Hello everyone,

The Fall semester here at The University of Akron Wayne College has been amazing.  We celebrated 50 years of providing higher education opportunities in the Wayne County and surrounding region, including a commemorative gift created in the 3D Lab!  This involved Student Celebration Days and the 30th year of the popular Poetry, Prose, and Acoustical Jam Community Concert.  Click here for information about Wayne College’s beginnings.

Robot Challenges

This semester is also our favorite time for student engineers who build interesting robots!  In the Tools for Engineering class, students learn free hand, engineering, CAD drawing, computer programming, computer application software, as well as an introduction to engineering economics.  This semester’s robot design challenges include robots following waypoints along a path, ball flinging robots, weight pull and weight toss robots, a stair climbing challenge, and a sumo-style “battle bots” tournament to push robots outside of the playfield.  Some of these robots use parts created in the 3D Lab.  It’s always interesting to see students’ imaginative designs!

Painting the Neighborhood Colorful

Elliott Liggett is a frequent Maker Faire Wayne County participant.  He usually demonstrates electronics projects, such as machines that detect cosmic muon rays and a chamber that detects subatomic particles.  Little did we know that Elliott is also into painting!  He was inspired by colorful Mardi Gras style paintings during work trips to New Orleans and California, notably Blue Dog Paintings by Georgo Rodrigue.  Elliott drew a grid of boxes on an 8-1/2×11 sheet of paper, then painted the contents of each small box onto a similar grid drawn onto a large surface, such as the side of a building.  His neighbor was quite happy to share his fence for the project!

Because the paintings are much larger than the 8-1/2×11 masters, Elliott added extra detail to his renditions such as sharper facial figures.  His paintings are a beautiful and colorful way to brighten-up the neighborhood!  If you want to see Elliott’s paintings, take a drive past Quinby Avenue in Wooster.

Reusable banners

Community member Rebecca visited the 3D Lab to create a banner for an upcoming Bible Camp.  The banner needed be to weather proof, although our poster printer only makes indoor banners.  To get around this problem, she purchased a predesigned vinyl banner from a professional source that included all of the artwork except the event’s date & time.  We then used the 3D Lab’s vinyl cutter to create adhesive lettering for the date & time.  This was then “stuck” to the banner.  This way, they can reuse the banner for future Bible Camp years and replace the date with different vinyl’s stickers.  It turned out beautifully!

Stay tuned next month as we introduce interesting folks who participated in the Maker Faire last May!

Until then,

Tom

Into custom cars?  Check-out these full-sized 3D printed beauties
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A 3D Doodler is a pen that extrudes plastic; a 3D printer in your hand!  Check out these stunning, handmade creationshttps://all3dp.com/2/3d-pen-art-the-most-amazing-3d-pen-creations

Wayne County 2022 is a wrap!  Thanks for being part of the action.  Stay tuned when we announce the next event!

Please check www.schantzmakerspace.com for information about the next Maker Monday and the upcoming CNC machine build class on November 5th.

Be sure to attend Make-it Monday, a monthly open meeting each Monday at 6:00-8:00 p.m.  Visit https://applecreekhistoricalsociety.com/maker-space for more information.

We offer a free “listserv” that allows to you ask questions to members in the makerspace. It’s great for sharing ideas, forming friendships, and helping & advising each other. To join, send an email to listserv@lists.uakron.edu with “SUBSCRIBE MAKERSPACE-GROUP” in the subject line.