ThinkLab

Posted by Tim on Mar 1, 2013 | 0 comments

The ThinkLab at the University of Mary Washington was featured alongside a host of other campuses for innovating with 3D printing in higher education in this year’s Higher Education Horizon Report. The Horizon Report attempts to gauge emergent technologies and the time periods that they will become mainstream, as well as campuses that are currently using them. A full copy of the report can be found on <a href=”http://www.nmc.org/publications/2013-horizon-report-higher-ed”>the NMC website</a> for download.

Posted by Tim on Nov 9, 2012 | 0 comments

On Friday, November 16th at 5pm we will kick off our first 24-hour Hackathon in the ThinkLab. If you’ve got a pet project you’ve wanted to work on and didn’t have the tools or knowledge to make it happen make plans to stop by and spend some time at the event. We will have some larger projects going on including building a new 3D printer and a CNC Mill. There will be free pizza and drinks (and maybe pancakes in the morning). We often get asked how students can use the space if they’re not a part of a class that is making use of it. This is your chance! If students want to start a club to meet regularly in the space and get access anytime the library is open this is the perfect opportunity to organize that. If this event is successful we’ll do it again in the Spring. So put it on your calendar and make plans to come!

Posted by Tim on Sep 6, 2012 | 3 comments

Last week our students began the first of many projects in Makerbots and Mashups, a freshman seminar course at the University of Mary Washington on “making things” using 3D printers, electronics, robotics, and more. We wanted to students to begin the process of exploring how to conceptualize gears and moving parts without worrying about being perfect or using electronics. This project is called Cardboard Automata.