August 2014

Hello everyone, With the start of Fall semester this Monday, we are busy at the Wayne makerspace to be ready for the upcoming engineering classes.  Dusty is assisting  Professor Gold with student teaching the Tools for Engineering class.  He is fervently at work, designing a moving piston system.  Designing a complex system requires a fair amount of math knowledge, computation of angles, movement ranges, etc.: In a couple of days’ time, he designed a working piston in CAD.  Not only that, but he also learned how to make assemblies, which combines multiple parts to form a working, moving part, right on the screen. Check outRead More →

Hello everyone, It has certainly been a busy past couple of weeks!  We offered our first workshop in the new 3D Lab, composed of four days and 16 hours of training on CAD design, 3D printing, 3D scanning, building a makerspace, and more.  We hosted around 10 Northwestern Schools faculty & staff, community members, and a student or two.  Thanks to Dusty’s excellent lessons, the attendees really enjoyed the experience and will soon teach the concepts to their own students.  Thanks, Debbie, for taking photos! We hope to visit the Orrville Boys and Girls Club soon to offer lessons to their kids on CAD designing,Read More →

Hello everyone, The summer has not slowed down activities of the Wayne College makerspace.  Thanks to Dean Deckler, the Maintanance Department, and Technical Support Services, we now have a full fledged makerspace room!  Please visit A-121 (outside  the previous location) to check things out and receive a tour.  We have plenty of room for our existing 3D printers, scanner, extruder, and expansion for future equipment.  There is a sink for chemical cleanup and a fan for future machines that need an exhaust.  And there is an eight-computer class area for offering workshops.  We have big plans for this room. Dusty’s R/C car design (based onRead More →