Hello everyone, The first week of summer has certainly started with a bang at the Wayne College 3D Lab.  What I thought would be a mostly empty lab with students on summer break turned out to be a bustle of activity!  Yesterday, representatives from the Orrville Boys and Girls Club laser engraved dozens of water bottles to promote their organization, a new community member visited the lab to 3D print items from rubber and resin, and today there are folks using the laser engraver and working on radio controlled airplanes.  The lab truly is a place where people come to collaborate and create.  Many thanksRead More →

Hello everyone, Summer break is finally here.  With students rushing about the halls and studying hurriedly last week, it seems like a quieter, different world this week.  Students and community members still come to the Wayne College 3D Lab to finish-up personal projects, though. One exciting announcement is that we now support printing with rubber!  3D printers typically build objects out of plastic, so this is major news.  Our Taz 5 printers (generously provided by the Wayne County Community Foundation) supports this upgrade.  Our students are really excited about this; now they can print plastic parts with rubber bumpers, wheels with rubber treads, gaskets, andRead More →

Hello everyone, With Finals Week upon us, the spring semester is coming to a close.  What a ride it’s been this semester.  We’ve seen a homemade CNC built in a student’s garage, a 3D printing workshop at Heartland Point, two wheeled skateboards, an Arduino bicycle brake light system, numerous offsite presentations, the birth of our Electronics Station, and our affiliation with the new Route 30 Corridor Makerspace Ecosystem (courtesy of The Schantz Organ Company). It amazes me with how far the Wayne College 3D Lab has come in two short years.  When I walk into the room to find students talking animatedly about inventions theyRead More →