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NIH3D

Customizable Square Array of Cylinders

Generated by NIH 3D workflows using data provided by
jpearce
Created:
10/27/15
Submitted:
10/5/26
Published:
10/5/26

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3DPX-002094

Licensing:

GNU GPLv3
288
11
Version 3

Category

Hardware & Devices
Devices and Hardware
Description

Summary

This is a quick customizable way to make an array of columns of any size and with any size columns.

This little design is a great example of the beauty and power of OpenSCAD as it has lots of uses -- everything from setting up a 3-D printable plinko game to using them to make holes in your Buckner funnel (which I will post in a moment) to illustrating the geometry of your semiconductor nanocolumn array to optimize their optical properties for solar photovoltaic applications (see for example InGaN nanocolumn paper

By the [Michigan Tech's Open Sustainability Technology Research Group](http://www.mse.mtu.edu/MOST).

For similar see the Open-Source Lab How to Build Your Own Hardware and Reduce Research Costs