The aim of this project is to design and fabricate a projected image photopolymer curing R&D platform. The system will use a Texas Instruments digital light projector (DLP) development system to project black and white ultraviolet (UV) light images onto a film of UV curable photopolymer in order to selectively cure/harden the polymer. Students will therefore design and construct a liquid resin spreading system, an optics system capable of transmitting and focusing a suitably powered UV light source, and the software needed to slice a 3D CAD model into the individual black and white images to be cured.

DLP Prototyping Machine

Project Name

DLP Prototyping System

Project Number

P11552

Track

Printing & Imaging Systems

Start Term

2010-2

End Term

2010-3

Faculty Guide

Dr. Denis Cormier

Faculty Consultant

Dr. Esterman (IE Department)

Primary Customer

Dr. Denis Cormier

Ronald Dalheim

Matthew DeRosa

Donald Gleason (Project Leader)

Aun Kei Hong

Steven Szklany

ME

ME

ISE

CE

ME

Project Readiness Package

Intellectual Property Considerations

Staffing Requirements

Team Values and Norms

MSD I Project Plan

Preliminary Work Breakdown Structure

Customer Needs

Engineering Specifications

House of Quality

Concept Generation

Concept Selection

Block Diagrams

Risk Assessment

System Design Pre-Read

System Design Review Presentation

Detailed Design Review Documents (SD I)

MSD II Project Plan

Testing

Bill of Materials

Detail Drawings (PDF Format)

Cad Model (STEP Format)

Software

Budget

Technical Conference Publication (SD II)

Poster Publication (SD II)

Managerial Design Review Presentation (SD II)

Images