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10 places to get free 3d printing files A list of 10 places that you can download 3d-models.
10 Ways 3D Printing Can Be Used In Education [Infographic] As far as how this can be used in education, it’s a matter of bringing objects out of the computer screen and into the hands of students for inspection, analysis, and other processes that can benefit from physical manipulation. In that way, 3D . . .
3D / Additive construction in architecture (2014) A research group at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (iaac.net), based in Barcelona set on a goal of reelaborating 3D printing techniques so as to overcome existing limitations of this technique in large-scale.
3D food printers: Create lunch with flip of a switch (Crowell, 2016). Just when you think you’ve seen or heard or read it all, trust me, you haven’t. There’s now a 3D printer for cheese.
3D Printed Peristalic Pump It is capable of pumping very thick liquids at as much pressure as the tube can handle. It is durable because it is printed at 100% infill at high thicknesses and uses steel ball bearings. It is capable of such strength because it is using a massive . . .
3D printer creates full-color, multiple material prototypes in a single print run Dario Borghino (2016). The latest enterprise-grade 3D printer from Stratasys, the J750 model, is reportedly the first that can print objects with photorealistic color accuracy.
3D Printing Hardware Supplies In SPAAAAACE Lowe’s to send commercial 3D printer to International Space Station
3D Scanners This is not science fiction. 3D scanners and accompanying software are now within the reach of many.
3Doodler The World’s First & Best 3D Printing Pen
A new additive manufacturing technique makes it possible to 3-D-print parts out of multiple metals NVBOTS, the Boston-based startup that developed the new method. The company says the technology, which is capable of printing 21 different metals from aluminum, nickel, and tin to alloys like stainless steel and nickel titanium . . .
Blokify Blokify is 3D modeling software that enables children to to create toys they can play with virtually or physically via 3D printing. Download Blokify from the iOS App Store Now!
CES 2016: Desktop 3D printer uses paper, glue and razors
Derby the dog: Running on 3D Printed Prosthetics See how unique, custom 3D printed prosthetics allow Derby the dog to run for the first time.
Digital Sundial [Spanish with English video] Clever project involving 3D design, coding, and printing.
How 3D printing’s growing presence is enhancing teaching and learning in higher ed In the last several years, interest in 3D printing in higher education is expanding, with faculty in visual arts, science, and even surprising areas such as psychology, philosophy, and English, considering how 3D printing might be integrated into . . .
Hubs Get stuff printed locally; send in your designs.
Makerbot: Fifth Generation 3D Printers MakerBot Learning gets you up and running faster with hands-on, creative, and collaborative sessions taught by knowledgeable MakerBot 3D printing experts.
New Levitating 3D Printing Technology Prints In Mid-Air A new “levitating” 3D printing technology pioneered by Boeing uses a central nugget of magnetic material. The nugget floats above another magnet (or via acoustic waves) and can be twisted and turned as necessary, allowing access to the object from all sid
OLO 3D Printer A new 3D printer that uses light from a smartphone display to create objects has already garnered more than $800,000 four days into a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign.
Open source recycling initiative Precious Plastic launches to help users 3D print every type of plastic “Starting today, you can turn plastic waste into new valuable things. We developed the tools & machines, share the blueprints online for free . . .
Prosthetic kids hand challenge We are the Prosthetic Kids, and we print, assemble, and provide 3d-printed prosthetic hands to children in need. We want to issue a challenge: If you have access to a 3D Printer, you can get involved with helping children.
Shapeways: Personalized 3D Printing Shop and/or design 3D objects
SketchUp A 3D-modeling program that allows you to print designs on a 3D printer,
Structure Sensor 3D scanning, augmented reality, and more for mobile devices.
The 3D Printed Designs Changing The Fashion Industry Not surprisingly, the technology is now being used to create more complex items like clothing, handbags and other accessories.
The Importance of 3D Printing in Education Yes schools are still in the early stage of adoption of this innovative technology, but the exciting thing is what is to come.
The Raptor Reloaded The team behind the original Raptor has released the Raptor Reloaded, an updated and re-factored version of the Raptor Hand. The entire device was modeled in Fusion 360, a free CAD tool that can import and export most standard solid body modeling formats
Thor3D.ca Makerbot distributor, parts, and filament.
Tinkercad Tinkercad is an easy, browser-based 3D design and modeling tool for all. Tinkercad allows users to imagine anything and then design it in minutes.
Toy maker Mattel unveils ThingMaker 3D printer Mattel has a new 3D toy printer so kids can make their own gizmos. The ThingMaker is being introduced this week at the New York Toy Fair.
What Is 3D Printing and How Does It Work? | Mashable Explains YouTube

6 Exciting AR Apps for Student Learning Augmented reality (AR) can serve a variety of purposes in your classroom. This exciting technology layers virtual content on top of the real world, providing an opportunity for students to interact with content in a completely new way.
Augmented Reality in Education A website dedicated to augmented reality.
Aurasma Aurasma is available to anyone with an email address. We help people use augmented reality (AR) to turn everyday objects, images, and places into new, interactive opportunities to engage with their fans and customers through striking graphics, animation,
Coca-Cola made packaging that converts into a free Google Cardboard-style VR viewer for iPhone [Video] Coca-Cola could easily equip just about everyone in the country with a free Google Cardboard-style VR viewer if the above experiment turns into reality.
Edtech tutorial: How to set up Google Cardboard [Video] Google Cardboard is a virtual reality headset which immerses you in the video or picture so you can see a 360 degree view of an image or video.
EdTech: These Four B-Schools Are Exploring Virtual Reality With Oculus, Google, Samsung Business schools’ interest points to a lucrative potential market tech groups leading VR development. Annual sales for head-mounted display units are poised to hit 24 million by 2020, according to Futuresource Consulting.
Google Cardboard It’s a VR experience starting with a simple viewer anyone can build or buy. Once you have it, you can explore a variety of apps that unfold all around you.
Google's Project Tango Project Tango combines 3D motion tracking with depth sensing to give your mobile device the ability to know where it is and how it moves through space.
Google’s virtual reality viewer comes to the classroom Virtual reality program is part of a worldwide beta testing initiative
Long-term effects of virtual reality use need more research, say scientists Many VR side-effects are believed to be temporary and leave no lasting damage, but there have been few long-term studies into use of the technology.
McDonald's Is Transforming Sweden's Happy Meals Into VR Headsets The fast food giant is testing out cardboard Happy Meal boxes that fold into virtual reality headsets.
Popularity of virtual reality is booming, but impact is mixed Swirling around in all of the hype and confusion are the usual impact questions: How does this emerging media form work to engage users in social issues? What’s the relationship between engagement, knowledge, story and action? And what does this all cost?
Sony announces October release for PlayStation virtual reality headset The device, which will retail at £349, will be one of the cheapest available, with experts predicting it could take VR technology to the mass-market
Structure Sensor 3D scanning, augmented reality, and more for mobile devices.
The Evolution of Augmented Reality Applications for Education and Instructional Use (Walsh, 2012). The following videos demonstrate the potential for Augmented Reality technologies to facilitate instruction and engage learners.
This T-Shirt Will Let You ‘See’ Inside The Human Body ll you need is to download an app on a smartphone or tablet and point the device at the new invention, called a Virtuali-Tee — and you’ll be able to see the body’s internal organs, including a beating heart.
What Is Virtual Reality's Role in Education? An Interview with Nearpod Cofounder Felipe Sommer
“#Trending: VR and AR Classrooms” plus other resources related to VR and AR Virtual reality – the technology that lets people experience immersive, 360-degree images – would take technology in the classroom to the next level.

Amazon's Raspberry Pi guide lets coders use Alexa The Raspberry Pi pocket-sized computer was designed by a British charity to encourage children and others to learn how to write computer programs. More than eight million units have been sold or given away.
Chibitronics Interactive Book Josh Burker – “Recently I talked with Jie Qi for her PhD research about the use of her Chibitronics electronics stickers. My workshop that created collaged images incorporating paper circuits and LED stickers.”
Electronics Kits From “Maker Shed”
Little Bits Inspire your students to create solutions to real-world problems with STEM/STEAM. By joining our community you’ll get all the tools, resources, and lesson plans to make it happen.
Mad scientist shrinks Arduino to size of an AA battery Based on the Tiny328, AAduino takes the platform to its sexiest form factor yet: Turning a three-AA battery holder with two batteries in it — the third battery compartment holds the AAduino — into a powerful, yet diminutive computing platform . . .
Make: Getting Started with Arduino Kit, Special Edition This kit contains the components and book you need to make getting started with Arduino easy.
MaKey MaKey Scratch Trombone Building an instrument from upcycled materials and programming it in Scratch
micro:bit (beta) The micro:bit is a handheld, fully programmable computer being given free to every Year 7 or equivalent child across the UK. It’s 70 times smaller and 18 times faster than the original BBC Micro computers used in schools in the early 1980s.
MIT graduates cannot power a light bulb with a battery [Video] Food for thought.
Parallax: Equip Your Genius For 25+ years Parallax has provided the electronics industry with high-quality robotics, revolutionary microcontrollers, a wide variety of sensors and a complete line of learning kits for beginners and educators.
Snap Circuits Award winning Snap Circuits offer children an exciting, hands-on introduction to electronics! With colourful and easy to follow pictorial instructions in the Snap Circuits manuals, kids will have hours of fun experimenting with electricity and building am
Squishy Circuits: Mixing Science & Art for Young Kids – Devoxx4Kids [YouTube] (2016). Squishy Circuits is a workshop that is all about having fun while learning about the basics of circuitry including electricity, current, voltage, and conductive/insulating materials — such as play dough.!
SumoBot Robot Competition Kit – Serial (w/USB Adapter & Cable) Build and program two high-quality SumoBot® Robots designed to wrestle in their own mini-sumo competition ring! Follow the SumoBot Manual assembly instructions and test programs to go from basic moves to one-on-one combat.

Can the Maker Movement Infiltrate Mainstream Classrooms? (2014). With so much fanfare and media attention on the event, some educators are hopeful that the idea of tinkering as a way of learning might finally have made it back to the mainstream. But will the same philosophy of discovery and hands-on . . .
CTE Makeover Bootcamp (n.d.). Lesson plans, video series about makerspaces.
Digital Reality A Conversation with Neil Gershenfeld (2016). “Today, you can send a design to a fab lab and you need ten different machines to turn the data into something. Twenty years from now, all of that will be in one machine that fits in your pocket.”
How to design your own makerspaces Courtney Pepe (2016). These are some themes and big ideas that I noticed in my travels. Perhaps these big ideas will inspire you to create your own MakerSpace makeover in your own classroom, school, or local community.
Leah Buechley Interesting resources on makerspaces and wearable computing.
Making Space in the Makerspace: Building a Mixed – Ability Maker Culture Meryl Alper (2013). ration of how mixed – ability maker culture might shape intera ction design for children with and without disabilities, this paper describes a modified formulation of Resnick and Silverman’s . . .
Making Technology Click in the Classroom: Teachers Share What Makes Digital Tools ‘Worth The Time’ (2016). Cost effectiveness, saving time, individualized instruction, frequent updates on learners’ progress, learners more readily meet college and career standards.
Resources for Maker Education (2016). Find resources and tools to help bring elements of maker culture into schools and classrooms, and encourage students to explore STEAM subjects within the context of maker projects.
Situating Makerspaces in Schools Hybrid Pedagogy (2015). The maker movement in education jumped on the STEAM bandwagon to gain a foothold, but before we ride that same wagon out the back door it’s time to plan the dismount.
The maker movement in education jumped on the STEAM bandwagon to gain a foothold, but before we ride that same wagon out the back door it’s time to plan the dismount. Huffington Post (2015). But as impressive as today’s tools are, they’re not accessible to many Americans simply because of their costs and high technological barrier to entry.
The Maker Movement in K-12 Education: A Guide to Emerging Research Benjamin Herold (2016). While exciting, that trend has begat a number of questions and tensions, many of which are just now beginning to be explored by researchers.
The Philosophy of Educational Makerspaces Part 1 of Making an Educational Makerspace R. Steven Kurti, Debby L. Kurti, Laura Fleming (2014).
The Six Tech Advances In Higher Ed That Are Preparing Students For The Future Of Work G. Lorenzo (2016).Makerspaces and Affective Computing are two of six key developments the Horizon report lists as modern technologies—along with six trends and six challenges—having a big impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in colleges.
Thinking About Making – An examination of what we mean by making (MAKEing) these days. What gets made? Who makes? Why does making matter? [Vimeo video] A very interesting presentation by Leah Buechley (Eyeo 2014).
You Don’t Need A Makerspace to Be a Maker AJ Juliani (n.d.). Blog, mentions the “Global Day of Design”
‘Makerspaces’ allow students to get messy — and creative Kelly Ng (2016). What is happening in Singapore.

45 of The Best Places to Learn to Code For Free If you’re brand new to the world of coding and web development, it makes sense to start by teaching yourself using all the free resources online.
Adafruit GEMMA v2 – Miniature wearable electronic platform GEMMA is a tiny wearable platform board with a lot of might in a 1″ diameter package. Powered by a Attiny85 and programmable with an Arduino IDE over USB, you’ll be able to realize any wearable project!
Amazon's Raspberry Pi guide lets coders use Alexa The Raspberry Pi pocket-sized computer was designed by a British charity to encourage children and others to learn how to write computer programs. More than eight million units have been sold or given away.
DEVOXX 4 Kids Teach children Computer Programming while having fun and introduce them to concepts of robotics, electronics and generally being creative with these kind of devices. Some BRILLIANT ideas here.
Electronics Kits From “Maker Shed”
Finch Robot The Finch is a robot for computer science education. Its design is the result of a four year study at Carnegie Mellon’s CREATE lab. The Finch is designed to support an engaging introduction to the art of programming. Lots of built-in sensors.
Glossary of Coding Terms for Beginners (Syracuse University) This glossary is a quick-reference tool to help kids work through their initial coding questions and concerns.
How to Teach Yourself Code [Infographic] A range of sources to help you decide what programming language is best for you and how you can learn from others to help build your programming knowledge and experience.
Hummingbird: Simple Robots Watch or read our tutorials to learn how to use Hummingbird with MaKey-MaKey, Raspberry Pi, Squishy Circuits, 3D printing, and much more!
Jewelbots Wearables Kit – How to sew an arduino gemma onto fabric and program it to control LEDs.
Jewelbots: Programmable Bracelets Kids can make their bracelets light up when a friend is nearby or send messages to a buddy across the room. They can come up with their own functionality and program their Jewelbot to behave in lots of cool ways! Jewelbots work alone, but are more fun wit
Leah Buechley Interesting resources on makerspaces and wearable computing.
Little Bits Inspire your students to create solutions to real-world problems with STEM/STEAM. By joining our community you’ll get all the tools, resources, and lesson plans to make it happen.
Little Boxes [Video] Exhibition: Elas Fan Tech at Normal, A Coruña. (Another nifty idea.)
Make: Getting Started with Arduino Kit, Special Edition This kit contains the components and book you need to make getting started with Arduino easy.
micro:bit (beta) The micro:bit is a handheld, fully programmable computer being given free to every Year 7 or equivalent child across the UK. It’s 70 times smaller and 18 times faster than the original BBC Micro computers used in schools in the early 1980s.
OSMO Coding Combining tangible blocks with an interactive game. You control Awbie, a playful character who loves delicious strawberries. With each coding command, you guide Awbie on a wondrous tree-shaking, strawberry-munching adventure!
Parallax: Equip Your Genius For 25+ years Parallax has provided the electronics industry with high-quality robotics, revolutionary microcontrollers, a wide variety of sensors and a complete line of learning kits for beginners and educators.
Sphero: App-Enabled Robotic Ball Whether you’re driving, playing arcade games, or programming, this robot has something for everyone.
SumoBot Robot Competition Kit – Serial (w/USB Adapter & Cable) Build and program two high-quality SumoBot® Robots designed to wrestle in their own mini-sumo competition ring! Follow the SumoBot Manual assembly instructions and test programs to go from basic moves to one-on-one combat.

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