Making the Maker Hub: more 3d printers

Posted on: June 22, 2015 | By: Connor TeVault | Filed under: Tech Tips
F306 3D printer

Editors note: Elon is opening a makerspace, called the Maker Hub, this fall. In preparation, student staff member Connor TeVault is spending the summer testing and configuring equipment that will go into the space. He’s keeping track of quirks and lessons learned in this series of blog posts. Since the last blog post we have received …

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Making the Maker Hub: 3d printer and scanners

Posted on: June 10, 2015 | By: Connor TeVault | Filed under: Tech Tips
Wanhao Duplicator 4S and MakerBot Replicator 2X

Editors note: Elon is opening a makerspace, called the Maker Hub, this fall. In preparation, student staff member Connor TeVault is spending the summer testing and configuring equipment that will go into the space. He’s keeping track of quirks and lessons learned in this series of blog posts. This week I unboxed a new 3D …

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Storage containers transformed into learning space at Loy Farm

Posted on: May 26, 2015 | By: Casey Brown | Filed under: Tech Tips
Photo of the storage containers at Loy Farm

For the last #MakeElon workshop of the semester, attendees drove out to Loy Farm to tour the Container Space. Environmental studies professor Robert Charest and his research assistant, junior Christian Smoke, introduced what the Container Space is, how it is being used, and offered a look into the future with spaces like these, both on …

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Engineering principles take flight with help of 3D printer

Posted on: May 8, 2015 | By: Casey Brown | Filed under: Instructional Technologies
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Elon’s 3D printer is a cool device that has spawned 3D renderings of acorns and Despicable Me minions, but it also can have more practical applications in courses on campus. For one, Dr. Sirena Hargrove-Leak of the dual degree engineering program has used the 3D printer with her Challenges in Engineering course as her first-year …

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Faculty and staff explore maker technologies at #MakeElon luncheon

Posted on: May 1, 2015 | By: Megan Porter | Filed under: Maker Hub
Participants learn about circuits. Photo by Dan Reis.

Even though the #MakeElon luncheon had already been in full swing for about 20 minutes, the sandwiches and cookies had not been touched. Faculty, staff, and students were far too busy enjoying experimenting with the different types of technology set up around the room. A few pieces of the technology on display included moldable plastic, …

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Exploring 3D printing during #MakeElon workshop

Posted on: April 30, 2015 | By: Megan Porter | Filed under: Maker Hub
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You may have noticed the large black cart standing in the corner of Belk Library by the Writing Center. On top sits a 3D printer. At Elon’s latest #MakeElon workshop, multimedia developer J.P. Lavoie led the students, faculty and staff who attended through interactive activities to see what exactly a 3D printer is capable of. 3D design …

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Dr. Hollingsworth introduces Arduino as a way to bring computing to life during #MakeElon event

Posted on: April 20, 2015 | By: Casey Brown | Filed under: Tech Tips
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To someone unfamiliar with the world of making or computing, Arduino can seem too complicated to learn in an hour workshop. A combination hardware-software programming system, Arduino allows users to write code to program a particular device’s functionality. However, Dr. Joel Hollingsworth of the computer science department not only simplified how Arduino works, but led the group …

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Students introduced to circuitry at #MakeElon workshop

Posted on: April 17, 2015 | By: Stephanie Bedard | Filed under: Maker Hub
LittleBits Maker Meetup

What do chickens, fire trucks, and alarm clocks have in common? They are all among the projects created during a #MakeElon workshop featuring Legos and LittleBits electronics. During the workshop, Kenneth Wilson, Coordinator of Interactive Projects at Elon, guided a group of faculty and entrepreneurship students through the basics of circuitry and electronic projects before …

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Dr. Alan Russell leads instruction in the art of kirigami during #MakeElon workshop

Posted on: April 10, 2015 | By: Casey Brown | Filed under: Maker Hub
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Dr. Alan Russell of the mathematics department is no stranger to the complex shapes and masterful folds of origami. This past winter term, he taught a upper-level general studies course all about the math principles involved in origami folding. But at March’s #MakeElon worshop, he took the paper-folding discipline in a new direction: kirigami. What is …

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Students share experiences with quadcopters, circuitry at February’s Maker Meetup

Posted on: March 10, 2015 | By: Casey Brown | Filed under: Maker Hub
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Makerspaces, quadcopters and circuitry that syncs lighting to music: it sounds very futuristic. But this is exactly what engineering professor Dr. Scott Wolter and two of his students, juniors Jake Smith and Alex Simoneaux, have been working on here at Elon. Through Teaching and Learning Technologies’ first Maker Meetup, the team presented their work in …

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