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How 3D Printers Advance Museum-based Learning: Interview with MakerBot’s Founder, bre pettis, and Education lead, Lizabeth Arum

How can 3D printers be used to advance informal science and museum-based learning? This is a question I have been exploring over the past few months (and will be addressing next week at MakerBot’s Lecture Series on May 21st – … Continue reading

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Interview with SF Asian Art Museum on Digital Fabrication Scanathons

Things are bubbling. “Scanathons” are happening more often than you might think. At the Field Museum in Chicago. In New York at the Met (and my AMNH as well). And in San Francisco, I just learned, at the Asian Art … Continue reading

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Inside 3D Printing Conference: Can Everyone Be a Designer?

Today I popped over to the Inside 3D Printing Conference to see what a commercial conference looks like for digital fabrication. My primary interest was the Transforming Education Through 3D Printing panel. It was led by Glen Bull, Professor at … Continue reading

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Capturing a Dinosaur: Using Digital Tools to Reproduce a Physical Model

When I first visited the library at the AMNH, I was amazed by all of the physical items in the collection. As a public library, I expected to find books and publications on file, with the special Natural History and … Continue reading

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3D Printing Comes to the AMNH

Today we finished installing the AMNH’s first (and I have a feeling far from last) 3D printer. We have a bunch of ideas of how we can use it to advance informal science learning. We also well know, however, that … Continue reading

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Field Trip to the 1st Consumer 3D Printer Store

Today AMNH’s Youth Initiatives and Microscopy departments (how’s that for a pairing) took a field trip to the MakerBot store in SoHo. We met with Liz Arum, MakerBot’s Education Outreach and Curriculum Development Coordinator, and the good people of the … Continue reading

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My 1st 3D Captured, Modeled, and Printed Object

I have played with 3D printing in the past – I helped my son make a dollhouse clock in Sketch-up, which a friend then printed, and at Maker-Faire this year I used an iPad app to doodle the AMNH logo … Continue reading

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