Meet Trevor! 2020 East Central Intern.
My name is Trevor
Colaneri and I am in the start of my second year in the Public History MA
program at UCF as well as being a current teacher for OCPS as a 6th grade World
History and 7th grade Civics teacher.
My internship with the
East Central FPAN office focuses on the comparison of the two most popular 3D
printing methods being FDM plastic printing and SLA resin printing. The project
consists of the creation of five 3D models using low-cost photogrammetry as
well as their subsequent printing and preparation. I will print and prepare
those artifacts printed on the resin printer while Emma will print
those same models on FPAN’s FDM printer where then both sets of prints can be
compared on their replication abilities. The culmination of this project with
FPAN will be the presentation of a co-authored paper on our findings at the
Society for Historical Archaeology 2021 conference.
FDM printing has, for
the past few years, been the most common, cheapest, and readily available 3D
printing method that is available recreationally and commercially. However, in
the past 2-3 years resin printers have started to become more widely available
recreationally while also becoming more economically feasible. Resin SLA
printers excel in small objects with a lot of detail but generally struggle
with larger objects for a variety of reason with the most important being the
print bed’s size. FDM printers generally counter by being able to print much
larger objects with the struggle of small detailed oriented objects.
The goal of this
internship is to compare these two affordable printing methods using a small
collection of artifacts and compare the results to evaluate any notable
differences between the two as well as the printing process associated with
each.
The skills I hope to
gain from the internship would be the creation of 3D models using
photogrammetry as well as developing and continuing my practice and
understanding of 3D printing. These skills directly relate to my thesis and
will assist me greatly in learning the process of photogrammetry, metashape,
and printing which will save me time later on during the actual project portion
for my thesis.