MakerBot Open Studio at Cooper-Hewitt
Matt from MakerBot working with teens at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum recently purchased a MakerBot Thing-O-Matic. As a prelude to teaching an upcoming teen design course on prototyping with a MakerBot, MakerBot staff members Matt and Mike were invited in to take lead on the assembly of the Cooper-Hewitt bot, joined by a group of design-focused teens as part of an open studio.
Cooper-Hewitt, a subsidiary of the Smithsonian Institute, is the national design-focused museum, so it was quite a coup to be building a MakerBot downstairs from the Van Cleef and Arpels show and next door to a master class in wax carving for casting jewelry settings.
New York City-area teens looking to register for the upcoming prototyping course Matt and Mike will be teaching should keep their eyes on the Cooper-Hewitt Youth Programs calendar over the next month: we should be setting dates for late spring/early summer soon.
Thanks to Katie Shelly for the great pics (more below) and Youth Programs Manager Monica Harriss for putting together the event and upcoming course.
Mike from MakerBot helping with ABP build
Assembling Thing-O-Matic Electronics
Searching for optical illusion models on Thingiverse
A busy table: a sign of productive workshop
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Molly
TOO COOL! It’s awesome to see teens included in the course from the very beginning, so they can take ownership and tell their friends to get involved. I’ll look forward to updates- can’t wait to see what they come up with.
I’ve observed lots of crossovers and connections in the Open Studios here @ MAD whenever we have multiple projects, so I’m curious- was there any dialog with the wax carvers? Problem-solving design ideas for jewelry settings produced by a Thing-O-Matic? Fears that a machine could make their master skills obsolete?
WTG, MakerBot & Cooper-Hewitt. You guy rock.
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Matt
Hey Molly! We really wish there was more dialogue between wax and 3D printing! There are definitely complementary toolsets between the two that could be mutually beneficial. I think rather than distrust between the two formats, they simply haven’t been introduced yet properly.