rapman-education's posterous

rapman-education's posterous

Dave White  //  A place for educators, teachers, lecturers and students to find "stuff" about RapMan,BfB3000 and BfB 3DTouch printers... The unofficial Blog by Dave White, Advanced Skills Teacher and Head of D&T in Clevedon School UK.

Jul 7 / 10:08pm

Just got back from the DATA Conference at Keele University

Just got back home 8.45pm UK time... 150 mile trip
As promised I'm reporting back on how the conference went 
J

BRILLIANT... I really enjoyed it J I ran 2 seminar/workshop sessions of about one hour in the morning and afternoon to a good sized audience each time (sorry didn't count them) They were teachers, lecturers, advisors etc all specialising in D&T so a fairly knowledgeable lot.

The presentations went down really well (even though the university's IT system refused to produce sound for my video clips ) ... I will post a copy of the presentation later (after I've annotated it)

Interestingly there were a few "Dimension" owners in the audience.... Their expressions were very interesting* when I mentioned about initial cost, running costs and showed them the quality of output... Ok you can see a difference but it's not 20-40X better on a Dimension... I would rather spend the cash on having 20-40 RapMan machines than buy one Dimension. I would be happy to have one in each of my workshops!.... ok, so I can dream a little
* for interesting read "green with envy"

If BfB don't get a few sales from my presentation and seeing a BfB3000 "in the flesh" I would be very surprised

Dave

PS the BfB3000 and the BfB Axon software were a dream.. fantastic combination and excellent results... and the machine survived bouncing around in the back of my car perfectly well... (the BfB 3000 road test ...and I'm fairly certain I can hide the evidence of my little printing mistake  from the BfB guys...oops... you would have thought by now that I would know the difference between the z+ and z- buttons)