3D Printing Winter School Roundup!
by Paul Mignone
After the highly successful, world first, 3D Printing Summer School earlier this year, we were inundated with requests from students and researchers to do an encore event. Based on this interest and feedback, the team at #ResBaz decided not to disappoint, and held the 3D printing Winter School (#WinterIsComing) from June 30th - July 2nd.
Bernard and Blender: Back with a vengeance!
Students and researchers from various departments came together once again to learn a broad array of skills from CAD, 3D scanning, material awareness and proper 3D printing techniques. Some highlights included the following:
1.0) A great workshop by scanning aficionado Ben Kreunen. Ben gave a fantastic demo on how to do proper 3D scans, followed up with a meshlab workshop on preparing scanned models for 3D printing.
Ben giving a meshlab workshop on mesh repair.
2.0) The Digital Blacksmith alumni return! A massive shout out to 3D Printing Summer School students Catherine Wen, Nicholas Pollard, Chris Murphy and Robbie Fordyce. These superstars passed on their 3D printing skills and experiences to the next group of digital blacksmiths in style!
Clockwise from top left: Catherine, Nicholas, Robbie and Chris
3.0) A surprise visit from 3D Printing Evangelist Tyler Benster. Tyler works with manufacturers, startups, incubators, politicians and economic development groups worldwide in using 3D printing and related technologies. Here for #3DPrintConf, Tyler gave a few moments of his time to discuss the future of the 3D printing industry, which was well received by the students.
The newest members of the Digital Blacksmith community!
Needless to say, the 3D printing winter school was once again a major success. Another batch of digital blacksmiths are now out there, ready to take on the world. With training events such as these, combined with funding opportunities proposed by the 3D Printing Research Working Group (3DPWG), students and researchers at #unimelb have reasons to feel optimistic about the future of research both locally and nationally.
Watch this space…
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