I want a Mathworks Polo Shirt

Myself and a few Others in the Physics Department would like a Mathworks or MATLAB polo shirt.

Can someone help me/us

[Ameer Hamza]

Your best bet is to contact the MATLAB sales by clicking the "contact us" on the top right of this webpage. Most of the people on MATLAB Answers are not affiliated with MATLAB, so asking us will be of little help.

[dpb]

Interesting thought! You would have thought TMW would have licensed the logo for the purpose already but seem to not have...

[Image Analyst]

I agree an online store would probably make a lot of sales. They've heard this suggestion many times before, but so far, nothing... ?? I'll mention it to them again. You can too - just call sales and suggest it.

[Kevin Joshi]

Indeed, an official MATLAB merchandise store will be a great hit...!!!

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

If you have a 3-D printer you can print your own logos.

We just bought an Ender 5 printer. (https://creality3d.shop/collections/ender-series-3d-printer/products/creality3d-ender-5-plus-3d-printer)

We tried to print the MATLAB logo in 3-D in PLA plastic from Ned Gulley’s blog.

https://blogs.mathworks.com/community/2013/06/20/paul-prints-the-l-shaped-membrane/

Ned's print didn't work because one corner part of the logo starts on a really small point and goes out (expands) from there and that just couldn't happen - the printer just put out a curly blob there. So we got a different MATLAB peaks logo print file off the internet that had a solid base and printed that. It came out perfect. Right now we just have turquoise and white filament but perhaps I’ll get some orange to make it look genuine. We can scale the size to whatever size we want. This one is 2 inches (50 mm) square.

[Adam Danz]

Nicely done!

That would make a great keychain at a smaller size.

[Image Analyst]

Kind of lumpy but there probably are flat logo renditions that would make a good keychain. Actually I may make another one and put an eyescrew and loop onto it and use it as a Christmas ornament. Won't my wife be thrilled?! She already rolls her eyes that we drive over to MicroCenter almost every day to pick up computer and printing goodies.

[madhan ravi]

That’s pretty cool! Was the dimensions fed in by a CAD or by MATLAB? If the latter it would be pretty dope.

[Image Analyst]

Well actually my son did it. I used Ned's code to make an STL file but then it didn't work so well so we got a different STL file. If you want to alter the STL file, such as to change the size of the print, then you bring it into some kind of CAD/modeling program. We used https://www.tinkercad.com - a free online cad program.

Then you need to bring the STL file into a "slicer" program that looks at the STL file and figures out where it needs to insert supports, because you can't have something overhanging is there is nothing underneath it. So it may need to make some supports that you later cut away. For this one, it basically created some sort of triangular lattice inside to give it strength and structure I guess. You also tell the slicer program the material you're using, the bed temperature, and the nozzle temperature. Then you put the binary file the slicer program makes onto the computer box of the printer and tell it to print it. This one took about 3 hours to print.

[madhan ravi]

Thank you sir, it is interesting indeed!