This summer camp theme explores REPEATABILITY! And if you’ve never heard the word, it’s one we use here at the museum quite a bit. Being able to make a rifle by hand is really impressive, and being able to make ten thousand rifles by machine is also really impressive in very different ways.
Project: | Description: | Related concepts and machines: |
Block Printing |
From United Art & Education Soft-Kut Block-Print. To get a great product in the end, we have to do some planning. |
Pyrometer Printing Blocks, Repeating a Pattern, Subtractive Manufacturing |
Extrusion and Stamping |
From APM. 3D Printers extrude filament. We’ll press a soft material to flatten it, and stamp it out! |
Parker Mechanical Press, Stamping Machine, 3D Printers. |
Bonus: Take-it-Apart Repeatability |
From: MakerEd.org. Often, when we take things apart, we may struggle to put them back together again! |
Crystal Palace Exhibition: taking it apart and putting back together, design & blueprint, note-taking |
We collected these free resources online. Combined they make about one day’s worth of activities (three projects, cleanup, lunch, and breaks).