2022-2023 White Board Questions of the Week
You may have noticed a whiteboard with a different question on it each week while visiting Makerspace. There have been lots of questions and even more answers over the past couple years we’ve been open….
3D Printing Journey
Guest Post by Cassidy Jean It all started with a project, and an idea. The project: create a table display that representedKamloops. The idea: what if I created a cityscape of sorts? Or made important…
A Tail of 2 Failed 3D Prints: Printing Complex Objects
by Franklin Sayre, Makerspace Librarian It can be hard to 3D print large, complex objects. Longer print times, more complex objects, and multiple material types lead to more failures. Recently, I printed a sculpture created…
Unmade Monuments: Exploring Public Space Through Prototyping Monuments and Public Sculptures by Twyla Exner, Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of Communication & Visual Arts
Unmade Monuments asks students to be curious about how art can and does occupy and activate public spaces and the rights and responsibilities of artists and the community in relation to those public spaces. From…
Guest Post: Freehand Drawing Shapes for Tinkercad by Syreena Bhattacharya
If you’re wanting to 3D print a simple design that you have in mind, drawing it might be the way! There are a couple of different ways you can do this using Tinkercad, the main…
Layered Vinyl Stickers
My close friend Mikaela Kalmar gifted me this portrait of my cats in 2022 for my birthday. When I asked her if it would be okay to replicate it to make a layered vinyl sticker…
Guest Post: Making My World – A Reflection by Kirsten Glass
Throughout my time at TRU Library Makerspace, I have been fortunate to witness a myriad of unique projects that have captivated my imagination. From artists creating intricate 3D figures to engineering students skillfully learning embroidery for club sweaters to education students using various technologies to enhance their teaching experiences – each day brings a wave of remarkable creations that students, faculty, and staff bring to life within Makerspace.
Exploring Educational Learning Outcomes in a Makerspace
Hello/Weyt-k! This blog post will be exploring Educational learning outcomes that can be found within many Makerspaces. This blog post will feature the University of Texas at Arlington’s FabLab, and comparing them to the Province…
3D Print in 2 Colours
Makerspace has 4 Ultimaker 3D printers. These printers have 2 extruders on them, which means each extruder can have a different colour. This allows users to create designs that can have multiple colours in them! If you would like to learn how to print objects with 2 colours follow the steps below! We will be using Tinkercad for this project and it will be based on the identity token project all new users have to create.
Darn! My skirt had a hole: 3D printing a darning loom
Written by Kirsten Glass About a year ago scrolling through one of those endless lines of online videos I came across someone using something called a Speedweve to fix a hole in their jeans. I…