We are proud to be involved with the Schantz Makerspace<\/a>.\u00a0 Their group meets every third Monday at the Schantz Organ Company here in Orrville at 7:00 p.m.\u00a0 Just finishing their highly successful CNC machine project (14 machines built by community members), the group is now involved with Arduino microcontroller workshops and perhaps building robotic arms that members can eventually take home.<\/p>\n The group is exploring other workshop ideas, such as building toy cars that are 3D printed and play tunes as they are pulled along the floor.\u00a0 Members Norm and Rolf designed a bellow for moving air through the musical pipes using our 3D Lab rubber printer!\u00a0 It\u2019s wonderful to see our makerspaces working together.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We are happy announce a new addition to the 3D Lab, a high-quality photo printer (Epson Stylus Pro 4880<\/a>) that was donated by former Dean Neil Sapienza.\u00a0 This machine uses an eight-ink system for beautiful color reproduction onto 17\u201d wide paper, canvas, and other mediums.\u00a0 This printer is free-to-use for patrons of the lab, as are 3D printers and most other machines in the lab.\u00a0 Come visit the lab and invite friends and family; we\u2019ll be happy to show you around and help with your projects!\u00a0 We are thankful to Neil as students can now create high-quality prints of their creative works.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Late last year, Wayne College hosted a kick-off party to promote the upcoming Wayne County Mini Maker Faire<\/a> in May.\u00a0 It was a wonderful turnout with many community members supporting the event.\u00a0 Many thanks to Lynette Boggs of the Wayne County Schools Career Center, Vic and John Schantz from The Schantz Organ Company, Samatha Chada from the Wayne County Public Library, Daphne Silchuck Ashcraft from the Orrville Public Library, Greg Barbu, Steve Nichols, and others who spoke at the event. \u00a0Also thanks to Ellen Pill, reporter for the Wooster Weekly News, who wrote a wonderful recap<\/a> of the event.<\/p>\n We are quite excited about the Faire in May!\u00a0 It will be an unforgettable experience, the first of its kind in Wayne County.\u00a0 It is also a large undertaking and we can use your help in the areas of volunteering, finding \u201cmakers\u201d to participate, event planning, sponsorships, day-of-event operations, and simply spreading the word.\u00a0 Please let us know if you can help in any of these areas.<\/p>\n We hosted a number of \u201cmakers\u201d during the kick-off party to get into the inventive, creative, and \u201cfestival\u201d theme of a maker faire.\u00a0 Check out these wonderful participants, many of whom are coming back in May!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Last but not least, we love it when our students embark on crazy maker projects of their own.\u00a0 See how Tristan builds the world\u2019s strongest mailbox in the video below.\u00a0 Note that the welding gloves he wears are not for safety; they just make him look cool.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Speaking of our new photo printer, see how 2D paintings are transformed into 3D printed masterpieces:<\/p>\n http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2016\/03\/22\/mrrf-3d-printed-2d-paintings<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Think that 3D printed objects are limited to one or two colors?\u00a0 Check-out this multi-color and multi-material demonstrated at a recent maker faire:<\/p>\n http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2016\/10\/03\/maker-faire-multicolor-and-multi-material-3d-printing\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Until next week,<\/p>\n Tom<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello everyone, It\u2019s hard to believe that the 3D Lab began its life at Wayne College three years ago.\u00a0 If you peruse our blog, you will find well over a hundred posts of our growth, student projects, community outreaches, and the formation of a \u201cmaker\u201d community, notably the Shantz Makerspace.\u00a0 We\u2019ve come a long way and have much more growing yet to do!\u00a0 The 3D Lab is not about the varied equipment and machines (most all of which are provided by community), but about empowering people to be creative and making ideas possible.\u00a0 It\u2019s about connecting people and resources together, coming back to this nation\u2019sRead More →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10004],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-tjh1-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","post-7183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-articles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7243,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7183\/revisions\/7243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/waynec3\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1058\/2017\/02\/arm-building-300x225.jpg\")
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