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 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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
This post will help walk you through making your first Cricut vinyl cut to make a sticker! This tutorial will help get you oriented to the software – Cricut Design Space – and its features that are used to design objects to be cut on the Cricut.
I’ve found that some of my clothes have some holes in them. Instead of tossing them, donating them, or going around with holes in my items I decided to try to give them new life by adding patches to cover them up.
