This week in the iNEST maker club, students returned fresh from spring break and jumped back into a variety of maker projects. One transition we are pleased to see in the club is students now taking on leadership roles around different technologies. We have a core group of students who are regularly running their own 3D prints and helping to run the prints of their peers. When we started 3D printing earlier this semester, the mentors were running all of the prints for students, so it's exciting to see the students taking over as the new experts in this technology. The 3D printers have a new permanent home in the school library, adjacent to the classroom where the maker club meets. We also observed students doing their own programming of the digital embroidery machines without assistance, so they are taking over that tool as well. We rolled out a new circuit-robotic platform this week with three K'nex control kits. Two groups of students started working with those, constructing a bridge and a carnival swing ride with digital elements--LEDs, rotors, etc. A few students continued working with 3D pens, a pair of students worked with programming Hummingbird robotics using Snap, and one student was observed creating her own digital car using LittleBits parts. She creatively hand-crafted some cardboard wheels for the car, since none were in stock. We've since ordered several sets of wheels that will work with LittleBits to help students on these types of projects going forward.
Debbie Dupree
3/30/2017 10:40:15 am
Thanks to the NCSU team for great support on this collaborative adventure. Comments are closed.
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Purpose:Dr. Oliver's weekly update of activities in the iNEST Maker Club. Archives
April 2019
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