Tinkercad is a free browser-based software that allows you to design three dimensional objects. The designs you create can be saved and loaded onto the library's 3D printer. Kathy Erickson and Kristi Farina's Geometry classes just completed a project using the software and printing out their designs. I'd love to find more ways to collaborate on ways to use the 3D printer in your classes. Let me know if you have any ideas!
BOOK TIP: How We Got To Now by Steven Johnson
In the spirit of making and innovation that the Makerspace and 3D printer give the library, a book that reflects on six innovations that made the modern world. A readable, fascinating story of invention, mistake and the modern world. Like how air-conditioning led to the largest migration of humans in history (hint: air conditioning allows millions to live in cities like Dubai and Phoenix). Also became a PBS series: http://video.pbs.org/program/how-we-got-now/
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