I+-+Suite130+-+3D+Printing+Classroom+Projects

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NEIT 2015 3-D Printing for the Classroom

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 * How do you print a meaningful project with a large group of kids? When do you print, what do you print, etc?
 * Is it better to use the 3-d printer than regular art materials? What is the value in using the 3-d printer?
 * Do kids use the printers? Do they calibrate them? Who repairs them?
 * Using the 3-D printer with younger kids - what kind of projects do you do with them?

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 * Cookie cutter project suggestion inspired by Browning. Kindergarten and 3rd grade buddies collaborated to design and then print on the 3-D printer. Used an app called inkpad to make a vector version of the drawing.

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 * 4th grade project - studying dams and electricity. Built a model river out of clay and then designed their own water dams, printed them out with the 3-d printer and tested them.

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 * Used extracurricularly sometimes more than for the entire classroom - finding time to print in a quiet space or so it doesn’t interrupt is a big challenge. Challenged them to design a solution to a problem that the school is facing: boxes for whiteboard pens, hooks for headphones. Did a walk through of the school, identifying needs and problems and looking for ways that 3-d design and printing could help solve.

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 * Designed a curriculum for 3-d printing over the summer, designed a 2-d project first in class and printed it, then the 2nd project is for designing a way to hold more than one pencil off of the table. Limited them to not use community shapes or symbols in Tinkercad. Needs to be a unique and aesthetically pleasing design. Pushes back against really basic design ideas, and to create a textural design. Gives certain size dimensions.

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 * Created a google form where students submit their requests, can only print things that they originally created themselves without using others’ designs.

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 * 3rd project, design a tool of some sort that will help make something easier in life or around the school. Not graded on functionality, more on the thought that it takes to go through the process.

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 * 3-d printers were donated to the school, made a class called “3-D Design,” not “3-D printing” Sets up all their prints to print overnight (5-7 printers). Challenged in US to design a bumper for doors and doorknobs so that they don’t slam into things. Designed bookbag hooks. Has to be something that serves a function. With the 6th graders, their first project is a keychain where they punch a pattern out of the circle. You can print many of these at a time. US students are helping LS students to design a water filtration system, all of the parts will be 3-D printed. Calling it a 3-D printer feels like a misnomer, because there is such a process involved. Printed colorful translucent tiles with a connecting piece to decorate a wall that was dreary. Needed to 3-d print the template to hold the piece into, the jig, so that drilling would be possible.

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 * Lanterns printed from 3-d printer and then programmed with LEDs

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 * Students partnered with a website called Enable ( [|__http://enablingthefuture.org/__)] took measurements of the hands and created prosthetics for 3 different children
 * Less practical and hands-on engineering involved

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 * Creating wooden dragsters and printing 3-d wheels that students designed and printed. Created a very large 3-d printed wheel that served as the “trophy” for winning the dragster race. Thoughts about creating a 3-d printed mobile to donate to a hospital.

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 * Extreme redesign challenge: [|__http://www.stratasys.com/industries/education/extreme-redesign__]

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 * Tinkercad woes, signing up kids under 13, using AutoCAD accounts instead, which don’t ask for parent permission

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 * MS Students don’t have access to actually calibrating or printing on the 3-D printer, but they can watch it print and view successes and failures

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 * Spool holders: 3-d printed, cardboard, wood, metal usually feeds too fast
 * Different 3-D printers:
 * Makerbot Rep 2s
 * FormLabs
 * Cubes
 * Cubify Scanner and Makerbot Scanner?

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 * Integrated 3-d printing with a study of rotational symmetry by designing and printing ornaments with 7th grade. Insisting on using correct vocabulary for the terminology.

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 * 3-D Heights in Washington Heights - 3-d printing shop

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 * Extracurricular project: Alphabet Puzzle - focused on simple forms that would not break. Used French scrabble frequency of letters to print the blocks. Needed to design an indentation so that the letters would fit together

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 * Created class accounts for LS students. It’s against Tinkercad terms of service to use shared accounts, just to keep in mind.
 * Chess pawn in TinkerCAD is very helpful and as a lesson to teach particular skills