This week we hosted numerous Art + AI outreach programs in the University of Vermont FabLab. We worked with UVM Extension and Vermont 4H and the UVM Upward Bound Program. Thanks to @karsonr06 for assisting! We’re grateful for funding from the National Science Foundation under award 2218063 and support from Nick Cheney’s research group and…
Category: Maker Space
Maker Metrics: Measuring the Impact of Academic Makerspaces
By Jenn Karson We know that academic makerspaces create meaningful experiences for students, yet how do we measure this meaningful impact? Where do we start? Last fall on behalf of the UVM FabLab I attended the first International Symposium on Academic Makerspaces (ISAM) at MIT. Organizers for the symposium came from MIT, Yale, Stanford, Olin, Carnegie Mellon, Case…
Upcoming Outreach Events
Higher Ed and the Week of Making June 17-23, 2016 Make Schools GIV Engineering Institute July 10 – 16, 2016 Governor’s Institute of Vermont College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, UVM Maker Places Conference August 7-9, 2016 CMF Inc Champlain Maker Faire September 24 & 25, 2016 Burlington Innovation Week October…
Bamboo Fashion in the FabLab: 3D Printed Molds Mimic Bamboo
Bamboo is an appealing material for many purposes and worldwide because it is reliable, inexpensive and grows rapidly in varied conditions. As a 2015 Barrett Scholar undergraduate Civil Engineering major Sara Dorr created unique molds using the FabLab’s 3d printers that mimic the internal patterns bamboo fiber. These molds provided opportunities to experiment with novel distributions of…
3D Printing the Rank-3 Shi Arrangement
A challenge in many parts of mathematics is that of visualizing structures that live in four dimensions and higher. Such visualizations are crucial for intuition as often important mathematical intricacies do not arise in lower dimensions. In this project, the CEMS UVM FabLab helped Professor Warrington make a 3D print of a four-dimensional hyperplane…