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As part of this year’s W hole School Art Eve nt, we invite you to be part of our ‘SHAR E AN IDEA’ post card show. The idea is to create a design showin g how you could make th ings better for someone else , staff or student. Below are some examples. If you would like more informat ion please talk to Ms W illough by. Postcards are available from the LRC .
Jacob Munonyedi recently caught up with Naaglis and Dimitri, two boys who have completed extensive work on the School’s 3D printer (a facility generously funded by the ORA) to talk about their work. Some of their ‘prints’ are sourced online from sites such as www.Thingiverse.com, where free models can be downloaded and printed out with ease, including the ‘Companion Cube’ (image at the bottom of this panel) from the Portal series of games. Recently, however, they have started designing their own prints using opensource free software such as Google Sketch-Up 8. Another popular piece of software is the Makerware that comes bundled with the 3D printer. One of the more challenging prints they undertook was a large cup – so large that the printer had to be left running overnight! Both boys commented on length of time being one of the major drawbacks to the 3D printers currently available.
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If you are looking to try 3D printing yourself, speak to the Art Department, or consider buying one yourself! 3D printers range from the £70 “Peach Printer” (http://www.peachyprinter.com/) to the £2000 MakerBot replicator 2X (https://www.makerbot.com/) . Happy printing!
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