Tales of a 3D Printer

A blog intended for, and often written by, my middle school students, as well as anyone interested in the fascinating potential of 3D printing and the process of getting there. Since our blog's start in 2013, we've expanded our content a bit to incorporate our other middle school making. Click the "Our BPC Story" blog label to learn more about our Maker Club journey.

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

Iteration, Constellations, and Model Clams

Both in the Makerspace and on this blog, we talk about appreciation of iteration. Every project goes through iterations, and in some cases a...

Sunday, October 2, 2016

Importing a 3D scan or STL into Fusion 360 for the Othermill

This is just a quick tutorial on how to import a 3D scan or STL file into Fusion 360 for Othermill, or any other CNC mill. Ends up, you can...

Saturday, October 1, 2016

Scan to Chocolate in 48 hours

This weekend's project is to create chocolates in the shape of my art teacher's face. My goal is to do this in less than 48 hours. T...

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Our 3D Data From the Advanced Light Source - an Update and VR!

Data Visualization Animation of Student Scanned Sample - a Claw! The Advanced Light Source is a synchrotron, a facility that speeds ...

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Carbon3D's CLIP - truly a breakthrough in 3D printing!

This is truly remarkable. I first heard the news last week from 3DPi (read their comprehensive article here ). Inspired by the T-1000 from ...

Friday, March 13, 2015

Our New Cube Take #4

Our new cube recently started malfunctioning again. We saw that filament was coming out at 1.52mm instead of something closer to .4mm. Luc...

Monday, February 16, 2015

Microsoft Visits BPC

Last May, we were contacted by Microsoft Education: I received your email from Brook Drum, at Printrbot. He indicated that you have been u...

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

6th grader's Blinky Badge on Instructables! (ready to check)

I love Star Trek so I decided to make a Star Trek communicator badge. I started by cutting the shape out of cardboard and putting an LED on ...

Sunday, February 8, 2015

3D Scanning With the Structure Sensor

The Structure Sensor is a versatile 3D scanner with a host of apps and programs that you can use with it. It is made by Occipital, whic...

Saturday, February 7, 2015

BPC Maker Club Shares our Makerspace at Cool Tools 2015!

Today, BPC Maker Club embarked on a different kind of presentation. Different than the Maker Faire or Bay Area Science Festival, where we m...

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