Teaching Students to Design and Prototype
Working to effectively teach prototyping. The accessibility of computer assisted design (CAD) tools for 3D modeling is outstanding. Tools like Blender, Rhino, SolidWorks, and Fusiuon360 are just amazing...
Category: 3D
Plumbing Pipe Music – Building a PVC Flute
Last week, while watching various people play the bass guitar on Instagram, I was presented with a video of a person playing a home-made stringed instrument. This guy, Nicholas Bras, was certainly having...
Emerging Technology & Digital Bird Nests
J.Stephens/R.Stephens I had the honor and pleasure to work with some great colleagues this summer (June Stephens, and Joe Cerreta and Patrick Sherman from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) on a project to show off new...
MakerSpaces in the World of Pandemics
The DeArmond MakerSpace was certainly not alone in the response to the Covid-19 Pandemic spreading across our country, but I still want to highlight what we did. When the spread of virus hit the...
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...
Learning to Fly for Science, Earth Science
In support of the Geology field camp efforts of Drs. Valerie Sahakian and Ray Weldon of the University of Oregon’s Earth Sciences Department, I was asked to help them teach students how to...
UAV Imagery – Autzen Stadium and Much More!
In preparation for several upcoming workshops on UAVs/Drones that I am offering through the Price Science Commons and Research Library, I needed to update the geofencing on the UO Library’s DJI Phantom IV...
Making Things Fly – 3D Printed Supports for Paper Airfoils
I wanted to mention one cool project that I have been working on over the last week in conjunction with the Riverfront/Looking Glass High School here in the Eugene area. It is an engineering...
Eugene 4J WISE Symposium – Women in Science & Engineering
We at the DeArmond Makerspace were very happy to have an invite to speak at the Women In Science & Engineering (WISE) Symposium this year. Our talented programming, robotic, and rocketry “engineer in training”...
Augmented and Virtual Reality with the UO Science Literacy Program
Last week members of the Science Literacy Program visited the Price Science Commons’s VizLab to explore AR and VR hardware and software as they relate to science education. I had the chance to...