3D Model Ride-Along

I find it hilarious that the kids put this 3D scan of our Head of School on the printhead of one of our 3D printers. He just rides around all day.

Beautiful Failure

And then sometimes this happens...

Greetings from the East Bay Mini-Maker Faire & Discovery Days

The kids and I had a couple of lovely days with our fellow makers and scientists at the East Bay Mini-Maker Faire and Discovery Days at AT&T Park.  If you are visiting our page for the first time, welcome!  It will take us a few days (weeks?) to get new posts up, depending on the school schedule.  In the meantime, feel free to:

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BPC booth - East Bay Mini-Maker Faire

BPC booth - Discovery Days (BASF)

BPC Booth at Discovery Days 2014 (Bay Area Science Festival)

This is a post in progress, but here is a blurb from a student... 

The BPC Maker Club hosted our second booth at the annual Bay Area Science Festival Discovery Days at AT&T Park.  Over 30,000 people attended this free festival, where AT&T park is “converted into a giant interactive science museum.” We presented our 7th (tomography) and 8th grade (crystallography) work we’ve done at the Advanced Light Source and the 3D printing and scanning work of the Maker Club.  The Maker Club 3D scanned visitors to our booth, explained the process of 3D printing and computer assisted design (CAD), demonstrated our new Matter and Form scanner, and showed visitors how to use the 3Doodler, a 3D printing pen. This event was different from our usual maker events because, for many visitors to our booth, it was their first exposure to 3D printing and 3D scanning.  It is pretty incredible that you can use this small scanner (Structure Sensor) that snaps onto an iPad to scan someone in just a few minutes and in about 30 minutes you can produce a plastic replica of them!