Rapid Prototyping

It's just want it sounds like. Make stuff fast.

I took a class in college on rapid prototyping. It was fun.

I designed a snowflake in CAD (computer aided design) and then we printed a model of it on the 3D printing machine.

Our machine was like a typical inkjet printer but the paper was a fine powder, the ink was glue and it printed in an extra dimension. Eat that HP.

Then we cast the part in Silicone RTV to make a mold. After we had the mold, we made snowflake Christmas ornaments for all of our friends.