STIC:Earli2016-3Dworkshop

Digital design and fabrication workshop

Daniel K. Schneider, TECFA, Faculty of psychology and educational sciences, University of Geneva

Very rough draft

Geneva, July, 2016

Abstract

Physical visualizations (or physicalizations) can promote cognition through a variety of mechanisms, notably easier perception, hands-on manipulation and enhanced interaction with other participants. We can distinguish several types of physical visualizations, according to three dimensions: active/passive, kit/whole, digitally enhanced/non digital. In this workshop we will focus on two kinds of visualizations, non-digital construction kits and whole visualizations.

(1) Construction kits allow creating and manipulating visualizations from building blocks. In education, construction kits, also known as expressive media or manipulatives, allow interactive exploration of designs, concepts and roles. Physical visualizations can for example represent tabular quantitative data or more qualitative data like the state of a project or a system. Construction kits to create such visualization include a set of tokens that can be assembled into something with a new functionality (i.e. visualizations in our case) according to predefined rules. (2) Whole visualizations are created digitally and then rendered entirely by a 3D printer or other fabrication device. Typically, these 3D visualizations are represent quantitative data, e.g. comparative time series, maps or functions with 3 variables.

In this workshop we first will present the concepts of physical visualization and construction kit and discuss a few examples that are either teacher or learner-centric. Then we will introduce some technical principles of digital design and fabrication, before discussing the practical requirements for teachers and/or students to learn and use digital design and fabrication technology. Finally, we will engage participants in some prototyping activity.

Provisional program

Talk about digital design and fabrication in education

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Technical introduction to digital design and fabrication

Definitions

CAD - computer-aided design

CAM - computer-aided manufacturing

3D printing - additive fabrication from

Including a quick tour of available machinery in various contexts.

• Tour de Fablab
  • MIT (can build almost anything)
  • FabLab Amsterdam
  • Fablab TECFA (not a Fablab!!)

Introduction to 3D printing

• Workflow of 3D printing

Online drawing tools:

Specialized tools:

• MakerVis video: http://www.aviz.fr/makervis

Resources

3D printing

Tools

• Netfabb Studio Basic - STL positioning/repair (Win/Mac/Linux)
• MeshLab - Mesh repair/merger (Win/Linux)
• Sketchup (3D Modeling tool)
• Sculptris (3D Sculpting tool)
• OpenScad (Win/Mac/Linux). 3D Programming
• Autodesk® 123D™ (Free Autodesk CAD/3D tools for PCs and tablets, large downloads)
• Repetierhost, a popular program to control 3D printers, also includes an interface to run slicers.

Sites

• http://thingiverse.com
• Shapeways, a site where people sell their designs (you decide how to render it)

Computerized embroidery

• Computerized embroidery (overview article)
• Stitch Era embroidery software

Design and fabrication in schools

• 3D printers in education
• Fab labs in education
• Discussion
• Impressions de mes cours pilote STIC IV.

EduTechWiki

Overviews

• Fab lab
• Tour de Fablab
• Computerized embroidery in education
• 3D printers in education

D&T in education

• Fab labs in education
• Computerized embroidery in education
• Design and technology in England's national curriculum

Embroidery

• Computerized embroidery
• Elna 8300 (small embroidery machine)
• Stitch Era embroidery software Tutorials for this software

3D printing

• 3D printing (overview)
• OpenScad beginners tutorial and Doblo factory
• Sketchup 3D printable objects tutorial

Music

• Music notation software et MusicXML
• MIDI
• Music education technology

Teaching

• STIC IV

Other resources

• See various other articles of interest.