The Toe of Oregon’s only Dinosaur
I was recently contacted by the Museum of Natural and Cultural History to make a few replicas of Oregon’s only dinosaur fossil, a dinosaur toe bone, for one of their outreach programs. The state...
Monthly Archive: March 2020
Passive Heat Design – Revisited
One of the really cool hands-on projects that allows students to explore, test their design skills, and challenge their understanding of materials science is a solar hotbox project. I have blogged on these before,...
High School Engineering
One of my fun outreach programs is an engineering club at a local high school, Sheldon. We have built robots, rockets, and radios. Now students are building remote control airplanes. These are relatively cheap...
Bio-engineering and Prosthetic Design
In conjunction with the Bio-engineering club out of Mike Hahn’s group in Human Physiology, The DeArmond MakerSpace helped with the creation of a prosthesis for a local young man. The mid-arm section was...