The students in my Solidworks class are very diverse in their backgrounds. Our school is in a rural Title I school. Like many students across the country, they have limited access to computers and technology at home. Most of them only have cell phones, which can limit them from using some of the great tools only accessible to them via computers. So when they are at school they need to have access to a digital world that allows them to gain new insights and experiences. They crave innovative tools that allow them to critically think about solving problems in the world around them.
My Project
The items in this project will help us expand on our offerings in our current innovation lab. In this class, we teach problem-solving through engineering and innovation. We center this around the Solidworks software.
While we currently have 3d printers, we do not have a 3d printer with dual extruders.
Dual extruding 3d printers allow for students to create more complex 3d objects using water-soluble supports.
Many of the objects the students 3d print require some sort of brain. That is why we would like to add the PiTop 4 kits to our lab. This will give a flexible computing platform to put inside some of their best 3d printed designs. It gives purpose and action to the parts they are creating in Solidworks.
Through this project, we hope to combine programming through PiTop with 3D Design to help beautify and help make their coding projects usable by people. We hope that the flexibility of the GoPro will help students document their work visually.
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