Makerspace Team Grows!
Makerspace is happy to announce that our team has grown! We are also excited to welcome back our Student Ambassadors for the 2023-2024 school year, including some new faces. Head to Our Team to learn…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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TRU Library Family Day!
Are you a TRU student, staff, or faculty member with kids interested in making and STEAM? The TRU Library Makerspace is doing a Makerspace Family Day event this summer, July 19th! Anyone with kids interested in making…
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Winter 2023 TRU Library Makerspace Librarian’s Report
This semester was a significant milestone for us as it marked the completion of our first full academic year since we opened and it’s amazing to see how far we’ve come. Since January, over 7500…
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New Lendable Technology!
The TRU Library Makerspace has added new technology into our lendable collection. You can now use your TID to borrow: a Blue Yeti Mic to record audio at home an iPad to create digital art…
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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.
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2023 CELT Faculty Makerspace Grant Awardees
The TRU Library Makerspace is delighted to announce the two successful applicants for the Spring 2023 Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) Faculty Makerspace Grants: Harshita Dhiman and Katelin Pietrusinski from the Career…
