The Destiny 2 knife was started an hour ago. You can check it out live at this link!
Estimated completion is about 9PM, at which point we’ll post a picture of how it looks on the printer.
The Destiny 2 knife was started an hour ago. You can check it out live at this link!
Estimated completion is about 9PM, at which point we’ll post a picture of how it looks on the printer.
Wow, what an exciting class! Great job to Luke, Eldin, Ezra, Pierce, and Jackson for getting your homework in during the week. You all found some really cool stuff!
Here is a summary of the prints everyone selected, sliced, and uploaded! Jackson and I will be doing our homework to try to get as many prints as completed as possible this week. Stay tuned to this web site, as we’ll be posting progress, along with an update when prints are started and a link you can use to watch the print happen live! Our plan is to start with #1 for everyone, then try #2, then #3, and so on. Hoping we are able to get through as many as 25 prints this week!!!!!
Congrats to the 5 students who have completed their first quest in their new quest line – Introduction to 3d Printing! We had a great time, fun discussions, and I can sense the excitement, wonder, and creativity building in the students! Here is the Keynote presentation that we talked through, sprinkled in with some field trips to the garage to check on an ongoing print, and lots of detours to YouTube and the internet to check out other things that could be printed – including lifelike organs!!!
Remember the homework is to find 5 designs on thingiverse.com that you’d like to print. While we’ll start with printing one, we may be able to do others later as well!
If you plan to bring in a laptop next week, please have PrusaControl installed before the class so we can keep the class moving.
See everyone next Saturday the 30th at 10:00AM!
Here is the lesson we reviewed if you’d like to download it! 3d Printing – Lesson 1.key
Quick update – the dates for the class have been pushed back by one week. I’ve updated the class schedule accordingly, but be aware – no class this Saturday, and next week March 23rd will be the first week!
Below is my current planned schedule for the 5 weeks of class. This is entirely subject to change, and I expect it will do so especially since this is our first attempt at the class!
(March 23th @ 10am)
(March 30th @ 10am)
(April 6th @ 10am)
(April 13th @ 10am)
(April 20th, @ 10am)
This is a 3d Printing class targeted at 9-13 year old homeschoolers. We will be using my Original Prusa i3 MK3 printer for the class with the intent of giving the kids an introduction to 3d Printing.
I plan to communicate with the class via Webex Teams. This is a free team messaging platform that has clients available across all types of devices, and will allow us to discuss projects, timing, updates to schedules, as well as share pictures and videos of how the prints are coming out during the week. All you need is an email, and you can get a free account at teams.webex.com. Everyone in the class will be in a large private invitation only chat group, and you are welcome to join the chat room along with your kid(s) in the class.
There is no cost for the class, although if you want to offer a donation to help with the supplies, I won’t refuse it!
I’m targeting this first class to between 10 and 14. Boys and girls both welcome!
We will be on the internet for portions of the class, with all the good and bad the Internet brings. In my time on Thingiverse I’ve stumbled on some nude print designs, but the site appears to try to block viewing them until you are signed in on an account. I tested creating an account, and it does not block images once you have an account, but it does confirm that you want to view NSFW images. If you are not willing for your kids to be online due to this risk, then the beta class would not be a good fit. We will be having an open discussion during the first session about what is appropriate and not appropriate to view. If there is enough demand, I could try to tweak the class to not use the Internet, however this beta class *will* be using Internet content.