3D Printing from the iPad Extending learning beyond the tablet and Encouraging STEM literacy with a 3D printer

Agenda  What is 3D Printing & How does it work  How can this benefit my classroom  From Project to Printing (facilitating failure)  App-Tastic  Tools, Tips, Tricks, & Techniques

What Is 3D Printing & How Does It Work  Technically it’s additive manufacturing or rapid prototyping  It is achieved by additively building or forming a 3D part from a digital design  Let’s break it down further…

THE HUMAN FACTOR

PERSONAL FABRICATION

3D Printed Jewelry

3D Printed Fabrics

3D Printed Shoes & High Heels

Phone Cases & Tablet Stands

3d Figurines from Child drawings

How can this benefit my classroom  Keep your students engaged from start to finish  It brings a new dimension to learning  The students we teach will need the ability to solve problems  Reinforce STEAM Concepts with projects that encourage experimentation and innovation  Give your students freedom to design and create new things

From Project to Printing  How do you get your students engaged in a project..  Center your projects around the students  What impact do they want to make on the world?  Equip them with the tools, necessary to become successful

Let’s review some design challenges

Let’s review some design challenges Science Challenge: Make It Float  Create a 3D model of a boat or other floating object. To increase your chances of winning, 3D print your model and then test, redesign, and retest to optimize the amount of weight your boat can support using coins in your local currency. Technology Challenge: Light It Up  Make a 3D-printable design that incorporates LED lights, for wearing, using, or watching during those warm summer nights. Feel free to incorporate switches, solar power, or anything that helps you light up the night. Technology connections: Basic circuits, designing for assembly, LED components. Science connections: Bouyancy, displacement, the scientific method.

Reworded for Maximum Impact Science connections: Density, Mass, Volume, Gravity, Force, Displacement, Buoyancy, Positive Buoyancy, Negative Buoyancy, Neutral Buoyancy, the scientific method.

INSPIRATION AL CASE STUDY Something That Moves Something

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT HOW IS THIS RELATED? SHIFTING FORCE FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER.

EXAMPLE #1 Something that moves something:

EXAMPLE #2 Something that moves something:

EXAMPLE #3 Something that moves something:

App-tastic (Freebies)

MakerBot  a free, complete 3D printing solution for discovering, managing, and sharing your 3D Prints.  Easy to Use  Free

MAKERBOT PRINTSHOP  MakerBot PrintShop is a fun, easy, and free way to create and 3D print all kinds of cool things.  Draw your sketch, scan it, extrude it & Print it  5bDw

Thingiverse  Community for discovering, making, and sharing 3D printable things  If you can think of it, you’ll find it all here.  See something you like? Just tap to download it to your Replicator and start printing  Easy to use & Free

TinkerCad  An easy-to-use 3D CAD design tool.  Quickly turn your idea into a CAD model for a 3D printer with TinkerCad.  Browser based  Easy to use, kid friendly  Free

123D Design  An App aimed at more experienced makers and professionals.  Construct 3D models that you can then print, or chose from one of the example kits and start building.  Each part is editable so you can try out different ideas and make them your own.  Free

Thingiverse  Community for discovering, making, and sharing 3D printable things  If you can think of it, you’ll find it all here.  See something you like? Just tap to download it to your Replicator and start printing  Easy to use & Free

ad  generative design studio that works at the intersection of science, art, and technology.  employs computer simulation to generate designs and digital fabrication  Drawing inspiration from natural phenomena  Browser Based & Free

SketchUp  A 3D modeling computer program for a wide range of drawing applications such as architectural, interior design, civil and mechanical engineering, film, and video game design.  Free  PC or MAC

MeshMixer  state-of-the-art software. for working with triangle meshes. Do you need to clean up a 3D scan, do some 3D printing, or design an object that "fits" something else?  Think of it as a sort of "Swiss Army Knife" for 3D meshes.  Free  PC / MAC / Linux

Blender  Free and open source 3D creation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline— modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.  PC / MAC / Linux

OpenSCAD  A free software for creating solid 3D CAD models.  Unlike most free software for creating 3D models it does not focus on the artistic aspects of 3D modeling but instead on the CAD aspects.  OpenSCAD is not an interactive modeler. Instead it is something like a 3D-compiler that reads in a script file that describes the object and renders the 3D model from this script file.  PC / MAC / Linux

Sculptris  Free virtual sculpting software program, with a primary focus on the concept of modeling clay  Allows for organic model making  PC / MAC / Linux

Tools, Tips, Tricks, & Techniques  Blue painter’s tape – Print on top of tape instead of the print bed  Isopropyl alcohol spray – To clean tape off print bed  Tweezers – To remove strands of melted plastic.  Scraper/putty knife – To get 3D prints off the print bed.  Spring-loaded wire cutters – To cut off supports and excess plastic.  One-gallon Ziploc bags – To store filament.  Sand Paper – To sand rough edges of parts or smooth uneven areas, varying grits cut into small squares for students to sand parts, especially if they are going to spray paint  Wiping cloth – You need only one of these  Drying Cloth – Only if your 3D printer uses a wash basin  See more tools at: 

Other Resources for you   students-to-3D-printing.html  Program-Webinar-Conversion.html