education
It’s Like Walking on Air With These 3D Printed Shock-Absorbing Shoes
We’ve seen 3D printed shoes before–what is interesting to note is that these stories are becoming increasingly common as the technology becomes more accepted as a method for footwear design…
MyStemKits Launches New Kickstarter Campaign for 3D Printed STEM Education Manipulables
Educational theorists have long known that there are many different ways to learn about the world around us and an even wider variety of styles of learning for individual students….
Off-Road or In Class 3D Printed RC Vehicle Gets Top Marks
When Louis Lee, a student majoring in transportation design at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, was given an assignment for the Solid Modeling course in which he was enrolled,…
3D Printed PCB Drill Press Allows Those on a Budget to Make Tools
If we get any better at designing the tools we need to build 3D printers and having those tools 3D printed, pretty soon we won’t need to do much more…
Andi – A Low-Tech 3D Printer Teaches Kids the Mechanics of 3D Printing
Today we live in a world which is filled with technology. From the cellular phones that we use on a daily basis, to the computers on our desks, LED TVs…
MakerBot 3D Printers May Be Headed to Almost 1,000 Brooklyn Schools
We all know the importance of 3D printers within the education arena. As the technology makes its way into schools around the planet, new applications and curricula continue to be…
Afinia 3D & Makers Empire Seek to Serve North American Schools with Learning Package
Afinia 3D and Australian 3D printing software company Makers Empire have joined forces in a deal that will see the companies sell Makers Empire products in the North American education…
New “3-D Printing: Design Solutions” Curriculum from Pitsco Education
A targeted 3D printing curriculum is becoming more and more in demand, as educators gain exposure to the technology and see its numerous applications in the classroom. Mathematics, such as applied geometry, is highly…
Pennsylvania Student Turns $10,250 School Maintenance Into a $61 3D Printed Fix
One of my favorite questions that I receive from others, is that of “Can 3D printers really be used in schools, and what are some examples?”. For most teachers, school administrators and…
Making Music: Creating a 3D Printed Cello
I teach an introductory design studio in which students are required to make a plan for teaching themselves something that they have always wanted to learn. Each of the times…
Students Apply Cutting Edge Technology to 3D Print Local History
Bergen is the second most highly populated city in Norway, having been surpassed by the capital Oslo only in the 1830s. It was founded in the 11th century most likely as…
Math Professors Laud 3D Printing’s Classroom Potential
It seems like mathematics and 3D printing have a natural affinity, but how do you explain this? It also seems there are as many ways to explain this as there are…
Design Team at UT Austin 3D Prints a Reverse Engineered Cap Gun
Students studying mechanical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin are required to take a course called, not surprisingly, “Introduction to Mechanical Engineering.” As part of this course, the…
Alain Le Méhauté, The Man Who Submitted Patent For SLA 3D Printing Before Chuck Hull
If I weren’t already happily married, I might be inclined to express my undying love for Alain Le Méhauté who demonstrated his quick wit, broad perception, and fiery personality in…
College Students Win Seed Money to Launch OsBot Human Bone Replicating 3D Printer
Advances in 3D printing technology have begun to have a transformative effect on the medical community. We’ve all read the stories of 3D printed hands and other prosthetic devices, but…
A PowerPoint 3D Printer: Missouri Teacher is Building a Unique $20 3D Printer with His Students
When it comes to 3D printing within the classroom environment, there are some teachers who welcome it with open arms, while there are others who are deathly afraid of the…
The Windsor Boys’ School – Setting an Example for 3D Printing in Education
Dating back to the year 1908, the Windsor Boys’ School has been a mainstay in Berkshire in the UK. It’s an academy which boys ages 13-19 attend, and it has been…
Formlabs Partners with the Royal College of Art, Bringing 3D Printing to Creative Students
The stories that I personally love to cover the most within the 3D printing space are those which focus on bringing the technology to students around the globe. These are…
Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design’s New Mcor IRIS 3D Printer Excels in Case Study of Affordability & Quality
The future of technology just keeps arriving in waves, one after the other, continually improving and offering different benefits — layer after layer — just like the magic of 3D printing itself….
3D Printing Technique “Didú” Helps Visually Impaired Feel Art
A few strict rules usually accompany museum visits, and these include “No Photographs” and “No Touching.” Now a new 3D printing technique is being applied to buck these conventional rules,…
Making Discoveries about Human Evolution Using 3D Technology
It has already been demonstrated numerous times that 3D printing replicas of delicate or rare artifacts and fossils is an excellent way of sharing them with students and conveying the…
India’s MBD Group Develops 3D Printing K-12 Education Program
We’ve reported that 3D printing and education are developing a symbiotic relationship as the technology becomes more attractive to educators who acknowledge its integral use of social, scientific, design, computer, mathematical, technical,…
PrintME 3D Makes 3D Printable Robots Accessible With New BQ Robotic Kits
London-based PrintME 3D is one of Europe’s leading 3D printing specialists, offering one-stop online shopping for many of your 3D printing needs. You can purchase 3D printers (they sell BQ, CEL…
Xavier University Makes History with Fleet of Thirty-One 3D Printers and MakerBot Innovation Center
Xavier University may be one of the oldest learning institutions in the United States, but they have a serious commitment to staying ahead of the times with new and innovative…
