Implementing 3D Printing @ Gerstein + MADLab

Or, how we learned to stop worrying and shimmy across the threshold…

Things We Learned From Experts:

No one-size-fits-all approachMakerbot

Replicator 2

Don’t let it become an

unused black box in the basement

Does 3D printing

belong in an academic library?

Things Experts Forced Us to Think About:

NO MORE YODA

HEADS

Things We Had Against Us:

I had a vision of… a space where students could engage

with 3D printing technology and wouldn’t need to be supervised and

wouldn’t bother anyone but we could still keep an eye on if we needed to and could keep the equipment secure and

someone could be around to help out…… and it was all that the MADLab turned

out to be!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tov22NtCMC4

No Yoda Heads

http://d.ibtimes.co.uk/en/full/373263/yoda-model-made-3d-printer-berlin-earlier-this-year.jpg?h=150&l=50&t=50&w=204

https://www.flickr.com/photos/62301961@N00/3926793991

https://twitter.com/hashtag/gerstein3dprinting

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