking things apart to see how they work. I distinctly remember finding an old vacuum tube TV in an abandoned house across the street from where I grew up and loved dissecting it. I know I got the bug from my Dad as I remember him making a two-story play fort for us and just "doing it." I asked him how he knew how to build it and he said he just "knew." I wanted to be able to do that, and I guess I have.
I got into 3D Printing in ~2010 with a Makerbot Cupcake. Since then I have built a Prusa i3, designed my own Graber i3, built a LittleRP, and ripped the guts out of my Makerbot Cupcake to build a Cerberus PUP 170 delta printer. My Prusa i3 will possibly soon be printing parts to replace itself with a RichRap Sli3dr that's based on high-tensile fishing line and a unique pen plotter XY movement path. I actively blogged about 3D printing and its uses for the aquarium hobby over on Advanced Aquarist, a website that I co-own with two other individuals for saltwater aquarium hobbyists that gets ~3-4 million pageviews/month.
I also hang out on irc.freenode.net in the #reprap and #dlp3dprinting channels under the nick 'sgraber'. Since I have a UV formulating background, I also work with Josh Ellis at MakerJuice Labs on UV stereolithographic formulations for UV resin printers. UV stereolithographic resins aren't so much different than UV coatings and a lot of what I know about UV formulating directly translates over to UV resins.
I've recently started learning C++ and Arduino and have built a number of projects with them, with the latest one being a coin flipping mechanism that our team used at Startup Weekend for our CoinBot.
I've also recently purchased a Sieg X2 mini-mill (Harbor Freight) and a cheap K40 desktop laser cutter from Ebay, which I will eventually put to good use. My plan is to CNC'ify the X2 and mod the K40 to make it more user friendly and safe.
I enjoy the camaraderie of the Makerhive and try to be there every Thursday night if possible.