Week 1

Collaboration and Assessment. 3D printing

Pre-watching material

• Distributed TPACK (opens new window)
• Assessment in Digital Fabrication (opens new window)
• Principles of additive manufacturing (opens new window)
• PreClass Presentation (opens new window)

Summary and core material

• Presentation (After the class)
• Global Masterclass Recording (opens new window)
• Learning diary (opens new window)
• Miro Board (opens new window)

Discussion topic in groups

• Assessment of digital fabrication activities
• Brainstorming for Field Activitity.

Assignment

This week you would need to fabricate a 3D object with a 3D printer. The 3D object should provide some support for your class or some of your teaching lessons.

1. Design it from scratch or modify an existing 3D object.

2. 3D print the object. You should do the slicing and set up the printer on your own with the support of your instructor. For advanced users: If you already are familiar with the 3D printer try to build an object that is composed by at least 2 different parts. In this case you should consider different ways of creating connecting joints and interlocking parts (opens new window) such as interlocking joints (opens new window), snap fit joints (opens new window) (including ball joints (opens new window)) or hinges (opens new window). Instead, you can also try to have articulated objects printed as one piece (opens new window), for instance an articulated snake as a pencil holder (opens new window)

3. Answer the following reflection questions:

   1. Are you planning to use the fabricated object in your classroom? If so, how?
   2. Think on a learning activity involving 3D printing. How could it be aligned with your curriculum / standard? What are the challenges?
   3. Explain one successful educational activity in which you collaborated with other educators. What are the advantages and disadvantages of working with other educators? What are the main aspects to take into account to prepare an education activity among 2 or more educators?

Tasks in the Fab Lab

1. Quick overview of 3D printers. Getting acquaintance with the machines in your Fab Lab
2. Learn how to use the slicer to prepare an .stl file for 3D printing. Settings to take into consideration
3. Setup and use the 3D printer

Asynchronous content

• 5 rublic examples for PBL (opens new window)

AI supporting 2D and 3D

• Meshy AI (opens new window): Create 3D Modles from text.
• Zoo (opens new window): AI supported cad tool, mainly targeted to mechanical parts. It also allows editing CAD directly from code.

Technical guides and tutorials

Tutorials for 3D CAD toold

Tinkercad

• A 10 minutes tutorial for beginners (opens new window)

• A tutorial series that covers many aspects of TinkerCad:

  • Part 1: Interface, movement, settings and grid (opens new window)
  • Part 2: Modifying shapes, scaling and text creation (opens new window)
  • Part 3: Grouping objects, Align, Mirror tool & Cruising (opens new window)
  • Part 4: The workplane and Ruler tool (opens new window)
  • Part 5: Linear and Circular Patterns, Slicing shapes (opens new window)
  • Part 6: Exporting, Importing and Collaborating (opens new window)

Freecad

• A FreeCAD tutorial for beginners (opens new window)

Other documentation

3D design

3D models banks