rapman-education's posterous http://rapman-education.posterous.com Most recent posts at rapman-education's posterous posterous.com Sun, 09 Dec 2012 04:57:30 -0800 D&T iPad apps http://rapman-education.posterous.com/dt-ipad-apps http://rapman-education.posterous.com/dt-ipad-apps Ok, so not really about 3D printing but my school blog is "locked" for updating to a new platform/hosting service. My school has just launched into a new project for students to bring portable devices into school... Mainly iPads but other devices are allowed. So students setting up new iPads face a bewildering number of apps, here are a few suggested apps that I have tried out over the last year or so. The star rating is based on usefulness, price, etc... But just a guide! There are many other apps available.
Autodesk Forceeffect ... Free *** Study the effect of forces on structures https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/autodesk-forceeffect/id476321600?mt=8

Forceeffect Motion ... Free *** Study the effect of forces in motion https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/autodesk-forceeffect-motion/id512045820?mt=8

123D Make Intro... Free *** Design 3d designs for laser cutting https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/123d-make-intro/id513915986?mt=8
123D Design... Free *** Simple 3D CAD https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/123d-design/id567821620?mt=8

123D Sculpt... Free (model export £6.99 in app purchase) ** 3D sculpting https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/123d-sculpt/id446119510?mt=8

123D Catch... Free *** Scan objects in 3D https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/123d-catch/id513913018?mt=8

Sketchbook Express... Free ** Sketch, draw etc https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sketchbook-express-for-ipad/id410871280?mt=8

Pixlr-o-matic... Free ** Another photo edit app https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/pixlr-o-matic/id450263811?mt=8

Other apps
D&T app ... 69p per subject or £1.99 for all 6 *** D&T textbook, revision etc https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/design-and-technology/id363449581?mt=8

Moodboard Lite... Free (limited) or £6.99 ** Create design mood boards https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/moodboard-lite/id369796813?mt=8

iDT HD.... Free*** D&T "dictionary" https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/idt-hd/id383058247?mt=8

Neu.Draw... Free *** Vector drawing https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/neu.draw/id392532294?mt=8

iDesign... £5.99 ** Vector drawing https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/idesign/id342790226?mt=8

iDraw...£2.99 ** Vector drawing https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/idraw/id363317633?mt=8

Adobe Photoshop Express by Adobe...free *** Photo editing https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/adobe-photoshop-express/id331975235?mt=8

Magic Plan... Free ** Create scale room plans https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/magicplan/id427424432?mt=8

Creo view mobile... Free *** Viewer for Creo 3D designs https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/creo-view-mobile/id560549930?mt=8

3D CAD Models Engineering by CADENAS GmbH... Free ** 3d cad models (downloads) catalogue https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/3d-cad-models-engineering/id522705054?mt=8

Idea generator...£1.99 * Random ideas generator https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/idea-generator/id293258418?mt=8

Ohm work... Free ** Resistor colour codes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ohm-work/id406539017?mt=8

Design Museum Collection ... Free *** Iconic designs https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/design-museum-collection-for/id510964197?mt=8

Dexigner... Free *** News of what's going on in the design works https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/dexigner/id319785197?mt=8

Arduino Companion... Free * Arduino reference https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/arduino-companion/id501635254?mt=8

Spacecraft 3D... Free ** Augmented reality 3D spacecraft https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/spacecraft-3d/id541089908?mt=8

Maplin ... Free * Electronics catalogue https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/maplin/id434388627?mt=8

Screwfix catalogue... Free ** Hardware catalogue https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/screwfix-catalogue/id531135973?mt=8

 

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Sun, 04 Nov 2012 04:56:59 -0800 Wind tunnel project for 3D printing http://rapman-education.posterous.com/wind-tunnel-project-for-3d-printing http://rapman-education.posterous.com/wind-tunnel-project-for-3d-printing

A new Teaching and Learning resource for 3D printing on the BfB wiki...

Design and make a Wind Tunnel... This resource suggests ways to make a small wind tunnel using 3D printed parts and a few other odds and ends to test the aerodynamic forces on different models. Different models can be 3D printed and tested to compare their efficiency. This project will be suitable for Design and Technology, Science and maybe Mathematics.

http://wiki.bitsfrombytes.com/index.php/Wind_Tunnel

 

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Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:44:36 -0800 Bespoke USB sticks http://rapman-education.posterous.com/bespoke-usb-sticks http://rapman-education.posterous.com/bespoke-usb-sticks

 The students in my year 9 CAD/CAM integrated project groups have all come together with different amounts of experience, some having done work with the 3D program Creo/elements pro and others having done none at all. And very few have experience of actually designing for 3D printing. So we did a fairly quick introductory project to help get everyone to the same skills level.

This introductory project was to design and 3D print a custom case for a USB stick. As you can see from the photos there are some very interesting designs. Hopefully some more photos will be posted when the students have printed their design.... And then on to the main project!

 I have posted some Free to download teaching and learning resources for this project on the Bits from Bytes wiki http://wiki.bitsfrombytes.com/index.php/Bespoke_USB_Stick

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Sun, 27 Mar 2011 09:53:00 -0700 Bottle Rockets http://rapman-education.posterous.com/bottle-rockets http://rapman-education.posterous.com/bottle-rockets

Bottle_rockets

Using an A4 sheet of paper a couple of 3D printed parts and an empty fizzy drinks bottle you can make any fly your own rockets!

 

The free resources can be downloaded from the BfB wiki http://wiki.bitsfrombytes.com/index.php/Bottle_Rockets

 

Based on an idea from "mindsets" http://www.mutr.co.uk/

 

 

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Thu, 24 Mar 2011 12:56:40 -0700 Bespoke USB Stick Project http://rapman-education.posterous.com/bespoke-usb-stick-project http://rapman-education.posterous.com/bespoke-usb-stick-project
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Another Idea for a 3D Printing project suitable for use in Design & Technology (STEM).

Design and make a "Bespoke USB Stick"... a 3D printed case for updating an old flash drive . A project that guides students through from initial design ideas to a 3D printed object. Students will need to be able to use 3D design software.

The project can be downloaded from the BfB Wiki http://wiki.bitsfrombytes.com/index.php/Bespoke_USB_Stick

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Sun, 13 Mar 2011 08:55:00 -0700 Chinese seals - a new Teaching & Learning resource http://rapman-education.posterous.com/chinese-seals-a-new-teaching-learning-resourc http://rapman-education.posterous.com/chinese-seals-a-new-teaching-learning-resourc

Seal

This project is for students who can already use 3D design software. The project suggests ways to use BfB 3D printers to produce Chinese seals. These seals are used for printing and they are used in place of signatures in personal documents, office paperwork, contracts, art, or any item requiring acknowledgment or authorship.

 

The project is freely available on the BfB wiki http://wiki.bitsfrombytes.com/index.php/Chinese_Seals

 

If you use this resource or any others from the BfB wiki please leave some comments/suggestions on this post or the BfB forum.

 

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Thu, 03 Mar 2011 13:05:00 -0800 Scheme of Learning http://rapman-education.posterous.com/scheme-of-learning http://rapman-education.posterous.com/scheme-of-learning

On the BfB Wiki I have published a resource for use by teachers to help with projects for designing and making- using the BfB projects on the wiki. The Scheme of Learning is designed around a 20 hour project (allowing time for flexibility)

 

Note. The SOL is "generic" most of the project ideas on the wiki can be used as the context for the designing and making activity. For a first time the best projects to use are http://wiki.bitsfrombytes.com/index.php/MP3_Design_Project ; http://wiki.bitsfrombytes.com/index.php/Clip_It_%26_Keep_it_Safe ; http://wiki.bitsfrombytes.com/index.php/Mobile_Mate ; or more ideas can be found in http://wiki.bitsfrombytes.com/index.php/Additional_Design_%26_Technology_Projects .

 

For Teachers in the UK the project is linked to....

* Personal Learning and Thinking Skills (PLTS)

* UK National Curriculum for D&T "Levels"

Teachers outside the UK may find these useful anyway!

 

A pupil workbook/portfolio linked to the Scheme of Learning can be found here http://wiki.bitsfrombytes.com/index.php/Project_Booklet  

 

The Scheme of Learning can be found here http://wiki.bitsfrombytes.com/index.php/Scheme_of_Learning

 This is just a screenshot

Sol

Loads of other Teaching and learning resources and ideas can be found here http://wiki.bitsfrombytes.com/index.php/Main_Page#Education

 

I hope this helps teachers who are always “busy people” with their lesson planning… and of course helping students to use BfB 3D printers in their lessons.

 

Dave

 

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Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:37:00 -0800 Student design booklet http://rapman-education.posterous.com/bfb-dt-plts-and-the-national-curriculum http://rapman-education.posterous.com/bfb-dt-plts-and-the-national-curriculum

Over the last year or so I have been posting project ideas for teachers/students to use for designing and making with RapMan and BfB3000 machines. But where do they do their design work?

Here is a booklet that can be used as a design portfolio, and it also includes self-assessment sheets for Personal Learning and Thinking Skills and the D&T National Curriculum (UK).

If you want to download the .pptx version so that students can fill it in electronically please visit the BfB wiki http://wiki.bitsfrombytes.com/index.php/Project_Booklet

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Thu, 24 Feb 2011 08:29:00 -0800 BfB 3D printers and the UK National Curriculum http://rapman-education.posterous.com/bfb-3d-printers-and-the-uk-national-curriculu http://rapman-education.posterous.com/bfb-3d-printers-and-the-uk-national-curriculu

Just how does the use of RapMan and BfB3000 3D printers “fit” in the National Curriculum. This document has a few suggested ideas.

 

NC and BfB.pdf Download this file

 

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Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:07:00 -0800 Health and Safety with BfB Machines http://rapman-education.posterous.com/health-and-safety-with-bfb-machines http://rapman-education.posterous.com/health-and-safety-with-bfb-machines

I’ve been updating some of the Health and Safety information for my department in school and realised that I didn’t have a risk assessment for using BfB machines…. So I wrote this.

As with all H&S documents it appears rather “scary”…. Don’t worry, BfB machines are really safe to use.

 If you use BfB machines you may wish to use it as the basis of your own risk assessments

 

generic Health and Safety V3.pdf Download this file

 

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Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:17:00 -0800 William Morris would have used a RapMan... http://rapman-education.posterous.com/william-morris-would-have-used-a-rapman http://rapman-education.posterous.com/william-morris-would-have-used-a-rapman

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Crossing Boundaries - Art (and Textiles)

One of my D&T A level students also does Art. … and being Aaron Thorogood, one of the students who came to Euromold with us, he wanted to see if he could use 3D printing in his coursework project. So, I have to give him some credit for coming up with the idea of block printing.

I sent him away to design a block using Pro/Engineer (Creo Elements/Pro) reminding him to make sure that he “flipped” the image. A few minutes later Aaron had produced the first design and converted it to g-code with Axon. Of course this was far too easy… we found that the letters didn’t print well (too skinny) so this is where the ability to design iteratively with RapMan and BfB3000 is so valuable… Aaron produced design version 2.

Armed with some block printing ink and one of those rubber rollers that artists use for this sort of thing we inked the surface, placed the block  between some MDF scraps and a bit of leather… and squished it in a metalwork vice.

It works!!!!

Ok, we need to do some more development work on this and maybe do some research but it looks like Aaron has come up with a winning idea.

 

I then started thinking about next steps and what this block printing know-how can be used for…. And my mind has started to wonder about printing textiles. After all William Morris (English Arts and Crafts movement 1880 -1910) used wood block printing for his beautiful designs.

 

Maybe a topic for a new Teaching and Learning resource in the BfB wiki soon??

 

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Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:53:52 -0800 Bloodhound SSC and RapMan/BfB3000 http://rapman-education.posterous.com/bloodhound-ssc-and-rapmanbfb3000 http://rapman-education.posterous.com/bloodhound-ssc-and-rapmanbfb3000
Bloodhoundsmall

This resource is about using Bloodhound SSC as a context for designing and making using RapMan and BfB3000 printers.

Bloodhound SSC is the name of a project aiming to break the land speed record with a car powered by a jet engine and a rocket.

It is designed to reach approximately 1,000 miles per hour (1,609 km/h). It is being developed and built with the intention of breaking the land speed record by the largest ever margin.

If funding is obtained the construction should be complete by the end of 2011 and the record attempts may happen in late 2011 early 2012.

The resource contains suggested projects about designing model cars (even rocket or CO2  or balloon powered); printing a 3D map of the desert where the record attempt will take place; engine turbines; and ergonomic controls. There are cross references to other projects where more information and detail can be found.

I would like to thank Bloodhound SSC for the use of their images and ideas in producing this resource http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/

http://www.bitsfrombytes.com/wiki/index.php?title=Bloodhound_SSC

Dave

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Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:35:00 -0700 BfB, PTC and Scalextric http://rapman-education.posterous.com/ptc-and-scalextric http://rapman-education.posterous.com/ptc-and-scalextric

Two Blog posts in one day! Must be more good news!!!

 

Over the summer holidays I was contacted by PTC (the company who produce Pro/ENGINEER) about testing out some ideas for an international project that they support in schools and colleges. I couldn’t resist the challenge and the opportunities that it might offer for students.

The project is called Scalextric4schools (see http://www.scalextric4schools.org/  ). Basically students can design (using Pro/ENGINEER) and make scalextric slot cars to enter into an international competition.  Tim Brootherhood from PTC was at the DATA Digital D&T conference and wondered if BfB printers could make a scalextric car body shell.. so he sent me the files to see if it was possible (btw the Makerbot guys had already given it a go but the size of their machines means that they can only produce the body shell split into parts). As you can see from the pictures in this post with a little help from the guys at BfB we printed a body shell with support materials (those of you who visit the BfB forum may have seen some of these before when I started a discussion about twin extruders and support materials).

So, If you are looking for a new project for your school or college you might like to consider taking part in this competition, full details are on the website mentioned above.

When I get all the parts to complete these cars I’ll post some more pictures. If you have a go please think about posting some photos on the BfB forum.

Dave

PS. If you are wondering about the strange looking red car in the photos it’s a printed mould for vacuum forming car body shells... another experiment that we are trying out.

 

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Tue, 17 Aug 2010 05:02:00 -0700 Printing with support http://rapman-education.posterous.com/printing-with-support http://rapman-education.posterous.com/printing-with-support

This resource is for the slightly more advanced. It introduces the idea of printing using support material for more difficult or complex objects

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The full PDF file can be downloaded from...
http://www.bitsfrombytes.com/wiki/index.php?title=Printing_with_Support

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Fri, 06 Aug 2010 05:35:00 -0700 Blast off!! http://rapman-education.posterous.com/blast-off http://rapman-education.posterous.com/blast-off

How about designing and printing your own rocket.... a real one that flies! Ok so this project is about using sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and vinegar to produce CO2 to power a model.

Rocket

http://www.bitsfrombytes.com/wiki/index.php?title=Blast_Off

Thanks to "tastybento" for the use of his idea and designs on Thingiverse for this project

Dave

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Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:29:00 -0700 "How to" video.... changing settings in BfB Axon http://rapman-education.posterous.com/how-to-video-changing-settings-in-bfb-axon http://rapman-education.posterous.com/how-to-video-changing-settings-in-bfb-axon

In the previous post I announced a new video explaining how to use BfB Axon. ... Here is another "How to" video that shows how to make new profiles and change settings in Axon.

The video can also be viewed on YouTube Best viewed in HD and full screen.

Other "How to" videos can be found on the BfB Wiki  and more T&L resources are available

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Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:55:00 -0700 "How" to video... using BfB Axon http://rapman-education.posterous.com/how-to-video-using-bfb-axon http://rapman-education.posterous.com/how-to-video-using-bfb-axon

BfB Axon is a fantastic "free" program to generate the g-code to drive your RapMan or BfB3000 printer.

You can convert any .stl file generated in your 3D design software or downloaded from the internet

The video can also be viewed on YouTube Best viewed in HD and full screen.

Other "How to" videos can be found on the BfB Wiki  and more T&L resources are available

 

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Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:19:00 -0700 Case Study http://rapman-education.posterous.com/case-study-0 http://rapman-education.posterous.com/case-study-0

You may have seen in the printing section of the BfB forum some of the fantastic prints that Marco has done for his company.   Forum post   The project is about terrain printing and a hydro-electric dam.

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Marco (Sigma Design in Italy) very kindly sent me some designs, drawings, photos and information about this project to enable me to produce a case study.

This type of case study is extremely valuable for students as it shows them how 3D printing is used "in the real world" of business and industry. And of course the prints were done using a RapMan   

The link to this case study is here- Case Study - Dam project

... and of course a huge thank you to Marco for sending me the files and information that made this possible.

Dave
PS. If anyone else has similar information about a "real world" project that they wouldn't mind being made into a case study then please contact me and I will put together a .pdf that can be used in education.... and of course your business will get a free advert

 

 

 

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Fri, 09 Jul 2010 13:17:00 -0700 Print your own DNA http://rapman-education.posterous.com/print-your-own-dna http://rapman-education.posterous.com/print-your-own-dna

This time about DNA and the double helix.  http://www.bitsfrombytes.com/wiki/index.php?title=Science_-_DNA

Dna

This resource is heavily based on the work by "Cathalgarvey" on Thingiverse... my thanks to him for producing the .stl files (and to Bogdan for spotting them and realising it would make a good T&L resource)

Dave

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Sat, 05 Jun 2010 04:39:00 -0700 Promoting RapMan http://rapman-education.posterous.com/promoting-rapman http://rapman-education.posterous.com/promoting-rapman

This PowerPoint can be used to help demonstrate the use of RapMan and the resources that are available (such as the forum, wiki, T&L Resources, etc)... useful for open days, conferences etc.

Note to use this PowerPoint to best effect you will need to install the font "Neuropolitical".... font download  

PowerPoint   (.... this time supplied as a PowerPoint, please feel free to edit, modify and adapt as necessary.)

 

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